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MONTREAL, Sept. 19, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) is pleased to announce that Phase II of the Emirates Aluminium Smelter Complex (EMAL II) project in Abu Dhabi achieved first hot metal nearly three months ahead of schedule. SNC-Lavalin has been contracted to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for EMAL II.
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"Achieving first hot metal nearly three months ahead of an ambitious target was only possible because the EMAL and SNC-Lavalin teams were unified in their commitment, determination and dedication to deliver a world-class project," said Brian Murphy, Project Director, EMAL II, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.
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National Park managers deliberate over whether or not they should charge biotechnical firms for extracting microbes from Yellowstone.
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(CNN/WPBF) - A young toy inventor wants to take his product to the next level this holiday season, and the Florida boy hopes his toy is on your wish list.
Most 11-year-old boys are dying to buy everything in site when they walk into toy stores, but William George's is a little different. He's busy inventing toys for stores.
It started when he was bored with his old teddy bear.
"I took my mom's MP3 player, and there was a hole in my teddy bear," said William.
And Pezo pals was created. His mom and dad thought he had a great idea, so it was perfected.
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It tells more than 100 different stories using different voices, and it records your voice and plays music.
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This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: On their first day in Washington, the team saw a minke whale, harbor seals and more in the San Juan Islands.
Washington Leg, Day 1
Just before 5 a.m., captain Todd Shuster started the two quiet engines of the eco catamaran, Gato Verde. Shortly thereafter we were riding the waves out of Port Angeles Harbor.
Due to gale force wind advisories in the central Strait of Juan de Fuca, we were forced to re-route our diving to the San Juan Islands. For years, we have been interested in the abundant forage and orca whale populations, steep drop-offs and strong currents in this area. As we approached the islands we were exuberant, curious, and hopeful of what we would find today.
Living among the sand and rocks of Hein Bay, a bed of scallops and sea urchins were kept company by corals and a diversity of fish species. A brief appearance by a minke whale off the bank was a highlight of this dive.
This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: humpback whales and orcas!
California Leg, Day 3
Yesterday was a spectacular day as we saw some of the most colorful and rich habitats we've seen yet! The objective was to gather footage from some of the more spectacular areas of pinnacles and rocky reefs that we started to explore last year.
At the outer edge of the Monterey Peninsula, just off Pebble Beach, is a spectacular reef that we explored last year. While golfers marveled at the sites from the world famous course on shore, we marveled at the wildlife above and below the ocean offshore.
We brought several guests with us including a representative from Mission Blue, another organization focusing on ocean exploration and conservation. The weather was sunny and warm, however a medium-sized southerly swell made the ride a bit bumpy and our cable operators got soaked.
The Carmel Pinnacles were protected as a marine reserve in 2008. This combination of rocky reef at the edge of a steep canyon wall that drops thousands of feet provides a rich feeding ground, as nutrient-rich water is pulled up from the deep through a process called upwelling.
As we set our ROV equipment up for the first dive, we saw two large humpback whales swimming right by our boat. We explored a depth range of 90-150 feet. The habitat was composed of large pinnacles and boulders, jutting out of a sandy seabed. Nestled in the cracks and crevices were china rockfish, gopher rockfish, and treefish, while we encountered several schools of black rockfish hovering at the tops of the reefs.
This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition.
California Leg, Day 2
This morning after we passed the barking sea lions on the breakwater at the end of the harbor, we traversed through fog so thick there were no signs of land anywhere to be seen. We pushed trough swells upwards of 6 feet to get to our fist dive site of the day. A mola mola (aka ocean sunfish) we passed along the way didn't seem to mind the intense swells as it basked on the ocean surface.
After motoring out 20 miles across Monterey Bay (north of the Monterey Canyon), we deployed the ROV at the former California halibut trawl grounds. As a direct result of the work of Oceana, this area has been closed to bottom trawling since 2006.
The seafloor here is primarily soft sediment and ranges in depth from 50-250 feet. The areas were teeming with signs of life, including burrows, tracks, and holes. Some places had a lot of juvenile fish and crabs suggesting these areas may be a nursery ground for fishery species. Overall, we were surprised by the diversity of habitat formations and creatures.
