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Advection: The Forgotten Weather Factor.
Post Date: 2015-04-24 08:59:26 by Ada
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The early Greeks had a better, more basic understanding of weather and climate than the people involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Indeed, the word climate derives from the Greek word klima, meaning inclination, referring to the climate conditions created by the angle of the Sun. They paid great attention to the wind, realizing its role in creating local, regional and seasonal conditions. They even erected a tower to the wind in Athens (Figure 1) with sculptures representing each major compass direction. Click for Full Text!
Great discussion of Gates and Zuckerberg under education article
Post Date: 2015-04-24 03:26:42 by NeoconsNailed
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Neuroanatomical Correlates of the Income-Achievement Gap www.amren.com/news/2015/0...correlates-of-the-income- achievement-gap/ In the United States, the difference in academic achievement between higher- and lower-income students (i.e., the income-achievement gap) is substantial and growing. In the research reported here, we investigated neuroanatomical correlates of this gap in adolescents (N = 58) in whom academic achievement was measured by statewide standardized testing. Cortical gray-matter volume was significantly greater in students from higher-income backgrounds (n = 35) than in students from lower-income backgrounds (n = 23), but cortical white-matter volume and total cortical ...
For the First Time Ever: US Navy Drone Refueled Mid-Flight
Post Date: 2015-04-23 03:52:07 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... The only thing more terrifying than a US military drone? One that doesn’t need to stop for gas. The Navy’s bat-wing drone, the first capable of launching from an aircraft carrier, can now also refuel in midair. The X-47B test UAV has completed the first-ever autonomous aerial refueling. Developed by Northrop Grumman, the drone received over 4,000 pounds of fuel from a tanker jet just off the coast of Virginia. "What we accomplished today demonstrates a significant, groundbreaking step forward for the Navy," Captain Beau Duarte, program manager for the Navy’s unmanned carrier aviation program, said in a statement. "The ability to autonomously ...
Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI's 'mass disaster' of false conviction
Post Date: 2015-04-22 08:29:41 by Ada
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A ‘dirty bomb’ of pseudo-science wrapped up nearly 268 cases – perhaps hundreds more. Now begins the ‘herculean effort to right the wrongs’ In 2013, the FBI admitted that the foundations of what it called ‘hair comparison evidence’ were scientifically invalid George Perrot has spent almost 30 years in prison thanks to a single hair. It was discovered by an FBI agent on the bedsheet of a 78-year-old woman who had been raped by a burglar in her home in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1985. Perrot, then 17, was put on trial, despite the absence of physical evidence tying him to the crime scene. There was no semen. There was no blood. And so there was no way ...
The perils of messing with Mother Nature
Post Date: 2015-04-21 21:11:01 by NeoconsNailed
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.......through human bureaucracy. Stop sniggering! Sperm bank sued after donor details emerge 7 years later apnews.myway.com/article/...9/us--sperm_bank_lawsuit- 45e673b552.html Well, I can't get it to link right because the site insists on breaking things up.
Chinese researchers develop brain-controlled robot
Post Date: 2015-04-20 00:37:31 by Tatarewicz
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want... A Chinese research team has developed a robot whose movements can be controlled with just the human brain, reports the Chinese-language Changsha Evening News. The award-winning team of researchers at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, the capital of south-central China's Hunan province, recently tested the self-made brain-controlled robot, which was able to move forward and backwards and make flexible turns with its body through brainwaves sent from an electrode cap worn by the controller. According to Jiang Jun, a doctoral student in the team, the cap strengthens weak brainwaves before sending them back to their computers, which effectively reads the ...
Russia is planning to create its own orbital space station by 2023
Post Date: 2015-04-17 22:21:55 by Tatarewicz
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NBC NEWS During an hours-long national call-in program, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country is planning to create its own orbital space station by 2023, just as the operational life of the current International Space Station is due to wind down. It was only the latest in a string of contradictory statements about how Russia sees life in space after the ISS. Putin said a national space station was an economic necessity. "We use the ISS actively for science and the economy, but from the ISS only 5 percent of the area of Russia can be seen," he said Thursday. "From a national station, of course, we will be able to see the whole territory of our vast country." ...
Fukushima robot stranded after stalling inside reactor
Post Date: 2015-04-13 13:01:51 by Ada
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Robot stopped moving hours into first inspection of containment vessel, and similar inspection using separate device is postponed Decommissioning work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered a setback after a robot sent in to a damaged reactor to locate melted fuel stalled hours into its mission and had to be abandoned. The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said the robot stopped moving on Friday during its first inspection of the containment vessel inside reactor No 1, one of the three reactors that suffered meltdown after the plant was struck by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Tepco, which recently conceded that the technology for robots to ...
