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Blackout: the conspiracy theory December 05 2003 at 09:27AM Popular Mechanics By Jim Wilson Several explanations, some more likely than others, have been offered for the massive power failure in the north-eastern United States and Canada on August 14. The official version, scheduled for release by the US department of energy as our American edition went to press, was expected to retell the story that had already been told: a critical interconnection point in the FirstEnergy electric grid in Ohio had failed. What should have been an easily contained local power failure cascaded east, causing more than R5-billion in damage...

ifty years before Darwin defended his theory of evolution in ''The Origin of Species,'' the French biologist Jean Baptiste Lamarck put forward a theory of his own. For Lamarck, life has an inherent tendency to develop from simple to complex through a preordained sequence of stages. The lineage to which human beings belong is the oldest, since we are the most complex of living things. Present-day worms belong to a lineage that is much younger, since they are simpler. For Lamarck, today's human beings and worms do not have a common ancestor, even though human beings derive from wormlike ancestors....

For several years the scientists preserved the secret of the shocking data of interpretation of photographs of our planet from space. In the ice of the North Pole area a huge hole could be clearly seen. Soon a similar hole was discovered in Venus. Astronomers were shocked and questioned if these planets are hollow inside and what they have in their cores. New Physics, new Geography Russian Physicist Fedor Nevolin became famous after composing the theory of "New Physics". In other words, he explained the birth of the Earth in a different way. First our planet was a huge cold...

The original theory of evolution... were it not for the farmer who came up with it. 60 Years Before DarwinBy Steve Connor, Science Editor 16 October 2003 He was a gentleman farmer who developed a passion for rocks at the height of the Scottish enlightenment in the late 18th century - a passion that eventually led him to become known as the father of modern geology. Evidence has now emerged to suggest that James Hutton also formulated the theory of natural selection more than 60 years before Charles Darwin publishedOn The Origin of Species. A scientist and amateur historian has...

Do you really think that Clark will enter into the Democratic primary and just step aside for someone who is even less proven than Bill Clinton was in 1992? In my opinion... not a chance! But, there are likely scenarios that go beyond the normal theories I've yet heard regarding the making of a Hillary Clinton presidency. How about this... Clinton in 2012! How could that happen? Very simply... Hillary could become Clark's running mate in 2004, rather than a presidential contender herself. Why is this a sound strategy for Hillary? A couple of reasons, the first being that it's...

Scientists say they have sunk an enduring theory that a duck's quack does not produce an echo. They claim to have proved, with the help of a farmyard duck called Daisy, that the theory is quackers. Acoustic expert Professor Trevor Cox began the investigation at the University of Salford after hearing the myth referred to on several TV and radio programmes. First Daisy was recorded quacking in a special room with jagged surfaces that produces no sound reflections. Next she was moved to a reverberation chamber with cathedral-like acoustics. Finally, the data was used to create simulations of Daisy performing...

The Betrayal of Checks and Balances The philosophy of Ayn Rand has taught me and numerous other thinkers of the new intellectual Renaissance the moral groundwork for laissez-faire capitalism as the sole economic system which fully and unequivocally recognizes the individual’s objective prerequisites to survival, his natural rights of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and property. With slight loopholes, this was the implicit philosophy behind the founding of America, and the principal force in its first one hundred fifty years of development. Yet, in the words of Aristotle, "The least initial deviation from the truth gets multiplied later a thousandfold.”...

<p>Republicans looking to replace Gov. Gray Davis agree it would be better to have a single candidate in a likely recall vote, but they have very different ideas about who that person should be.</p> <p>"We're more than happy if (Republican leaders) want to limit the field, as long as they understand they're not going to limit Darrell Issa's ability to run for governor," said Scott Taylor, a spokesman for the San Diego-area congressman, the only announced Republican candidate.</p>

Theory: Don't Sweat the "Small" Stuff June 16, 2003 The Associated Press: "When Democrats tried to mount an attack against Medicare prescription drug legislation on Wednesday, prominent liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts stayed away and (Tom Daschle) conceded he might wind up voting for the bill.... Democrats grappled with an issue that has long leaned their way but now offers political gain to President Bush and Republicans in Congress." A GOP pollster expects Bush's signing of the bill to be "a transformational event." Of course Ted Kennedy is staying away; this is his bill just as the education...

THE REVOLUTION WAS by Garet Garrett1938 There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, "Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don't watch out." These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago...

