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Israeli researchers genetically engineer "super plants" to last longer, resist drought
Post Date: 2013-07-31 20:27:46 by Tatarewicz
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JERUSALEM, July 31 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli group of researchers have grown genetically engineered plants that live longer and resist long periods without water and can yield more produce, in what they believe can be the solution to world food crisis, head of the team told Xinhua on Wednesday. Scientists from the Faculty of Biology at Technion University in Haifa, north of Israel, have created what they call "super plants" by modifying a longevity hormone in the genes known as zytokinin. Their research has been published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, one of the U.S.'s leading scientific journals. "Let's take a ...
Dolphins 'call each other by name'
Post Date: 2013-07-29 00:11:04 by Tatarewicz
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BBC The research sheds new light on the intelligence of dolphin Scientists have found further evidence that dolphins call each other by "name". Research has revealed that the marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify each other. A team from the University of St Andrews in Scotland found that when the animals hear their own call played back to them, they respond. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr Vincent Janik, from the university's Sea Mammal Research Unit, said: "(Dolphins) live in this three-dimensional environment, offshore without any kind of landmarks and they need to stay together as a group. "These ...
Programmer Barnaby Jack dies a week before showing off heart-attack hack that can kill a man from 30 feet away
Post Date: 2013-07-27 07:56:45 by Ada
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BOSTON (Reuters) – Well-known hacker Barnaby Jack has died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to show off techniques for attacking implanted heart devices that he said could kill a man from 30 feet away. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office said he died in the city on Thursday. It gave no details. Jack, a security expert, became one of the most famous hackers on the planet after a 2010 demonstration in which he forced ATMs to spit out cash, dubbed “Jackpotting,” (reut.rs/gIGXVq ) The hacking community expressed shock as the news of his death spread via Twitter early on Friday. Jack was due to appear at the Black Hat hacking convention in San Francisco ...
Massive Mirrors Will Bring Light To Norway Town Shrouded In Darkness
Post Date: 2013-07-27 00:33:18 by Tatarewicz
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ibtimes The Norwegian town of Rjukan is shrouded in darkness for five months every year, but a project completed this month promises to bring a bright spot to the town's central square via a series of massive mirrors that will reflect sunlight onto the meeting spot. Rjukan Mirror Project The Mirror Project was originally conceived by a Norwegian industrialist almost 100 years ago, but the lengthy wait has not dampened enthusiasm about the project's completion. The Mirror Project Rjukan, which is located about halfway between Bergen and Oslo and is encircled by sun-obstructing mountains, is a dreary place to be between September and March, when the sun's rays cannot reach ...
Sound of Honda - Ayrton Senna 1989 -
Post Date: 2013-07-26 10:54:27 by X-15
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Honda Revives The Sonic Spirit Of Ayrton Senna's F1 Car Go find a nice set of speakers and crank them up real loud. Honda has cooked up something truly special for a new Japanese TV commercial. P Some of Ayrton Senna's most famous F1 exploits took place in a McLaren car powered by a Honda engine. And while he is sadly no longer with us, the boffins at Honda paid tribute to him by using recorded sound and data from his 1989 McLaren MP4/5. P Lining Suzuka with speakers, they played the screaming sound of his F1 car as it went around the track and set it to a trail of lights that mimics the car's position. The result is a lap that sounds — and maybe even feels — like ...
Low Radon Concentrations Accurately Measurable for the First Time
Post Date: 2013-07-25 01:10:10 by Tatarewicz
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Can't see, smell or taste it -- but at high doses, it can be lethal: the natural radioactive noble gas radon occurs especially in places where the subsoil consists of granite. It can, however, also occur in construction materials. It has been known for a long time that radon at high doses can cause lung cancer -- numerous workers from the Wismut-Werke uranium mines in the former GDR died of it. Now, scientists, however, deem radon to be dangerous also at low concentrations and therefore have increased the classification of its radiation effects: radon gas is now officially classified as contributing just as strongly to the exposure rate of the general public as medical diagnostic and ...
Has global warming stopped? No - it’s just on pause, insist scientists, and it's down to the oceans
Post Date: 2013-07-23 17:23:12 by Ada
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Temperatures still expected to reach predicted 2015 levels with only a five- year delay after 12 of the 14 hottest years on record Huge amounts of heat – equivalent to the power of 150 billion electric kettles – are being continuously absorbed by the deep ocean, which could explain why global warming has “paused” over the past 10 to 15 years, scientists have concluded in a series of reports to explain why the Earth’s rate of warming has slowed down. Global average temperatures are higher now than they have ever been since modern records began. However, after a period of rapid temperature increases during the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant slow-down ...
CIA backs $630,000 study into how to control global weather through geoengineering
Post Date: 2013-07-23 09:33:00 by Ada
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Study part-funded by the CIA to investigate national security implications of geoengineering Climate change 'behind world's extreme weather' The power, reach and influence of the Central Intelligence Agency is a staple of conspiracy theories. The news that the CIA is reportedly part-funding a scientific geoengineering study into how to control the weather is unlikely to dampen speculation over their activities. According to US website 'Mother Jones' the CIA is helping fund a study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering - which is defined as deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's ...
