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Among the Disrupted
Post Date: 2015-01-09 09:48:36 by Ada
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Amid the bacchanal of disruption, let us pause to honor the disrupted. The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry. Writers hover between a decent poverty and an indecent one; they are expected to render the fruits of their labors for little and even for nothing, and all the miracles of electronic dissemination somehow do not suffice for compensation, either of the fiscal or the spiritual kind. Everybody talks frantically about media, a second-order subject if ever there was one, as content disappears into “content.” What does the understanding of ...
Climate And Truth: A Tale Of Immorality?
Post Date: 2015-01-05 09:54:31 by Ada
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The most recent aberration of climate science is the apparent cherry picking of ocean temperature data by government scientists, Richard Feely and Christopher Sabine. The objective is not to determine what is happening, but why it is happening, and then link it to a human cause. This, cart before the horse approach, was the raison d’etre of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the start. In order to emphasize why it is happening, it helps to detail, for politicians, the damaging effects. In this case, it is the deleterious impact of human addition of CO2 to the atmosphere that is not only causing warming, but, they claim, also changing the acidity level of the ...
Mystery at the sun's south pole: Nasa reveals huge 'coronal hole' on the solar surface where winds reach 500 miles per SECOND
Post Date: 2015-01-05 09:49:10 by Ada
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Coronal holes are regions of the corona where the magnetic field reaches out into space Particles moving along those magnetic fields can leave the sun rather than being trapped near the surface Polar coronal hole can remain visible for five years or longer, although constantly changes shape There were no fireworks on the sun to welcome in the New Year - and in fact, scientists say the end of the year was relatively quiet on the solar surface. However, the sun has started 2015 with a mysterious event - a huge hole has appeared. Known as a coronal hole, the phenomenon occurred near the south pole - and is seen as a dark area covered all of its base in these stunning images. Read more: ...
Scientists Tremble As “Asteroid Army” Hurtles Towards Earth
Post Date: 2015-01-05 07:59:33 by Tatarewicz
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Sorcha Faal An unsettling report prepared by the Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) that is circulating in the Kremlin today appears to show that many scientists are in fear of the potential effects to our solar system of what they term is an “asteroid army” of at least 83 giant space objects due to hurtle past Earth and Mars over the next three months. According to this report, these giant asteroids appear to have an “intelligent trajectory” not unlike a military formation and is comprised of three waves with 43 of them flying close to Earth in January, 25 in February, and 15 in March. Raising the concerns of these scientists about these giant asteroids, this report ...
Hackers in Our Connected Lives
Post Date: 2015-01-03 22:16:27 by Lod
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Stuff that should concern us.
DARPA's Autonomous Microdrones Designed to Patrol Inside Houses
Post Date: 2015-01-02 14:49:45 by X-15
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As drone expert, P.W. Singer said, "At this point, it doesn't really matter if you are against the technology, because it's coming." According to Singer, "The miniaturization of drones is where it really gets interesting. You can use these things anywhere, put them anyplace, and the target will never even know they're being watched." This has been the promise that the Air Force made quite clear in their video early last year about nanodrone tech that you can see below. According to the USAF, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), combined with the ability to harvest energy, will enable insect-sized drone swarms to be dropped from military aircraft to stay aloft for a ...
Edward Snowden teaches how to be elusive to US National Security Agency
Post Date: 2014-12-31 05:30:18 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda...Edward Snowden's new declassified documents are devoted to network security systems that experts at the US National Security Agency find difficult to hack into. A series of documents about various programs and codes that NSA hackers fail to break were published in Der Spiegel. The reports say how to protect oneself from the electronic surveillance of Western intelligence agencies to remain anonymous. The NSA ranks assignments by levels of complexity - from one to five. The first stage is the most trivial one. Hacking such a system is not difficult at all. The fifth level is designated with the word "catastrophic" and actually means that the NSA is unable to either ...
Scientist terrified of geoengineering technology being developed under guise of halting global warming
Post Date: 2014-12-30 17:27:47 by BTP Holdings
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Scientist terrified of geoengineering technology being developed under guise of halting global warming Tuesday, December 30, 2014 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) A prominent climate scientist who's actively involved in developing technologies to thwart the natural weather patterns of the globe says he's disturbed by the prospect of having to make such drastic changes to the common order of things in order to fight so-called "global warming." Dr. Matthew Watson from Bristol University in the UK told the media recently that he's "terrified" by many of the geoengineering projects currently in the works to thwart man-made climate change, which ...
