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Scientist's plan to end tornadoes would have 100-mile giant wall in Texas
Post Date: 2014-05-29 05:59:31 by Tatarewicz
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The walls would be 100 miles long and almost 1000 feet high, designed to stop the meeting of east/west winds which some say cause tornadoes by creating an updraft.Keep clicking to see other bizarre ideas on how to control the weather. Can you zap a tornado? Some have proposed using an array of satellites to shoot microwaves at the cold winds that form tornadoes. Of course, someone would have to build this collection of satellites for that purpose. Can an oil slick stop a hurricane? A University of California-Berkeley researcher threw out an idea that ancient mariners might have been onto something when they dumped oil onto troubled waters. He believes a similar method could reduce the ...
People attribute free will to mind, not soul
Post Date: 2014-05-28 06:22:36 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Profiles in a study of free will. Online interview subjects were asked about moral choices and culpability on the part of five active agents, from normal human to plain robot. Free will was associated more with the mind (intentionality, capacity for choice) than with the metaphysics of a soul. Credit: Malle lab/Brown University [Click to enlarge image] A new study tested whether people believe free will arises from a metaphysical basis or mental capacity. Even though most respondents said they believed humans to have souls, they judged free will and assigned blame for transgressions based on pragmatic considerations -- such as whether the actor in question had the capacity ...
Using thoughts to control airplanes
Post Date: 2014-05-28 05:52:07 by Tatarewicz
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The pilot is wearing a white cap with myriad attached cables. His gaze is concentrated on the runway ahead of him. All of a sudden the control stick starts to move, as if by magic. The airplane banks and then approaches straight on towards the runway. The position of the plane is corrected time and again until the landing gear gently touches down. During the entire maneuver the pilot touches neither pedals nor controls. This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but rather the rendition of a test at the Institute for Flight System Dynamics of the Technische Universität München (TUM). Scientists working for Professor Florian Holzapfel are researching ways in which brain ...
Learning early in life may help keep brain cells alive: Brain cells survive in young who master a task
Post Date: 2014-05-28 05:32:12 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Using your brain -- particularly during adolescence -- may help brain cells survive and could impact how the brain functions after puberty. According to a recently published study in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Rutgers behavioral and systems neuroscientist Tracey Shors, who co-authored the study, found that the newborn brain cells in young rats that were successful at learning survived while the same brain cells in animals that didn't master the task died quickly. "In those that didn't learn, three weeks after the new brain cells were made, nearly one-half of them were no longer there," said Shors, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for ...
Neuroscience's grand question: How do neurons regenerate without losing memory?
Post Date: 2014-05-26 23:59:22 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Neurons live for many years but their components, the proteins and molecules that make up the cell, are continually being replaced. How this continuous rebuilding takes place without affecting our ability to think, remember, learn or otherwise experience the world is one of neuroscience’s biggest questions. [Click to enlarge image] When your car needs a new spark plug, you take it to a shop where it sits, out of commission, until the repair is finished. But what if your car could replace its own spark plug while speeding down the Mass Pike? Of course, cars can't do that, but our nervous system does the equivalent, rebuilding itself continually while maintaining ...
PSYCHOPATH TEST
Post Date: 2014-05-24 15:12:18 by Southern Style
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PSYCHOPATH TEST Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right (yet) ........ A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a man who she did not know. She thought he was 'amazing'. She believed him to be her dream partner so much, that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister. Question: What was her motive for killing her sister? [Give this some thought before you answer, see answer below] ...
Abbott & Costello Meet Common Core
Post Date: 2014-05-24 12:54:36 by Southern Style
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A Look at Deepayan Acharjya's Bitcoin Hardware Wallet
Post Date: 2014-05-23 18:09:16 by titorite
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Dee is a "technotable" young, hip, and brilliant engineer/musician/mad scientist and the founder of i4see, a Montreal company that builds gadgets that solve real world problems. Recently, he created a Bitcoin hardware wallet that enables individuals to store their crypto currency onto a device (computer programs or apps). So, how does the wallet work? According to Dee, the MontraOne hardware wallet stores the bitCoins (private keys) in a “crypto memory.” The Crypto memory is designed to hold secrets that can only be accessed after authenticating using a pin, and has built-in protection against brute force or other attacks. The MontraOne also contains a 32-bit free ...
Stem cells as future source for eco-friendly meat
Post Date: 2014-05-22 03:19:38 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown from stem cells also holds potential as an ethical and greener source for meat. So say scientists who suggest in the Cell Press journal Trends in Biotechnology that every town or village could one day have its very own small-scale, cultured meat factory. "We believe that cultured meat is part of the future," said Cor van der Weele of Wageningen University in The Netherlands. "Other parts of the future are partly substituting meat with vegetarian products, keeping fewer animals in better circumstances, perhaps eating insects, etc. This discussion is ...
Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest
Post Date: 2014-05-20 07:44:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light -- a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. In just one day over several cups of coffee in a tiny office in Imperial's Blackett Physics Laboratory, three physicists worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first devised by scientists Breit and Wheeler in 1934. Breit and Wheeler suggested that it should be possible to turn light into matter by smashing together only two particles of light (photons), to create an electron and a positron -- the simplest method of turning light into matter ever predicted. The calculation was found to ...
World’s oldest wild bird gives birth at age 63
Post Date: 2014-05-18 15:54:41 by Ada
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An albatross named Wisdom is thought to be the oldest wild bird – and the oldest bird mom – in the world. Her latest chick hatched in early February on Midway Atoll. Experts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say that Wisdom the Laysan albatross is the oldest bird they know of in the organization’s 90-year history. At 63, Wisdom hatched another chick in early February at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, the small atoll in the North Pacific between Honolulu and Tokyo. Researchers think she could have raised as many as 35 chicks in her life. Wisdom, now sporting her 6th band as part of the USGS Bird Banding Program, was first banded in 1956. Researchers say that ...
Grossly Flawed White House Climate Assessment: 15 Scientists.
Post Date: 2014-05-18 00:51:55 by James Deffenbach
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Exposing the flaws in the greatest hoax inflicted on the human race. PagesHomeGraphsHall of Shame (aka Bastards)IMAGES We are a shoe-string operation. Unfortunately no BigOil funding! Help expose the hoax. Donations: Westpac BSB 035612, Account No. 239469All Scientists are Sceptics ~Professor Bob CarterA Skeptical Scientist will look sceptically at claims of all kinds. All Scientists should be sceptics ~Scott Denning Ph.D Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the science of climate change is the lack of any real substance in attempts to justify the hypothesis ~Professor Stewart FranksA lie told often enough becomes the truth.-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - See more at: ...
Researchers Discover Fossils of Largest Dino Believed to Ever Walk the Earth
Post Date: 2014-05-18 00:48:30 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers believe they've found fossils of a dinosaur so large that it would have made Tyrannosaurus rex look like a pipsqueak. Researchers announced this week they found fossils of a sauropod dinosaur that they estimate was the largest creature to have ever walked the earth. Dr. Ruben Cueno, director of Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew, Argentina, said the dinosaur would have weighed at least 77 tons and grown to triple the size of a T. Rex. The bones were initially discovered by a farmer who spotted something unusual coming out of the ground. Find Out More About Dinosaur Discoveries “It looked like a bone, but it was absolutely different from the ...
The Schauberger Generator
Post Date: 2014-05-17 13:38:17 by BTP Holdings
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Free electricity for life. That is what this is all about. You can thank the Nazis for this one. We stole it from them. It's been kept under wraps because of Obama's energy monopoly. ;)
Thomas H. Culhane teaches people to build fuel sources – powered by garbage
Post Date: 2014-05-17 07:23:18 by Tatarewicz
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Homemade biodigesters turn human and food waste into biogas, which can be used to heat water, cook food, or produce electricity. It looks like street magic: A food grinder, some lengths of PVC pipe, a couple of 10-gallon buckets, and flexible plastic tubing lie on the table in front of Thomas H. Culhane. He enthusiastically promises the crowd gathered at a biodigester workshop that anyone can use these items to make enough clean-burning biogas to cook food every day using the scraps from yesterday’s meals. But his magic is backed by hard science. Dr. Culhane, a member of the National Geographic Emerging Explorer program and a visiting professor at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, ...
Forget PINs - now you can withdraw cash with your VEINS: Hitachi rolls out biometric scanning technology for ATMs
Post Date: 2014-05-16 21:18:48 by Lorie Meacham
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1,730 cash machines in Poland are to be given 'Finger Vein' technology This lets people scan their finger and withdraw money from an ATM The technology doesn't require the use of a card or pin number It has already been used in several banks in Poland and Turkey The 'Planet Cash' project is the work of Hitachi and Itcard S.A. Using a card to withdraw money from a cash machine could soon be a thing of the past. Japanese technology company Hitachi and Polish banking services provider Itcard S.A. are in the process of installing their biometric ‘Finger Vein’ technology across Poland. The technology allows people to simply place their finger in a scanner instead ...
Global warming research suppressed due to intolerance of scepticism, claims scientist
Post Date: 2014-05-16 08:38:11 by Ada
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A professor claims his paper questioning the speed of climate change was deliberately rejected for publication due to intolerance of views seen as "sceptical" Professor Bengtsson's paper about global warming challenged the findings of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change A climate change researcher has claimed that scientists are confusing their role as impartial observers with green activism after his paper challenging predictions about the speed of global warming was rejected because it was seen as “less than helpful.” Professor Lennart Bengtsson says recent McCarthy-style pressure from fellow academics forced him to resign from his post on ...