Cardiac tissue grown on 'spider silk' substrate
Post Date: 2015-04-12 06:06:32 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Genetically engineered fibers of the protein spidroin, which is the construction material for spider webs, has proven to be a perfect substrate for cultivating heart tissue cells, MIPT researchers found. They discuss their findings in an article that has recently come out in the journal PLOS ONE. The cultivation of organs and tissues from a patient's cells is the bleeding edge of medical research -- regenerative methods can solve the problem of transplant rejection. However,it's quite a challenge to find a suitable frame, or substrate, to grow cells on. The material should be non-toxic and elastic andshould not be rejected by the body or impede cell growth. A ...
Another call to arrest climate “deniers"
Post Date: 2015-04-11 09:10:49 by Ada
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They believe people should be punished for being climate skeptics Adam Weinstein, of the Gawker, has added his voice to the growing list of greens, who demand a brutal authoritarian response to the vexing problem of people who have a different opinion. According to Weinstein; Man-made climate change happens. Man-made climate change kills a lot of people. It’s going to kill a lot more. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people’s deaths. It’s time to punish the climate-change liars. This is an argument that’s just being discussed seriously in some circles. It was laid out earlier this month, with all the appropriate caveats, by Lawrence ...
Amazing Engineering!
Post Date: 2015-04-09 17:52:10 by Lod
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Ice on Mars: Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
Post Date: 2015-04-08 12:25:28 by Ada
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Summary: Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that underneath the dust there are glaciers composed of frozen water. New studies have now calculated the size of the glaciers and thus the amount of water in the glaciers. Click for Full Text!
Why is the scientific world abuzz about an unpublished paper? Because it could permanently change human DNA
Post Date: 2015-04-08 02:46:45 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists around the world are buzzing about a highly anticipated study that has yet to be published but could mark a major milestone in genetic and embryonic research. Leah Hennel/Calgary HeraldScientists around the world are buzzing about a highly anticipated study that has yet to be published but could mark a major milestone in genetic and embryonic research. Scientists around the world are anticipating the results of a Chinese study that would mark the first time DNA in a human embryo has been modified in a way that would carry into future generations. Although the embryos would be for study only, and not intended for implantation, the research would mark a significant milestone: ...
Chinese-led Stanford team make aluminum battery breakthrough
Post Date: 2015-04-07 20:30:16 by Tatarewicz
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Want... A Chinese-led research team from Stanford University announced they have developed a rechargeable and high-performance aluminum battery that could be a safe alternative of conventional batteries. Aluminum is considered as an attractive material for batteries but commercially viable aluminum battery has previously not existed, contended the researchers in an academic paper published in the online edition of Nature on Monday. Previous researches into aluminum battery have failed to produce meaningful results, mostly due to the challenge of finding proper materials for cathode and electrolyte to ensure the battery running after repeated cycles of charging and discharging. By using ...
Getting high on chocolate -- literally
Post Date: 2015-04-06 21:35:48 by NeoconsNailed
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Controversial Chocolate Snorting Device Gives You a Legal High You’re probably not a true chocolate addict unless you’ve actually snorted the stuff. If you didn’t know that was even possible, well it is, thanks to Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone. He’s created something called a chocolate shooter – a device that launches small lumps of cocoa powder directly into the nostrils. While the health effects of inhaling chocolate are pretty much unknown, Persoone’s device is gaining popularity quite rapidly. He first created the snorter for a Rolling Stones party in 2007, inspired by a device that his grandfather used to inhale tobacco snuff. It consists of a ...
The 20-Year-Old With a Plan to Rid the Sea of Plastic
Post Date: 2015-04-06 20:31:10 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This German kid is on to something.
Science and medicine have a 'publication pollution' problem
Post Date: 2015-04-06 11:10:21 by Ada
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Published: Friday, April 3, 2015 - 08:04 in Psychology & Sociology The scientific community is facing a 'pollution problem' in academic publishing, one that poses a serious threat to the "trustworthiness, utility, and value of science and medicine," according to one of the country's leading medical ethicists. Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, director of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center, shares these and other observations in a commentary publishing April 3 in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. "The pollution of science and medicine by plagiarism, fraud, and predatory publishing is corroding the ...
LeTV teams up with Flying Pigeon to make smart bike
Post Date: 2015-04-05 18:09:41 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Letv.com, a leading video website in China, has teamed up with Tianjin-based bicycle maker Flying Pigeon to produce a "Super Bicycle" to be released in July, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Commercial Times. After releasing its super car, super smartphone and super television, the website's sports department announced its collaboration with Flying Pigeon on Thursday. Sources related to the website say the bicycle's appearance was inspired by images of birds flying at full speed. Its system includes functions such as a music player, emergency call capability, timer and navigation system. The two companies have added several extra functions such as ...
