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Michio Kaku on C2C Wed night
Post Date: 2014-08-06 01:11:19 by Tatarewicz
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Good at describing current state of physics.
Why does the CDC own a patent on Ebola 'invention?'
Post Date: 2014-08-03 19:33:05 by Itistoolate
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(NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as "EboBun." It's patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010. You can view it here. (Thanks to Natural News readers who found this and brought it to our attention.)Patent applicants are clearly described on the patent as including:The Government Of The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health & Human Services, Center For Disease Control.The patent summary says, "The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
10 Reasons to Use StartPage
Post Date: 2014-08-01 09:12:55 by Lod
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Is Social Mobility a Myth?
Post Date: 2014-07-31 06:52:00 by Ada
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility, Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press, 384 pages Most people intuit that coming from the “right sort” of family is a big advantage in life, while being from the “wrong side of the tracks” is a serious disability. And they suspect that these advantages and disadvantages persist, as demonstrated by the continuing prominence of, say, people whose ancestors “came over on the Mayflower” among the upper crust in America. The difficulty with this intuitive understanding is that social-science research does not seem to back it up. Psychologists, sociologists, and economists have found rates of ...
The Agricultural Holocaust explained: the 10 worst ways GMOs threaten humanity and our natural world
Post Date: 2014-07-30 17:04:50 by BTP Holdings
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The Agricultural Holocaust explained: the 10 worst ways GMOs threaten humanity and our natural world Sunday, July 27, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Why are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) a serious threat to humanity and the environment? The reasons span the realms of science, social justice, economics and the environment, and once you understand this, you'll readily understand why so many environmentalists, humanitarians, responsible scientists and social justice advocates are strongly opposed to GMOs. Here are the top 10 ways GMOs threaten us all: #1) Every grain of GM corn contains poison GM corn is genetically engineered to develop a deadly ...
Bolivia declares Israel a terrorist state
Post Date: 2014-07-30 16:49:58 by Horse
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LA PAZ: Bolivia on Wednesday renounced a visa exemption agreement with Israel in protest over its offensive in Gaza, and declared it a terrorist state. President Evo Morales announced the move during a talk with a group of educators in the city of Cochabamba. It "means, in other words, we are declaring (Israel) a terrorist state," he said. The treaty has allowed Israelis to travel freely to Bolivia without a visa since 1972. Morales said the Gaza offensive shows "that Israel is not a guarantor of the principles of respect for life and the elementary precepts of rights that govern the peaceful and harmonious coexistence of our international community." More than two ...
NASA sounds red alert over solar flare that nearly wiped out human civilization two summers ago
Post Date: 2014-07-29 17:05:20 by BTP Holdings
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NASA sounds red alert over solar flare that nearly wiped out human civilization two summers ago Monday, July 28, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The news you are about to read should be front page news everywhere. There is arguably nothing more important to humanity's survival than the alarming facts presented in this report from NASA, yet most of the world pretends this event never happened in 2012, and they falsely assume it won't happen again. They are wrong. According to shocking new research published by NASA, each decade there is roughly a 12% chance of a near-wipeout of humanity's high-tech civilization. In fact, one such event nearly wiped out ...
Climate Science; Winning The Science Battle, But Losing the Policy War
Post Date: 2014-07-29 08:17:15 by Ada
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(Elaboration of my Heartland Climate Conference Presentation) We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. Rutherford Rogers So-called climate skeptics, practicing proper science by disproving the hypothesis that human CO2 is causing global warming, achieved a great deal. This, despite harassment by formal science agencies, like the Royal Society, and deliberate neglect by the mainstream media. It combined with an active and deliberate Public Relations campaign, designed to mislead and confuse. Most people and politicians understand little of what is going on so the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) strategy of using created science for a political agenda ...
Computer models: Even a small nuclear war would cause global famine and wipe out billions of people
Post Date: 2014-07-28 16:56:18 by BTP Holdings
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Computer models: Even a small nuclear war would cause global famine and wipe out billions of people Monday, July 28, 2014 by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) While millions of people around the world have an innate fear of nuclear weapons and think that every country that has them should dismantle them, many foreign policy experts who have adopted a "realist" worldview maintain that those mighty weapons of mass destruction have actually kept the world safer since they were developed at the close of World War II. While that sounds odd given their destructive power, these experts point out that without them -- and when there was relative military parity between the great nations -- ...
