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Anthony Howe's Otherworldly Kinetic Sculptures
Post Date: 2013-10-21 14:01:56 by James Deffenbach
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Telekinetic Coffee Shop
Post Date: 2013-10-21 12:26:26 by Lod
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Bionic man warns of corporate-driven rise of robots; Humanity may be in danger if no ethics are enforced
Post Date: 2013-10-19 15:10:59 by BTP Holdings
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Bionic man warns of corporate-driven rise of robots; Humanity may be in danger if no ethics are enforced Saturday, October 19, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) Ethical concerns are always a topic of discussion when it comes to the intersection of technology and humanity, and as the rise of robots progresses, there are ethical questions which need to be addressed, says one expert. Academic Bertolt Meyer, who is nicknamed "the bionic man," said recently "that scientists and engineers should not be allowed to launch some technological advances on the open market without a prior ethical debate," Britain's Guardian newspaper reports. The keynote speaker at the ...
How to ensure you’re not getting ripped off on your Internet bill
Post Date: 2013-10-19 04:36:14 by Tatarewicz
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Follow these seven steps to make sure you're getting the lightning-fast Internet speed you're paying for. Are you paying a lot of money for high-speed Internet, but feel like you're not getting your money's worth? "If you are paying for [high-speed Internet], but only receiving lower-level Internet speeds, there are several factors to look at to see if there's a potential for an issue," says Hallie Talley, president of Help System Services, an IT consulting and computer support company in Omaha, Neb. Internet experts say you need to take these seven steps to make sure you're getting the speed you paid for: Step #1 - Know What Speed You Are Paying For ...
Fewest 100 Degree Readings In A Century In The US
Post Date: 2013-10-18 19:52:56 by Esso
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This year the US recorded the fewest 100º F readings of any year in the past century, and about one sixth as many as 1936. Poster Comment:Hmmmm.
1.8M-year-old skull gives glimpse of our evolution
Post Date: 2013-10-18 12:09:39 by farmfriend
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1.8M-year-old skull gives glimpse of our evolution By SETH BORENSTEIN and SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE — Oct. 17, 2013 3:21 PM EDT DMANISI, Georgia (AP) — The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree may have fewer branches than some believe, scientists say. The fossil is the most complete pre-human skull uncovered. With other partial remains previously found at the rural site, it gives researchers the earliest evidence of human ancestors moving out of Africa and spreading north to the rest of the world, according to a study published Thursday in the ...
DNA links mysterious Yeti to ancient polar bear
Post Date: 2013-10-18 11:56:38 by farmfriend
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DNA links mysterious Yeti to ancient polar bear JILL LAWLESS, AP LONDON (AP) — A British scientist says he may have solved the mystery of the Abominable Snowman — the elusive ape-like creature of the Himalayas. He thinks it's a bear. DNA analysis conducted by Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes suggests the creature, also known as the Yeti, is the descendant of an ancient polar bear. Sykes compared DNA from hair samples taken from two Himalayan animals — identified by local people as Yetis — to a database of animal genomes. He found they shared a genetic fingerprint with a polar bear jawbone found in the Norwegian Arctic that is at least 40,000 years ...
Chinese scientists achieve Internet access through lightbulbs
Post Date: 2013-10-17 22:14:45 by Tatarewicz
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SHANGHAI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Successful experiments by Chinese scientists have indicated the possibility of the country's netizens getting online through signals sent by lightbulbs (LiFi), instead of WiFi. Four computers under a one-watt LED lightbulb may connect to the Internet under the principle that light can be used as a carrier instead of traditional radio frequencies, as in WiFi, said Chi Nan, an information technology professor with Shanghai's Fudan University, on Thursday. A lightbulb with embedded microchips can produce data rates as fast as 150 megabits per second, which is speedier than the average broadband connection in China, said Chi, who leads a LiFi research ...
Yale Professor 'Embarrassed' to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literate -
Post Date: 2013-10-17 16:09:03 by Itistoolate
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You know that line liberals love to lob at the Tea Party: you're stupid. Well, obviously that's not the case, nor has it ever been true. Now, a Yale professor has released some new research showing that the so-called "Tea Party radicals" are actually scientifically literate. Professor Dan M. Kahan of the psychology department at Yale says he was surprised to discover a positive correlation between science comprehension and members of the Tea Party: "Identifying with the Tea Party correlates positively (r = 0.05, p = 0.05) with scores on the science comprehension measure." "I've got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the ...