How To Make a Matchbox Rocket Launching Kit
Post Date: 2014-12-29 20:12:00 by X-15
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Skin cells can help cure infertility: Study
Post Date: 2014-12-27 05:39:01 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... A new research suggests infertility can be cured by using human skin cells to create primitive sperms and eggs, which is considered as a major breakthrough in the field of fertility treatment. Professor Azim Surani, a developmental biologist, and his team at the University of Cambridge in UK created the primitive sex cells by “culturing human embryonic stem cells for five days under carefully-controlled conditions.” They attempted to show that the same process could turn adults’ skin tissue into early-stage sperms or eggs, which could later grow into mature sperm cells and eggs that are genetically matched to patients. During the course of study, it was ...
Print Friendly - wonderful
Post Date: 2014-12-26 11:33:44 by Lod
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No, North Korea DidnÂ’t Hack Sony
Post Date: 2014-12-26 09:36:51 by Ada
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The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever. But almost all signs point in another direction. So, “The Interview” is to be released after all. The news that the satirical movie—which revolves around a plot to murder Kim Jong-Un—will have a Christmas Day release as planned, will prompt renewed scrutiny of whether, as the US authorities have officially claimed, the cyber attack on Sony really was the work of an elite group of North Korean government hackers. All the evidence leads me to believe that the great Sony Pictures hack of 2014 is far more likely to be the work of one disgruntled ...
Weapons Inventor Says U.S. Ripped Him Off
Post Date: 2014-12-22 03:18:43 by X-15
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WASHINGTON (CN) - A man whose stealth technology and weapons inventions put him on the road to a Nobel Prize says the government declassified his patents to reap the rewards. Physicist and engineer Frank Trunk made the allegations in a federal complaint, originally filed under seal, against U.S. Navy Secretary Raymond Mabus, Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, Defense Secretary Charles Hagel and Michelle Lee, the deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Trunk says he made his breakthroughs in 1993, filing for patents for inventions involving aircraft and ship stealth technology, submarine stealth technology and nuclear-weapon designs. "Those applications describe ...
Thousands of wolves, bears and lynx striding Europe alongside humans
Post Date: 2014-12-20 08:06:35 by Deasy
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Thousands of wolves, bears and lynx striding Europe alongside humans After almost becoming extinct at the beginning of the 20th century, large carnivores are on their way back in Europe with bears being the most numerous and present in almost two dozen of European countries, a new study has shown. There are about 17,000 of them living in 22 countries. They are followed by 12,000 wolves, 9,000 Eurasian lynx and 1,250 wolverines. The latter live in the cold northern areas of Scandinavia. The research, which was carried out in all countries in Europe except for Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, and published in the Journal Nature, found that the total area with a permanent presence of at least ...
NASA email wrench to ISS- amazing
Post Date: 2014-12-19 18:03:01 by Lod
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What unbelievable technology.
Beretta presents: HUMAN TECHNOLOGY
Post Date: 2014-12-16 19:58:51 by X-15
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Human Technology is an artistic short movie celebrating the uniqueness and the distinction of every Beretta premium gun. This movie by Ancarani Studio, under the creative direction of Paola Manfrin, reveals through the minutia of the manufacturing process, the genesis of a luxury Beretta shotgun. A poetic journey through sterile robotic rooms is blended with five centuries of Beretta’s history, culminating in the final assembly by the gunsmith, ever the wise guardian of the art of manufacturing.
China Focus: Life on Mars? Chinese scientists find new evidence
Post Date: 2014-12-16 03:27:07 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Did Mars ever harbor life? Scientists have found new evidence for possible life on the Red Planet in a piece of Martian meteorite that landed on Earth after about 700,000 years of space travel. According to research carried out by teams of Chinese, German, Swiss, and Japanese scientists, more than 10 pieces of coal-like carbon particles, thinner than one-tenth of the width of a strand of hair, were found in a thumb-sized piece of the meteorite. "We used advanced equipment to determine the carbon particles are organic matter, and to rule out the possibility of graphite, which is inorganic," said Lin Yangting, a lead scientist of the research team ...