Unlocking your aura: The beautiful photographs that capture the colors of a person's soul and reflect how they feel
Post Date: 2013-07-22 21:02:23 by Buzzard
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Carlo Van de Roer doesn't just capture a person when he takes their photograph, he captures the color of their soul. In his psychedelic collection of images, the New Zealand-born snapper used an AuraCam 6000 camera to tune into the colors - or aura - that surround his different subjects - and the result is nothing short of spectacular. The innovative camera gathers biofeedback through hand sensors that measure the electromagnetic fields emitted from the person he's shooting. The information about the model's energetic and auric qualities are then projected as vivid colors onto the instant film. 'You get a mix of association between this information about the subject and ...
"I'm Getting Tired of Your Begathons Get A Job."
Post Date: 2013-07-22 09:35:00 by James Deffenbach
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This is the subject line of an email Reglue received Saturday morning. "I'm Getting Tired of Your Begathons Get A Job." Normally, I would have blown it off but I suspect it came from someone in a Google Plus Linux Community in which I am a member. I could be wrong. There's a strong chance that I am. It's just that some of the comments to my initial posting have a strong resemblance to the same tone of this email. Here's some background to catch you up on how this came about. For those that know our history chapter and verse, you can skip down 10 paragraph breaks...picking it up again under the next picture. In 2005. I created an organization that gathers ...
Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance
Post Date: 2013-07-22 01:27:19 by James Deffenbach
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Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Canonical IS team is working hard as we speak to restore normal operations. This page will be updated regularly with progress reports. What we know Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user's local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database. The passwords are not stored in plain text, they are stored as salted hashes. However, if you were using the same password as your Ubuntu Forums one on another service (such as email), you are strongly encouraged to change the password on the other service ASAP. Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical ...
CIA Is Funding Government-Led Chemtrailing Project: Spy Agency to Help Study “Security Impacts” of Geo-engineering
Post Date: 2013-07-21 13:56:06 by Southern Style
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CIA Is Funding Government-Led Chemtrailing Project: Spy Agency to Help Study “Security Impacts” of Geo-engineering by Steve Watson The CIA is funding a scientific study to determine the feasibility of altering the planet’s climate in order to stave off climate change, according to documents released by The National Academy of Sciences. The papers reveal that the project will run for 21 months at a cost of $630,000, with a final report due in 2014. The CIA backed scientists will study how weather patterns could be influenced and altered, and assess the potential impacts of geo-engineering attempts. The NAS website notes that the funding for the study is coming from “the ...
Evidence of Major Cataclysm on Mars Which Would Have Destroyed Any Life
Post Date: 2013-07-20 19:27:10 by Original_Intent
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Analysis of data collected by the Mars Curiosity Rover has shown that a cataclysmic event would have resulted in the end of life on the surface of Mars. Photo: NASA By John BlackAncient OriginsJuly 20, 2013 The event could be related to volcanos or a massive collision of some sort that would have completely destroyed the atmosphere. To make it clear, there is evidence that on Mars billions of years ago, there was an atmosphere rich in oxygen and recently the Mars Curiosity team also found proof of water (which may still exist underground). The measurements of different gases in the Martian atmosphere and a comparison to Earth’s, showed that the event must have happened about 4 billion ...
You Did Not Go to the Moon
Post Date: 2013-07-19 21:26:27 by Original_Intent
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NASA Mission Control Engineer Raymond Teagues Quoting A Russian Scientist and Colleagues on the Apollo Moon Landings by Avalon Intellihub.com July 3, 2013 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has named these three astronauts as the prime crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Left to right, are Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission is celebrated July 20, 1999. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers) Air Force Veteran and NASA Mission Operations Control Room Engineer Raymond F. Teague, who appeared on the Alex Jones InfoWars.com broadcast July 3, 2013, ...
The FBI Does Some Much-Needed Soul Searching About Just How "Expert" Its Expert Testimony Is
Post Date: 2013-07-19 10:28:25 by Ada
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The FBI is instigating a massive review of its forensic science practices. Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images The Washington Post brings us a look at the preliminary findings of a sweeping federal review into thousands of old criminal cases in which FBI forensic experts may have overstated their scientific testimony to help secure a conviction. The early takeaway is difficult to ignore: Exaggerated testimony may have played a role in landing at least 27 people on death row. It's too early to say how many of those cases resulted in wrongful convictions, but the news has already led to an 11th-hour stay of execution for a Mississippi man who was facing death by lethal injection. ...