Method of Recording Brain Activity Could Lead to Mind-Reading Devices, Stanford Scientists Say
Post Date: 2013-10-16 02:01:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when they use numbers -- or even imprecise quantitative terms, such as "more than" -- in everyday conversation, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine scientists. Using a novel method, the researchers collected the first solid evidence that the pattern of brain activity seen in someone performing a mathematical exercise under experimentally controlled conditions is very similar to that observed when the person engages in quantitative thought in the course of daily life. "We're now able to eavesdrop ...
Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent
Post Date: 2013-10-14 00:58:30 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Among Twitter Inc's highest-paid executives, Christopher Fry's name stands out. The senior vice president of engineering raked in $10.3 million last year, just behind Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo's $11.5 million, according to Twitter's IPO documents. That is more than the paychecks of executives such as Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger, Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta and Chief Operating Officer Ali Rowghani. Welcome to Silicon Valley, where a shortage of top engineering talent amid an explosion of venture capital-backed start-ups is inflating paychecks. "The number of A-players in Silicon Valley hasn't grown," ...
'The Incredible Bionic Man': Engineers build robot using artificial organs, limbs
Post Date: 2013-10-13 15:01:32 by scrapper2
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NEW YORK (AP) - Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, after all. We have the technology. The term "bionic man" was the stuff of science fiction in the 1970s, when a popular TV show called "The Six Million Dollar Man" chronicled the adventures of Steve Austin, a former astronaut whose body was rebuilt using artificial parts after he nearly died. Now, a team of engineers have assembled a robot using artificial organs, limbs and other body parts that comes tantalizingly close to a true "bionic man." For real, this time. The artificial "man" is the subject of a Smithsonian Channel documentary that airs Sunday, Oct. 20 at 9 p.m. Called "The Incredible ...
We’re headed for a Dalton Minimum, says climate guru
Post Date: 2013-10-13 11:49:18 by farmfriend
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We’re headed for a Dalton Minimum, says climate guru By Robert “The government is preparing for warming, which is outrageous.” Low sunspot activity means “the cooling will continue at least until 2030.” Last week, the IPCC reported it was 95 percent certain that climate change was the result of human activity, specifically the burning of fossil fuels that emit “greenhouse gases,” says this article on WND. “That’s the result that they get when you premeditate your science,” said Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg. “The temperature is going down and has for 17 years while carbon dioxide ...
New Device Harnesses Sun and Sewage to Produce Hydrogen Fuel
Post Date: 2013-10-13 00:19:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Oct. 10, 2013 — A novel device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce hydrogen gas could provide a sustainable energy source while improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment. A research team led by Yat Li, associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz, developed the solar-microbial device and reported their results in a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. The hybrid device combines a microbial fuel cell (MFC) and a type of solar cell called a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC). In the MFC component, bacteria degrade organic matter in the wastewater, generating electricity in the process. The ...
1951 Mack Truck Model A 30 - We go for a ride.
Post Date: 2013-10-12 21:26:46 by X-15
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
Post Date: 2013-10-11 03:25:56 by farmfriend
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior Paul K. Piff, Daniel M. Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower- class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study3),takevaluedgoodsfromothers(study4),lieinanegotiation (study5),cheat toincrease theirchances ofwinninga prize (study ...
Government Shutdown Now Hurting Pilots and Airplane Owners
Post Date: 2013-10-08 17:12:32 by X-15
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Last week, on the first day of the government shutdown, I flew a trip in the IFR system and everything was totally normal. So far controllers and FSS are still on the job and the system is working, but other vital general aviation activities are far from normal. Airplane registrations have been suspended so buying and selling existing airplanes, and delivery of new airplanes, is grinding to a halt. Though it is still legal to transfer ownership of an airplane, it has become practically speaking impossible. Without the FAA aircraft registration staff working ownership transfer paperwork is on hold. Title searches for the sale of an airplane can’t be conducted so lenders will balk. ...
Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance
Post Date: 2013-10-08 07:48:29 by Ada
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These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of zero tolerance policy run amok in our nation’s schools. A 14-year-old student arrested for texting in class. Three middle school aged boys in Florida thrown to the ground by police officers wielding rifles, who then arrested them for goofing off on the roof of the school. A 9-year-old boy suspended for allegedly pointing a toy at a classmate and saying “bang, bang.” Two 6-year-old students in Maryland suspended for using their fingers as imaginary guns in a schoolyard game of cops and robbers. A 17-year-old charged with a felony for keeping his tackle box in his car parked on school property, potentially ...