Smart phone diagnosis? Biosensing platform quickly and accurately diagnoses disease and monitors treatment remotely
Post Date: 2015-04-04 05:26:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Thin, lightweight and flexible materials developed by researchers at Florida Atlantic University, Stanford University and Harvard University, integrate cellulose paper and flexible polyester films as new diagnostic tools to detect bioagents in whole blood, serum and peritoneal fluid. Credit: Florida Atlantic University [Click to enlarge image] In much the same way that glucometers and pregnancy tests have revolutionized in-home diagnostic testing, researchers from Florida Atlantic University and collaborators have identified a new biosensing platform that could be used to remotely detect and determine treatment options for HIV, E-coli, Staphylococcus aureas and other ...
Team finds 'exploding head syndrome' more common in young people than thought sleep
Post Date: 2015-04-03 01:02:48 by Tatarewicz
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Medicalxpress... Washington State University researchers have found that an unexpectedly high percentage of young people experience "exploding head syndrome," a psychological phenomenon in which they are awakened by abrupt loud noises, even the sensation of an explosion in their head. Brian Sharpless, a Washington State University assistant professor and director of the university psychology clinic, found that nearly one in five—18 percent—of college students interviewed said they had experienced it at least once. It was so bad for some that it significantly impacted their lives, he said."Unfortunately for this minority of individuals, no well-articulated or ...
Almost Driverless: Autonomous Car Completes 3,400-Mile Road Trip
Post Date: 2015-04-02 22:06:21 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... An autonomous car fitted with radar, cameras and laser sensors drove itself 99% of the time during a recent 3,400-mile trip from San Francisco to New York – never once exceeding the speed limit on the 15-state journey. The person sitting in the driver seat of the Audi Q5 – outfitted by auto supplier Delphi Corp. – intervened once when traffic was weaving around in a construction zone, and again when the car did not want to move into a busy left lane to avoid police stopped on the right shoulder. While navigating bridges, traffic circles and open highways, the car collected nearly three terabytes of data – roughly equivalent to 30 percent of all of the ...
Pro-terrorist Cornell University takes money from globalist Bill Gates to push GMOs destroying America
Post Date: 2015-03-31 18:06:54 by BTP Holdings
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Pro-terrorist Cornell University takes money from globalist Bill Gates to push GMOs destroying America Tuesday, March 31, 2015 by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) Using financing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ivy League Cornell University's Alliance for Science has launched a multi-million-dollar broadside against a small food-oriented public interest group as a means of pushing genetically modified organisms to new markets around the world -- and all in the name of advancing the welfare of Mankind. The group being targeted is called U.S. Right to Know, and its mission, according to the organization's website, is to "expose what the food industry doesn't want ...
Chinese scientists mull power station in space
Post Date: 2015-03-31 01:16:46 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The battle to dispel smog, cut greenhouse gases and solve the energy crisis is moving to space. Chinese scientists are mulling the construction of a solar power station 36,000 kilometers above ground. If realized, it will surpass the scale of the Apollo project and the International Space Station, and be the largest-ever space project. The power station would be a super spacecraft on a geosynchronous orbit equipped with huge solar panels. The electricity generated would be converted to microwaves or lasers and transmitted to a collector on Earth. In 1941, U.S. science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published the short story "Reason", in which a ...
Six Million Euros for Freedom: Russia Unveils Flying House Project
Post Date: 2015-03-29 00:59:20 by Tatarewicz
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Russian designers have presented a visual concept of a state-of-the-art house which they claim will be capable of flying. A visual concept of a sophisticated new home which will be capable of floating through the air has been showcased by Russian designers, who claim that the house can also be used as a summer cottage and a small airship, media reports said. The Freedom house, which has first and foremost been designed for so-called citizens of the world, can be installed almost anywhere on our planet — in the woods, at sea, on the coast, in the mountains, and in an urban area, according to Dmitry Ulitin and Anstasiya Taratuta of the design studio Artzona.ru. The owner of this ...
Russia & US agree to build new space station after ISS, work on joint Mars project
Post Date: 2015-03-28 02:22:14 by Tatarewicz
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In a landmark decision, Russian space agency Roscosmos and its US counterpart NASA have agreed to build a new space station after the current International Space Station (ISS) expires. The operation of the ISS was prolonged until 2024. “We have agreed that Roscosmos and NASA will be working together on the program of a future space station," Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov said during a news conference on Saturday. US-Russian crew blasts off for record-setting one-year ISS flight t.co/cwxoieJvDP #YearInSpacet.co/8dy5gBDiTe The talks were held at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The two agencies will be unifying their standards and systems of manned space programs, according ...
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