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Picking Apart Photosynthesis: New Insights Could Lead to Better Catalysts for Water Splitting
Post Date: 2013-04-01 05:29:30 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Mar. 28, 2013 — Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory believe they can now explain one of the remaining mysteries of photosynthesis, the chemical process by which plants convert sunlight into usable energy and generate the oxygen that we breathe. The finding suggests a new way of approaching the design of catalysts that drive the water-splitting reactions of artificial photosynthesis. "If we want to make systems that can do artificial photosynthesis, it's important that we understand how the system found in nature functions," says Theodor Agapie, an assistant professor of chemistry at ...
Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)
Post Date: 2013-03-29 23:27:59 by lead.and.lag
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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY34PQUiwOQ .
Study: Archeologists find remains of human-Neanderthal hybrid
Post Date: 2013-03-29 08:57:03 by Ada
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Researchers believe they have pinpointed the skeletal remains of the first known human-Neanderthal hybrid, according to a study published Wednesday in the peer reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE. The finding comes from northern Italy, where some 40,000 years ago scientists believe Neanderthals and humans lived near each other, but developed separate and distinctly different cultures. A portion of a jawbone found during an archaeological dig in the area reveals that the bone’s owner had facial features attributable to both modern humans and Neanderthals, the study explains. Scientists have debated the theory of human-Neanderthal interbreeding since DNA analysis revealed in 2010 ...
Theory of Everything: God, Devils, Dimensions & Illusion of Reality
Post Date: 2013-03-27 05:57:00 by noone222
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Poster Comment:Fascinating - is an understatement - life and our reality are a 100 trillion to one longshot !
New research shows that the speed of light may not be fixed after all, but rather fluctuates.
Post Date: 2013-03-25 21:25:48 by farmfriend
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Ephemeral vacuum particles induce speed-of-light fluctuations March 25, 2013 New research shows that the speed of light may not be fixed after all, but rather fluctuates. Two forthcoming European Physical Journal D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. In one paper, Marcel Urban from the University of Paris-Sud, located in Orsay, France and his colleagues identified a quantum level mechanism for interpreting vacuum as being filled with pairs of virtual particles with fluctuating energy values. As a result, the inherent characteristics of vacuum, like the speed of light, may not be a constant after all, but fluctuate. Meanwhile, in another study, Gerd Leuchs and ...
How The Internet Works
Post Date: 2013-03-25 11:12:14 by christine
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www.wimp.com/internetworks/ 3 minute vid
Algae façade makes house truly 'green'
Post Date: 2013-03-25 02:28:28 by Tatarewicz
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For many of us, the concept of living in a place with stuff growing on its walls won’t necessarily be foreign. What will be unusual for those who have experienced the joys of residing in damp student flats and first homes away from the parental nest, however, is the idea that microorganisms flourishing on your walls is a good thing. This is precisely the logic at work in the construction of a state-of-the-art apartment building in the once rundown, but increasingly trendy riverside quarter of Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg. Clad on its two south-facing sides with a transparent shell housing millions of microalgae, the five-storey Bio Intelligence Quotient (BIQ) house has been designed to ...
New (to me) Information Gathering Site
Post Date: 2013-03-22 08:54:55 by Lod
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A most interesting site and company.
Wal-Mart rolling out smartphone checkouts at 200 stores
Post Date: 2013-03-21 11:39:30 by Artisan
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Wal-Mart shoppers will be able bypass the traditional checkout process at more than 200 stores with the Scan & Go app, but they still must pay the old-fashioned way. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters. Wal-Mart's Scan & Go program will soon be in more than 200 stores, up from about 70. The pilot began near its home office in Bentonville, Ark., in late 2012, then expanded to Atlanta. While the program is tripling in size, for now it will be in only a small fraction of Wal-Mart's more than 4,000 U.S. stores. Walmart expanding iPhone-based ...
The Great Green Con no. 1: The hard proof that finally shows global warming forecasts that are costing you billions were WRONG all along
Post Date: 2013-03-21 07:47:57 by Ada
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No, the world ISN'T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that's making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade with your money? Well... what do YOU think? The Mail on Sunday today presents irrefutable evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed. The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes and subsidies in order to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. These moves have already added £100 a year to household energy bills. Read ...