10 Ways Ixquick Helps You Take Back Your Privacy
Post Date: 2013-10-08 00:42:16 by James Deffenbach
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1. Ixquick doesn't store your IP address, use tracking cookies, or make a record of your searches. We do not keep any information about the people who search through Ixquick or what they search for. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. 2. Ixquick protects you from NSA surveillance and spying. Your search session with Ixquick is protected through powerful SSL encryption so no one - not hackers, not your ISP, not even the federal government - can eavesdrop on your searches. (Read more here) 3. Ixquick gives you high quality results in complete privacy. When you search with Ixquick, we remove all identifying information from your query and submit it anonymously to multiple other search engines for ...
3D printing helps reveal bacterial infections: study
Post Date: 2013-10-07 23:34:28 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers said Monday they have devised a three dimensional (3D) microscopic printing technique to study how communities of bacteria, such as those in the human gut and lungs, interact and influence human health. Bacteria in the human body often thrive within structured 3D communities that contain multiple bacterial species. Recent studies have found that relationships between structure and function in these microbial ecosystems can affect human health, such as the virulence of infections in chronic wounds. To help study these relationships, researchers from the University of Texas developed a laser-based printing technology to build protein ...
China conducts satellite capture in space as part of Star Wars military program Follow @FreeBeacon
Post Date: 2013-10-07 02:05:34 by Tatarewicz
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China last week conducted a test of a maneuvering satellite that captured another satellite in space during what Pentagon officials say was a significant step forward for Beijing’s space warfare program. The satellite capture took place last week and involved one of three small satellites fitted with a mechanical arm that were launched July 20 as part of a covert anti-satellite weapons development program, said U.S. officials familiar with reports of the test. One official described the satellite-grabbing spacecraft as a “mobile satellite launch vehicle.” A Pentagon spokeswoman declined to comment on the specifics of the test. But Cynthia O. Smith, the spokeswoman, ...
Stem Cells Promise Noah's Ark of Test-Tube Burger Choices
Post Date: 2013-10-06 04:19:09 by Tatarewicz
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Envision biting into a warm juicy burger with all the trimmings. If you are a burger fan, your mouth may already be watering. If you are a vegetarian or animal welfare advocate, however, you might be rather disturbed by this imagery. Now imagine that as you are still chewing a bite of that same burger the server tells you that this beef burger was grown in a plastic dish in a stem cell lab. No cow involved! Would you have a beef with such a bioengineered burger? Or celebrate the fact that no cow lost its life to make this burger? Can we even call this test tube meet “beef” and would a vegetarian eat it? We had better start thinking about such questions because laboratory ...
U.S. scientists boycott NASA meeting to protest China ban
Post Date: 2013-10-05 22:47:12 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Several prominent scientists in exoplanet research have decided to boycott a NASA conference after learning Chinese researchers are barred from attending by the space agency, which cited national security as its reason. The meeting is scheduled to take place at the space agency's Ames Research Center in California this November and will include both U.S. and international teams who work on NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope program. But Chinese researchers, including those who worked at U.S. universities and other institutions, were denied the opportunity to attend the meeting. NASA officials reportedly said the rejection is in ...
Researchers Regenerate a Fully Functional Bioengineered Salivary Gland
Post Date: 2013-10-04 05:42:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Oct. 2, 2013 — The research group led by Professor Takashi Tsuji of Tokyo University of Science and Organ Technologies Inc. has provided a proof-of-concept for bioengineered mature organ replacement as a regenerative therapy. Share This: Current advances in regenerative therapies have been influenced by the study of embryonic development, stem cell biology, and tissue engineering technologies. The ultimate goal of regenerative therapy is to develop fully functional bioengineered tissues that can replace lost or damaged organs following disease, injury or aging. A research group led by Professor Takashi Tsuji (Professor in the Research Institute for Science and Technology, ...
Better Protein Creation May Be Secret of Longevity for the World's Longest-Living Rodent
Post Date: 2013-10-04 03:46:37 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Sep. 30, 2013 — Naked mole rats have what any animal would want. They live long lives -- about 30 years -- and stay healthy until the very end. Now biologists at the University of Rochester have new insights into the animal's longevity -- better-constructed proteins. Proteins are involved in nearly all functions of an animal cell, and consequently, are essential to all organisms. But before proteins can do their job, they must fold into the appropriate shapes that allow them to connect to and interact with other structures in the cell. In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov describe ...
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