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You have a bacterial 'aura' that follows you around
Post Date: 2014-08-31 01:40:06 by Tatarewicz
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Auras belong in the realm of pseudoscience, but microbiologists may have just discovered an element of truth in the concept. Scientists have found a microbial 'aura' of unique and identifiable communities of bacteria living on people's skin and in their homes. These communities follow people whereever they go and leave traces that can be used almost like a fingerprint to determine a person's movements. The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago conducted the research as part of the Home Microbiome Project. The results were published in Science this week. Seven families, including 18 people, gave swab samples of themselves ...
Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago...despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now
Post Date: 2014-08-30 21:47:57 by Ada
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Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore's warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row An area twice the size of Alaska - America's biggest state - was open water two years ago and is now covered in ice These satellite images taken from University of Illinois's Cryosphere project show ice has become more concentrated The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’ Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate ...
The universal 'anger face': Each element makes you look physically stronger and more formidable
Post Date: 2014-08-30 20:08:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: The anger face is a constellation of features, each of which makes a person appear physically stronger. The next time you get really mad, take a look in the mirror. See the lowered brow, the thinned lips and the flared nostrils? That's what social scientists call the "anger face," and it appears to be part of our basic biology as humans. Now, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and at Griffith University in Australia have identified the functional advantages that caused the specific appearance of the anger face to evolve. Their findings appear in the current online edition of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. "The expression is cross-culturally ...
Greatest Aviation Video In World History
Post Date: 2014-08-28 21:09:55 by X-15
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Flying Naked in the Airplane from Mark W4B on Vimeo.
The last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line
Post Date: 2014-08-27 01:26:58 by X-15
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Carefully choreographed chaos is under way in and around Ford's historic Dearborn Truck Plant as the automaker races to get it ready to build a very different F-series truck. On Saturday morning the last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line and workers were ripping up equipment behind it. Ford has just eight weeks to remove all the equipment and tooling and replace it with new machinery to make the all-new 2015 F-150 with an aluminum body. "We are doing things we have never done before," said Bruce Hettle, head of North American manufacturing for Ford, who must oversee a critical launch with speed and precision. Because Ford sells at least 60,000 F-150s a month ...
Surprise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland
Post Date: 2014-08-25 01:41:21 by farmfriend
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Surprise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland Anthony Watts / 19 hours ago Story submitted by Eric Worrall British Botanists conducting a Summer survey of Scotland’s tallest mountain, Ben Nevis, have been stunned to find evidence of recently formed multi-year ice fields, areas of compacted snow, some of which weigh hundreds of tons. According to the BBC; “Hazards common in arctic and alpine areas but described as “extremely unusual” in the UK during the summer have been found on Ben Nevis. A team of climbers and scientists investigating the mountain’s North Face said snowfields remained in many gullies and upper scree slopes. On these fields, they have come across ...
Trampling on Coal Country families
Post Date: 2014-08-24 11:09:30 by Southern Style
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Aug 19, 2014Trampling on Coal Country families Obama and EPA are determined to destroy US coal, people’s lives and welfare be damned By Paul Driessen Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth’s perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash America’s fossil fuel use, bankrupt coal and utility companies, make electricity prices skyrocket, and “fundamentally transform” our economic, social, legal and constitutional system. Citing climate ...
CDC Whistleblower Comes Forward: Admits Coverup on Vaccine Link to Autism
Post Date: 2014-08-24 10:15:33 by Deasy
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UPDATE: Jon Rappoport is reporting: “William W Thompson, PhD…the CDC whistleblower…was escorted off the premises of the CDC campus yesterday afternoon. This is what a source has just told me.” Someone from Atlanta Georgia on CNN.com is reporting that Dr. Thompson responded to an email “showing support for his act of speaking out.” So is the mainstream media going to finally cover this story?? (The CNN report has now been removed.) Health Impact News Editor The CDC whistleblower who came forward earlier this week to admit that the CDC had covered up evidence that vaccines are linked to autism has been revealed as Dr. William Thompson. Dr. ...
Water splitter runs on an ordinary AAA battery
Post Date: 2014-08-24 01:28:27 by Tatarewicz
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Stanford University Professor Hongjie Dai has developed an emissions-free electrolytic device that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen at room temperature. In 2015, American consumers will finally be able to purchase fuel cell cars from Toyota and other manufacturers. Although touted as zero-emissions vehicles, most of the cars will run on hydrogen made from natural gas, a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. Now scientists at Stanford University have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that uses an ordinary AAA battery to produce hydrogen by water electrolysis. The battery sends an electric current through two electrodes that split liquid water into hydrogen and ...
Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing - and some experts argue it's because humans have reached their intellectual peak
Post Date: 2014-08-22 03:47:44 by Buzzard
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IQs have largely increased since the 1930s thanks to better living conditions and education - a trend known as the Flynn effect But IQ test results suggest people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have become less intelligent in the past decade Opinion is divided as to whether the downwards trend is long-term Some studies have shown the average IQ of Westerners has plunged 10 points or more since Victorian times and others claim it will keep decreasing But other experts argue that even if we are becoming more stupid, better healthcare and technology means the 'problem' will regulate itself Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have ...
The Drone Investments Nobody Is Talking About
Post Date: 2014-08-20 16:52:01 by BTP Holdings
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"The commercial market for small drones could eventually dwarf the military one." That's what Ray Blanco said about a pure play he recommended to readers of his entry-level tech premium back in December. And he's turning out to be right. It's been long enough that we can reveal this drone "pure play" to you now… Ray was talking about AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV), and we still believe that out of all the public stocks on the market, it retains the most upside. A couple months ago, BP needed a way to monitor oil pipelines over the desolate North Slope in Alaska. So they enlisted AeroVironment's "Puma" drone to do the surveying. The FAA ...
China Secretly Conducts Second Flight Test Of New Ultra High-Speed Missile
Post Date: 2014-08-20 04:35:55 by Tatarewicz
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China recently conducted the second flight test of a new, ultra-high-speed missile that is part of what analysts say is Beijing’s global system of attack weapons capable of striking the United States with nuclear warheads. The latest test of the new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) known as Wu-14 took place Aug. 7 at a missile facility in western China, said U.S. government officials familiar with details of the test reported in internal channels. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool said when asked about the test: “We routinely monitor foreign defense activities, however we don’t comment on our intelligence or assessments of foreign weapons systems.” He added ...
Does love make sex better for most women?
Post Date: 2014-08-20 02:57:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Love and commitment can make sex physically more satisfying for many women, according to a Penn State Abington sociologist. In a series of interviews, heterosexual women between the ages of 20 and 68 and from a range of backgrounds said that they believed love was necessary for maximum satisfaction in both sexual relationships and marriage. The benefits of being in love with a sexual partner are more than just emotional. Most of the women in the study said that love made sex physically more pleasurable. "Women said that they connected love with sex and that love actually enhanced the physical experience of sex," said Beth Montemurro, associate professor of ...
More than just X and Y: New genetic basis for sex determination
Post Date: 2014-08-20 02:29:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Men and women differ in plenty of obvious ways, and scientists have long known that genetic differences buried deep within our DNA underlie these distinctions. In the past, most research has focused on understanding how the genes that encode proteins act as sex determinants. But Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists have found that a subset of very small genes encoding short RNA molecules, called microRNAs (miRNAs), also play a key role in differentiating male and female tissues in the fruit fly. A miRNA is a short segment of RNA that fine-tunes the activation of one or several protein-coding genes. miRNAs are able to silence the genes they target and, in doing ...
Solar energy that doesn't block the view
Post Date: 2014-08-20 02:13:39 by Tatarewicz
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A team of researchers at Michigan State University has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window. It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator and can be used on buildings, cell phones and any other device that has a clear surface. And, according to Richard Lunt of MSU's College of Engineering, the key word is "transparent." Research in the production of energy from solar cells placed around luminescent plastic-like materials is not new. These past efforts, however, have yielded poor results -- the energy production was inefficient and the materials ...
The End of Petroleum?
Post Date: 2014-08-19 17:00:53 by BTP Holdings
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The End of Petroleum? Dear Daily Reckoning Reader, My Oxford Club friend just told me that a little-known overseas company will soon fuel more than 10 million U.S. cars per year... using a clean and abundant energy source. A Harvard Ph.D. said of the original inventors of this technology: They "cracked the code God built into the heart of chemistry to form hydrocarbons." That's because... •No petroleum/oil is needed... •No modification to existing engines is required... •It's three times cheaper to produce... •And 40% cleaner for the environment. Yet it's not a pipe dream like solar, hydro, wind, corn, algae or anything else you are ...
The End of the Internet as We Know It
Post Date: 2014-08-19 16:20:28 by BTP Holdings
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"Big data will lead to big control," opines one reader in today's mailbag. "Big data will miss the new revolution," claims another. New revolution? "I think that the really smart people will go alternative and not be reached by the tax systems of the psychopath managed banks and governments." "Local community development of energy and food is not connected to the grid/system. That is the new paradigm." We don't disagree. "Parasitic sucking of wealth by sitting around and playing with computer algorithms and 'big data' is not the key to get rich quick schemes in the future." We don't disagree with you there either, ...