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Post Date: 2013-07-18 19:02:36 by Lod
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A Sword-Like Attachment For Planes Will Save United Airlines $200 Million Per Year
Post Date: 2013-07-18 01:36:29 by farmfriend
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A Sword-Like Attachment For Planes Will Save United Airlines $200 Million Per Year Alex Davies Jul. 17, 2013, 2:49 PM There's a new United Airlines plane in the skies, with a dangerous-looking feature that will actually make it more efficient. The Boeing 737-800, which took its maiden test flight in Washington on Tuesday, is the first aircraft fitted with the new Split Scimitar Winglet, a curved attachment to the tip of the wing that is appropriately named for a sword. The winglets reduce wind drag, and can cut fuel use on the 737 by 2%. That doesn't sound like a ton, but United says that once the winglets are installed on its 737, 757, and 767 fleets, it will save more than $200 ...
9th grade student “Cress + WiFi” experiment attracts international attention
Post Date: 2013-07-15 22:43:15 by Southern Style
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9th grade student “Cress + WiFi” experiment attracts international attention Home → Health Effects → 9th grade student “Cress + WiFi” experiment attracts international attention Cress expose to WiFi. Yum? Foreign researchers are extremely excited for a biology project from five 9th grade girls. Researchers from England, Holland and Sweden have shown great interest in the five girls’ biology experiments. Take 400 Cress seeds and place them into 12 trays. Then place six trays in two rooms at the same temperature. Give them the same amount of water and sun over 12 days, and remember to expose half of them to mobile [Wi-Fi] radiation. It is ...
Snowden reveals HAARP’s Global Assassination Agenda
Post Date: 2013-07-15 15:59:32 by Itistoolate
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Snowden reveals HAARP’s Global Assassination Agenda By Oliver Wilis, on July 10th, 2013%Snowden speaking from a Custom Faraday Cage in Sheremetyevo Airport’s Hotel Novotel (Photo: The Internet Chronicle) MOSCOW, Russia – Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower and fugitive, released documents Tuesday to Internet Chronicle reporters proving that the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, is definitively engaged in a program of assassination and mind control. While the military prison industrial complex has routinely insisted that the Alaskan-based HAARP is only meant to study natural phenomena in earth’s ionosphere, Snowden has managed to blow open a brutally ...
Typewriter makes a comeback in Russia
Post Date: 2013-07-13 00:58:57 by Tatarewicz
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President Vladimir Putin's secret service the FSO has invited tenders for hundreds of ink and correction typewriter ribbons for the classic Triumph Adler Twen 180 and Olympia Comfort models. Olympia, which is based in Hattingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, has also confirmed that Russian firms recently ordered 20 new, electric typewriters for at least €200 each, along with supplies of ink ribbons. The Russian newspaper Iswestija which has seen the invitation for tender, says that particularly sensitive documents are now only being put on paper and no longer archived electronically - because it is more secure that way. And this is not only the case for secret services, but also in ...
Emerging evidence suggests that Armageddon will surface in 1 billion years
Post Date: 2013-07-12 01:19:39 by Tatarewicz
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Experts are warning that life on Earth as we know it, will die out in the future, and will look like the Upper Geyser Basin region in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming State. The death of all living species will begin to happen once the Sun grows older and hotter. This is according to research findings, which were released at the National Astronomy conference in Scotland, at the University of St. Andrews. Mainly, the reason why life forms will be die off is because they will not have much carbon dioxide to work with, claims the study. Soaring temperatures will generate larger amounts of evaporation, leaving the rainwater to respond by lowering the amount of carbon dioxide to such a ...
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Post Date: 2013-07-10 18:37:16 by Lod
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Post Date: 2013-07-10 18:35:43 by PSUSA2
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50,000-Year-Old Underwater Forest Discovered Near Alabama
Post Date: 2013-07-09 08:01:23 by Ada
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Scuba divers have discovered a primeval underwater forest off the coast of Alabama. The Bald Cypress forest was buried under ocean sediments, protected in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years, but was likely uncovered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Ben Raines, one of the first divers to explore the underwater forest and the executive director of the nonprofit Weeks Bay Foundation, which researches estuaries. The forest contains trees so well-preserved that when they are cut, they still smell like fresh Cypress sap, Raines said. The stumps of the Cypress trees span an area of at least 0.5 square miles (0.8 kilometers), several miles from the coast of Mobile, Ala., ...
This Thorium Reactor Has the Power of a Norse God
Post Date: 2013-07-04 13:12:28 by Southern Style
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This Thorium Reactor Has the Power of a Norse GodThe Uranium-235 and -238 we use in modern nuclear fission reactors are humanity's single most energy-dense fuel source (1,546,000,000 MJ/L), but that potent power potential comes at a steep price—and not just during natural disasters. Its radioactive plutonium byproducts remain lethally irradiated for millennia. That's why one pioneering Nordic company is developing an alternative fuel that doesn't produce it.When uranium is used in a conventional Light Water Reactor, it's converted into plutonium (and if the U238 isotope is used, the result can be fissable Pu239). Even without the danger of weapons-grade plutonium ...
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