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Is It Possible that James Holmes Was On (DEVIL'S BREATH) Scopolamine ???
Post Date: 2012-07-27 05:08:36 by noone222
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Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is the broadband television network of VICE. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers. Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- We had heard about a drug in Colombia that essentially eliminates free-will in humans. It is called scopolamine and it seemed to us to be so completely out there--like a plot device in an awful ...
Decoding the Secrets of Balance
Post Date: 2012-07-27 02:07:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 26, 2012) — If you have ever looked over the edge of a cliff and felt dizzy, you understand the challenges faced by people who suffer from symptoms of vestibular dysfunction such as vertigo and dizziness. There are over 70 million of them in North America. For people with vestibular loss, performing basic daily living activities that we take for granted (e.g. dressing, eating, getting in and out of bed, getting around inside as well as outside the home) becomes difficult since even small head movements are accompanied by dizziness and the risk of falling. We've known for a while that a sensory system in the inner ear (the vestibular system) is responsible for ...
Google unveils new ultra-high-speed internet
Post Date: 2012-07-27 01:08:10 by Tatarewicz
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CHICAGO, July 26 (Xinhua) -- After more than two years of anticipation, Google finally announced Thursday that the company's ultra-high-speed internet service Google Fiber would become available to the residents of its test community Kansas City starting in September. Offering an Internet connectivity speed of one gigabit per second, Google said the service will be about 100 times faster than the speed most Americans have with current broadband connections. Instead of a broadband connection, Google Fiber is composed of thin optical fiber lines that run directly from a person's home to a data center, which is then in turn connected to the national internet backbone. According to ...
Story Behind Apple's Disappointing Quarter in 1 Simple Graph
Post Date: 2012-07-26 01:37:28 by Tatarewicz
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In April this year, Apple announced their profit had doubled annually to a gob-smacking $11.6 billion, and analysts cheered the unique invincibility of the company. "This report should erase any doubt in investors' minds that this company can't continue to deliver," Jack Ablin, chief investment officer of Harris Private Bank, told Bloomberg. "It's astounding." Three months later, Apple announced a net profit of "only" $8.8 billion, and its stock promptly fell 5%, with analysts telling of storm clouds and headwinds and the end of the Apple-ish profit margins. One explanation of this about-face is that, if Moore's Law observes that technological ...
Dangerous levels of Fukushima radiation headed for West Coast, say scientists
Post Date: 2012-07-25 00:25:01 by christine
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NaturalNews) In the immediate wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan last year, radioactive releases of epic proportions flooded the waters of the Pacific Ocean, where they now flow adrift. And even though more than a year has passed since the time of the first releases, some scientists believe the worst is yet to come as these water-borne radioactive plumes head for the U.S. West Coast. Russia Today (RT) reports that a team of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory recently constructed some models designed to assess the impact of Fukushima radiation over the longer term. To do ...
House Passes Pilot's Bill of Rights, Sending Measure to President for Signature
Post Date: 2012-07-24 16:49:10 by X-15
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Any pilot who has had the misfortune to become entangled in an enforcement action brought by the FAA would agree: The deck is stacked in the agency's favor. For example, the agency may not allow the airman to have access to the evidence against him, especially in an emergency certificate action. And if the airman chooses to appeal to the NTSB, which is tasked with hearing such cases, administrative law judges at the Safety Board usually will defer to the FAA. All that is set to change, thanks to the Pilot's Bill of Rights, legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives Monday, clearing the measure for the president's signature. First proposed by U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe ...
Ginseng-Fortified Milk Improves Cognition
Post Date: 2012-07-24 07:48:33 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 23, 2012) — American ginseng is reported to have neurocognitive effects, and research has shown benefits in aging, central nervous system disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases. The challenges of incorporating ginseng into food are twofold: it has a bitter taste, and food processing can eliminate its healthful benefits. Reporting in the August issue of the Journal of Dairy Science®, a group of scientists has formulated low-lactose functional milk that maintained beneficial levels of American ginseng after processing. An exploratory study found the product was readily accepted by a niche group of consumers. "Our goal was to develop low-lactose milk that ...
Boosting New Memories With Wakeful Resting
Post Date: 2012-07-24 07:33:16 by Tatarewicz
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s ScienceDaily (July 23, 2012) — Too often our memory starts acting like a particularly porous sieve: all the important fragments that should be caught and preserved somehow just disappear. So armed with pencils and bolstered by caffeine, legions of adults, especially older adults, tackle crossword puzzles, acrostics, Sudoku and a host of other activities designed to strengthen their flagging memory muscles. But maybe all they really need to do to cement new learning is to sit and close their eyes for a few minutes. In an article to be published in the journal Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, psychological scientist Michaela Dewar and ...
