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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Holographic Principle and a Teapot

    10/03/2021 3:18:19 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 32 replies
    APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 3 Oct, 2021 | Image Credit: Caltech
    Explanation: Sure, you can see the 2D rectangle of colors, but can you see deeper? Counting color patches in the featured image, you might estimate that the most information that this 2D digital image can hold is about 60 (horizontal) x 50(vertical) x 256 (possible colors) = 768,000 bits. However, the yet-unproven Holographic Principle states that, counter-intuitively, the information in a 2D panel can include all of the information in a 3D room that can be enclosed by the panel. The principle derives from the idea that the Planck length, the length scale where quantum mechanics begins to dominate classical...
  • Pfizer didn't reveal drug's Alzheimer's preventing abilities

    06/05/2019 7:08:59 PM PDT · by bitt · 31 replies
    The Hill ^ | 6/5/2019 | rebecca klar
    A U.S. drug company did not openly share or perform further studies on a successful rheumatoid arthritis medicine that internal researchers suggested was reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease by 64 percent, according to Washington Post article published Tuesday. Researchers at Pfizer reportedly urged the firm to conduct a clinical trial after finding the potential hidden benefit of the anti-inflammatory drug Enbrel while analyzing insurance claims. It was estimated to cost $80 million to conduct the trial, and Pfizer decided to pass. Pfizer told the Post it did not pursue the clinical trial because its success rate would likely be...
  • OBAMA BIRTH-CERTIFICATE DOUBTS HEAD TO CAPITOL

    06/14/2013 5:20:25 PM PDT · by FreeAtlanta · 92 replies
    wnd ^ | 06/03/2013
    Audible gasps, shock, outrage and support for a congressional investigation were the responses by law-enforcement officers, elected officials and attorneys to a presentation by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse of evidence that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fraudulent. Arpaio’s lead investigator, Mike Zullo, made a public presentation Saturday at the annual convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in St. Charles, Mo., then held a closed-door session for police officers, elected officials and others. “Sheriff Arpaio wants this in Congress. That’s where we intend to take it,” Zullo said in an interview with Carl Gallups of PPSimmons...
  • Willie Nelson offers 'pro-pot' presidential candidate Gary Johnson his support

    05/18/2011 5:59:36 AM PDT · by SoonerStorm09 · 17 replies
    Red Dirt Report ^ | May 17, 2011 | Sue Winchester
    SANTA FE, N.M. -- Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson today announced that he has received the official endorsement of legendary entertainer Willie Nelson and the National Teapot Party, which Nelson co-founded. The endorsement comes following a meeting between Johnson and Nelson last week, and marks the first presidential endorsement for the Teapot Party. Upon hearing the news of the endorsement, Governor Johnson said, "I am truly gratified to have the endorsement of such a legendary entertainer and champion for individual rights as Willie Nelson.” Johnson continued, “Not only is Willie a superstar talent but, he is a strong advocate for...
  • Any Green Tea Connoisseurs Out There?

    08/17/2009 8:01:51 PM PDT · by WackySam · 75 replies · 2,062+ views
    8-17-09 | WackySam
    I recently tried green tea for the first time and immediately became addicted to it. I must be drinking 10 cups a day and would probably drink more if I didn't care about sleeping at night. Being new to green tea I know little of the different types, quality, preparation, etc.. and was hoping some knowledgeable Freepers could point me in the right direction by recommending some of the better teas and/or links to any good web resources. Currently I've only tried two- both bought in regular Supermarkets so I'm guessing they are not higher quality teas. One of the...
  • Woman jailed for bizarre faith (two years for worshipping giant teapot in Muslim Malaya)

    03/04/2008 2:51:44 AM PST · by propertius · 42 replies · 140+ views
    The Windsor Star ^ | March 4, 2008 | Reuters
    KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian court jailed on Monday a woman follower of a bizarre cult centred around a giant teapot for declaring herself an apostate while still a Muslim. Apostasy -- deserting one's religion -- is a criminal offence in mainly Muslim Malaysia, whose state religion is Islam but which tolerates other major religions. An Islamic court in the northeastern state of Terengganu sentenced Kamariah Ali, a 57-year-old former teacher, to two years in jail after she was found guilty of apostasy and refused to repent. "What she did was not within the concept of freedom of religion," the...
  • Highlights of final N.C. House budget (Salary increases, teapot museum, oyster rehabilitation)

    08/10/2005 4:28:27 PM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies · 687+ views
    News 14 ^ | 8/10/05
    Highlights of final N.C. House budget 8/10/2005 8:43 AM By: Associated Press & News 14 Carolina Web Staff The figures reflect reductions or increases to base budget expenses, some of them based on projected rises in recurring spending. Salaries and benefits: • Salary increase of two percent or $850, whichever is greater, and one week extra vacation for most state workers; average 2.24 percent raise for public school teachers. Community college faculty and professional staff also would receive an additional 2 percent raise: $237.3 million. • Ensure all employees under State Personnel Act receive a minimum salary of $20,112: $750,000....
  • Indignant Imams Flatten Teapot Deity's Commune (You Can't Make This Stuff Up Alert!)