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Today, in beautiful Monterey, Oceana kicked off the first part of a three-week research cruise. This week we are aboard the research vessel Derek M. Baylis, focusing on Important Ecological Areas (ocean hotspots) in Monterey Bay.
Today's goal consisted of conducting trial runs with the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) called Video Ray Pro IV as well as allowing the Oceana crew from South America, Alaska, Oregon, and California to get our sea legs and refine our on-board duties. With a small High Definition camera on the ROV, we recorded about an hour of footage at each of the four sites we visited.
At the Monterey Shale Beds, at depths up to 125 feet, we observed a myriad of life in the nooks and crannies including sea cucumbers, anemones, gobies, juvenile rockfish, kelp rockfish, sculpins, gorgonian corals, an octopus, a wolf eel, and a metridium (an anemone that looks like white cauliflower). We watched a sunflower star feeding and a sheep crab that was not so 'sheepish' as it instigated a wrestling match with the ROV.
Yesterday afternoon, the California Assembly acknowledged the critical role that forage species play in maintaining a healthy marine food web by passing Assembly Bill 1299 (AB 1299), sponsored by Oceana and introduced by Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael).
Forage species, like sardines, herring, and market squid, are truly the "heartbeat" of the ocean forming the foundation of the food web – which in turn benefits everything else that eats these small fish.
AB 1299 provides a much needed change in the way California manages its fisheries by establishing a state policy that will for the first time consider how much forage should be left in the ocean. This is not just an environmental issue, but largely an economic one; forage species help support California's recreation and tourism economy, which is worth over $12 billion annually, providing more than 250,000 jobs in the state.
Chinese NBA basketball star Yao Ming hopes so. As center for the Houston Rockets, Ming is spreading the word to "Say no to shark fin soup" with his new ads sponsored by Oceana and WildAid.
Ming's message is traveling through San Francisco by bus, including those on Chinatown routes to support legislation (AB 376) to ban the possession, sale, trade, and distribution of shark fins in California.
Oceanography legend Jacques Cousteau once said "The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." This spellbound wonder is certainly true for our fascination with the 7 species of sea turtles that have inhabited the world's oceans for four million years and, sadly, which are all now threatened or endangered with extinction. These awe-inspiring ocean reptiles were the focus of the 31st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation in San Diego.
Actress and sea turtle advocate Rachael Harris ("The Hangover") presented at our Friday reception. She shared a special connection she made with a green sea turtle named Esmeralda while touring a sea turtle rehabilitation center in Mexico with Oceana last year.
Harris was captivated by how expressive Esmeralda was despite her flippers being mutilated after becoming entangled in fishing line and being attacked by a dog while on a beach to nest. Harris' enthusiastic support for sea turtle protections is shared by fellow sea turtle advocate Angela Kinsey ("The Office"). The two will storm the nation's capitol in early May to educate Congress about why we need to get turtles off the hook and the need for more sea turtle protections throughout our nation's waters.
California voters successfully defeated Proposition 23 that would have essentially repealed California's landmark climate change legislation. The Wavemakers of California sent a strong message to Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro and the California Legislature that we want clean air, clean energy, and we want to protect our oceans.
Thanks to you, California can continue to move forward to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions-ultimately, keeping the world on the right path to reduce the impacts of ocean acidification and other climate induced effects including sea level rise, changes in species distribution, and loss of ocean habitats.
California's Parks System faced collapse last year and the picture for the coming years looks grim.
Enter Proposition 21, a statewide ballot initiative that offers hope to help ensure our 278 state parks and beaches stay up and running and our wildlife and marine resources are protected. Prop 21 establishes a stable, reliable and adequate funding source through an $18 increase in the California vehicle registration fee. These funds will be directly deposited into a State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund and can only be used for operation of state parks and protection of ocean resources and wildlife.


