Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Dreamland show we planned for tonight will not be aired. We will air this show at a later date. Tonight, enjoy a Dreamland classic, Dr. Rick Strassman on the first officially sanctioned DMT research in 40 years, and Dr. Edgar Mitchell on the fact that we really did go to the moon.
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From Genetic Crossroads.
After three hours of intense debate the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 265 to 162 to pass the “Weldon bill” (HR 2505), banning both the creation of clonal embryos and their implantation in a woman to produce a cloned child.
This vote is a victory for opponents of human cloning, designer babies, and the new commercial eugenics. But it’s a victory that reveals a larger political failure–one with chilling implications.
The move in the U.S. Congress to ban human cloning was initiated by social conservatives and opponents of abortion. Seeing this, many liberals and progressives reflexively took the other side, apparentlywith little understanding of the issues or of what is at stake.
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Researchers in South Africa claim they have extracted the DNA of an early human.
The microscopic traces of blood which yielded the sample are apparently from a 1.8 million-year-old hominid. If the claim is authenticated the DNA will be the oldest sample ever extracted.
Wits University micro-archaeologist Bonnie Williamson, says, ?The DNA we have found is something between a chimpanzee and a human, which suggests a hominid.? Williamson and her colleague Professor Tom Loy of the University of Queensland believe this DNA sequence is from either our direct ancestor Homo habilis or Paranthropus robustus. The tools on which the blood was found were in the Sterkfontein Caves, a World Heritage site in the Gauteng region.
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The Bush administration has received enormous worldwide criticism for its refusal to support the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, but new scientific evidence suggests that one of the treaty’s key strategies may be dangerously flawed.
The protocol gives governments the option to plant trees to soak up carbon dioxide, rather than cutting emissions of greenhouse gas. But this provision is not realistic, warns Richard Betts of Britain?s Meteorological Office. He says it does not take into account other ways that new forests can affect climate.
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