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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 ...
Coolest Video U Will See Today
Post Date: 2012-01-21 13:48:32 by tom007
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57363140-76/helix-nebula-sparkles-in-a-new-light-video/?tag=mncol
Coronal mass ejection headed earthward
Post Date: 2012-01-21 06:42:34 by Tatarewicz
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INCOMING CME: Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30 UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo (coronal mass ejection CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding almost directly toward Earth: Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives this weekend. Their animated forecast track predicts an impact on Jan. 21st at 22:30 UT (+/- 7 hrs). Aurora alerts: text, voice. The cloud is also heading for Mars, due to hit the Red Planet on Jan. 24th. NASA's Curiosity rover, en route to Mars now, is equipped to study solar storms and might be able to detect a change in the ...
Mind can control allergic response
Post Date: 2012-01-21 06:30:07 by Tatarewicz
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You – or more accurately, your brain – has control over how allergic your skin is, suggests new research. A team of neuroscientists have found that if someone has a lesser sense of ownership over a part of their body, their immune system also responds differently to that body part, treating it as 'non-self' rather than 'self'. These findings have direct implications for understanding autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions characterised by a disrupted sense of ownership over one’s body, such as stroke, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, neuropathic pain, anorexia nervosa and bulimia. In two ...
Scientists have built a magnetic storage device made of 96 atoms.
Post Date: 2012-01-18 05:36:23 by Tatarewicz
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The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store 200 to 300 times more information than they can today. The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope precisely assembles atoms onto a surface to make the world's smallest hard drive. Click to enlarge this image. Hard drives could one day be the size of rice grains, powering music players so small they would fit inside your ear. Scientists at IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have built the world's smallest unit of magnetic storage, using just 96 atoms to create one byte of data. Conventional drives require a half a billion atoms for each byte. The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store ...
Earth’s acid coming from nature
Post Date: 2012-01-18 05:10:26 by Tatarewicz
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Satellites showing that nature is responsible for 90 per cent of the earth’s atmospheric acidity shocked researchers from the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, whose findings have just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Stunned, the scientists approached a team from the University of Wollongong’s Centre of Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC) to confirm what satellite readings were telling them. By providing data from a ground-based solar Fourier transform spectrometer instrument at the University, CAC used 15-years worth of information to verify the satellite’s story: all existing global models had substantially misjudged the main source of formic acid levels on ...
Science's 'Most Beautiful Theories'
Post Date: 2012-01-18 05:00:19 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) Jan 16 - From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world's most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. Every January, John Brockman, the impresario and literary agent who presides over the online salon Edge.org, asks his circle of scientists, digerati and humanities scholars to tackle one question. In previous years, they have included "how is the Internet changing the way you think?" and "what is the most important invention in the last 2,000 years?" This year, he posed the open-ended question "what is your favorite deep, elegant or beautiful ...
Sorcha Faal meets Rush Linmbaugh
Post Date: 2012-01-17 21:01:36 by randge
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Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Roll up a dube. Enjoy.
Pirates Developing a DIY Space Program to bypass SOPA
Post Date: 2012-01-16 09:46:14 by freepatriot32
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Space, “the final frontier,” has long been the exclusive domain of the State because they were the only organization that had both the tremendous resources necessary to get there and the willingness to waste those resources with no foreseeable economic purpose. As a child I was enamored with Star Trek, but once I became familiarized with the ideas of liberty it was obvious that the Federation described by Gene Roddenberry was essentially just a fascist military regime that happened to be slightly more egalitarian than all the other fascist military regimes. But recent events seem to indicate that the future of space may be more like Fire Fly, where the frontier is the domain of ...
Internet users 'should check for blackout virus'
Post Date: 2012-01-15 07:24:08 by Tatarewicz
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The German government says all internet users should check their computers for a virus which could stop them going online from March 8. The “DNS-Changer” program infects up to 33,000 computers in Germany each day, according to authorities who arrested those behind the scheme in November. A “DNS-Changer” infection means a computer connects to a fake version of the Domain Name System – the service which enables access to websites, the Office for Information Technology Security (BSI) said on its website on Wednesday. Rather than connecting to the normal DNS, an infected computer is instead re-routed to websites which criminals have manipulated and use for fraudulent ...
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