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Creamy Black Bean Salsa Recipe
"I love sour cream on Mexican dishes, so I decided to add it to a salsa recipe," says field editor Darlene Brenden of Salem, Oregon. "It always goes fast, so you may want to double the recipe."
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1-1/2 cups frozen corn, thawed
- 1 cup finely chopped sweet red pepper
- 3/4 cup finely chopped green pepper
- 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
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- In a large bowl, combine the beans, corn, peppers, onion and parsley. Combine the sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar and seasonings; pour over corn mixture and toss gently to coat. Serve with tortilla chips. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 4 cups.
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Easy, delicious, and not totally unhealthy ! Great with lime flavored chips. As good made with canned corn as with frozen corn. Definite keeper!
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It was a crowd favorite and not a drop left. I changed some of the recipe. I used yellow instead of green pepper, cilantro instead of parsley and left out the red onion added half a jalapeno, a can of rotello tomatoes and squeezed half a lime in the recipe at the end. This is our new summer staple for bbq's.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. The Tennessee Valley Authority has donated $5,000 to help the Downtown Redevelopment Authority in Bowling Green redesign its website.
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Woman faces jail for abusing girl
BEMIDJI – A 24-year-old Pennington woman will be sentenced for abusing a young girl. Deanna Antonia Beaudreau on Wednesday entered an Alford plea before Beltrami County District Judge Shari Schluchter for felony third-degree assault, past pattern of child abuse. An Alford plea...
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WALKER – A 21-year-old Walker man has been ordered to spend 18 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man here last spring. Sheldon James Smith received the sentence earlier this week from Judge John Smith. Previously, Sheldon Smith entered a guilty plea to second-degree intentional...
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Halvorson sentenced for firearm charge
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The Department of the Interior (DOI) and Harvard University's Project on American Indian Economic Development signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) July 12.
The groups hope to promote tribal economic development through research, outreach and leadership education.
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk said in a press release that the collaboration will give the Interior "access to the best possible minds and expertise in the field of creating and promoting self-sustaining tribal economies."
The MOU identifies three areas of collaboration including research, outreach and leadership education.
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The Origins of Life
A mineralogist believes he's discovered how life's early building blocks connected four billion years ago
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A hilly green campus in Washington, D.C. houses two departments of the Carnegie Institution for Science: the Geophysical Laboratory and the quaintly named Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. When the institution was founded, in 1902, measuring the earth's magnetic field was a pressing scientific need for makers of nautical maps. Now, the people who work here—people like Bob Hazen—have more fundamental concerns. Hazen and his colleagues are using the institution's "pressure bombs"—breadbox-size metal cylinders that squeeze and heat minerals to the insanely high temperatures and pressures found inside the earth—to decipher nothing less than the origins of life.
Hazen, a mineralogist, is investigating how the first organic chemicals—the kind found in living things—formed and then found each other nearly four billion years ago. He began this research in 1996, about two decades after scientists discovered hydrothermal vents—cracks in the deep ocean floor where water is heated to hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit by molten rock. The vents fuel strange underwater ecosystems inhabited by giant worms, blind shrimp and sulfur-eating bacteria. Hazen and his colleagues believed the complex, high-pressure vent environment—with rich mineral deposits and fissures spewing hot water into cold—might be where life began.
Hazen realized he could use the pressure bomb to test this theory. The device (technically known as an "internally heated, gas media pressure vessel") is like a super-high-powered kitchen pressure cooker, producing temperatures exceeding 1,800 degrees and pressures up to 10,000 times that of the atmosphere at sea level. (If something were to go wrong, the ensuing explosion could take out a good part of the lab building; the operator runs the pressure bomb from behind an armored barrier.)
In his first experiment with the device, Hazen encased a few milligrams of water, an organic chemical called pyruvate and a powder that produces carbon dioxide all in a tiny capsule made of gold (which does not react with the chemicals inside) that he had welded himself. He put three capsules into the pressure bomb at 480 degrees and 2,000 atmospheres. And then he went to lunch. When he took the capsules out two hours later, the contents had turned into tens of thousands of different compounds. In later experiments, he combined nitrogen, ammonia and other molecules plausibly present on the early earth. In these experiments, Hazen and his colleagues created all sorts of organic molecules, including amino acids and sugars—the stuff of life.
