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S&P Upgrades Greece Out Of Default : NPR

The Standard & Poor's ratings agency lifted Greece's credit grade out of default on Wednesday after the country completed a massive debt writedown with private creditors.
It upgraded the country from selective default to 'CCC', still in junk status, and gave it a stable outlook, which means no further ratings changes are being considered.
Athens finalized its bond swap, the largest in history, on April 25. The deal wiped $132 billion off Greece's debt and saw private bondholders take a cut of about 75 percent on the real value of their investment.
An integral part of the conditions for the crisis-hit country to continue receiving international rescue loans, the bond swap aims to trim Greece's debt from about 165 percent of gross domestic product last year to about 120 percent by 2020.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:56:58 PM EST
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`Double-dip will shoot Osborne's reputation' | Liberal Conspiracy

On June 2010 the Economist Danny Blanchflower said in a piece for the Daily Mirror: `Mad axeman George Osborne is about to push Britain into second depression`
Right-wingers laughed at the suggestion.
Ed Howker at the Spectator echoed the views of many when he said:

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 05:43:46 PM EST
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But the rich are getting richer in the UK so why should Osborne care?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 03:38:05 AM EST
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The UK media aren't interested in facts about the economy.
They are largely bought into the expansionary austerity myth.

I'm not sure what to do about this, but relying on reality to damage to the government's reputation doesn't seem like a likely way to win.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 04:52:37 AM EST
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Relying on reality to topple the government is a version of things have to get worse before they can get better. When the opposition is equally beholden to ignoring reality, that strategy is even worse than usual.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 04:54:32 AM EST
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US Manufacturing Employment, 1960-2012

Note the peak in manufacturing jobs in June 1977, which represented 22 percent of all nonfarm payrolls, then, to fall to less than 9 percent of total employment today. It's too earlier to claim victory with the current recovery in the manufacturing sector, but it is the the first positive slope since mid-1990′s.

Had the loans to Chrysler and GM not been made the curve would have dropped much further and could have been still declining. Evidence that it matters to what end government spending is directed. Auto industry loans and the temporary aid to states for teachers, fire and police all helped, even if they were not enough. It is the financial sector that needs to be reduced to a small fraction of its current size, preferably as a result of criminal prosecutions and the resultant collapse or dissolution of many financial corporations. That should be accompanied by a vast reduction in financial rent which could be redirected to useful ends.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 12:20:23 AM EST
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World (none / 0)

WORLD

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 12:00:14 PM EST

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Taliban claim deadly attacks in Kabul - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

At least seven people have been killed in several large explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul, shortly after US President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to the country.
At least 17 people were also wounded in the assault on Wednesday morning, most of them Afghan children on their way to school, the interior ministry said.
Sediq Sediqi, a spokesperson for interior ministry, said one of the first blasts, a suicide car bomb, occurred near the Jalalabad road, a main thoroughfare of the city.
The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack which police said targeted a housing compound for westerners in the city. The area, known as the Green Village, is also home to several foreign military bases.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:36:57 PM EST
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Egypt deploys army to quell deadly clashes - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Clashes have erupted between assailants and supporters of Egypt's Islamist political parties who had gathered near the defence ministry in Cairo, leaving 11 people dead and nearly 50 wounded, security and hospital officials said.
The violence on Wednesday is the latest episode in more than a year of turmoil in Egypt following the toppling of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak and will likely fuel more tensions just three weeks ahead of presidential elections.
The military generals who took over from Mubarak in February last year have promised to hand over power to a civilian administration by July 1, but that has not stopped rallies demanding the generals leave immediately.
The security officials said the clashes broke out at dawn when the assailants set upon several hundred protesters who had camped out in the area since early Saturday to press their demand for the military to go.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:37:08 PM EST
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Freed Chinese activist fears for his safety - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng says a US official told him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had he not left the US embassy in Beijing.
Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on Wednesday night, a shaken Chen told The Associated Press news agency that US officials relayed the threat from the Chinese side.
A senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, denied that the administration had passed on to Chen Guangcheng any threat of violence to his family, but did say that Chen was told that if he stayed in the embassy indefinitely, his family would be returned to their home province.
Chen, who fled to the embassy six day ago, left under an agreement in which he would receive medical care and be reunited with his family and allowed to attend university in a safe place.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:37:19 PM EST
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Mali coup leaders hunt down loyalists - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Gunfire has erupted in Mali's capital Bamako in a third day of clashes between the military junta and soldiers loyal to the ousted president, prompting residents to flee for cover, witnesses have said.
A Mali security source told Reuters on Wednesday that Malian troops were evacuating buildings to find remaining loyalist fighters, including suspected foreign mercenaries, who had mounted an unsuccessful counter-coup attempt.

"The evacuation is meant to help the work of the soldiers who are in the process of sweeping the city in search of
mercenaries that have infiltrated the population," the source said, on the condition of anonymity.

