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Ancient Seagrass Holds Secrets of the Oldest Living Organism On Earth
Post Date: 2012-02-08 01:01:17 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2012) — It's big, it's old and it lives under the sea -- and now an international research collaboration with The University of Western Australia's Ocean's Institute has confirmed that an ancient seagrass holds the secrets of the oldest living organism on Earth. Ancient giant Posidonia oceanica reproduces asexually, generating clones of itself. A single organism -- which has been found to span up to 15 kilometres in width and reach more than 6,000 metric tonnes in mass -- may well be more than 100,000 years old. "Clonal organisms have an extraordinary capacity to transmit only 'highly competent' genomes, through generations, with ...
Mass extinction from Siberian volcanoes was a slow process
Post Date: 2012-02-07 08:47:00 by Tatarewicz
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Fresh evidence gathered from a 24-metre layer of rock on an Ellesmere Island fiord has led a 14-member international scientific team — including a University of Calgary researcher — to conclude that the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history unfolded slowly, over a period of hundreds of thousands of years. The latest discovery concerning the primordial calamity that happened about 250 million years ago, which also has been the focus of several Canadian-led research projects in recent years, sheds new light on the duration and intensity of the so-called "Great Dying," which experts previously had believed was a more sudden catastrophe that killed off about 90 ...
Magnetic pulses change brain chemistry
Post Date: 2012-02-07 04:12:31 by Tatarewicz
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A pioneering therapy that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the brain to treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease, depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy and stroke is now better understood thanks to researchers from The University of Western Australia and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France. Research Associate Professor Jennifer Rodger from UWA's School of Animal Biology said she and her team tested the therapy - known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) - on mice to find out how it can be applied to treating human neurological disease. The research was published recently in the prestigious journal FASEB (Federation of American Societies for ...
Siberian bacteria offers life extension possibiities
Post Date: 2012-02-06 04:05:20 by Tatarewicz
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The bacillus of immortality found in Siberia. In mountain permafrost in Mamontovaya, Yakutia (Siberia), Russian researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria. Mice injected in the body with a solution containing these organisms, were healthier and lived longer than their counterparts. Have the scientists discovered the secrets of immortality? The strange bacillus found in mammoth Mountain in the Siberian Republic of Yakutia is three million years old and appears to have special mechanisms which allow it to stay alive in the most inhospitable temperatures and conditions. It successfully shares at temperatures of five degrees Celsius above zero. The Bacillus, Bacillus F, ...
DARPA implants keep stress levels in check
Post Date: 2012-02-05 23:10:50 by bush_is_a_moonie
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We live in an extremely stressful society these days, as everything needs to be instant, and to deliver less than expected is deemed by some to be a major failure. Well, the Department of Defense’s research agency is looking out for a new kind of body sensors, that when implanted into their soldiers, such sensors are capable of checking out the stress level of that particular person at all times. I can just imagine how the future would be like if this goes through – all soldiers might end up having a longer lifespan if these sensors are smart enough to catch different diseases at their earliest (and hence, most treatable) stage. Such sensors are inserted under a soldier’s ...
Bird flu mutation sparks fears of deadly pandemic
Post Date: 2012-02-05 11:52:40 by bush_is_a_moonie
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A GROUP of US scientists warns that current research runs the risk of releasing a virus that could kill half the world's population. At a public meeting at the New York Academy of Sciences on Thursday night, some of the country's leading virus experts debated the censorship of research into bird flu. Scientists are observing a 60-day moratorium on research into the virus, after two groups found a way to make it infectious by airborne transmission. An outbreak of this virus could be worse than the 1918 Spanish flu that killed tens of millions of people, warned Professor Michael Osterholm, who has led research into previous dangerous outbreaks. "Frankly, I don't want a ...
See nano quadcopter robots swarm (video)
Post Date: 2012-02-02 18:29:34 by Buzzard
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In the future, a swarm of flying robots may do the work now done by human search teams. A robotics research team at the University of Pennsylvania has designed a system to coordinate a number of small quadcopters, a step toward coordinating multiple robots for tasks such as surveillance or searching areas after a disaster. The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) lab at UPenn yesterday posted a video on You Tube with nano quadcopters showing remarkable agility and the ability to perform as a team. Poster Commentcoordinating multiple robots for tasks such as surveillance Hmmmm....