Hazen's experiments marked a turning point. Before them, origins-of-life research had been guided by a scenario scripted in 1871 by Charles Darwin himself: "But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes...."
In 1952, Stanley Miller, a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Chicago, attempted to create Darwin's dream. Miller set up a container holding water (representing the early ocean) connected by glass tubes to one containing ammonia, methane and hydrogen—a mixture scientists of the day thought approximated the early atmosphere. A flame heated the water, sending vapor upward. In the atmosphere flask, electric sparks simulated lightning. The experiment was such a long shot that Miller's adviser, Harold Urey, thought it a waste of time. But over the next few days, the water turned deep red. Miller had created a broth of amino acids.
Forty-four years later, Bob Hazen's pressure bomb experiments would show that not just lightning storms but also hydrothermal vents potentially could have sparked life. His work soon led him to a more surprising conclusion: the basic molecules of life, it turns out, are able to form in all sorts of places: near hydrothermal vents, volcanoes, even on meteorites. Cracking open space rocks, astrobiologists have discovered amino acids, compounds similar to sugars and fatty acids, and nucleobases found in RNA and DNA. So it's even possible that some of the first building blocks of life on earth came from outer space.
Hazen's findings came at an auspicious time. "A few years before, we would have been laughed out of the origins-of-life community," he says. But NASA, then starting up its astrobiology program, was looking for evidence that life could have evolved in odd environments—such as on other planets or their moons. "NASA [wanted] justification for going to Europa, to Titan, to Ganymede, to Callisto, to Mars," says Hazen. If life does exist there, it's likely to be under the surface, in warm, high-pressure environments.
Back on earth, Hazen says that by 2000 he had concluded that "making the basic building blocks of life is easy." A harder question: How did the right building blocks get incorporated? Amino acids come in multiple forms, but only some are used by living things to form proteins. How did they find each other?
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I'm rather disappointed in this article. Stanley Miller's experiment has been debunked by scientists (including Stanley) for many years. To have "the stuff" of life or building blocks of life does not build life. It takes a lot of faith to believe that life came from an undersea volcanic vent.
Posted by Tyler on August 18,2013 | 06:55 PM
I would like to know if Einstein's theory--E=mc2 can work in reverse. That is, in algebraic solution for m: E/c2=m. Could that explain mathematically how original matter was formed, by the collision of light beams or energy fields? Also, are the experiments mentioned in the article about producing the "building blocks" of life at odds with Louis Pasteur's work refuting spontaneous generation? If so, which is right. Once formed, it is not too hard to imagine various ways might have linked over time. Maybe some organic compounds were attempting to feed on others but instead became joined into a larger organism. Genetic linking has been demonstrated. The basic problem is how the first gene was formed I am not a chemist or physicist, but I am a graduate student in the Health Administration area. I would appreciate answers to my questions to use in a project. I am also a Smithsonian subscriber. Patrice Weber
Posted by Patrice Weber on June 22,2013 | 03:53 PM
There are fundamental errors in the way they are approaching the problem in the first place.Science isn't about attributing human qualities in everything that is unknown.In other words, the role of science is to uncover the simple laws behind sophisticated systems and not sophisticated systems behind simple laws. Viruses are the scale in which our human made definitions about life collapse and become useless.If we just consider viruses full living organisms and we expand the laws that govern viruses to all the living organisms and redefine life, what we get is a system in which: a)The whole sum of living beings , if considered a single entity, is a random system of chemical reactions.These reactions over time are becoming more complicating and increase in number.This is fueled mainly by the energy coming on earth because of the sun. b)We are a sum of chemical reactions happening and changing through time and space, so we are a part(or a small fraction) of the whole system of reactions, so we see and judje things from inside the system.We judje from the point of view of the result. c)Things like evolution, reproduction, self sustainability and sophisticated metabolic pathways can be explained satisfactory under this new perspective in an extremely simplier way than before.There is no need to discover miraculously sophisticated new laws anymore. d)We can make testable ,falsifiable and repeatable predictions. e)The way medicine is conducted must change in the future, in order to dramatically accelerate medical progress.Additionally, new pathways for extending human lifespan are opened. More at.. http://www.philica.com/display_article.php?article_id=369
Posted by minas on June 15,2013 | 06:06 AM
origin of life? it's not what you sugests!! i am sorry to tell you that everything you are writing about the origin of life is WRONG life began when someone you call nature FIRST created 4 letters from 4 complex molecules and combined - wrote programs that created life life. that someone first created a cell and then wrote complex programs that converted ordinary chmichals to life. that someone created a spell check so the cell replication is accurate. this cell was created 3.5 billion years ago and NEVER EVOLVED. Life was created by computer and he bible says that. in the beginning was the word is scientifically accurate.....then god wrote DNA programs and left them torule over us...and the word was god.