Human-robot technology takes quantum leap
Post Date: 2014-07-27 21:42:58 by Tatarewicz
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Kejia, an intelligent service robot designed by the University of Science and Technology of China, neatly lines up several drinks at the 2014 RoboCup@Home competition in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, on Wednesday. (Photo: China Daily) BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Robots designed by the University of Science and Technology of China amazed the audience and won the championship for the first time at the RoboCup, which concluded on Friday in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. Recognized for their stability and precision, the robots of USTC's WrightEagle team - dubbed Kejia - won top honors in the RoboCup@Home league, one of several leagues at the global competition, officially known as the 2014 Robot World ...
Russia has lost a satellite full of geckos
Post Date: 2014-07-27 05:46:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert...Russian research satellite Foton-M4 was launched last Saturday (19 July) with a precious cargo of five geckos, insects and plants on board. The orbiting geckos were expected to mate, allowing scientists from Russia’s Institute of Medico-Biological Problems to determine the effects of weightlessness on reptile reproduction. But the research stalled when scientists reported on Thursday that their gecko sex satellite had gone AWOL and was not responding to commands. Video footage of out-of-this-world gecko sex is still reaching Earth but if contact is not re-established the geckos will die from hunger in a few months. This is one of a number of recent calamities in the ...
Only 8.2 pct of human DNA "functional": study
Post Date: 2014-07-27 01:08:11 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is likely to be doing something important or "functional," in a departure from previous figures, according to a British study published in American scientific journal Plos Genetics Friday. In 2012, scientists involved in the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (Encode) project stated that 80 percent of human genome had some biochemical functions. However, that claim has been controversial, with many arguing that the biochemical definition of "function" was too broad and that just because an activity on DNA occurs, it does not necessarily have a consequence. To reach their latest figures, researchers from Oxford ...
Permian Basin Exhibits Unstoppable Growth
Post Date: 2014-07-24 17:41:48 by BTP Holdings
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Permian Basin Exhibits Unstoppable Growth Published Wed, Jul 23, 2014 | Karim Rahemtulla, Chief Resource Analyst The Permian Basin is easily the most prolific oil-producing area in the United States right now. The region gets its name from fossils that date back to the Permian age, which were first reported by geologists in 1858. Little did these scientists know, the outcroppings contained sedimentary rock that would one day prove to be the biggest source of oil in the United States. In 2007, the area was pumping out 850,000 barrels per day. Now that number has grown to over 1.35 million barrels, and 18% of the oil produced in the United States comes from the Permian Basin. Its ...
Smarter than a first-grader? Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks
Post Date: 2014-07-24 04:19:26 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: ] In Aesop's fable about the crow and the pitcher, a thirsty bird happens upon a vessel of water, but when he tries to drink from it, he finds the water level out of his reach. Not strong enough to knock over the pitcher, the bird drops pebbles into it -- one at a time -- until the water level rises enough for him to drink his fill. Highlighting the value of ingenuity, the fable demonstrates that cognitive ability can often be more effective than brute force. It also characterizes crows as pretty resourceful problem solvers. New research conducted by UC Santa Barbara's Corina Logan, with her collaborators at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, demonstrates ...
China conducts successful land-based missile interception test
Post Date: 2014-07-24 01:36:01 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- China has announced the success of a missile interception test conducted from land. The test, conducted within its territory late on Wednesday, "achieved the preset goal", according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of National Defense. Military authorities provided no other information about the operation. China has already successfully completed two mid-course land-based missile interception tests, in 2010 and 2013, both of which "attained preset objectives." By developing the ability to intercept incoming warheads such as ballistic missiles, it is hoped that the tests can help strengthen China's air defense. It ...
Feature: Ambitious Finnish project looks to lead storage systems for clean energy
Post Date: 2014-07-22 19:59:35 by Tatarewicz
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HELSINKI, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Finland has been a straggler in the race to exploit renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. But a new research project is looking to place the small Nordic nation well ahead of the pack in terms of developing storage systems for these clean energy sources. An ambitious 7 million-euro (9.4 million U.S. dollars) NEO-CARBON ENERGY project is being led by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and involves collaborators from the Lappeenranta University of Technology and the University of Turku's Finland Futures Research Centre. "Finland may not be the largest producer of wind turbines or solar panels but we have a chance to take the ...