Artificial jellyfish engineered from rat heart cells
Post Date: 2012-07-23 05:12:24 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists have created a free-swimming 'jellyfish' out of silicone seeded with living heart muscle cells. The Harvard University and Caltech team say that their work marks a big step towards the development of an artificial heart - and suggests a broader definition of what counts as synthetic life. "I was surprised that with relatively few components - a silicone base and cells that we arranged - we were able to reproduce some pretty complex swimming and feeding behaviors that you see in biological jellyfish," says professor John Dabiri of Caltech. Jellyfish, believed to be the oldest multi-organ animals in the world, use muscles to pump their way through water. ...
German scientists create world's lightest material
Post Date: 2012-07-21 06:22:29 by Tatarewicz
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German scientists have invented the world's lightest material - which is also strong, regains its shape after being squashed and even conducts electricity. Scientists believe the material will have a wide range of uses. Aerographite made by scientists at Hamburg and Kiel universities, is 75 times lighter than polystyrene and four times lighter than the previous record holder for the world's lightest material. The jet-black, carbon-based material is causing a stir in scientific circles across the world, wrote Die Welt newspaper on Tuesday. “Our work is causing great discussions in the scientific community. Aerographite weights four times less than world-record-holder up to ...
Green Plants Reduce City Street Pollution Up to Eight Times More Than Previously Believed
Post Date: 2012-07-20 06:32:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 18, 2012) — Trees, bushes and other greenery growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of cities can reduce levels of two of the most worrisome air pollutants by eight times more than previously believed, a new study has found. A report on the research appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Thomas Pugh and colleagues explain that concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and microscopic particulate matter (PM) -- both of which can be harmful to human health -- exceed safe levels on the streets of many cities. Past research suggested that trees and other green plants can improve urban air quality by removing those pollutants from the air. ...
Microsoft posts quarterly loss but beats Wall Street
Post Date: 2012-07-20 05:50:59 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reported its first quarterly loss as a public company on Thursday as it took a previously announced hit for writing down the value of its ailing online unit, but held up better than expected in the face of stagnant computer sales. Excluding the multibillion-dollar write-down, which was signaled earlier this month, and factoring in some deferred Windows revenue, the world's largest software company actually exceeded Wall Street's expectations, boosting its shares in after-market trading. "It looks good, given the dicey economic environment and the weakness we already know about in PCs," said Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest ...
Lower Ozone Standard Would Reduce Mortality and Morbidity
Post Date: 2012-07-19 06:46:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 18, 2012) — Establishing a more stringent ozone standard in the U.S. would significantly reduce ozone-related premature mortality and morbidity, according to a new study published online July 18 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. "Abundant evidence links exposure to ozone with adverse health effects, including impaired pulmonary function, asthma exacerbations, increased hospital and emergency room visits, and increased mortality, yet the current National Ambient Air Quality Standard of 75ppb is often exceeded," said lead author Jesse Berman, a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Our study shows that ...
Fuel Cell Treats Wastewater and Harvests Energy
Post Date: 2012-07-19 04:17:58 by Tatarewicz
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A new microbial fuel cell creates energy during wastewater treatment and also vastly reduces the amount of sludge produced. Israel-based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment—water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor. "We didn't invent anything scientifically new," says Ely Cohen, vice president of marketing and business development for the four-year-old company. The novelty factor: instead of using electricity to push air into the water, Emefcy uses a permeable filter that allows air in ...
Must See Japan Inside the Radiation Zone
Post Date: 2012-07-18 17:23:10 by tom007
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Race, IQ and Wealth
Post Date: 2012-07-18 08:07:19 by Ada
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What the facts tell us about a taboo subject At the end of April, Charles Kenny, a former World Bank economist specializing in international development, published a blistering attack in Foreign Policy entitled “Dumb and Dumber,” with the accusatory subtitle “Are development experts becoming racists?” Kenny charged that a growing number of development economists were turning towards genetic and other intrinsic human traits as a central explanation of national economic progress, often elevating these above the investment and regulatory issues that have long been the focus of international agencies. Click for Full Text!
