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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
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 ...
Japan to test first homegrown stealth fighter jet: report
Post Date: 2014-08-12 07:45:57 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... AFP A group of major Japanese firms are planning a test flight next year for the nation's first homegrown stealth fighter jet, a report said Tuesday. The consortium -- led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries -- is developing a jet that has similar technology to US-made F-35 stealth fighters, with a prototype set for a test run in January, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said. About 39.2 billion yen ($384 million) has been invested in the project, said the report, which did not cite sources. Following the initial flight, the jet will undergo about two years of testing at the defence ministry with Tokyo set to decide on whether to buy the plane by early 2019, it added. The story ...
MIT Develops Tech to Record Conversations Using Inanimate Objects
Post Date: 2014-08-07 21:49:28 by Horse
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MIT researchers have developed new technology that can record conversations via the miniscule vibrations that sound waves create in inanimate objects, paving the way for yet more invasive forms of surveillance. Lead author Abe Davis and his team demonstrated that movements in objects like chip packets or pot plants could be recorded by video cameras and then turned back into audible sound, including words, even when the camera is outside the room where the conversation is taking place. “Using only a video of the object and suitable processing algorithm we can extract these minute vibrations and partially recover the sounds that produced them letting us turn everyday objects into ...
Stem cell controversy scientist kills self
Post Date: 2014-08-07 07:49:55 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Chief researcher in a stem cell study, which before being discredited was thought to have revolutionized the field, has committed suicide. "Deputy directory of the Developmental Biology Center Yoshiki Sasai was found with something that seemed to be a will. After that he was taken to the Kobe City Medical Center hospital but was pronounced dead at 11:03AM," Riken's director of public relations, Satoru Kagaya told journalists. As deputy director of Riken's Center for Developmental Biology, Sasai supervised the work of lead author Haruko Obokata. The work kicked up much commotion in scientific circles by alleging discovery of a method involving transformation ...
The free energy device that scares Obama to death...
Post Date: 2014-08-06 16:52:59 by BTP Holdings
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Please take a few seconds to read this email from energy innovator Michael Sherman. He has a very important message about your energy bills. Yours in Liberty, Oli Fischer --------------- This video has already become the #1 topic in the energy world
and it is taking the world by storm. >> This video will change your life We're talking about an old invention kept buried by energy fat cats and discovered,
quite by accident, by a nurse that can change America's history. Watch it here: >> One click Rumors say that White House is on alert since the website has been released and the greedy energy cartels are working on a plan to shut
it down. ...
Clean, Abundant Energy
Post Date: 2014-08-06 16:34:40 by BTP Holdings
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"Hi, there," begins a friendly note from our reader mailbag. "You threw the 'thorium' word into your review." Thorium, as you'll recall, is a potential solution to the spread of nuclear warheads and other bombs… Not to mention a less toxic, more abundant, cheaper and all-around safer means to make nuclear energy. Our reader continues: "I have been trying to get answers from energy companies and the U.K. government, but most unusually, I am not having even a polite 'We're looking into it.' It seems that, for some reason, this is a subject that no one wants to talk about. "Do you know what is happening with thorium? It has been ...
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 -- ...
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