Lie detector may soon become standard part of airport security
Domodevo international airport introduces multilevel voice analysis technology
GK1 - Security Access Control System
Israel's revolutionary lie-dectector eyeglasses
The truth about the polygraph
Forensic "Lie Detection" : Procedures without scientific basis
POLYGRAPH "testing" has no scientific basis: it's entirely dependent on your ignorance and fear. Educate yourself. In this book, you will discover the trickery on which polygraph "testing" depends, and learn how to make sure you pass your polygraph "test."
The Lie Behind The Lie Detector
American Polygraph Association
Lie detectors may be next step in airline security
17.1.06
Past the point of no return ??????
Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory and Permaculture
"alternative energy" will NOT save civilization
"We will do our best to survive, but sadly I cannot see the United States or the emerging economies of China and India cutting back in time, and they are the main source of [CO2] emissions. The worst will happen ..."
"We have to keep in mind the awesome pace of change and realise how little time is left to act, and then each community and nation must find the best use of the resources they have to sustain civilisation for as long as they can."
J. Lovelock
Reality Check
"It's the most likely outcome if coal, oil and gas use continue to rise, either we implement a radical programme to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, or we need to start taking measures to prepare for post-collapse survival in the few areas which will remain habitable by the end of this century. The choice is ours." Mark Lynas
Is It Too Late ?
"Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable." James Lovelock
The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare
Now The Pentagon tells Bush : climate change will destroy us
Pentagon-sponsored climate report sparks hullabaloo in Europe. But new ice age unlikely, Bay Area authors of study say.
The Report : An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security (pdf)
Climate change: it's now or never
Global warming: Is it already too late ?
Global warming to speed up as carbon levels show sharp rise
Agent Buzz or BZ or 3-quinuclidinyl benzillate or QNB
The chemical warfare agent 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB, BZ) is an anticholinergic agent that affects both the peripheral and central nervous systems (CNS). It is one of the most potent anticholinergic psychomimetics known, with only small doses necessary to produce incapacitation. It is classified as a hallucinogenic chemical warfare agent. QNB usually is disseminated as an aerosol, and the primary route of absorption is through the respiratory system. Absorption also can occur through the skin or gastrointestinal tract. It is odorless. QNB's pharmacologic activity is similar to other anticholinergic drugs (eg, atropine) but with a much longer duration of action.
The Effect Of Noise On Wildlife
13.1.06
Noise pollution, as it effects humans, has been a recognized problem for decades, but the effect of noise on wildlife has only recently been considered a potential threat to animal health and long-term survival. Research into the effects of noise on wildlife, which has been growing rapidly since the 1970s, often presents conflicting results because of the variety of factors and variables that can effect and/or interfere with the determination of the actual effects that human-produced noise is having on any given creature. Both land and marine wildlife have been studied, especially in regards to noise in the National Parks System and the onslaught of human- made cacophony in the oceans from military, commercial and scientific endeavors.
The Effect Of Noise On Wildlife : A Literature Review by Autumn Lyn Radle
Global security in the 21st century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological, and technological change
6.1.06
Can we solve the problems of the future? Thomas Homer-Dixon tackles this question in a groundbreaking study of a world becoming too complex and too fast-paced to manage.
The challenges we face converge, intertwine, and often remain largely beyond our understanding. Most of us suspect that the "experts" don't really know what's going on and that as a species we've released forces that are neither managed nor manageable. This is the ingenuity gap, the critical gap between our need for ideas to solve complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas.
Poor countries are particularly vulnerable to ingenuity gaps, but our own rich countries are no longer immune, and we're all caught dangerously between a soaring requirement for ingenuity and an increasingly uncertain supply. As the gap widens, the result can be political disintegration and violent upheaval.
With riveting anecdotes and lucid argument, Thomas Homer-Dixon uses his ingenuity theory to suggest how we might approach these problems -- in our own lives, our thinking, our businesses, and our societies.
Interview (in French)
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