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Post Date: 2012-07-16 19:26:14 by tom007
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Analysis: BASF to take on Asia's battery chemicals makers
Post Date: 2012-07-16 05:14:17 by Tatarewicz
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FRANKFURT, July 16, 2012 (Reuters) — BASF need not be worried by dominant Asian players' expertise in batteries as the world's largest chemicals maker looks to become a leading provider of materials at the heart of next-generation electric cars. The German group will invest roughly 500 million euros ($609 million) by 2016 trying to become a major force in a market that could be worth tens of billions of dollars in less than a decade. Analysts say it is a gamble worth taking as the car industry looks to develop electric vehicles (EVs) with a range up to 250 km from about 2017. The playing field is essentially level because all players, such as Japanese groups Hitachi ...
Controlling Your Computer With Your Eyes
Post Date: 2012-07-14 04:07:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 12, 2012) — Millions of people suffering from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries or amputees could soon interact with their computers and surroundings using just their eyes, thanks to a new device that costs less than £40. Composed from off-the-shelf materials, the new device can work out exactly where a person is looking by tracking their eye movements, allowing them to control a cursor on a screen just like a normal computer mouse. The technology comprises an eye-tracking device and "smart" software that have been presented July 13, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Neural Engineering. Researchers ...
Solar storm barreling toward Earth this weekend
Post Date: 2012-07-14 03:19:41 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The space weather forecast for Earth looks a bit stormy this weekend, but scientists said not to worry. A solar storm was due to arrive Saturday morning and last through Sunday, slamming into Earth's magnetic field. Scientists said it will be a minor event and they have notified power grid operators, airlines and other potentially affected parties. "This isn't the mother of all anything," said forecaster Joe Kunches at the government's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo. "We don't see any ill effects to any systems." The storm began Thursday when the sun unleashed a massive flare that hurled a cloud of highly ...
German scientists concoct new coolant for electric cars
Post Date: 2012-07-14 02:44:57 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, July 13, 2012 (Reuters) — Scientists in Germany have come up with a new fluid for cooling the expensive batteries in electric cars and thereby extending their life, another potential step in improving the cost efficiency of electric propulsion. The fluid, dubbed CryoSolplus, absorbs heat more effectively than either air or water and could allow for tighter packing of batteries under the hood, according to a team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology in Oberhausen. A new battery pack for an electric car can cost as much as half the total price of the vehicle and operating it at 45 degrees celcius, as in a normal drive on ...
About 400,000 Yahoo accounts hacked, company discloses
Post Date: 2012-07-13 04:35:17 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo confirmed Thursday that about 400,000 user names and passwords to Yahoo and other companies were stolen Wednesday. A group of hackers, known as the D33D Co., posted online the user names and passwords for what appeared to be 453,492 accounts belonging to Yahoo and several other websites. The hackers wrote a brief footnote to the data dump, which has since been taken offline: “We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat.” The breach comes just one month after millions of user passwords for LinkedIn, the online social network for professionals, were exposed by hackers ...
Giving Ancient Life Another Chance to Evolve: Scientists Place 500-Million-Year-Old Gene in Modern Organism
Post Date: 2012-07-13 03:54:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 11, 2012) — It's a project 500 million years in the making. Only this time, instead of playing on a movie screen in Jurassic Park, it's happening in a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been growing for more than 1,000 generations, giving the scientists a front row seat to observe evolution in action. "This is as close as we can get to rewinding and replaying the molecular tape of life," said scientist ...
Northern Lights Oddity: Strange Sounds of Auroras Explained
Post Date: 2012-07-13 00:41:42 by Tatarewicz
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The northern lights of Earth are more than just dazzling light shows — they also generate their own strange applause too, a new study reveals. The same energetic particles that create the dancing, dazzling northern lights high up in Earth's atmosphere also produce strange "clapping" noises just 230 feet (70 meters) from the ground, researchers said. The results vindicate folktales and reports by wilderness travelers, which have long described sounds associated with the northern lights (which are also known as the aurora borealis). "In the past, researchers thought that the aurora borealis was too far away for people to hear the sounds it made," Unto Laine, ...
Heat to electricity with no moving parts
Post Date: 2012-07-12 05:33:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 11, 2012) — Researchers who are studying a new magnetic effect that converts heat to electricity have discovered how to amplify it a thousand times over -- a first step in making the technology more practical. In the so-called spin Seebeck effect, the spin of electrons creates a current in magnetic materials, which is detected as a voltage in an adjacent metal. Ohio State University researchers have figured out how to create a similar effect in a non-magnetic semiconductor while producing more electrical power. They've named the amplified effect the "giant spin-Seebeck" effect, and the university will license patent-pending variations of the ...
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