Who is 9 years old and just got 1st place in his school science fair? This guy:

Congratulations Connor! His aquaponics exhibit was selected to go to the Discovery Museum to display alongside other winning entries. w00t!

As with all stories of conspiracy, take them with a grain of salt until you can confirm or deny. I ran across these and found them very interesting. A few I had previously seen and the facts can't really be disputed. Others I'm still checking out. This was found at The Daily Sheeple. Have fun!

2011 was the year in which many conspiracy “theories” became conspiracy FACTS. Articles that used to earn you a tinfoil hat designation suddenly were front-page news stories across the country. The world is stranger than we can imagine, it seems, and 2011 proved it yet again.

Here are the top ten conspiracy facts that emerged over the last year:

#1 – Obama admits U.S. government used Guatemalan prisoners for illegal medical experiments

When we exposed the U.S. government’s long list of medical crimes against humanity back in 2006, the mainstream media was silent (http://www.naturalnews.com/019187.html). People insisted the government was ethical and honest, and it could never be involved in crimes against humanity. (ROFL!) When the truth came out about Guatemalan prisoner experiments, however, it went viral so quickly the mainstream media couldn’t whitewash the story.

Way cool quantum levitation. Floats like it's on invisible rails, but not like other magnets. The structure makes it so it can be positioned and "stuck" above the magnet in orientations that I haven't seen before.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xuEY2bm-W50)

It appears the the NSF is letting down Al Gore a bit here. Moonbattery says,

This won’t come as much of a surprise — except to moonbats:

According to a recent study funded by the National Science Foundation’s Paleoclimate Program, climate change may be far less sensitive to carbon dioxide fluctuations than previously predicted.

The most notable predictions of CO2-based climate change came from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2007. The report suggested that should the CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere double from pre-Industrial standards (pre-1850), it could result in a global 2 to 4.5 degree Celsius (3.6 – 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature increase worldwide. The mean level in this finding was 3 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit). This, of course, would be catastrophic, leading to the melting of polar ice, as well as significant sea temperature increases and global flooding due to rising ocean levels.

Maybe; however,

It appears that that these dire numbers might not be accurate according to a the lead author of the new report, Oregon State University researcher Andreas Schmittner.

Andy sent this to me the other day. It's a pretty hypnotic video taken from the space station. 

What is a basic human right? Is there a difference between natural rights, human needs, and wants? Certainly. There are traditional rights and more recent "new" rights which seek not to give equal opportunity to thrive, but to force equality.

There is an incompatibility between the two since traditional rights are about individual liberty while the new rights are about social fairness. The former allows for personal freedom and responsibility and the latter for governmental power and lack of personal responsibility.

(People) could not be allowed to use their knowledge for their own purposes but would have to carry out the plan which rulers have designed to meet the needs to be satisfied. From this it follows that the old civil rights and the new social and economic rights cannot be achieved at the same time but are in fact incompatible; the new rights cannot be enforced by law without at the same time destroying that liberal order at which the old rights aim".— F A Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2, (Chicago, 1982) p 103.

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Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity states that no object in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. Scientists at CERN have recently measured particals that have exceeded that speed limit, even if by billionths of a second. They are now seeking scrutiny of their testing as confirmation could shake physics up a bit.

The teamhas published its workso other scientists can determine if the approach contains any mistakes.

If it does not, one of the pillars of modern science will come tumbling down.

Antonio Ereditato added "words of caution" to his Cern presentation because of the "potentially great impact on physics" of the result.

The speed of light is widely held to be the Universe's ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics - as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his theory of special relativity - depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.

Thousands of experiments have been undertaken to measure it ever more precisely, and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the limit.

"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," the report's author Antonio Ereditato ofthe Opera collaborationtold BBC News on Thursday evening.

"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't.