photo electric thread - means you will you be able to weave solar panels !

- From Popular Science - solar innovation - printable sloar cells nano-solar inc present seems to be talked about parity when solar cells are 2/3 cheaper (so admitting solar is not yet viable)

Plants for mining :idea from a plant which has a sap which is 30% nickel. Now bred cress which is 10% gold. I say - Yeh but why not use bacteria, surely be quicker

More bacteria in you than cells ! cos human cells are much bigger. Something like you have 10 billion cells yet there are 100 billion bacteria in/on you.

Plants more yield, less water plants have gene which helps keep them alive in a drout. It makes them drop some leaves. Scientists have worked out how to turn it off so less water is needed.

Alzeimers seems to be connected to herpes virus cos hides in your cells a long time then causes brain disease. 80% of people carry common simplex.

This is interesting cos Naked Scientists said many people carry Herpes simplex - Get it as a kid when parents kiss babies or babies slober all over each other. First get as a cold sore throat fever. Then it mutates to copying part of the the nervous system hide for rest of life might be in genitals etc.
So kissing your baby gives it dementia

And it show the negative effect of the stupid media focusing on pretty blond people. airtime on one thing means other deaths/ injustices are ignored.. Not Fair. It means that people don't get to hear about people like his sister and they don't get justice
Sign his petition to get equal justice for all

There is no honour in Honour Killing Don't these people understand morality ?

- true cost of telly - transdiffusion.org/emc/thirdprogramme/cost.php-
You pay much more for commercial TV than you pay for BBC

Seasons in LA Fire, Earthquake, Flood and Riot

Vices aren't half as good as we imagine - A Book of Vice - NPR guy investigated NPR notes mp3

check number quite big, 2 women killed by partner/week

- Radio DW Globish Website - a French guy speaking on a German radio station. He has come up with the idea of 1500 word English. Yes when I teach I try to come up with the first 150 words of English or a language.
I think it's a good idea but, actually what about the words that are the same in your language, a Spanish speaker have a tendency to use words like tomato , but a Chinese the word person wouldn't understand it

- BBC World Have Your Say prog - Richard Dawkins doing a live debate with listeners who phone in. It's interesting to note Al Gore or any Cimate Catastrophe pusher could not face phone questions.

-I checked Adbusters now no so good, shallow articles not sticking to core values

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Had the normal Climate Catastrophe propaganda. How all the science is settled and there very few skeptics. A coral scientist told us coral is dying in many places, doom doom doom

- frankly I don't believe it every doom story turns out after research not to be so big after all, but a minor story which grew legs, just likely the hockey stick, polar bears not becoming extinct or the NW passage not really being open for the first time or .. this time the research became a whole page
.. see Coral Catastrophe story

There was some logic on the program. A UK fish expert talked about how 900 years ago fish levels in UK seas were massive, but over the centuries they fell by 150 years ago they had fallen by 90%. In the last 100 years it's fallen further. So you have to take this into account when quoting changing numbers, whether it's a decline or fall today the baseline is much lower than 900 years ago. ie if we get a 2% increase in a species, that's really only a 0.2% increase proportionately to historical levels ie a long long way from bringing it back to upto historical levels.

* there is also the possibility that the numbers rise and fall in long term cycles and there is no long testable number.

I already know that 800 years ago it was against the law to give your workers salmon more than once a week cos the rivers were so full of it was perceived as a low class food, but for the last few hundred years river salmon is a rare expensive food. So this is something that I can believe, but is unreported : A vast change in ecology in some extent due to man quite probably, which happened before manmade CO2..

However it needs further corroberation. I would guess real statistics are difficult to come by. The evidence he gave was largely of the anecdotal type i.e. large fish sizes were more frequent or species which are now difficult to find were frequently landed . Why have no other people been shouting ? and why scientists 200 or 100 years ago didn't mention it. He mentioned rampant overfishing as well as river damming beginning 900 years ago. I say : Also there are other influences, river pollution the cooling water after the medieval warm period, other natural cycles increase in predators etc. What about other parts of the world ? In unfished areas have numbers inreased or declined ? difficult to measure I suppose. Would it be possible to find a place where fish numbers have risen over the last 900 years ?

I would expect the fish in the sea to outweigh UK humans, so surely it would have an ecological impact. If ths story checks out, then it's a real change rather the possible change of Climate Catastrophe and something we could fix, by breeding fish and putting them in the sea. He did once say fish numbers were down by 90-98% this kind of number seems unreal it would mean the sea has become a dessert. When people come out with those kind of numbers they are less credible and sound alarmist.
Whem I looked for corroberation I found all roads led back to York University where the above study was. The only other guy to talk about reducing fish numbers in Europe was a guy tracing it back to the medieval Church increasing the number of fast days so there were more days when people had to look for a substitute to meat. But surely people living by the sea ate fish every day.

- 1 - If you are concerned you can buy fish labelled with the Marine Stewardship Council label

- 2 - fishing is the ultimate - Tragedy of the Commons. Where you shouldn't overgraze cos it will damage the common, but if everyone else does they'll make the money, so evryone overgrazes. Same for traffic jams

- 3 - Other prog - No Fish Zones really helps at all levels . It pushes the price of fish up. So fishermen get richer. Claims works for all from village type to industrial fishing. Could spread idea like Gramean bank.
Scientific American has a great article.
- Hey couldn't you auction 50 year fishing rights for a zone ? in the same way you auction TV or cellphone airwaves to Big Companies
the normal problem being that there is no motivation for me not to fish today cos I won't be picking up the fish in 30 years time, but don't those banker guys buy long term futures. You could arrive to poach and find that area of the sea is policed by Goldman Sachs gunboats.

Girl in science show complained instead of telling people what not to do we have a duty present viable alternatives.. as if it was such a difficult thing.. without realising the most important alternative is not to do the thing in the first place
- don't have kids- don't travel - don't commute - don't buy

If you want incentives - We could have children and have our own fossil fuel ration split as we share it with them. Or not have kids and keep our entire ration.

- Tasmania lobster stocks went into crisis in 1994. They instituted an emergency plan in 98 and in 9 year numbers have doubled. Coincidentally throughout the world lobsters are booming ..hang on didn't your coral expert say said we'll see a dramatic fall in shellfish. No one know why they are booming maybe decreased fish stocks meant less predators to eat the lavae. So what about the coral if the guy had explained the dying process, we might know if they might bounce back.