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Cueing New Information in Sleep Improves Memory
Post Date: 2018-03-15 01:27:07 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists have long known that sleep is important to the formation and retention of new memories. Memory consolidation is associated with sudden bursts of oscillatory brain activity, called sleep spindles, which can be visualized and measured on an electroencephalogram (EEG). Now researchers have found that sleep spindles also play a role in strengthening new memories when newly learned information is played back to a person during sleep. The findings provide new insight into the process of memory consolidation during sleep. They may also suggest new ways to help people remember things better, according to the researchers. "While it has been shown previously that ...
In Startling Reversal, Scientific American Counsels People to ‘Chill Out’ over Global Warming
Post Date: 2018-03-13 10:56:11 by Ada
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Climate activists demonstrate in Paris, Saturday, Dec.12, 2015 during the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Several environmental and human rights groups are planning protests around Paris to call attention to populations threatened by man-made global warming and urge an end to human use of oil, gas and coal. Apocalyptic scenarios attributed to global warming are simply false and the human race will be able to accommodate whatever “climate change” throws at us, claims a remarkably sober new essay in Scientific American. The essay, penned by John Horgan, the director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, analyzes two recent ...
Here’s How Easy It Is To Hack Into Someone’s Car & Take Over Control
Post Date: 2018-03-12 16:49:27 by Ada
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“Cars are one of the most expensive, biggest, dangerous computers you own. It’s one of the few computers that can go 120 miles an hour. Right? Like it’s a big machine run by software that can get hacked and is, you know, dangerous.” “You want technology to progress, but at the same time you want it to be secure.” This is something that most people don’t realize about their vehicles, particularly newer models and especially the ones with the self-driving technology. Just like any other computer system, they can be hacked. Which means that someone who is not in the car, or anywhere near the car that you are driving can take over control of the car and ...
Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military personnel
Post Date: 2018-03-11 09:16:18 by Ada
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Newly-released video of a mysterious object streaking over the Atlantic Ocean shows the Pentagon needs to take UFOs seriously, a researcher says. The sensational two-minute clip captured by a camera aboard a US Navy F/A 18 jet flying at 25,000 feet wowed military personnel. “What the f— is that thing?” shouted the pilot in the video posted online by the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, a private research company. “Oh my gosh dude!” exclaimed the jet’s weapons systems officer. The video was shot off the East Coast in 2015. To the Stars Academy did not say how it obtained the declassified footage, but said others could obtain it through a Freedom of ...
Astronauts are Experiencing Extreme Genetic Mutations
Post Date: 2018-03-11 08:08:24 by Ada
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I can see the future, and it’s full of mutants. Okay, so we always had this program in mind of breeding people into some kind of super-race that’ll don power armor and conquer the universe in a grand inter-galactic crusade. But as it turns out, we have preliminary indication that simply living in space for a while is enough to cause large-scale mutations in human DNA. So this millennia-long program could be shortened significantly. If all this pans out, your grand-kids could be the first wave of 8 feet-tall space crusaders. Click for Full Text!
How to stop annoying robocalls on your iPhone or Android phone
Post Date: 2018-03-09 01:12:44 by Tatarewicz
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The Verge Fight back against the constant, annoying scam calls Tips, tricks, and hacks for the tech in your life. Mobile spam calls have been a nuisance for years, but over the last few months, it’s felt to me like there’s been a surge of them. I get between four and six calls daily, and a quick survey of friends shows that I’m not alone. Every waking day brings with it a new barrage. Robocallers have upped their game by masking their spam with local, genuine-looking phone numbers. Sometimes their nonsense is amusing — like when you get a threatening voicemail about your impending arrest over owed back taxes — but the vast majority of the time, it’s an ...
Stephen Hawking Claims To Know What Happened Before The Big Bang
Post Date: 2018-03-03 12:00:34 by Ada
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All-sky image of the infant universe, created from nine years of data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking claimed to know what occurred before the Big Bang. He presented his views on the 'Star Talk' show, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, which airs on National Geographic. ( WMAP Science Team | NASA ) One of the universe's most intriguing questions is that what happened before the Big Bang. Celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking revealed he has an answer. There is no time before the start of time as time was always present, it was just different, Hawking said. What Was Around Before The Big Bang? "The boundary condition of ...
New model suggests contrary to dominant model Moon emerged before Earth
Post Date: 2018-03-01 21:03:16 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... A new theory has suggested a different source of origin for the Moon, the Earth’s sole natural satellite, which seems to stack up well against the dominant giant impact model. It says unlike the favored former theory, our rocky moon formed before our cosmic home emerged in its current appearance. The majority of scientists today have accepted a hypothesis that our Moon was formed after a Mars-sized object, known as Theia, hit Gaia, the early Earth, with a glancing blow around 4.5 billion years ago. The gigantic collision, according to the model, threw up large amounts of rocky material into orbit, which eventually coalesced to form the spherical object we are familiar ...
