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Women have a more sensitive touch than men, but only because their fingers are usually smaller

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If the repertoire of signals the brain implant can translate is widened, it could revolutionise communication for people with complete paralysis

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Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: the rise and fall of a dinosaur hunter, all the latest from Copenhagen, and the cosmic consequences of baby black holes

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427385.800

Video-analysis software can follow people from camera to camera in busy public places and identify those who are behaving suspiciously

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Call them “snap HVCPs”…

My good friend from Fox News Greg Palkot has landed an embed with US Special Forces in Zabul province Afghanistan and posted some awesome video of their operations.

ZABUL, AFGHANISTAN Special Force teams have been in Afghanistan ever since the days after 9/11. Now more than ever, they’re at the “ tip of the spear,” in places like Zabul province in the southeast, where the Taliban is…“everywhere.”

“Whether it’s two or three local Taliban or foreign Taliban,” the “Major” (that’s all he goes by for this report due to security reasons) said, “It’s safe to assume they’re in every village.”

The “Major,” the commander of a company of Special Force A-Teams, says the new US counter-insurgency strategy is all about what the Special Forces have been doing here. Green Berets are involved in civil affairs programs in various Zabul villages, supporting schools, manning clinics, building bridges.

One of them shows an interesting new tactic they’re using to nab bad guys infiltrating from Pakistan and moving insurgents around in the wide open spaces and unmarked roads of Afghanistan’s south. Watching the video, it looks as if the SF is executing what I’d like to call “snap helicopter vehicle check points” (they call them helicopter-vehicle interdictions)…like a scene from Blackhawk down the operators scope out a suspicious vehicle from high up and swoop in on them with a flock of Blackhawks, running from the crew compartments with weapons drawn.

Talk about a psych job! You’re just meandering along with your six madrassa buddies hanging for dear life onto the back of your Honda motorbike for your Jihad University graduation party and with the sun at their back, a bunch of bearded spacemen come swooping down to rain on your parade.  Seems like an expensive way to nab a few blocks of C4 and some wayward suicide bomber-wannabes from NoVa, but maybe it’s all a game of perception.

 WATCH THE VIDEO

Also, on the gear front…Seeing a lot of Multicam, ACU and old-style three color desert camo mixed around. Also, looks like the beard restrictions have gone out the window. And the host of weaponry these guys are carrying? Was that an LWRC 6.8 PDW I saw on that second takedown?

Thanks to an anonymous tipper for the links.

– Christian

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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/12/50-reasons-why-global-warming.html

A British newspaper today published "100 reasons why global warming is natural". We take a quick look at the first 50 of its claims, and debunk each one

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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/12/copenhagen-in-numbers-how-to-g.html

China came to Copenhagen offering to cut its economy's "carbon intensity". So what if everyone did it this way rather than cutting emissions?

Way, way, way back in undergrad, I was told the answer to this was known. It surfaced in my mind again walking to work this morning as I was trying to puzzle out the movie Primer. I'm not a physicist, so I thought I would put it to this group and see if anyone knows the answer.

If the sun were to vanish suddenly (no, I don't know how, just say that the FSM did it) it would take eight minutes (more or less) before we on earth were plunged into darkness.

What about gravity? Would the earth immediately take off on a tangent to it's orbit or would it continue to orbit the empty spot for eight minutes?

Why? The speed of light in a vacuum is the "speed limit" for the universe. Is gravity bound by this? How does gravity "work" in this case?

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18287

The merger of two types of dead star to form a black hole may explain the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18286

See users wave their hands in front of the prototype to manipulate objects displayed on the Minority Report-style gadget

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December 15th, 2009: So um hey OCTOPODS ARE USING TOOLS NOW Thanks to everyone who wrote in to warn me!! Only one emoticon can capture my feelings right now: >:| – Ryan

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427384.000

Firstborn children are more likely to achieve greatness, but when they play a game for money they are mistrustful and uncooperative

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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/thesword/2009/12/adam-afriyie-debating-science.html

We invited the science spokesmen of the three main UK political parties to set out their views on science. The Conservatives' Adam Afriyie is the first to respond

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Catherine Brahic went to the Copenhagen climate change summit, and discovered that the first problem was getting in

I've been trying to track down an interactive visualization of different magnitudes of length that I once saw, but it's been impossible to google my way to it. Maybe someone here remembers it?

It's similar to the Utah cell size and scale flash animation but instead with detailed and slightly unsettling black and silhouettes of different objects such as insects, elephants, atoms, mount fuji, the solar system and such. So unlike the Utah animation it has both the very small and very large. The silhouettes are arranged so that as you move the slider to zoom in or out, you see the objects alongside each other.


Edit: xx_sprout found it! :-D It's Universcale by Nikon

Hello comrades!

If any of you have access to the full version of this article and would send it my way, I'd be highly thankful:

Empathy with Animals and with Humans: Are they Linked? by Elizabeth S. Paul from Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People & Animals, Volume 13, Number 4, 2000 , pp. 194-202(9)

If you do have access to this article, pleas email it to MeyRevived(at)hotmail(dot)com.

Many, mny thanks!

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Nate Murphy made his name as a talented amateur palaeontologist. Then he found the law was getting in his way

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Copycat red blood cells can squeeze through the smallest spaces to deliver drugs and imaging agents anywhere in the body

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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.

 Positive reports are streaming in from U.S. Marines flying newly remanufactured AH-1Z Cobra and UH-1Y Huey helicopters, but the program office is not losing focus on its substantial legacy fleet.

The pace of new aircraft deliveries has been aggressive, with the most recent AH-1Z delivered more than three months ahead of schedule. That aircraft was the first built after a yearlong break to speed production of the UH-1Y, said Col. Harry Hewson, H-1 Upgrade program manager. The latest Y-model of the 23 delivered so far was more than two months ahead of schedule. Nine UH-1Ys are flying in combat in Afghanistan. Although Hewson is now focused on getting the AH-1Z through operational testing, “we still have lots of [AH-1W] helicopters that will fly for a long time. We’re trying not to shortchange those guys.”

The W-model Cobra will soon benefit from a night targeting system upgrade. The early 1990’s-era forward-looking infrared and nose camera will be vastly improved, Hewson said. “We didn’t invest a huge amount of money, but we got lots of bang for our buck.”

Seven of the upgraded aircraft have already been fielded and deployed in Afghanistan, with two per month being upgraded until all the deployed aircraft are retrofitted. Also coming this spring, Hewson said, is a tactical video data link to improve the targeting process.

 Read the rest of this story, see the A400M in the air (Av Week is OBSESSED!), …on the ground … Aaaand a write up on the whole thing from our friends at Aviation Week, exclusively on Military.com.

– Christian

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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/12/autism-creates-struggle-with-i.html

People with autism have trouble reading the emotions of others. Now brain scans suggest they also find it hard to get in touch with their inner selves