9/11 Official Conclusions Unsupported and Highly Unlikely
1) The Fall
Acceleration vs Free-fall of WTC7 on 9/11
Many said that seeing the towers fall didn’t seem real, like a hollywood fantasy – Those first impressions were not far wrong. Watch short abstract of key evidence.
Real time US Radiation Levels
Monitor US environmental radiation levels updated every 3 minutes at RadiationNetwork.com.
Fist signs of radiation may hit California by Friday – NYT
The numbers represent Geiger Counts per Minute. Normal CPM = 5 – 60. Unusual CPM would be greater than 130. Above graphic taken from March 15 2011- San Francisco was equal to 28.
Oldest Leather Shoe Ever Found -3500 BCE
An international team from UCLA have unearthed a perfectly preserved, 5,500-year-old shoe in a cave in Armenia.
The shoe was made to an American Women’s size 7 from a single piece of cowhide and was found stuffed with grass; the shoelaces were also well preserved
Other objects found in the cave included containers of wheat, barley and apricots. The cave’s stable, cool and dry conditions are credited with the exceptional condition as well as the fact that the floor of the cave was covered by a thick layer of sheep dung.
It has already been remarked that the shoe bears a close resemblance to shoes found preserved in northern European bogs as well as traditional Scottish/Irish footware called ghillies, rivlins, cuarans, or pampooties.
Armenia, and the area between the Caspian and the Black sea has been suggested for the homeland of the ancient Indo-Europeans*, who migrated east to the Punjab and Iran and west, as proto gaels, italics and Germanic speaking people.
An interesting comparison has also been made to the shoes found with the 
Iceman (Őtzi) on the italian alps in 1991. They were also lined with hay, made with bear skin but had leather straps, a seperate laced on, deerskin upper cover and an internal net of rough string.†
The iceman find has been dated to a couple of hundred years after the Armenian find and may represent the first stages of Italian leadership in shoe fashion.
Found at: http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/2-world-s-oldest-shoe-160052.aspx
* In Search of the Indo-Europeans JP Mallory. Pub. Thames & Hudson 1991.
† http://home.hccnet.nl/willy.groenman/
New Human Species Found in Siberia
The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of a hitherto unknown hominin from southern Siberia has been isolated from a finger fossil fragment dating circa 40,000 years BP.
Both Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis are contemporary with this species however there is more difference, in terms of its mtDNA sequence, between it and us than there is between us and Neanderthals.
Nature article
An Android Called Aiko
Le Trung a 33 year old Canadian chemistry graduate has invented a working female android.
The ability to read and converse in English and Japanese, answer questions, access internet information, do math problems, recognize common objects and make upper body and hand gestures; she can feel the difference between gentle touching and sharp pressure on her body and even object to the latter. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFZVwQ53bk
Aiko’s cognitive system consists of unique software featuring AI, speech, reading, math, color vision, hearing, temperature & pressure sensors, OCR, face and common object recognition. The android also asks for information when it doesn’t understand and stores that information for future use; i.e. it learns.Project Aiko web site.
Potential applications are as a home servant or company receptionist. The remarkable thing is that Trung has had no commercial backing; he has developed the concept in his spare time at home. He accepts donations at his
Next steps include developing facial expressions, capacity to taste and full mobility with the lower body.
First c. BC Antikythera Mechanism Further Deciphered.
Hi-tech CT and tomography scans reveals further details of the celestial computer including a handy dial indicating the 4 yearly timing of the ancient version of the Olympic Games.
The Antikythera Mechanism was recovered in 1901 by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera from a 1st Century BC Roman wreck.
It was taken to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens where after some months it split apart, revealing internal gearwheels.
I saw the mechanism as a teenager in 1974, which was about the time that serious scientific research began in order to understand the construction and purpose of the mechanism. Erich von Däniken popularized the mechanism in the 70s by proposing that it originated via alien visitors in his book ‘Chariots of the Gods’.
The Antikythera Mechanism was in fact a kind of portable planetarium computing device arranged in a carriage clock-type, case. The find consists of 4 main and 15 smaller fragments originally containing at least thirty bronze gearwheels with precise, 1.5 mm triangular teeth. Studies have shown that the tooth counts of the surviving gears can be explained in terms of calendar cycles calculated from common multiples of solar and lunar cycles. The device was capable of predicting movements of the Earth, Moon, Sun and the timing of eclipses.