Real vs perceived age: A matter of life and death
Post Date: 2014-12-15 21:55:53 by Buzzard
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How old do you feel? Think carefully — the answer might help predict how much longer you'll live. That's according to British research posing that question to about 6,500 adults. Those who felt younger than their real age lived the longest over the following eight years. Here are five key findings from the study, by researchers Isla Rippon and Andrew Steptoe at University College London. Results were published online Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine: REAL VS. PERCEIVED AGE The average real age of those questioned was about 66 years. Most adults felt at least three years younger than their real age. Those who felt younger had the least chances of dying over about eight years ...
Is space-time shaped like a SPIRAL? Universe has a 'golden ratio' that keeps everything in order, researchers claim
Post Date: 2014-12-14 03:48:05 by Tatarewicz
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South African researchers say the universe is governed by a 'golden ratio' They say space-time itself is defined by this mathematical constant The ratio - 1.618 - is found across nature in plants, hurricanes and more But the researchers say it is also ever-present in the universe This means it might make up space-time itself Some have suggested our universe may have been the only one in the multiverse theory to have this ratio that allowed it to form A cosmic constant known as the ‘golden ratio’ is said to be found in the shape of hurricanes, elephant tusks and even in galaxies. Now researchers say this ratio is also seen in the topology of space-time, affecting the ...
Jetman Aerobatic Formation Flight in Dubai
Post Date: 2014-12-13 12:24:17 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment:Jetpacks? Haven't seen these till just now..
Father of Web: Putin Is Wrong About Internet Being a 'CIA Project'
Post Date: 2014-12-12 07:33:59 by Tatarewicz
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Moscow Times.... The inventor of the World Wide Web said on Thursday that President Vladimir Putin was incorrect when he alleged the Internet was a project created by U.S. spies in the Central Intelligence Agency. Putin, a former KGB spy who does not use email, has said he will not restrict Internet access for Russians, but in April he stoked concerns that the Kremlin might seek to crackdown by saying the Internet was born out of a "CIA project." "The Internet is not a CIA creation," Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989 — the year that the Berlin Wall collapsed — said when asked about Putin's CIA comment. ...
Scientists discover stem cell breakthrough
Post Date: 2014-12-11 06:51:24 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- An Australian research team together with international scientists have discovered a new stem cell that can be programmed to become any part of the body. The ramifications of the find mean that a transplant can be conducted by using the patient's own cells, which can be made into organs and tissue. The discovery, published in the journal Nature on Thursday, is a breakthrough in stem cell research. "These are remarkably useful cells, because you can apply them to several different areas of medicine," molecular biologist Thomas Preiss, from the Australian National University, told Fairfax Media. More than 50 researchers from Australia, Canada, ...
Water on earth does not originate from comets: Scientists
Post Date: 2014-12-11 06:43:36 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV...Scientists have debunked the idea that water on earth could have originated from comets citing the results from Europe's Rosetta mission. The results from the European Space Agency’s mission, whose robotic lander Philae landed on Comet 67P last month, showed that the water on the icy mass is different from the water on our planet, state-run BBC reported on Wednesday. Some have concluded that water might have come from asteroids but more evidence is needed to prove that. The vast majority of liquid on earth is composed of hydrogen and oxygen atoms but occasionally -- three in every 10,000 molecules -- a hydrogen atom is replaced with a deuterium one. The mission has ...
China stealth jet could shoot down F-35: Aviation offcial
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:00:14 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... China’s top aircraft maker says its new stealth fighter has the ability to shoot down US-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from the sky. When China’s J-31 stealth fighter “takes to the sky, it can definitely take it (F-35) down…. That’s a certainty,” Lin Zuoming, president of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), said on Tuesday. Lin added that AVIC seeks to compete with the United States in new markets, particularly targeting countries to which the US will not sell military equipment as well as the countries that cannot afford the expensive F-35. “The next-generation air forces that are unable to buy the F-35 have no way to build ...
s World of Tanks creator to invest in new Russian ultra-light rocket
Post Date: 2014-12-09 22:57:07 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda.Ru World of Tanks creator to invest in new Russian ultra-light rocket. World of Tanks creator to launch space rockets Sergei Burkatovsky, known as one of the creators of the popular online game World of Tanks, is to invest from five to ten million rubles in Lin Industrial, a Russian developer of carrier rockets. The investment will be used to create ultra-light rocket "Taimyr", TASS reports. Chief Designer at Lin Industrial, Alexander Ilyin, said that the funds would be used to develop and test a prototype of a modular ultralight "Taimyr" carrier rocket with a thrust of 50 kg. Burkatovsky, who serves as the general producer of Wargaming.net, confirmed his ...
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