    08/02/2005 3:51:20 PM PDT · by NYer · 42 replies · 1,283+ views
    Asia News ^ | August 2, 2005
    2 August, 2005 MALAYSIA Indignant imams flatten teapot deity's commune They were adoring a giant teapot. They believed their founder was the incarnation of all deities.Armed with bulldozers, police and an Imam razed the buildings of this sect. They had many proselytes even among Muslims. Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews/Scmp) - Worshipping a giant teapot and claiming to be god in the unforgiving heartland of fundamentalist Islam is like waving a red banner at a bull. For nearly 25 years, Ariffin Mohammed, 65, a Muslim Malay better known as Ayah Pin or Father Pin, has been harassed, arrested and even jailed...
  • Mob fire-bombs 'teapot' cult HQ

    07/18/2005 9:54:28 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 25 replies · 830+ views
    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A mob fire-bombed the headquarters of a bizarre Malaysian cult built around a giant teapot Monday, police and a fireman said, two weeks after the sect was raided by religious officials. About 30-35 assailants armed with Molotov cocktails attacked the commune in the early morning, torching a car and the roof of a building and scorching the giant teapot itself, emergency services officials, local media and a lawyer for the sect said. The sect, which believes the teapot has healing properties, is in Malaysia's northeast, a strongly Muslim area that has suddenly lost patience with the...
  • Sky Kingdom structures torched

    07/18/2005 2:30:21 AM PDT · by expatguy · 6 replies · 827+ views
    The Star (Malaysia) ^ | 18 July 2005 | K. SUTHAKAR
    KUALA TERENGGANU: A mob of about 30 people went on a rampage, torching structures and smashing vehicles and house windows within Ayah Pin's Sky Kingdom commune in Jerteh at 5am today. The mob also set fire to Ayah Pin's Pajero and smashed four other vehicles parked inside the area. The sect leader Ariffin Mohamad, 65, better known as Ayah Pin, left the commune last night. According to witnesses members of the mob were armed with parangs, sticks and plastic bags believed to contain petrol. "They smashed our house windows but the people were not harmed. "They told us not to...
  • Islam Humiliated by Giant Teapot

    05/30/2005 9:07:50 AM PDT · by Loyalist · 7 replies · 495+ views
    Dhimmi Watch ^ | May 30, 2005 | Robert Spencer
    Oh, the horror! Will the apostates stop at nothing? Would singing "I'm a little teapot, short and stout" get you arrested for apostasy? A giant teapot built by apostates in Malaysia will be demolished for the offense it presents to Islam. "Sect leader will not resist action," from the StarOnline, with thanks to Nicolei: JERTEH: The leader of the “Sky Kingdom” deviationist religious sect said he would not stop the authorities from demolishing the giant structures, including a teapot, on its commune near here. “But the action will seriously tarnish the image of the Government internationally,” said Ariffin Mohamad, 65,...
  • Government Begins Work on CO2 Storage Project at Teapot Dome

    01/28/2004 1:01:22 AM PST · by Z-28 · 30 replies · 6,743+ views
    Tampa Bay Online; AP News ^ | Jan 28, 2004 | Sarah Cooke, Associated Press Writer
    Government Begins Work on CO2 Storage Project at Teapot Dome By Sarah Cooke, Associated Press Writer Published: Jan 28, 2004 CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - The government is trying to bury something at its Teapot Dome oil field again. Not secret oil leases, as it did during an infamous scandal of the 1920s, but carbon dioxide - lots of it. In hopes of developing a process that could slow global warming, the Energy Department wants to inject the greenhouse gas underground into depleted oil reservoirs after converting it into a liquid form. The Teapot Dome project, now in the planning stages,...
  • Stained Teapot Reveals An Ancient Love Of Chocolate

    07/18/2002 8:26:07 AM PDT · by blam · 12 replies · 383+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-18-2002 | Roger Highfield
    Stained teapot reveals an ancient love of chocolate By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 18/07/2002) A teapot has provided evidence that our love affair with chocolate began 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists have shown that cocoa was cultivated in the land between the Americas - including what today is Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize - for thousands of years. Now a study of brown stains on 2,600-year-old Mayan pottery from Belize has identified cocoa residues thought to have been left by ancient drinking chocolate. The discovery, reported today in Nature, pushes back the earliest chemical evidence of cocoa use...