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: No flying dinosaurs survived the production of this bulletin. Tasty, too.
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@ Learn Czech, one picture at a time: http://www.czechprimer.org/
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# Fossils of flying dinosaur found. (AP) - A fierce turkey-sized animal with
sharp claws and teeth may have been the first flying feathered dinosaur, a
missing link between the lumbering lizards of millions of years ago & the
graceful birds of today. Fossils of Archaeoraptor liaoningensis suggest it
lived 120 million to 140 million years ago when a branch of dinosaurs was
evolving into the vast family of birds that now live on every continent.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561634791-d63
: Do you think ancient saurians 'lumbered'? Have you watched too many films?
Do flying Reptilioids frighten you? Have you killed any lately? With what??
@ The Chupacabras: A Monster for the New Millennium?
http://www.americanatheist.org/win96-7/T2/chupacabras.html
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# Czech intellectuals languish in poverty, while standards of public
debate in the Czech Republic are set by jumped-up, semi-literate
young journalists: http://www.ce-review.org/99/16/culik16.html
: Are you an impoverished intellectual, a semi-literate journalist, a failed
/successful media manipulator, a cynical controller, a hapless victim? Why??
# Censorship always censors the wrong things for the wrong reasons and
produces, after some delay, the opposite of the intended effect. Yow.
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/oct99/bowman.htm
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# Ancient face found carved on Stonehenge. (BBC) An ancient face has
been found carved on Stonehenge. Is it the face of its designer?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_474000/474977.stm
# Link - See more faces on Frank Wayman's Megalithic site:
http://www.stonecentric.connectfree.co.uk/aveburyi.html
: Have you created any ancient megaliths lately? Have you carved you own or
someone else's face(s) into any of them? Did you pretty-up yourself? How??
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# It Holds Tissues Together. Scientists studying the adhesive properties
of cadherin - a protein that binds cells into soft tissue - have found
a built-in safety mechanism that may keep cells from ripping apart.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080224.htm
# Genetic On-Off Switch Found. A researcher studying genetic on-off switches
in yeast has found a system that could be useful in human gene therapy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075909.htm
: Would you like to apply on-off switches to cell-binding mechanisms? Whose
cells would you like to see ripped apart? Would you apply such switches to
the brain cells of your ideological opponents? Will your belief system win?
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@ GHOST-PHOTO. Halloween approaches - check out the spooksters! Ghost-photo
is a fun place to start, since many contributors post online and/or swap
image files of ghostly images they caught on film. There's a lot of talk
about (& pictures of) "orbs," which are faintly visible globular thingies
that may be ghosts, aliens, or both. Of course, if you want to be a cranky
skeptic, they may be photoprocessing glitches, too. The list is fairly
active, 10 to 20 posts per day. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- see the public archives at
http://www.onelist.com/messages/ghost-photo
: Have you photographed many orbs/ghosts/emanations lately? Do chemtrails
affect your film? Do you deliberately fog film to hide the sordid details?
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# No Water Ice Detected From Lunar Prospector Impact. The controlled crash
of NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft into a crater near the south pole
of the Moon on July 31 produced no observable signature of water. Bother.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080522.htm
# Chemistry Of Comet Hale-Bopp May Offer Clues About The Early Solar System.
Astronomers have found that a new molecule, nitrogen sulfide (NS), is con-
tained within comets. Altho scientists have long known that the molecule
exists within dense interstellar clouds, this is the first time it's been
seen in a comet. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080325.htm
: Did the Mothership exude NS into Hale-Bopp? Did they suck-up all of Luna's
water? How will they next despoil our solar system? Who can/will stop them?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Philosophy News: http://www.philosophynews.com/
@ Global Lukewarming: http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/
@ Obscure Store: http://www.obscurestore.com/
@ Junk Science: http://www.junkscience.com/
@ Quackwatch: http://www.quackwatch.com/
@ SciTech Daily: http://scitechdaily.com/
# Rational choice and the rise of apolitical science:
http://thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory102599.html
# Is technology unplugging our minds?
http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/10/07/gleick_rushkoff/print.html
# Trend toward applied philosophy for "dummies"
http://www.philosophynews.com/whip/appethics/ARCHIVED/appethics199910.htm
# Ethics and science of xenotransplantation:
http://nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991003mag-pig-transplants.html
# Commission traces Nazi loot in U.S. - taken by American generals:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561633823-1c4
# Senators resolve Waco inquiry spats - a partisan witch hunt:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561634188-6c7
# Can we turn off artificial intelligence?
http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1999/9/29katz.asp
# Karl Marx is the millennium's "greatest thinker:"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_461000/461545.stm
# Is "life...not as we know it" life at all?
http://helix.nature.com/nsu/990923/990923-10.html
# Objectivism at the turn of the century
http://www.linguafranca.com/9909/rand.html
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