Although RBCs don't have any DNA on-board, just about every other cell does - so it's a question of quality if you want to resurrect a clone. But why? He's anatomically a modern human. If you were going to clone him why not yourself? ;)

The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is 392 parts per *million*. 0.00039%, if you will. If increasing that to 0.0005% will destroy the earth through global warming, the earth would have destroyed itself through seasonal variations let alone variations over millennia long ago...

Humans contribute about 3% of the CO2 output per annum, the rest of it is from living processes. Water vapour controls the majority of the global warming effect (~97%) which is why people who are sceptical about the AGW 'consensus' think that it's arse backwards CO2 affects water vapour and cloud formation. It makes more sense that changes in evaporation from solar sources lead the worlds largest reservoir of CO2, the oceans, to let more CO2 escape.

It's funny that the summary mentions solar decreases aren't matching global warming, because global temperatures have been declining recently too, supporting the idea that the sun is in control.

Similarly crappy upsampling drivers for example those found in old creative audigy cards degrade the signal, which could be a source of confusion. Has anyone also ever considered that 60 people isn't enough to confirm this; perhaps some people can detect higher freqencies than others, just like some people see TVs flickering at 60hz and others don't. The paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2332838 talks about neurons with base frequences up to 75khz, a fair bit above 24 khz that is represented by 48 khz sampling rates.

Could it be that the universe's entire playing field is just stuffed with warped areas here and there for no reason other than that there's no reason it should be smooth either, and galaxies form and move around these areas? I suppose if those underlying distortions themselves can move around then whether it's a form of matter or not might be moot. Any astrophysicists care to explain?

I want to believe in extreme possiblities

I think that the discussion here might get a bit two dimensional; mature slashdotters who use the internet a lot and know it's beneficial arguing against a woman who black-boxes the internet by presuming that badass teens who use the internet in ways she can't imagine are affected by it, somehow, and thus it serves as the reason for any malady she can think of since she has no causation or even much correlation in her arguments.

For those of us with partners, friends and family and not in their teens, it's pretty obvious that while us nerds delve fully into the fringes technology which has been developing rapidly, everyone else is using technology the same way. From the invention of the telephone to the mobile, the main reason people are on the net is to talk to one another - which isn't a sea change at all, since people always do it face to face too. And now people are using it as their diary, and encyclopedia. Not game changers either, for the brain. Just quicker.

I think xkcd 973 is appropriate. Teens are badass because they're teens. Not because of MTV or the Tubes.

I am an environmental scientist in Australia. A widely employed and growing trend is to take the solids from waste water treatment plants and dump them on farmland with minimal processing. Currently the theory is that although these fertilizers are high in metals, they won't become quite as bioavailable because plants won't take them up readily.

There's research into the resulting quality of food, but not as much as you might expect. We'll have to wait and see pretty much.

If in 81% of the US economy the money stays in the US, that's great, even though the rest goes overseas. Unless... there aren't enough exports within that 81% to match the 19% of cash going overseas, in which case, the amount of money in the US decreases. So. My question is, can the US just print more money until everyone is sick of selling things in the US for monopoly money and they invert their economies and no longer sell to the US? Because then there will be no outsourcing from the ensuing market crash, since it will no longer be cheaper to outsource anymore, and the process will reverse. You can see the pie chart in TFA more clearly here http://globaleconomyfinancialmarkets.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-you-buy-made-in-china-most-of-your.html.

...absurdly high water content, some protein... hmm how about we use them to fertilize the desert?