These are uncertain times for literary scholars. The era of big theory is over. The grand paradigms that swept through humanities departments in the 20th century — psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, deconstruction, post-colonialism — have lost favor or been abandoned. Money is tight. And the leftist politics with which literary theorists have traditionally been associated have taken a beating. In the latest sign of mounting crisis, on April 11 the editors of Critical Inquiry, academe's most prestigious theory journal, convened the scholarly equivalent of an Afghan-style loya jirga. They invited more than two dozen of America's professorial elite, including Henry Louis...

These are uncertain times for literary scholars. The era of big theory is over. The grand paradigms that swept through humanities departments in the 20th century — psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, deconstruction, post-colonialism — have lost favor or been abandoned. Money is tight. And the leftist politics with which literary theorists have traditionally been associated have taken a beating. In the latest sign of mounting crisis, on April 11 the editors of Critical Inquiry, academe's most prestigious theory journal, convened the scholarly equivalent of an Afghan-style loya jirga. They invited more than two dozen of America's professorial elite, including Henry Louis...

<p>Last fall, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial entitled "The Non-Taxpaying Class." The editorial, which dubbed those too poor to pay taxes "lucky duckies," won the Journal widespread ridicule from big-hearted egalitarians throughout the world of media and punditry.</p>

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- April 2, 2003 -- In a discovery that is likely to impact fields as diverse as atomic physics, chemistry and nanotechnology, researchers have identified a new physical phenomenon, electrostatic rotation, that, in the absence of friction, leads to spin. Because the electric force is one of the fundamental forces of nature, this leap forward in understanding may help reveal how the smallest building blocks in nature react to form solids, liquids and gases that constitute the material world around us. Scientists Anders Wistrom and Armik Khachatourian of University of California, Riverside first observed the electrostatic rotation in...

Sun Tzu: The real father of 'shock and awe' By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK - While the US-led war on Iraq may not yet have succeeded in its stated aim of "liberating" Iraq and destroying its weapons of mass destruction, it may have succeeded in breathing new life into the writings of an ancient Asian mind - the Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu. This week served up the latest about the Chinese thinker and general from the 5th century BC, who wrote the oldest military treatise on war, The Art of War; using knowledge he learned from fighting during China's Age...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 March 3 Will the Universe End in a Big Rip? Illustration Credit & Copyright: Lynette Cook Explanation: How will our universe end? Recent speculation now includes a pervasive growing field of mysterious repulsive energy that rips virtually everything apart. Although the universe started with a Big Bang, analysis of recent cosmological measurements allows a possibility that it will end with a Big Rip. As soon as few...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A theory that pieces of foam from the space shuttle Columbia's external fuel tank struck its wing shortly after launch was being investigated, but was "not a favorite" in the debate over what caused it to disintegrate on re-entry, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said on Sunday. "Well, it's one of many theories, and it's not a favorite of anybody's at this juncture that I'm aware of," O'Keefe said on CNN's "Late Edition." "Everybody is looking at every single possible permutation of what could have caused this," he said. "That certainly is an active element of the overall...

NATIONAL New theories on the Anasazi By LEE BOWMANScripps Howard News ServiceFebruary 18, 2003DENVER - The well-preserved villages of the Anasazi and other native peoples who lived in what is now the high desert of the U.S. Southwest more than a thousand years ago suggest that the canyon cities were suddenly abandoned. But new evidence presented by researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Monday indicates that occupation of many of the ancient pueblos was an on-again, off-again thing over the centuries. "There's been an erroneous impression that all or most of...

  21 - 27 November 2002 Issue No. 613Heritage Current issuePrevious issueSite map Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Send a letter to the Editor Recommend this page Print-friendly Fruitful seasons Excavations at Karnak Temple complex have been focusing on areas hitherto little explored, with rewarding results. Nevine El-Aref takes a look Priests of the first millennium BC resided in the area beyond the fourth pylon of the Pharaoh Tuthmosis III. It is here and at the temenos (outer temple) wall built by the same Pharaoh, the Osirian zone, and the courtyard between the eighth and ninth...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 October 24 Gullies on Mars Credit: Malin Space Science Systems, MGS, JPL, NASA Explanation: The Gullies of Mars would probably not have been sensational enough for the title of a vintage Edgar Rice Burroughs story about the Red Planet. But it would get the attention of planetary scientists today. First identified in high resolution images of Mars recorded by the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, the gullies...