Mali's military junta said it arrested about 240 people allegedly associated with an attempted coup earlier this week, and that they are shooting guns into the air as a warning as they try to round up more people they blame for the chaos.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:37:39 PM EST
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Scott Walker recall in dead heat, Obama leads, new poll shows - latimes.com

The hotly contested issue of whether to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor has the state's voters evenly divided, according to a newly released poll.
Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, his most likely Democratic opponent, were virtually tied, with Barrett leading 47%-46% among all registered voters and Walker ahead 48%-47% among those most likely to vote, according to the poll by Marquette University Law School.
Barrett holds a strong and growing lead over three other Democrats a week before the party's May 8 primary, the poll showed.
Both parties have seen the recall as a forecast for November's presidential election. But the contest between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney is not nearly as close as the recall. Obama led by 51%-42%, the poll showed.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:37:50 PM EST
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Such a wonderful system. Vote for bad (Obama), worse (any Repub.), or refuse to participate. Wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 06:00:20 PM EST
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Israel and the walls that surround it - Inside Story - Al Jazeera English

A wall is sometimes built to protect, sometimes to separate and occasionally to do both - but will Israel's latest project protect it or further seal the country's isolation in the region?
A new 'border wall' is going up in Israel, but this time it is in the north of the country, on the border with Lebanon. The six-metre high slabs of concrete and barbed wire are meant to avoid friction and protect from incoming fire.
Israel already has a security wall running along the border with Lebanon. But this one will only be one kilometre long, stretched between Metulla and the Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, and is actually very small in the context of the whole border.
Metulla is Israel's northern-most outpost and it is surrounded by Lebanon on three sides, which explains why Israel feels it needs extra protection there.
The country's newest frontier wall follows the construction or planned-construction of four others. These could eventually see Israel completely enclosed by steel, concrete and barbed wire.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:38:17 PM EST
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San Diego college student forgotten in cell says he drank his urine - latimes.com

A San Diego college student who was forgotten by federal drug agents and left in a holding cell for five days without food or water or access to a toilet says he drank his own urine to survive.
The man, identified by news outlets as 23-year-old UC San Diego engineering student Daniel Chong, was detained for questioning along with eight other people during an April 21 raid in which agents seized guns, ammunition and various drugs, according to the DEA.
The suspects were taken to the DEA's San Diego-area headquarters in Kearny Mesa, Fox5 San Diego reported. While being processed, they were moved around the five cells at the facility, according to the agency's statement.
Each was questioned in separate interview rooms and frequently moved around between rooms and cells.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:51:47 PM EST
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BBC News - 'North Korea jamming' hits South Korea flights

Jamming signals thought to be from North Korea have affected GPS navigation on at least 250 flights, South Korean officials say.
Nine South Korean and nine foreign airlines have been affected since Saturday, the Transport Ministry said.
The flights had to rely on alternative navigation systems but were in no danger, the ministry added.
The South has accused the North - with which it remains technically at war - of similar incidents in the past.
"We've confirmed the GPS [global positioning system] jamming signals have been stemming from the North," Lee Kyung-woo, deputy director at Seoul's Korea Communications Commission, was quoted by Agence-France Presse news agency as saying.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:56:42 PM EST
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Channel News Asia: Obama pokes Romney on Osama raid

"I said that I would go after Osama if we had a clear shot at him and I did it," a steely Obama said in a White House press conference, taking place on the eve of the anniversary of the US Navy SEAL raid which killed Osama.
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"It's wrong for a person running for the president of the United States to get on TV and say, 'We're going to go into your country unilaterally'," Romney said in August 2007.
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"As far as my personal role and what other folks would do, I just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out Osama," Obama said.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 08:32:15 AM EST
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New elections in Israel (none / 0)

Netanyahu calls September elections, expected to win again

It's official: The coalition has decided to call early elections, which are to take place on September 4, 2012. The final confirmation of the date is expected next week, once the Likud's bill on early elections acquires the necessary Knesset votes.

This has several potential advantages. It's before Obama's reelection, so people will be voting for someone who has believed to have Romney on his side. Early september is vacation time, a lot of the better-off will be more likely to be abroad (no absentee ballot - or I'd probably be voting for one of the Arab or Arab-Jewish parties....). Netanhyahu is expected to do well, and pretty much all the "opposition" parties have expressed willingness to enter a coalition under him, so don't expect major changes.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 02:19:10 PM EST
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Living off the Planet (none / 0)