Posted by joe lanyadoo on April 8,2013 | 07:25 AM
Origin of life and living matter in hot mineral water The evidence shown indicates that the origination of life and living matter depends on the properties and structure of water and also on additional conditions. Hot mineral water, which interacts with calcium carbonate is closest to these conditions and has left a trace in plants with its structure, and entropy. Next in line with regard to quality are sea and mountain water (Ignatov, Mosin, 2010). In warm and hot mineral waters the peaks in the infrared spectrum are more pronounced in comparison to the peaks in the same water with a lower temperature. In 2011 Tadashi Sugawara also brought us closer to the secret that life has originated in hot water. He has created a proto cells, which are similar of bubbles. For this purpose, they have made an aqueous solution of organic molecules, DNA and synthetic enzymes. The solution was heated to a temperature close to water's boiling point – 95 °C. Then its temperature was lowered to 65°C. In 2011 Marie-Laure Pons from the Laboratory of Geology in Lyon, France was studied some of the oldest rocks in the planet and found the mineral serpentinite. It was previously thought that the first living creatures evolved in geysers. The French scientists were proved that in Greenland the water was rich in carbonates, not too acidic. The temperatures would have ranged from 100 to 300°C. In January 2010, American scientist David Ward and colleagues described fossilized stromatolites in the Glacier National Park in the USA. They are studying microbes in Yellowstone National Park in USA, which are building stromatolites in hot water similar like ancient organisms. Rotorua in New Zealand is a similar place. Stromatolites have lived in warm and hot water in zones of volcanic activity. Warm and hot waters can be heated by magma as well. Their age is 3.5 billion years in Greenland. Source: http://www.medicalbiophysics.dir.bg/en/water_memory.html
Posted by Prof. Stanislav Zenin on March 12,2013 | 04:52 PM
He is stupid
Posted by on November 1,2012 | 06:29 PM
To understand origin of life, the first thing that needs to be understood is, which of the properties of matter can possibly account for inanimate to animate transformation. Last Universal Common Ancestor has been held to be the common ancestor of all the organisms that are known to exist on Earth. However, it is not correct and therefore ruled out. http://sciencengod.com/blog/whether-or-not-last-universal-common-ancestor-is-even-probable/ http://www.sciencengod.com http://sciencengod.com/buynow.php
Posted by Dr Mahesh C. Jain on October 9,2012 | 10:49 PM
Hazen gives good lectures, I heard him here in Uppsala at his Linné lecture.
Creationists shouldn't comment on science:
Pyruvate is C3H3O3 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyruvic_acid ].
@ Hans Hollis, MPK:
We have testable evidence for chemical to biological evolution.
Bottom up, both AMP/ATP and lipid protocell membranes form spontaneously. Top-down we now know that the earliest gene families handled ATP. Hence ATP sits at a nested sets of traits or a tested phylogeny.
The RNA world is that bottleneck environment, and you have to go to Szostak et al for that. We also now know that RNA selfreplicators can get long enough spontaneously, and that they interact well with self-replicating protocell membranes. The trick is to put the pieces together - they are working on it.