Progressives Love Science, But Don’t Know Any–the Case of the “Dark-Skinned” Prehistoric Briton
Post Date: 2018-02-23 05:22:01 by Ada
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Here’s a science story from the Old Country. Britain’s main Progressive and anti-white newspaper over there, The Guardian, reported with much glee on February 7th that the remote ancestors of the British people had dark skin. Take that, white supremacists! This finding comes from recent advances in our understanding of DNA. By scrutinizing a person’s DNA closely enough, we can now tell fine details of his appearance, and even do a fair-probability reconstruction of his face. These techniques have been applied to Cheddar Man, a complete human skeleton unearthed in 1903 in Southwest England. Cheddar Man lived about nine thousand years ago, which makes his people one of the ...
Brains of superagers show clues for sharp memory
Post Date: 2018-02-23 02:07:22 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... It's pretty extraordinary for people in their 80s and 90s to keep the same sharp memory as someone several decades younger, and now scientists are peeking into the brains of these "superagers" to uncover their secret. The work is the flip side of the disappointing hunt for new drugs to fight or prevent Alzheimer's disease. Instead, "why don't we figure out what it is we might need to do to maximize our memory?" said neuroscientist Emily Rogalski, who leads the SuperAging study at Chicago's Northwestern University. Parts of the brain shrink with age, one of the reasons why most people experience a gradual slowing of at least some types of ...
Second Successful Human-Animal Hybrid: Sheep Embryo With Human Cells
Post Date: 2018-02-22 05:38:45 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Carrying forward the results of a team that created a pig/human hybrid last year, a team led by researchers at Stanford University has created a sheep/human hybrid. The team has not published a paper on their efforts as yet, but recently gave a presentation outlining their work at this year's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Texas. As with the team last year, the current researchers say the purpose of creating the human-animal hybrid was to find out if it might be possible to grow human organs in animals to replace defective ones in humans. Such patients would not reject the organs, because the cells used to create them would be their own. ...
New Malleable 'Electronic Skin' Self-Healable, Recyclable
Post Date: 2018-02-13 02:52:37 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Researchers developed a new type of malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable "electronic skin" that has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices. Electronic skin, known as e-skin, is a thin, translucent material that can mimic the function and mechanical properties of human skin. A number of different types and sizes of wearable e-skins are now being developed in labs around the world as researchers recognize their value in diverse medical, scientific and engineering fields. The new CU Boulder e-skin has sensors embedded to measure pressure, temperature, humidity and air flow, said Assistant Professor ...
Inside the Chilling World of Artificially Intelligent Drones
Post Date: 2018-02-12 06:20:07 by Ada
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Sixteen years of war has brought something we never prepared for: increasingly intelligent drones in the hands of terrorists. On the night of January 5, something took place that has never happened before. A swarm of DIY drones attacked two military installations in Syria. The 13 crudely made aircraft, which were powered by small gas engines and flew on wings fashioned from laminated Styrofoam, zeroed in on their targets: the vast Russian army base at Khmeimim and the naval base at Tartus on the Syrian coast. Bombs packed with the explosive PETN and shrapnel were secured to their wings. The radar signature of the drones was minimal and by taking advantage of a cool night, they were able ...
Scientists shocked by massive discovery about the Sun
Post Date: 2018-02-11 12:47:01 by Ada
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Scientists believe the sun is about to go through a major cooling event that could have a big impact on global temperatures. Scientists say that we could be in for a very big event with regards to the sun, with a “grand minimum” approaching aroujnd the 2050 time frame. That would mean that the sun would be at an unusually low point in its normally steady 11-year cycles, which could result in global cooling temperatures. It is not clear how that might impact global warming and climate change, but scientists are studying the situation further to figure out just how much cooling might happen and when exactly it would occur. The last such major minimum happened back in the 17th ...
Spotlight: Cloned monkeys could help development of drugs for human brain diseases
Post Date: 2018-02-07 06:00:14 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists' successful cloning of monkeys could eventually help the development of new drugs to treat human diseases, like brain and nervous system problems, a leading Chinese neuroscientist said. At the end of 2017, a non-human primate research facility under the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) produced two cloned macaques. Allaying fears that cloning monkeys for research could ultimately lead to human cloning, Poo Muming, director of the Institute of Neuroscience at CAS, told Xinhua, "We have no intention to clone humans." The macaque cloning was done for a humane reason, he said: "Because this is the species ...
Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built
Post Date: 2018-02-06 08:06:41 by Tatarewicz
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NYT... With smartphones, “they’ve got you for every waking moment,” said Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook and a member of the new Center for Humane Technology. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google, alarmed over the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, are banding together to challenge the companies they helped build. The cohort is creating a union of concerned experts called the Center for Humane Technology. Along with the nonprofit media watchdog group Common Sense Media, it also plans an anti-tech addiction lobbying effort and an ad ...
Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience"
Post Date: 2018-02-05 21:27:39 by BTP Holdings
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Poster Comment:Global warming is phony baloney and I knew it all along.