The mechanism dimensions are c. 13″ x 7″ x 4″ with opening front and back panels revealing dials and output data for whichever date was selected by mechanical winder. The device design exhibits astonishing sophistication, e.g. it corrected for subtle irregular lunar variations, using epicyclic gearing theory. In addition to the date and the positions of the sun and the moon in the zodiac, it is also likely that the device predicted the position of some, or all of the 5 known planets (wandering stars) at the time.
Recent work has revealed details of internal inscriptions, despite two thousand years under water. The researchers used a 12 ton, HP polynomial texture mapping machine as well as Microfocus X-ray CT techniques in order to detect the engraved script within the now corroded together, mechanism. 
By carefully analysing the CT scan slices with sophisticated software, many internal inscriptions have been painstakingly deciphered. This work has led to knowledge regarding specific calendar calculation methods e.g. the 19 year Metonic cycle vs the 76 year Callippic cycle as well as the discovery of a new ‘Olympiad dial’. The ancient Greeks held four primary, inter-regional athletic events, at rival Cities in honor of specific patron deities; these games were often referenced when indicating important dates. The olympiad dial displayed which Pan-Hellenic games would be held in any given year, e.g. the ancient Olympic Games, held every 4 years in Olympia.
There have been several citings of such machines in ancient texts but until recently it was not imagined that the design and manufacture of such a device was so advanced. No comparable mechanism was seen again for c. 1000 years.
Abstract of paper by by Tony Freeth, Alexander Jones, John
M. Steele & Yanis Bitsakis
See Comprehensive Supplementary Information on the paper
See also Essence of the Antikythera Mechanism by Tatjana van Vark
Seeing Red
Red coloration is a known, testosterone-dependent signal of male quality in a variety of animals. A statistical study of ‘Association Football’ (Soccer) teams in England over a 55 year period showed that red teams had the best home record, with significant differences in percentage of maximum points achieved. The researchers, Russell Hill and Robert Barton, had previously shown that in the 2004 summer Olympic games for four events (Boxing, Tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and Freestyle Wrestling) competitors randomly assigned a red uniform had a 55% win percentage.Other studies found that referees scoring video bouts gave competitors higher scores when uniforms were digitally altered to be red.
Found at Der Spiegel. Abstract of Soccer study. Summary of Olympic study.
Secrets of the Stradivarius
No modern violin maker or ‘Luthier’ has been able to match the qualities of the classical Cremonese violin-making families of Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri who flourished from c. 1600 to 1750. Only about seven hundred Stradivarius violins still exist from these times and they are the most sought after musical instruments in the world.
Enthusiasm for these instruments is not merely for the instrument’s antique or novelty value; the sound of these violins is universally accepted as far superior to modern violins, in terms of quality of expressiveness and projection.
A new study by Berend C. Stoel and Terry M. Borman of Leiden University Medical Center in the The Netherlands & Borman Violins, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has found that one of the key factors may be original raw material properties of the Maple and Spruce woods that were used. In particular, the density, or more specifically the variability of wood density at the growth ring level throughout the violin.
The consistency of growth ring density is related to consistency of the tree growth rates from the Spring through Autumn and modern woods do not seem to match the evenness of growth found in the 17th century wood.
If the density consistency is a major factor, then the reason for it, is as yet, not fully explained; variation in density may reflect differences in stiffness distributions, which could impact vibrational efficacy or may modify sound radiation via altered sound damping properties of the wood.
A part of the mystery of the Cremonese masterpieces may have revealed itself but don’t expect modern violin makers to be reproducing this effect any time soon. The climatic reasons for subtle variations in growth ring density are not properly understood and would be practically impossible to replicate.
See Original Paper
Found at Yahoo News
FDA Issues Belated Health Warning on Mercury Fillings
After decades of insisting that mercury amalgam fillings are perfectly safe, the US FDA makes a U-turn and issues a health warning.
The FDA web site has dropped its reassuring language from its website, substituting: “Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses.” It adds that when amalgam fillings are “placed in teeth or removed they release mercury vapor”, and that the same thing happens when chewing.
The new warning means that despite consumer suspicions, millions of people have previously been erroneously reassured into accepting health risks from the amalgam. These potentially include: heart conditions, Alzheimer’s, high blood pressure, infertility, fatigue disorders and neurotoxic effects on developing children and fetuses.
Found at The Independant
Fossils Found of Scandinavian Ex-Parrot
Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains of parrots on the Isle of Mors in the northwest of Denmark.
Could this be a sub-species of the Norwegian Blue? anticipated in the 70s by Cleese and Palin. Certainly deceased, bereft of life and possibly ‘pinin for the fjords’ which hadn’t yet formed.
See article
or Dead Parrot Sketch at YouTube