'Alien' Skulls Found At Sonora, Mexico, Ancient Burial Site (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Post Date: 2013-03-20 00:09:01 by farmfriend
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'Alien' Skulls Found At Sonora, Mexico, Ancient Burial Site (PHOTO, VIDEO) The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble An ancient burial site in Mexico, discovered in 1999 but only recently investigated, has revealed skeletal remains with odd, "alien-shaped" skulls. They were unearthed in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora at a site known as "El Cementerio" when workers stumbled upon the remains accidentally while digging to install an irrigation system. According to Time, the bones date to between A.D. 940 and 1308, making them around 1,000 years old. The skulls appear to have been intentionally deformed until they resembled something akin to the ...
So You Don’t Believe in Chemtrails?
Post Date: 2013-03-19 22:02:55 by Southern Style
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So You Don’t Believe in Chemtrails?by ishtarsgate by Vincent Andersen © 2013 That’s fine. Neither do most people….who don’t have to live under them. But chemtrails are not just something you believe in, like some believe that there will be 75 nubile virgins waiting for them in Heaven if they just kill a few infidels. There’s no documentary evidence for that. But there is documentary evidence for the existence of chemtrails which is overwhelming and inescapably conclusive, and so here’s just a taster for some of it. The chemtrail programme that we see today began in earnest in the 90s. However the technology has existed for a lot longer and there are ...
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking (42,500 more camps! 20 million new victims!)
Post Date: 2013-03-17 10:09:46 by Artisan
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THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust. The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945. The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed ...
Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMOs
Post Date: 2013-03-16 21:06:49 by Original_Intent
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Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMOs By Tom Laskawy F. Fiondella / IRA, CCAFSGorita, Andhra Pradesh, India. What if the agricultural revolution has already happened and we didn’t realize it? Essentially, that’s the idea in this report from the Guardian about a group of poverty-stricken Indian rice and potato farmers who harvested confirmed world-record yields of rice and potatoes. Best of all: They did it completely sans-GMOs or even chemicals of any kind. [Sumant] Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of India’s poorest state Bihar, had — using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides — grown an astonishing 22.4 ...
Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water
Post Date: 2013-03-13 08:43:27 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater, potentially making it vastly cheaper to produce clean water at a time when scarcity has become a global security issue. The process, officials and engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp say, would enable filter manufacturers to produce thin carbon membranes with regular holes about a nanometer in size that are large enough to allow water to pass through but small enough to block the molecules of salt in seawater. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. Because the sheets of pure carbon known as ...
Detecting Cesium With Naked Eyes
Post Date: 2013-03-13 07:55:55 by Tatarewicz
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Mar. 5, 2013 — Micrometer-level naked-eye detection of cesium ions, a major source of contamination in the vicinity of radioactive leaks, is demonstrated in a material developed by researchers in Japan. Radioactive cesium 137 has a half-life of 30.17 years, and its accumulation in organisms in exposed regions, such as around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, amplifies the hazard it poses. A new material reported by researchers in Japan may help. "We have developed molecular materials as an optical probe for cesium cation-containing particles with implementation based on simple spray-on reagents and a commonly available fluorescent lamp for naked-eye detection in the solid ...
Why Public WiFi Hotspots Are Trouble Spots for Users
Post Date: 2013-03-11 14:51:10 by Original_Intent
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Why Public WiFi Hotspots Are Trouble Spots for Users Posted on March 11, 2013 by Angel - NYC AOL – by Private WiFi Take a look around any coffee shop, airport, hotel or library, and you’ll quickly notice that Public WiFi hotpots have become the rule, not the exception. See all those people tapping away on their smart phone, tablet or laptop in a one-man/woman quest to check their email, pay their bills, tweet, update their status and so on? They’re your proof. In 2011, the number of WiFi hotspots reached 1.3 million worldwide. By 2015, WiFi users will be able to connect to 5.8 million hotspots, according to a report commissioned by the Wireless Broadband Alliance. The fact ...
Cree’s LED bulb looks like an incandescent and lights like one, for under $10
Post Date: 2013-03-11 14:02:27 by Original_Intent
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Cree’s LED bulb looks like an incandescent and lights like one, for under $10 Mar. 5, 2013 (6:00 am) By: Sal Cangeloso Today Cree, the North Carolina-based LED manufacturer, is making a move that will have major implications for the LED lighting industry. The company, which is known for its high-quality LEDs and its lighting fixtures, has announced a line of LED bulbs, marking the first time it will offer the A-style replacement bulb that lights most homes. This will put Cree in competition against giants like Philips and GE, as well as directly up against companies that buy Cree LEDs, like Best Buy. While Cree offering bulbs is big news for LED insiders, today’s ...
