-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991202f - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No troglodytes were eviscerated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Propagation Horns: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/prophorn.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cellphones Zap Rat Brains. (SD) Microwaves similar to those emitted by cell phones may affect long-term memory. Scientists have linked diminished long-term memory and navigating skills in rats with exposure to microwaves like those from cellular telephones. Yuppie scum utter shrieks of despair, scurry: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991202070403.htm : Have you fried your brains yet? Did you use cellphones, drugs, TV, alien implants, Rush Limbo, techno, Art Bell, sacramental wine, trephination, me? # FrankenCrop Protesters Fuck Up, Destroy Wrong Plants: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991201/odd-86 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Altamura Man becomes Altamura Man Cam. (DSC) The skeleton was discovered in 1993 in a deep Southern Italian cave; now they're setting up a web cam to look at the cave, and the undisturbed Altamura Man itself. Zowie. http://www.discovery.com/news/archive/news991127/brief2.html?ct=38432988 : Do you like to watch caves? Is the action exciting? Have you ever seen kobolds, trolls, elves, Neanderthals? Have they seen you? Are they coming? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 50,000 CUPCAKES CAN'T BE WRONG. Here's a woman who says she's eaten 4 cup- cakes a day for the last 42 years - and she's never gone over 120 pounds. Maybe the cup cake diet will be the next fad diet. She should write a book: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22927 # A SHOCKING WAY TO QUIT. A man in Florida has invented a lighter that gives you an electric shock after lighting a cigarette. I think most hardcore smokers will just flick this bic away and go back to painfree lighters. Zap: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22903 : What's your favorite method of behaviour modification? Do you prefer to reward, punish, disorient, or just beam mindcontrol rays at your subjects? # COLORADO TRIES TO PUT THE BRAKES ON DRUGGING STUDENTS - don't dope dopes: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22926 # FRANCE MAKING BOLD MOVE TO FIGHT TEEN PREGNANCIES - morning-after pills: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22901 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Research-R-Us: @ Complexicon - A cross-referenced guide to the concepts, terminology, and key figures of modern dynamics---the main tools used to investigate complexity in nature. Chaotic: http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99879/goURL # The evolution of search engines. "Jeeves seemed like an aging, avuncular know-it-all, Altavista seemed like the woman who keeps winning Double Jeopardy." http://nytimes.com/library/review/112899internet-review.html @ Cambridge dictionaries are online: Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/esl/dictionary/ @ The Russian State Library books-by-e-mail program: The Library will e-mail readers extracts from any of its books within 48 hours. Readers will be charged 12 cents a page, and they can get the text by e-mail, fax postal service, CD-ROM, or computer disk. The Russian State Library URL is http://www.rsl.ru/ . It is in Russian. The English version is at: http://www.rsl.ru/home_en.htm . Details: http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/033113.htm . # Free site search engine service Atomz.com announced that it now supports 14 languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Dutch, European Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Slovak and Swedish. http://www.atomz.com # The Latter-day Saints' genealogy site has announced that as of 22 Nov 1999 it has added 240 million new names to the genealogy database. The addition represents international data from primarily Western Europe, Scandinavia, and Mexico. The service is still free. http://www.familysearch.org/ @ Dr.Dobb's Journal has launched a search engine for sys.nerds. DevSearcher (formerly CodeCranker) covers information on programming languages (perl, Java, etc.) algorithms, operating systems, etc. http://devsearcher.com/ @ Anonymous Research: http://www.stormloader.com/joshua/group.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Analysis of Earth's Ringing http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99910/displayLink # Planet in a Test Tube http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99918/displayLink # Analysis of Throat Singing http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99911/displayLink # Satellite Drought Maps http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99913/displayLink # Under the Robotic Knife http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99903/displayLink @ Crop Circles -- A scientific look at the Crop Circle Phenomena. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/cropcir.html @ A Scientific Approach to Crop Circles. Crop circles may be created using high powered lasers, reflected off satellites. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/skeptic/altpara7.html # The Disrespected Student http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99920/displayLink # Warp Drive Breakthrough http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99965/displayLink # Shufflebrain http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99887/displayLink # New Class of Hydrides http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99901/displayLink # Relativistic Identity Proof http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99919/displayLink # World's Young Hope for Millennium Sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991202/07/odd-sex # Bouncing Mountain Bikes Could Harm Scrotums? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991202/07/odd-scrotum # Novel Idea for Promoting Safe Sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991202/08/odd-hostels _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I do not flee the Space Invaders / They are our support They are most anxious to reanimate the flagging heart They decorate the survivors of their competitive art They do not mind from which openings our fluids spurt And they flush us with plasma and opiates by the quart" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs3.htm#spac * Rev. 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