LIVING OFF THE PLANET
Environment, Energy, Agriculture, Food

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 12:00:31 PM EST

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Nuclear waste 'may be blighting 1,000 UK sites' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Hundreds of sites across England and Wales could be contaminated with radioactive waste from old military bases and factories, according to a new government report.
Up to 1,000 sites could be polluted, though the best guess is that between 150 and 250 are, says a report on contaminated land by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), released last month, but previously unreported.
This is far higher than previous official estimates, with evidence from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) last December suggesting that there were just 15 sites in the UK contaminated with radium from old planes and other equipment.
The MoD has come under fire from former prime minister Gordon Brown for trying to evade responsibility for cleaning up the contamination it has caused. His constituency in Fife, north of Edinburgh, includes one of the most notorious examples of radioactive pollution at Dalgety Bay.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:36:13 PM EST
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Rising Groundwater May Flood Underground Infrastructure of Coastal Cities: Scientific American

The pipes, sewers and basements that lie beneath the coastal city of New Haven, Conn., could be flooded by rising groundwater by the end of the century, according to a preliminary study from Yale University and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Much of the city's downtown is less than 30 feet above sea level, and advancing waters in the Atlantic could raise groundwater levels as much as 3 feet near the shoreline, the report said. This has the potential to "inundate underground infrastructure," flooding basements and submerging sewer pipes and utility lines that deliver water and electricity.
Groundwater damage will take a rising toll on property owners, and "utility bills will also rise to re-engineer utilities that were not designed to be installed completely aboveground," said Marcia McNutt, director of the Geological Survey.
If conditions are particularly wet in coming decades, as some regional climate models have predicted, New Haven's groundwater levels could rise even farther. A 12 percent increase in the rate of aquifer recharge from added precipitation, combined with a projected 3-foot rise in sea level by the end of the century, would raise groundwater levels in some parts of the city by an additional foot -- up to 4 feet higher than current levels.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:49:09 PM EST
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Re: Living off the Planet (4.00 / 3)

Experiments underestimate plant responses to climate change

ScienceDaily (May 2, 2012) -- Experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants will respond to climate change in the future. That's the conclusion of an analysis of 50 plant studies on four continents, published this week in an advance online issue of the journal Nature, which found that shifts in the timing of flowering and leafing in plants due to global warming appear to be much greater than estimated by warming experiments.
"This suggests that predicted ecosystem changes -- including continuing advances in the start of spring across much of the globe -- may be far greater than current estimates based on data from experiments," said Elizabeth Wolkovich, an ecologist at the University of British Columbia who led an interdisciplinary team of scientists that conducted the study while she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego.
"These findings have extensive consequences for predictions of species diversity, ecosystem services and global models of future change," said Elsa Cleland, an assistant professor of biology at UC San Diego and senior author of the study, which involved 22 institutions in Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. "Long-term records appear to be converging on a consistent average response to climate change, but future plant and ecosystem responses to warming may be much higher than previously estimated from experimental data."

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:50:11 PM EST
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Marine food chain becomes clearer with new revelations about prey distribution

ScienceDaily (May 2, 2012) -- A new study has found that each step of the marine food chain is clearly controlled by the trophic level below it -- and the driving factor influencing that relationship is not the abundance of prey, but how that prey is distributed.
The importance of the spatial pattern of resources -- sometimes called "patchiness" -- is gaining new appreciation from ecologists, who are finding the overall abundance of food less important than its density and ease of access to it.
Results of the study are being published this week in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
Kelly Benoit-Bird, an Oregon State University oceanographer and lead author on the study, said patchiness is not a new concept, but one that has gained acceptance as sophisticated technologies have evolved to track relationships among marine species.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:50:37 PM EST
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Living on the Planet (none / 0)

LIVING ON THE PLANET
Society, Culture, History, Information

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 12:00:46 PM EST

U.S. Lags in Global Measure of Preterm Births - NYTimes.com

Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year, and the United States fared badly in the first country-by-country global comparison of premature births, which was released Wednesday by the World Health Organization and other agencies.
Although American hospitals excel at saving premature infants, the United States is similar to developing countries in the percentage of mothers who give birth before their child is due, the study's chief author noted. It does worse than any western European country and considerably worse than Japan or the Scandinavian countries.
That stems from the unique American combination of many pregnant teenagers and many women over 35 giving birth, sometimes to twins or triplets implanted after in vitro fertilization, the authors said. Twins and triplets are often deliberately delivered early by Caesarean section to avoid the unpredictable risks of vaginally delivering multiple full-term babies.
Also, many American women of childbearing age have other risk factors for premature birth, like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure or smoking habits. And the many women who lack health insurance often do not see doctors early in their pregnancies, when problems like high blood pressure or genital infections can be headed off.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:36:34 PM EST
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Controversial Bird-Flu Research Published: How Worried Should We Be? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