Psychiatric Meds: Prescription for Murder?
Post Date: 2013-03-08 09:15:59 by Ada
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In a frenzied cry for gun-control, the media is rife with details about the firearms Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults before turning a handgun on himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. But information about Lanza’s medical history is scarce, feeding speculation that he may fit the profile of school shooters under the influence of psychotherapeutic medication. “In virtually every mass school shooting during the past 15 years, the shooter has been on or in withdrawal from psychiatric drugs,” observed Lawrence Hunter of the Social Security Institute. “Yet, federal and state governments continue to ignore ...
Brain Can't Cope With Making a Left-Hand Turn and Talking On Hands-Free Cell Phone
Post Date: 2013-03-04 07:38:13 by Tatarewicz
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Science News: Feb. 28, 2013 — Most serious traffic accidents occur when drivers are making a left-hand turn at a busy intersection. When those drivers are also talking on a hands-free cell phone, "that could be the most dangerous thing they ever do on the road," said Dr. Tom Schweizer, a researcher at St. Michael's Hospital. Researchers led by Dr. Schweizer tested healthy young drivers operating a novel driving simulator equipped with a steering wheel, brake pedal and accelerator inside a high-powered functional MRI. All previous studies on distracted driving have used just a joy-stick or trackball or else patients passively watching scenarios on a screen. Immersing a ...
Volcanic Aerosols, Not Pollutants, Tamped Down Recent Earth Warming
Post Date: 2013-03-02 09:39:42 by Ada
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Mar. 1, 2013 — A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight -- dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide. The study results essentially exonerate Asia, including India and China, two countries that are estimated to have increased their industrial sulfur dioxide emissions by about 60 percent from 2000 to 2010 through coal burning, said lead study author Ryan Neely, who led the research as part of his CU-Boulder doctoral thesis. Small amounts of sulfur dioxide emissions from Earth's surface eventually rise 12 to 20 miles into the ...
New technology could drive zero-emission, clean coal-powered cars
Post Date: 2013-03-01 04:40:05 by Tatarewicz
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(Before It's News) New technological advances may make it possible in the near future to engineer a coal-powered car so clean that it produces nearly no polluting emissions, including carbon dioxide... “There are many exciting possibilities for the clean coal technology,” says Liang-Shih Fan, a chemical engineer and director of Ohio State University’s Clean Coal Research Laboratory. “We found a way to release the heat from coal without burning it. This could be applicable for many industries.” Fan last week disclosed that he had discovered a way to get the energy out of coal without burning it, using iron-oxide pellets as an oxygen source, and contain the ...
Stuxnet Missing Link Found, Resolves Some Mysteries Around the Cyberweapon
Post Date: 2013-02-28 08:17:33 by Ada
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad touring the Natanz enrichment facility in April 2008 during the time that Stuxnet is already believed to have been unleashed on computers in Iran. Photo courtesy of the Iranian president’s office As Iran met in Kazakhstan this week with members of the UN Security Council to discuss its nuclear program, researchers announced that a new variant of the sophisticated cyberweapon known as Stuxnet had been found, which predates other known versions of the malicious code that were reportedly unleashed by the U.S. and Israel several years ago in an attempt to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. The new variant was designed for a different kind of ...
New sophisticated malware targets 23 countries, including Israel‘Dangerous’ MiniDuke, which exploits Adobe Reader PDF files, is latest virus to invade government computers, says Kaspersky Labs
Post Date: 2013-02-28 08:01:13 by Ada
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Israel is one of 23 countries targeted by a just-born virus that cleverly exploits Adobe Reader PDF files to install a new, highly customized malicious program on computers. Dubbed “MiniDuke” by anti-virus groups Kaspersky Labs, the virus has been used in the past week to attack dozens of servers in government organizations and institutions worldwide. So far, Kaspersky said Wednesday, MiniDuke has managed to cause significant cyber-damage to government organizations in Ukraine, Belgium, Portugal, Romania, the Czech Republic and Ireland. In addition, a research institute, two think tanks, and a healthcare provider in the United States were also compromised, as was a prominent ...
How to stop TWC ISPs sucking at Youtube (Can anyone please help me figure out the command line(s) for linux?)
Post Date: 2013-02-27 22:03:34 by wudidiz
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