Star Trek - Starfleet Academy (The Movie) (1997)
Post Date: 2018-02-05 20:10:54 by BTP Holdings
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Poster Comment:For all the Trekki's out there.
Samsung Begins Manufacturing ASIC Chips for Mining Cryptocurrency
Post Date: 2018-02-04 05:14:13 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Samsung is currently the top chipmaker in the world, and it’s quietly expanding into a new market: cryptocurrency mining. Samsung isn’t mining coins itself, but it is using its massive manufacturing capacity to produce so-called “application specific integrated circuits,” or ASIC chips, for use in mining rigs. These chips are designed just to mine coins, making them vastly more efficient than a stack of GPUs. Cryptocurrencies have different features, values, and management features, but almost all of them can be mined. To mine coins, your machine has to complete complex mathematical calculations as “proof of work.” This computing power goes ...
Esteemed Scientist Makes Shocking Human-Chimp Hybrid Claim
Post Date: 2018-02-03 06:24:45 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... A highly respected evolutionary biologist has sparked headlines after claiming that scientists once secretly created a human-chimpanzee hybrid! While musing about the possibility for such a 'humanzee' to exist, Gordon Gallup told the UK newspaper the Sun that not only could it be done, but that it had already been accomplished. According to the renowned researcher, who said that he was told this tale by his former professor, the stunning scientific endeavor occurred in the 1920's at a facility in Florida devoted to studying primates. Incredibly, Gallup recalled, the hybrid creature was successfully created, via artificial insemination, in the womb of a female chimp ...
Nordics dropping in IQ, becoming as dumb as Rocks
Post Date: 2018-02-02 11:30:58 by Ada
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The long and prosperous era of growing IQ results is now being challenged by dramatically declining results in Scandinavia. This trend may expand to engulf more countries, researchers warn. Contrary to the 20th century trend of nations performing better in tests measuring intelligence (IQ), the Scandinavian countries have been experiencing a continuous drop in IQ in the past decades. In the so-called Flynn effect named after New Zealand researcher James Flynn, fluid and crystallized intelligence in vast parts of the world has continuously increased since 1930s, which was attributed to more intense school curricula and a more rational way of thinking. Since the mid-1990s, however, ...
Human Genome Decoded With Pocket-Sized Device
Post Date: 2018-02-02 06:48:17 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists used a portable device no bigger than a cellphone to sequence the most complete human genome ever assembled with a single technology, according to a study published Monday. The breakthrough, detailed in the journal Nature Biotechnology, brings us closer to the day when family doctors will order up genome scans during a regular check-up along with blood work, the authors suggested. "We are definitely approaching the point where sequencing genomes will become a routine part of advanced clinical exams," lead author Matthew Loose, a professor at the University of Nottingham, told AFP. The new sequencing method is the first to read long, unbroken strands ...
FLIPPIN’ EK Earth’s magnetic poles could be about to FLIP sparking chaos and mass blackouts
Post Date: 2018-02-01 14:58:28 by Ada
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Parts of the planet could be rendered uninhabitable by the reversal, experts have warned THE Earth's magnetic poles could be about to flip, sparking chaos and making large parts of the planet uninhabitable, it has emerged. Experts have warned that the change is extremely likely with the magnetic field weakening by 15 per cent over 200 years. The earth's magnetic fields could flip, it has been warned Getty - Contributor 4 The earth's magnetic fields could flip, it has been warned According to an Undark report, the flip could cause "devastating streams of particles from the sun, galactic cosmic rays, and enhanced ultraviolet B rays from a radiation". The report ...
Resurrecting YouTube's Banned Videos and Channels
Post Date: 2018-01-29 16:32:43 by Ada
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Last month I’d announced that I was adding a new Video section to this website, with a central motivation being the increasingly harsh ideological censorship that YouTube was beginning to impose upon its content, as had been originally announced last Fall. During the last few weeks, this regime of YouTube censorship has indeed intensified. A few days ago we ran an article by Sayed Hasan recounting YouTube’s sudden termination of his five-year-old video channel that had contained hundreds of videos served many millions of views. His content had sharply criticized Zionism and imperialism and strongly defended the rights of the Palestinians, presumably leading the ADL to demand ...
Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic? Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?
Post Date: 2018-01-28 03:44:43 by Tatarewicz
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NPR... The Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility, dug in the mid-1960s, allows scientists a three-dimensional look at frozen ground. A short drive north of Fairbanks, Alaska, there's a red shed stuck right up against a hillside. The shed looks unremarkable, except for the door. It looks like a door to a walk-in freezer, with thick insulation and a heavy latch. Whatever is behind that door needs to stay very cold. "Are you ready to go inside?" asks Dr. Thomas Douglas, a geochemist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Behind the door is a geological time bomb, scientists say. No one knows exactly how big the bomb is. It may even be a dud that barely detonates. But the fallout ...
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