More generally, astrobiology has gone from coming up with new pathways to try to reject those who doesn't work. Among those that will remain will be the one taken in our case.
Posted by Torbjörn Larsson, OM on February 24,2012 | 10:57 AM
Wow this is a really cool project. I might be able to try it out and use it for my science project. Thanks whoever the creator is :)
Posted by Kayla on October 5,2011 | 08:25 PM
Thomas Gold's "Deep Hot Biosphere" discussed the possibilty of life originating under the surface of the earth back in the 1980's.
There are compelling reasons why this should be. If "life" originated by a lucky chance out of random combinations of organic chemicals, then it would be most likely to originate in a region where the chemical reactions were at their peak density and peak reaction rate: at high pressures and temperatures that naturally occur under the surface.
Posted by john b on November 16,2010 | 05:39 PM
Wow, this is my next science project. Thanks Smithsonian
Posted by Q on October 23,2010 | 06:03 PM
I think I am a sane, well educated person. However, I have had some psychic ability that I don't understand and usually try to avoid. One of the recurring messages I have been getting for years is "The answer is in the rocks." Maybe this article explains that message.
Posted by Gwen Hays on October 20,2010 | 12:47 PM
Great article. How could people not find this kind of topic utterly fascinating?
Posted by Bob on October 13,2010 | 05:48 PM
I have subscribed to Smithsonian magazine for some 25 years and often enjoy the articles presented. Before There Was Life in the October 2010 issue is a rare exception. The idea that life somehow arose around hydrothermal vents was dismissed by Stanley Miller himself. In an interview appearing in Astrobiology Magazine on the 50th anniversary of Miller's original experiment and subsequent paper, Miller stated "the conditions of such ocean venting decomposes rather than enhances prebiotic chemistry."
Chemist Jeffrey L. Bada of the University of California, (as reported in the New York Times) added: "This is probably the most unlikely area for the origin of life to occur".
As a side note, Stanley Miller's obituary appeared in The New York Times on May 23, 2007. In part, it stated "Despite the brilliant beginning, neither he nor others were able to take the next step, that of providing a plausible mechanism by which these chemicals could have been assembled into living cells or macromolecules, DNA and proteins – on which cells depend." Mr. Hazen has only shown that amino acids can be formed under certain conditions, something that is already widely known. He, too, has failed to provide a plausible mechanism by which these chemicals could have been assembled into living cells.
Hans Hollis
Posted by Hans Hollis on October 12,2010 | 02:43 PM
Thanks to scientists who continue to explore new ways of looking at how life could have started we have a more complete idea of what could have happened here on Earth about 4 billion years ago. Let's go to mars, drill down and find out if life is still there. Just a suggestion.
Posted by Bob Wiersma on October 8,2010 | 04:28 PM
This is shallow science for such a bold title. "I do wish that creationists would actually know the science they decry...The only thing organic chemical means is that it has carbon in it." Wrong, elitist Vel, Pyruvate, as a compound, has no carbon in its structure. Soup in is still soup out. Maybe there's something useful still to come, but for now, this column describes nothing more than expensive alchemy.
Posted by MPK on October 7,2010 | 10:24 PM
I do wish that creationists would actually know the science they decry and realize that organic chemicals aren't only those that are made by life. We known how to make organic chemicals from inorganic. They are made that way in nature. We have done so since around 1832 when Wohler synthesized urea from inorganic chemicals. The only thing organic chemical means is that it has carbon in it.
Posted by vel on September 29,2010 | 12:46 PM
@Rick Powell: The article states that we've been able to synthesize amino acids (basic organic compounds) from ammonia, methane and hydrogen (inorganic elements) in early-earth-like conditions since the 1960s. To quote, "Hazen says that by 2000 he had concluded that 'making the basic building blocks of life is easy.'" Once you've mastered synthesizing organic compounds, you move on to the next question. "How did the right building blocks get incorporated? Amino acids come in multiple forms, but only some are used by living things to form proteins. How did they find each other?"
You may also be interested in this article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18623-did-midwife-molecule-assemble-first-life-on-earth.html
Posted by Marie Torborg on September 29,2010 | 09:53 AM
The writing was as great as the story. Darwin would be proud. Rock on!