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Post Date: 2014-07-22 17:48:24 by BTP Holdings
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Rechargeable eggplant-based batteries could soon be a reality
Post Date: 2014-07-19 01:00:26 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... An 18-year-old Singaporean student has figured out a way to use carbonised Chinese eggplant to make batteries. Eggplant_Phua Shannon Lee doesn’t like to eat eggplant, but she's found a better way to use it. The Singaporean student recently won one of the Young Scientists Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her eggplant-based catalyst that can be used to recharge batteries. Although more research still needs to be conducted, her discovery could be “an ideal replacement for lithium-ion batteries that are widely used in electric cars and various other high-consuming energy devices,” wrote Kane Cunico at Contented. In this ...
Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
Post Date: 2014-07-18 14:55:48 by X-15
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is probably the most widely used personality test in the world. An estimated 2 million people take it annually, at the behest of corporate HR departments, colleges, and even government agencies. The company that makes and markets the test makes somewhere around $20 million each year. The only problem? The test is completely meaningless. "There's just no evidence behind it," says Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania who's written about the shortcomings of the Myers-Briggs previously. "The characteristics measured by the test have almost no predictive power on how happy you'll be in a ...
When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
Post Date: 2014-07-18 06:26:44 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Using ultra-short X-ray flashes, an international team of researchers watched electrons jumping between the fragments of exploding molecules. The study reveals up to what distance a charge transfer between the two molecular fragments can occur, marking the limit of the molecular regime. The technique used can show the dynamics of charge transfer in a wide range of molecular systems, as the scientists around Dr. Benjamin Erk and Dr. Daniel Rolles of DESY and Professor Artem Rudenko of Kansas State University report in the scientific journal Science. Such mechanisms play a role in numerous chemical processes, including photosynthesis. "The charge transfer takes place ...
Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
Post Date: 2014-07-18 06:06:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Perovskite solar cells show tremendous promise in propelling solar power into the marketplace. The cells use a hole-transportation layer, which promotes the efficient movement of electrical current after exposure to sunlight. However, manufacturing the hole-transportation organic materials is very costly and lack long term stability. Publishing in Science, a team of scientists in China, led by Professor Hongwei Han in cooperation with Professor Michael Grätzel at EPFL, have developed a perovskite solar cell that does not use a hole-transporting layer, with 12.8% conversion efficiency and over 1000 hours stability under full sunlight in ambient temperature. The ...
HKUST scientists invent new water purifier
Post Date: 2014-07-17 22:49:46 by Tatarewicz
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scmp... Tiny device may clean your water without cleaning out your bank account A research team at the University of Science and Technology has invented a low-voltage pulsed electric field device that can kill more than 99 per cent of waterborne bacteria in seconds. The device, which costs HK$10 to HK$20 per unit to produce and can run on two AA batteries for up to six months, is being tested at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei. If all goes well, it could replace hospitals' costly HK$5,000 medical-grade filters that have to be changed every few weeks - and even make it into homes. "The major motivation behind this is that we typically find water from treatment plants ...
Corruption Of Academic Journals For Profit and Climate Change Propaganda
Post Date: 2014-07-17 06:50:00 by Ada
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.Erwin Knoll The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.Thomas Jefferson CRU and Academic Publishing Recent revelation of extensive corruption of the peer review process, by a group of academics, is another blow to academic credibility. Commendable in the tawdry story was the reaction of the publisher of the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC); they immediately withdrew 60 articles. But what happens when the publisher is part of the schemes to pervert the proper scientific checks and balances? How many ...
Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago
Post Date: 2014-07-15 20:23:37 by Dakmar
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Scientists are investigating what may be the oldest identified race war 13,000 years after it raged on the fringes of the Sahara. French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows. The bones – from Jebel Sahaba on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan – are from victims of the world’s oldest known relatively large-scale human armed conflict. Over the past two years anthropologists from Bordeaux University have discovered literally dozens of previously undetected arrow impact marks and flint arrow head fragments on and around the ...
[Seriously] Scientists invent invisibility cloak
Post Date: 2014-07-15 16:42:25 by BTP Holdings
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[Seriously] Scientists invent invisibility cloak Dear Daily Reckoning Reader, Researchers at the University of Texas have made a shocking breakthrough. It involves a new substance that can make objects completely invisible to the naked eye. Invisibility Cloak This is not science fiction. It's real. It's happening now. And the military and security implications are HUGE. Imagine invisible soldiers… invisible tanks… even invisible aircraft. Scientific journal Nature reports this breakthrough is "a new building block from which to engineer the world." But here's what's really crazy… Our affiliates at the Oxford Club just identified one ...
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