Book Review: The Social Conquest of Earth
Post Date: 2014-08-19 08:11:40 by Deasy
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THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTHBy Edward O. WilsonIllustrated. 330 pp. Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton & Company. $27.95. This is not a humble book. Edward O. Wilson wants to answer the questions Paul Gauguin used as the title of one of his most famous paintings: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” At the start, Wilson notes that religion is no help at all — “mythmaking could never discover the origin and meaning of humanity” — and contemporary philosophy is also irrelevant, having “long ago abandoned the foundational questions about human existence.” The proper approach to answering these deep questions is the application ...
Germany picks up the pace in providing high-speed internet.
Post Date: 2014-08-17 04:39:20 by Tatarewicz
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Broadband-for-all quest to get cash injection The German government is about to plough "hundreds of millions" more euros into creating across-the-board broadband for all internet users, it was reported on Friday. Measures to provide uniform highspeed user access will be announced next week by Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, whose authority is responsible for Internet traffic, according to daily Die Welt. "We are following a clear timetable for provision of the [broadband] frequency," Dobrindt told the paper, adding that development commitments would be agreed with all federal states by September 30 . The government aims by 2018 to achieve uniform broadband ...
New Russian Anti-Aircraft Module Capable of Locating 15 Targets Per Second GAZ "Tigr" armored vehicle
Post Date: 2014-08-16 01:45:01 by Tatarewicz
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ZHUKOVSKY, MOSCOW REGION, August 14 (RIA Novosti) – A unique Russian GAZ Tigr chassis-mounted anti-aircraft command module, can simultaneously locate 15 targets per second, a representative for the Scientific-Industrial Enterprise Rubin told RIA Novosti on Thursday. “The Defense Ministry has demanded to urgently create this vehicle. They have come up with the basic design directives. The hardware’s task is to provide covering fire for the units marching in the near zone of the contact with an adversary. The vehicle deploys for action within five minutes,” Rubin’s representative said. He added that the vehicle has its own reconnaissance assets and is capable of ...
Rising CO2 levels intensify algal blooms across globe: Dutch scientists
Post Date: 2014-08-15 23:17:53 by Tatarewicz
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THE HAGUE, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere will stimulate harmful algal blooms at a global level, Dutch scientists Jolanda Verspagen and Jef Huisman of the University of Amsterdam concluded in research to be published in the next edition of the scientific journal PLOS ONE. The research was carried out at the Department of Aquatic Microbiology of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen. Verspagen and Huisman did their investigations on the basis of new mathematical models, laboratory experiments and field research. Harmful algal blooms are a major concern in ...
Coming soon: Genetically edited 'super bananas' and other fruit?
Post Date: 2014-08-14 00:10:55 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Recent advances that allow the precise editing of genomes now raise the possibility that fruit and other crops might be genetically improved without the need to introduce foreign genes, according to researchers writing in the Cell Press publication Trends in Biotechnology on August 13th. With awareness of what makes these biotechnologies new and different, genetically edited fruits might be met with greater acceptance by society at large than genetically modified organisms (GMOs) so far have been, especially in Europe, they say. This could mean that genetically edited versions of GMOs such as "super bananas" that produce more vitamin A and apples that don't ...
Scientists develop self-assembling robot
Post Date: 2014-08-13 04:55:18 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... A team of engineers from Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed an affordable self-assembling robot. The android is made of a sheet of composite paper, which has had different parts, including hinges, motors, batteries, and a microcontroller, installed upon it. Having been fitted with the batteries, the automaton starts to assume its designated form and launch into function. The technology drew upon the ancient Japanese art of origami and could eventually yield affordable 'robotic helpers' and come handy in space exploration. "Getting a robot to assemble itself autonomously and actually perform a function has been a milestone ...
The Perseids Sensation
Post Date: 2014-08-13 00:51:27 by terry
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Live Now HD http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/the-perseids-sensation
Haystack App Creating Chaos in Boston
Post Date: 2014-08-12 17:13:43 by BTP Holdings
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Haystack App Creating Chaos in Boston Published Mon, Aug 11, 2014 | Robert Williams, Founder Haystack Parking App Creating Chaos in Boston An upstart mobile app company, Haystack, is creating chaos in Boston. The app is among the most disruptive forces the city has ever had to endure. That is, if you listen to the rhetoric of lawmakers. If the crisis isn’t squelched soon, Bostonians could take to the streets. The app has only been downloaded 5,000 times since it launched three weeks ago, but there’s fear that it could become as popular as “Uber.” It’s easily the most hated app in the world. So what does this app do? It lets a person sell their parking space ...
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