Posted by Tom Stohlgren on September 21,2010 | 11:13 PM
The title "The Origins of Life" is completely misleading, unfortunately a common trait for the Smithsonian magazine these days. Let's see, we take existing organic compounds, heat and pressurize them, and behold - more complex organic compounds! Then we hype it up to get some readers. Where would the organic compounds have come from? How would we get from non-organic to organic? Now those are just some of the initial questions that would have to be seriously addressed, before you should ever include the word "origins" in the title. I feel cheated and want five minutes of my life back, please.
Posted by Rick Powell on September 19,2010 | 02:32 PM
This material is way beyond my idea as to how different material was developed. It is great that some so gifted could put these ideas together and then print a script that someone like me could at least begin to rethink how life and everything developed.
As a pastor the greative God did it, but for me the Great God put the system, the program, and events to make it happen together and now we have the miracles that life is all about.
Thanks for help me take another step in understanding.
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Shannon Watts sat down at her kitchen table in Indianapolis days after a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut claimed the lives of 20 children. She had a plan to create an organization that would be so loud, so unrelenting that Congress could no longer remain silent on the issue of gun control. She gathered the best naggers out there who had a solid reputation of getting a job done; moms.
"The horrible massacre in Sandy Hook changed the opinions and feelings of moms," says Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. "We are not going to send our kids to school with bulletproof backpacks and shields. We need a lot done in Congress, and if it doesn't happen, we are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the midterms."
Polling shows a wide gender gap on gun control. Women overwhelmingly support stronger gun control measures, while men are more divided. A Pew poll released in January showed nearly 70 percent of women supported reinstating an assault weapons ban and support for stronger background checks was topping out an nearly 90 percent.
In just three months, Watts says the outpouring from North Dakota to Texas has led to the creation of an organization with 80,000 members and 80 chapters nationwide. Moms Demand Action is working to train moms how to become activists to force a limit on high-capacity magazines and so-called assault weapons as well as to pass universal background checks.
But with almost two years until the 2014 elections it's unclear if groups like Moms Demand Action will be able to keep the gun-control debate in the spotlight long enough for it to take center stage in the midterm election.
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After a violent tragedy, the conversation always turns to how to curb gun violence, but the sense of urgency can fade quickly on Capitol Hill—especially when Congress operates in an era navigating from one fiscal crisis to the next.
Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on four gun-control measures. The most likely to pass is a bipartisan bill that would make gun trafficking a federal crime. But the committee will also test the waters on legislation that would ban so-called assault weapons, create a system for universal background checks and increase security in schools. The votes will force members to get on record on gun control.
"The more you talk about these issues and bring public opinion around and begin to hold legislators accountable on votes such as an assault weapons ban, you are going to have more support," says New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. "If there are members of Congress who refuse to act, who refuse to find a common sense solution, they will be held accountable in those elections."
Since the 1994 assault weapons ban expired, Republican and Democratic politicians have been reluctant to pull the trigger on limiting high-capacity magazines or assault weapons, and a closer look at the congressional map may reveal why.
If Democrats want to retake the House in 2014, Republican strategists argue gun control is not a winning issue for them. The districts where gun control may be an appealing topic are traditionally liberal-leaning ones where a Democrat is likely already holding the seat. And in order to take the House, Democrats will have to win 17 seats, some of them in much more conservative areas. Not to mention they will need to keep nine conservative-leaning districts like Democratic Rep. Mike McIntyre's in North Carolina and Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson's in Utah. In the Senate, Democrats must hold onto seats in states like Montana, South Dakota and Alaska in the midterm—places GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney won in 2012.
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Democratic strategists argue, however, that the gun-control debate is a powerful one with moms and dads in some of the suburban districts outside of Philadelphia, Orlando and Minneapolis, places they see as prime for pick ups in 2014.
"The battle field for competitive races are in suburban areas, which are the exact places Republicans are vulnerable for being too extreme on gun violence," one Democratic election strategist says. "People are hungry for common sense solutions on gun violence in suburban areas. Republicans are in some real danger electorally on this."