A highly controversial research paper on bird flu was released today by the journal Nature. It shows that a particularly troublesome strain of avian influenza, designated H5N1, which has been worrying public health officials for more than a decade, has the potential to become a human pandemic. In other words, H5N1 bird flu, which so far has been highly lethal to humans but has not acquired the ability to spread easily among us, could do so at any time.
The researchers, under the direction of Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, crossed an H5N1 virus with the H1N1 pandemic virus of 2009, which spread like wildfire from one end of the world to another. The 2009 pandemic, you'll recall, caught public health officials by surprise but luckily turned out to be mild. Kawaoka's lab-made hybrid virus spreads among ferrets by airborne droplets expelled during the course of respiration-just as human influenza viruses such as the 2009 pandemic strain spread from person to person. Kawaoka's concoction does not kill ferrets, and probably wouldn't kill humans, but the feat is troubling because it demonstrates that an H5N1 virus that can spread among humans is most likely possible. (We don't know for sure because it was tested only on ferrets, not humans, of course.)
Whether an H5N1 virus could acquire the two deadly traits-transmissibility and lethality-at the same time is a burning question. (Kawaoka's paper does not address it.) If one could, it would be bad news indeed. The 1918 flu virus, an H1N1 type, killed about 2 or 2.5 percent of the people it infected but spread so readily the death toll reached 20 million to 50 million. By contrast, about 60 percent of the 600 or so people who have caught H5N1 in the past few years have died. A highly transmissible H5N1 virus with a 60 percent fatality rate could kill hundreds of millions of people, perhaps billions.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:48:11 PM EST
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Big Gulp: Flaring Galaxy Marks the Messy Demise of a Star in a Supermassive Black Hole: Scientific American

Once in a while, a supermassive black hole gets a sumptuous treat. A passing star wanders too close and gets caught in the black hole's gravitational pull, like a fly trapped in a spider's web. The star then becomes an easy meal for the black hole, which tears its prey to bits and ingests a good portion of it.
Astronomers have witnessed several such disruptions before in distant galaxies, but usually only toward the end of the process. (These feedings are far too rare, however, to have been witnessed in our own Milky Way anytime in recent human history; they occur only once every 10,000 years or so per galaxy.) Now researchers have documented a black hole's feasting in such detail that they were able to infer its size as well as the type of star that fell prey to its gluttony.
Astronomers cannot peer inside a black hole itself; beyond the event horizon, a black hole's point of no return, even light cannot escape into the outside world. But material falling into a black hole gives off intense flares of radiation as it compresses and heats up outside the event horizon.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:48:56 PM EST
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Iceman mummy: 5,000-year-old red blood cells discovered -- oldest blood known to modern science

ScienceDaily (May 2, 2012) -- His DNA has been decoded; samples from his stomach and intestines have allowed us to reconstruct his very last meal. The circumstances of his violent death appear to have been explained. However, what had, at least thus far, eluded the scientists, was identifying any traces of blood in Ötzi, the 5,000-year-old glacier mummy. Examination of his aorta had yielded no results. Yet recently, a team of scientists from Italy and Germany, using nanotechnology, succeeded in locating red blood cells in Ötzi's wounds, thereby discovering the oldest traces of blood to have been found anywhere in the world.
"Up to now there had been uncertainty about how long blood could survive -- let alone what human blood cells from the Chalcolithic period, the Copper Stone Age, might look like." This is how Albert Zink, Head of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman at the European Academy, Bozen-Bolzano (EURAC) explains the starting point for the investigations which he undertook with Marek Janko and Robert Stark, materials scientists at the Center of Smart Interfaces at Darmstadt Technical University. Even in modern forensic medicine it has so far been almost impossible to determine how long a trace of blood had been present at a crime scene. Scientists Zink, Janko and Stark are convinced that the nanotechnological methods which they tested out on Ötzi's blood to analyse the microstructure of blood cells and minute blood clots might possibly lead to a break-through in this area.
The team of scientists used an atomic force microscope to investigate thin tissue sections from the wound where the arrow entered Ötzi's back and from the laceration on his right hand. This nanotechnology instrument scans the surface of the tissue sections using a very fine probe. As the probe moves over the surface, sensors measure every tiny deflection of the probe, line by line and point by point, building up a three-dimensional image of the surface. What emerged was an image of red blood cells with the classic "doughnut shape," exactly as we find them in healthy people today.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed May 2nd, 2012 at 03:49:35 PM EST
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When visiting the museum several years ago, I remember reading this.

DNA analysis revealed traces of blood from four other people on his gear: one from his knife, two from the same arrowhead, and a third from his coat.

Is the article you quoted confusing "traces of blood" with "red blood cells" or is one of the two sources simply wrong?

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 06:35:41 AM EST
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Isn't the point that using a new tool they looked at the traces of blood and found intact red blood cells in them?

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 06:42:03 AM EST
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That's the only plausible explanation I can think of, but they keep talking of "traces on blood" in the article.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 06:53:45 AM EST
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Red blood cells don't contain DNA do they ? So traces of blood (with DNA) and red blood cells will be different

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu May 3rd, 2012 at 07:13:38 AM EST
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