Air Force prepares to dismantle HAARP ahead of summer shutdown
Post Date: 2014-05-16 00:24:18 by X-15
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FAIRBANKS -- The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer. The shutdown of HAARP, a project created by the late Sen. Ted Stevens when he wielded great control over the U.S. defense budget, will start after a final research experiment takes place in mid-June, the Air Force said in a letter to Congress Tuesday. The University of Alaska has expressed interest in taking over the research site, which is off the Tok Cutoff in an area where black spruce was cleared a quarter-century ago for the Air Force backscatter radar project that was never completed. But the ...
What Did Divers Use Before Dive Watches?
Post Date: 2014-05-16 00:16:50 by X-15
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When Rolex and Blancpain launched their first wristwatches for divers in the early 1950s they did, in fact, create the archetype of the modern dive watch, thanks to the development of the quintessential rotating bezel. However they did not invent the first watch used by divers. If we travel back in time, we find that World War II (and, especially, the frogmen of the Italian Navy) demonstrated the potential of underwater warfare and thus the need for salvage. This, in turn, further increased the need for water-resistant watches in order to better conduct underwater missions involving timing and navigation. The 1940s marked the introduction of various water-resistant watches and, of course, ...
Maier Racing Mustang: More grip than a GT3 (Porsche)
Post Date: 2014-05-15 20:57:44 by X-15
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If you've ever driven a bone-stock mid-1960's Ford Mustang, then you know that these little cars make wonderful cruisers. They possess movie-star good looks and turn heads everywhere. Drive them hard though and you'll soon realize that what lies beneath that sheet metal is usually in need of some serious improvement . Mike Maier of Maier Racing is the owner of this stunning blue 1966 coupe, a car that was supposed to have been bought as a play toy for him and his wife. However when you grow up in a racing family, leaving things alone is generally not an option. Little by little the Mustang evolved away from the family hot-rod and into a test bed for new parts. More importantly ...
North America's Oldest Skeleton Discovery: 13,000-Year-Old Body of 'Discovered in Mexico'
Post Date: 2014-05-15 19:24:21 by Ada
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North America oldest skeleton A cave diver inspects the newly-discovered skull of Naia in a submerged cave on the Yucatan peninsula of MexicoDaniel Riordan Araujo One of the oldest human skeletons in North America has been discovered by a team of international scientists in an underwater Yucatán Peninsula cave. Named "Naia", the teenager fell to her death in a large pit called Hoyo Nego, meaning "black hole" in Spanish. Patricia Beddows, a cave-diving researcher from Northwestern University, said: "The preservation of all the bones in this deep water-filled cave is amazing - the bones are beautifully laid out." "The girl's skeleton is ...
Russia to Ban US From Space Station in Sanctions Retaliation
Post Date: 2014-05-14 17:09:53 by BTP Holdings
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Russia to Ban US From Space Station in Sanctions Retaliation Tuesday, 13 May 2014 05:32 PM Russia cast doubt on the long-term future of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation, as it retaliated on Tuesday against U.S. sanctions over Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Moscow would reject a U.S. request to prolong the orbiting station's use beyond 2020. It will also bar Washington from using Russian-made rocket engines to launch military satellites. Moscow took the action, which also included suspending operation of GPS satellite navigation system sites on its territory from June, in response to U.S. plans to deny export licenses for ...
Alarmist Headlines on ‘Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse’ Obscure Truth
Post Date: 2014-05-14 09:39:35 by Ada
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Dubious prediction isn’t even expected for 1,000 years Scaremongering headlines about the “collapse” of the the Antarctic ice sheet omitted the fact that such an event isn’t predicted to happen for as much as 1,000 years, underscoring once again how the mass media grossly exaggerates the threat posed by global warming. On Monday, the Guardian reported that the “Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun,” prompting the likes of NBC News, the New York Times, the LA Times and CNN to hastily regurgitate the alarmism. It isn’t until the third paragraph of the Guardian article that the true context of the story becomes clear, when Suzanne ...
Climate change is here to stay-9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wind Energy.
Post Date: 2014-05-13 03:23:57 by Tatarewicz
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That is the key takeaway from the National Climate Assessment, a major report released last week on the state of global warming in the United States. “Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” the authors declared. Burning fossil fuels has led to water scarcity in arid regions, torrential downpours in wet regions, extreme heat waves, and larger and longer-burning wildfires. Unless we are prepared to condemn our descendants to a world that could be 10 degrees warmer on average by 2100, we need to dramatically wean ourselves off fossil fuels. That means embracing renewable energy sources such as solar and wind ...
China to set up nuclear emergency team
Post Date: 2014-05-12 21:03:10 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhua) -- China is working to form a 300-member state-level rescue team specialized in nuclear emergencies, said a senior official here Monday. This team will respond to "serious nuclear accidents in complicated circumstances", said Yao Bin, head of the nuclear emergency and security division under the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). They will be tasked to support operators of nuclear facilities to handle contingencies, such as cordoning the radioactive source in nuclear accidents, rescuing trapped people, controling the spread of contamination and minimizing the damage, said Yao, also deputy head of a ...
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