Microsoft buys eugenics technology from Merck, becomes drug development partner with top global vaccine manufacturer
Post Date: 2012-02-02 15:35:17 by bluegrass
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(NaturalNews) When you buy Microsoft products, you are now promoting the pharmaceutical industry and its global vaccine agenda. That's the new reality in which we live, where the world's largest software company is "in bed" with the world's largest vaccine pusher.How so? In 2009, Microsoft purchased a key piece of technology from the drug company Merck, the world's largest maker of vaccines (which Bill Gates says can help "reduce the global population" by 10 to 15 percent). That technology, as you'll see below, can conceivably be used to develop eugenics vaccines that target specific races and nationalities with infertility-inducing pharmaceuticals -- ...
We’ll need a bigger barbecue! World’s biggest ‘prawn’ discovered as scientists find ELEVEN INCH crustacean in deep sea
Post Date: 2012-02-02 12:43:12 by Flintlock
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A British expedition to one of the deepest parts of the ocean has discovered an enormous species of crustacean that looks like a prawn and is 11ins long. The so-called ‘supergiant’ – a type of amphipod - was discovered more than four miles below the surface in waters north of New Zealand. Most amphipods are usually 0.8in-1.2in long. But the new specimen, found by a team from the University of Aberdeen, was ten times the size. Prawn to be wild: The 11in so-called 'supergiant' variety of amphipod found in deep waters off New Zealand Using submergence cameras and a large trap designed by the university's Oceanlab, the crew was able to explore up to depths of six ...
Bestselling Author Charles Murray Has A Controversial Suggestion For Reducing Class Divisions
Post Date: 2012-02-02 08:34:14 by Ada
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I really liked Tierney and Baumeister's book Willpower. Their argument is that willpower is a very useful skill, one that like a muscle tires when used, but can be strengthened through repetition. We should all practice daily acts of self-control to become more productive. Charles Murray's latest book Coming Apart addresses the same theme, noting that society is splitting up into classes based on their abilities, which are highly driven by bourgeois values. Over the past 50 years, the working class have lost their industriousness, honesty, religion, and respect for marriage, and he presents a bunch of data to bolster this argument (eg, less than 5% of college educated white women ...
Music Training Has Biological Impact On Aging Process
Post Date: 2012-02-01 09:23:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2012) — Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first to provide biological evidence that lifelong musical experience has an impact on the aging process. Measuring the automatic brain responses of younger and older musicians and non-musicians to speech sounds, researchers in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory discovered that older musicians had a distinct neural timing advantage. "The older musicians not only outperformed their older non-musician counterparts, they encoded the sound stimuli as quickly and accurately ...
Reconstructing words directly from patient's thoughts
Post Date: 2012-02-01 08:22:35 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words. The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients' brains. Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of. The method may in future help comatose and locked-in patients communicate. Several approaches have in recent years suggested that scientists are closing in on methods to tap into our very thoughts. In a 2011 study, participants with electrodes in direct brain contact were able to move a cursor on a screen by ...
Scientists redefine brain's speech center
Post Date: 2012-02-01 07:05:56 by Tatarewicz
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The part of the brain used for speech processing is in a different location than originally believed, according to a US study Monday that researchers said will require a rewrite of medical texts. Wernicke's area, named after the German neurologist who proposed it in the late 1800s, was long believed to be at the back of the brain's cerebral cortex, behind the auditory cortex which receives sounds. But a review by scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center of more than 100 imaging studies has shown it is actually three centimeters closer to the front of the brain, and is in front of the auditory cortex, not behind. "Textbooks will now have to be rewritten," said ...
Facebook IPO Is US Intel Operation?
Post Date: 2012-01-31 19:16:22 by X-15
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Media reports suggest that Facebook will file for an IPO this week that could value the company at $100 billion — and leave the company sitting on $10 billion in cash. I'm not a financial analyst, so I'll leave it to Wall Street to discuss and debate that valuation. But the fact is this newfound wealth could not only allow Facebook to solve its biggest business challenges, it could also help Facebook finally achieve its longstanding goal to change how marketing works. So how should Facebook use its IPO windfall? − Nate Elliott's Blog Dominant Social Theme: This Facebook IPO is very exciting and shows that young people can create incredible value in a short period of ...
Oh Beautiful For Chemtrailed Skies
Post Date: 2012-01-30 07:36:18 by Bill D Berger
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by Zen Gardner Don’t ya just love the new paradigm? I mean, it has so much to offer! New skies, integrated circuits into human chemistry, molecularly altered fake food, plants and animals, and remote control war against anyone who challenges it. Wow! We’ve got it all. Glory. We should just lay down and sleep, it’s all under control. Big brother loves us in more ways than we can count and we should just sit back, relax and watch the world go by. As in bye bye. “Don’t worry, it’s all normal. Back to sleep everyone…” Chemtrail Conditioning Continues Even though more are aware of the chemtrail program, the PTBs don’t have any intention of letting ...
Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find
Post Date: 2012-01-29 16:16:46 by wudidiz
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the pirate bay: downloadable 3d physical objects (3d replicator tech): Evolution: New category.
Post Date: 2012-01-28 21:49:34 by gengis gandhi
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Evolution: New category. We're always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from analog to digital, it's time for the next step. Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere. But we're physical people and we need objects to touch ...
How Not To Argue That We’re Running Out Of Oil [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-01-28 12:06:03 by lead.and.lag
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you can read this article here at the CFR site. the author, Michael Levi, is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the CFR, and his artticle is a mixture of disinformation, bad metaphors, and haywire logic. his argument, although it's kinda hard to pin down, seems to be: party on, dudes, and dont worry about oil. my comments, which are languishing, and most likey will die, in "awaiting moderation" limbo, go like this... "oh, man… does this mean that the PNAC/AEI/exxon people didnt have to do 9/11 in response to peak oil? 3000 american lives, countless lives elsewhere… wasted, because nobody saw shale oil coming. what a ...
Making Memories Last: Prion-Like Protein Plays Key Role in Storing Long-Term Memories
Post Date: 2012-01-28 03:41:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2012) — Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called "synapses." But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? Neuroscientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have discovered a major clue from a study in fruit flies: Hardy, self-copying clusters or oligomers of a synapse protein are an essential ingredient for the formation of long-term memory. The finding supports a surprising new theory about memory, and may have a profound impact on explaining other oligomer-linked functions and diseases in the brain, including Alzheimer's disease and prion diseases. ...
Chemists Synthesize Artificial Cell Membrane
Post Date: 2012-01-27 05:19:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) — Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life. Neal Devaraj, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and Itay Budin, a graduate student at Harvard University, report their success in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. "One of our long term, very ambitious goals is to try to make an artificial cell, a synthetic living unit from the bottom up -- to make a living organism from non-living molecules that ...
Genes: important determinent in a life of crime
Post Date: 2012-01-27 05:11:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) — Your genes could be a strong predictor of whether you stray into a life of crime, according to a research paper co-written by UT Dallas criminologist Dr. J.C. Barnes. The study's findings were detailed in a recent issue of Criminology. The paper was written with Dr. Kevin M. Beaver from Florida State University and Dr. Brian B. Boutwell at Sam Houston State University. The study focused on whether genes are likely to cause a person to become a life-course persistent offender, which is characterized by antisocial behavior during childhood that can later progress to violent or serious criminal acts later in life. The framework for the research was ...
Stem cell therapy restores sight to blind
Post Date: 2012-01-25 02:36:14 by Tatarewicz
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(Reuters) - Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse. A second patient, aged 78, suffered from dry macular degeneration - the leading cause of blindness in the elderly -and could not even see well enough to go shopping. But after being treated with stem cells from a donated human embryo, both women have improved dramatically, researchers said on Monday. Stem cells are master cells that can differentiate into any of the 200 kinds of ...
Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth
Post Date: 2012-01-24 05:45:24 by Tatarewicz
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This colorized NASA image, taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, … This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday. It's mostly an issue for astronauts' ...
Genes determine 40% of lifetime intelligence: Australian scientists
Post Date: 2012-01-23 04:49:55 by Tatarewicz
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CANBERRA, JAN. 21 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists on Saturday said they discovered genes are responsible for 40 percent of our lifetime intelligence with the other 60 percent being determined by our environment. The research was carried out by scientists of University of Queensland of Australia and was led by geneticist Professor Peter Visscher. The environment a child grows up in (nutrition, schooling, parent's education) impacts on intelligence, but observational tests on twins suggested that we inherit around half of our intelligence. But until now, there has been little understanding of the genetic contribution to cognitive aging, or how smart we stay as we get older. ...
Looking at food 'prompts appetite hormone'
Post Date: 2012-01-22 05:54:34 by Tatarewicz
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The feelings of hunger that suddenly appear when looking at pictures of food are not all in the head – German researchers have shown they are in the blood too. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich showed that levels of a hormone which controls appetite increase when a person sees images of food. They have suggested that people trying to lose weight should avoid seeing pictures of delicious food as far as they can. The researchers led by Axel Steiger took eight healthy young men for the study, and measured the levels of ghrelin in their blood. The hormone not only controls appetite but also plays a role in digestion. They recorded a rise in ghrelin levels ...
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