A new influx of money may keep the debate alive too, says Bill Allison, the editorial director at the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group. A congressional race in Illinois' 2nd Congressional District revealed just how much the gun-control movement is willing to spend on the fight. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's super PAC Independence USA spent over $2 million on a primary to elect gun-control candidate Robin Kelly last week.
"Michael Bloomberg has some pretty deep pockets," Allison says. "Part of what Bloomberg's group is doing is to get notoriety and keep the issue in the center. There has not been much movement, and part of it was to make a display that there is money out there that will hit you in the next election if you don't do something."
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While its still unclear how Independence USA will use its resources in the midterm elections, Allison says Democrats and Republicans alike might be at risk. Even if a candidate thinks they are safe because they are in a Republican-leaning state or district where gun rights are important to constituents, Allison says Bloomberg's group could still attack candidates.
"There are all kinds of ways he can hurt lawmakers who are more on the fence," Allison says. "He can punish those members who are wavering with ads that are not related to gun control but to another sensitive issue in their district. There is not obligation when you have a lot of money to tell people why you are trying to tear down a candidate."
Bloomberg's group is one of half a dozen that have pledged to make elections uncomfortable for lawmakers who fail to act on gun-control legislation. Yet, the powerful NRA isn't expected to stay on the sidelines.
"Bloomberg is trying to manufacture a story line and use it as a means of saying his agenda is alive and well," NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told U.S. News last week. "We are involved in thousands of races in a given election year and we will continue to do so."
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While the gun-control debate is hot now, University of Virginia election expert Kyle Kondik expects the debate will cool and gun control will be a footnote in the storyline of 2014.
"I do not see it being a big national issue next year. I don't know if the Bloomberg super PAC is enough to keep this issue on the national forefront." Kondik says.
He argues that Bloomberg's actions in the Democratic primary attracted a disproportionate amount of attention to gun control.
"It was the only game in town. They knew they were going to get some PR bang for their buck," Kondik says.
But that won't keep constituents like Watts and moms from her group from pushing the issue. More than 200 moms will gather in Washington next week to meet with lawmakers, warn them about 2014 and urge them to act.
"Our goal is to put pressure on Congress. If you don't talk about this ... then you will be more at risk," Watts says.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban suicide bombers carried out a brazen attack in the Afghan capital on Monday, the second in less than a week and a sign that insurgents are determined to keep fighting despite recent overtures of peace from the U.S. and Afghan government.
The nine-hour assault on the traffic police headquarters, which sent heavy black smoke rising over Kabul, was the second such attack in the heart of the snow-covered capital in six days.
It came a week after the Afghan and American presidents agreed that the Taliban should open a political office in the Gulf state of Qatar to facilitate possible reconciliation with the hard-line Islamic group. And it occurred just days after Pakistan announced it would release more Taliban detainees to help jumpstart the fragile peace process.
The pre-dawn attack began with two Taliban suicide bombers blowing themselves up at the gates of the police headquarters. Three heavily armed militants, also wearing explosive vests, then stormed the compound, authorities said.
About 90 minutes later, a car packed with explosives blew up near the gate. Such secondary explosive devices often are rigged to timers and designed to kill people responding to the attack.
The three militants who entered the compound battled Afghan security forces for nine hours. Three policemen were killed, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. Four traffic policemen and 10 civilians were wounded, he said.
Kabul Police Chief Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi said two suicide bombers died at the gate when they detonated their explosive vests, another blew himself up inside the building and two more were shot and killed by security forces before they managed to detonate their suicide vests.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, which he said targeted a police training facility "run by foreign military forces."
The traffic police headquarters is not heavily guarded, though it is located on a square leading to the parliament and close to a zoo. It also is adjacent to the Afghan Border Police headquarters and a police training facility - possibly the insurgents' primary target.
The traffic police facility, usually teeming with civilians seeking driver's licenses and vehicle registrations, was nearly empty when the attack began before the morning rush hour.
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