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PETA Seeks Records On 54 Stingray Deaths At Brookfield Zoo
Post Date: 2018-08-26 14:18:53 by BTP Holdings
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PETA Seeks Records On 54 Stingray Deaths At Brookfield Zoo July 19, 2018 at 1:35 pm CHICAGO (AP) — An animal rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Brookfield Zoo located outside Chicago in a search for documents that could shed light on the 2015 deaths of 54 stingrays. Court records show People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals since 2016 has been asking the Cook County Forest Preserve District to turn over documents detailing events leading to the stingray deaths. Southern stingrays. (Credit: Brookfield Zoo.) PETA says the county hasn’t responded to the request, prompting last week’s lawsuit. PETA attorney Jared Goodman told the Chicago Tribune it ...
Parrots can make complex economic decisions, scientists discover
Post Date: 2018-08-26 13:13:50 by Ada
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The parrots would refuse an immediate reward and instead choose a token that could be exchanged for a better reward later. Scientists have found that parrots are capable of making complex economic decisions. In tests, 33 parrots from four different species surprised scientists with their ability to recognise the value of tokens that could be exchanged for food rewards. The birds – macaws and African greys – were able to make difficult decisions about whether to accept an immediate reward, or instead “invest” in tokens that guaranteed a more worthwhile return later. High, medium and low value rewards were on offer – namely a piece of walnut, a nugget of dry corn, or ...
How trees talk to each other | Suzanne Simard
Post Date: 2018-08-26 01:55:00 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology and teaches at the University of British Columbia.
Deep Space (Episode 01) Ancient Space Program
Post Date: 2018-08-25 15:08:17 by BTP Holdings
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Watch the entire season on Gaia at: bit.ly/GoDeepOnGaia Since the 1960’s, NASA-born space programs have taken a prominent place in the media and collected accolades for their accomplishments of furthering humanity into the space age. But what if this was all a major front to obscure NASA’s interest in ancient space programs? Scattered all about the world, many ancient sites hold subtle clues that we have not been alone for a very long time. In this inaugural episode of Deep Space, we scour the world uncovering evidence of arcane extraterrestrial civilizations and examine NASA’s interest in recovering advanced technology from these locations. Become a Gaia member to find ...
Why Is Intelligence Declining? Our Rulers Don’t Want You to Know
Post Date: 2018-08-25 10:22:53 by Ada
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It’s a sure sign that a piece of “controversial science” is actually empirically accurate when our Cultural Marxist elite desperately tries to come up with some kind of environmental explanation for it, no matter how implausible. This means that the evidence is so overwhelming that it can’t be denied any longer. So it must, in some way, be due to human—and especially privileged human—behaviour. If it’s due to genetics, then environmental determinism is nonsense; and that’s unfair–unthinkable, even. This happened when the evidence for race differences in IQ became undeniable. And now it’s happening with evidence that, on average, we’re ...
What happens when you spend a year using science to improve your brain
Post Date: 2018-08-25 03:51:58 by Tatarewicz
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The Verge Here are two things that are both true. Neuroplasticity is real — that is, the brain really can change and learn and improve based on experience. And there’s little evidence that brain-training games are any better than placebo. “So,” wondered science journalist Caroline Williams, “if brain training isn’t the way to apply it, what should we be doing?” Williams is the author of My Plastic Brain: One Woman’s Yearlong Journey to Discover if Science Can Improve Her Mind. She picked areas in which she wanted to improve — everything from attention to anxiety to creativity to navigation — and spent a year trying new techniques to see ...
Engineers Discover a Glaringly Simple Way to Detect Bombs And Hidden Weapons
Post Date: 2018-08-24 05:20:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... You probably use Wi-Fi on the regular to connect your smartphone, computer, or other electronic device to the glory of the world wide web. But soon, that same technology could also keep you safe in real-life public areas. According to a peer-reviewed study led by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, ordinary Wi-Fi can effectively and cheaply detect weapons, bombs, or explosive chemicals contained within bags. The study earned the researchers a best paper award at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, which focused solely on cybersecurity. According to the researchers' paper, most dangerous objects contain metals or liquids. ...
Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
Post Date: 2018-08-23 23:27:49 by Tatarewicz
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Ecologist Chelsea Rochman (left) and researcher Kennedy Bucci dig through washed-up debris along Lake Ontario. They're looking for small particles of plastic that make their way into oceans, rivers and lakes. Chris Joyce/NPR Plastic trash is littering the land and fouling rivers and oceans. But what we can see is only a small fraction of what's out there. Since modern plastic was first mass-produced, 8 billion tons have been manufactured. And when it's thrown away, it doesn't just disappear. Much of it crumbles into small pieces. Scientists call the tiny pieces "microplastics" and define them as objects smaller than 5 millimeters — about the size of one of ...
Controversy Surrounding The ‘Ice Age’ – Did It Actually Happen Like We Think It Did?
Post Date: 2018-08-23 06:45:57 by Ada
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History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’ – Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code Truth is, we don’t know much about history, not only is history written by the victors of past conflict, stories regarding accounts of our past in various fields are also skewed. As Graham Hancock once said, “we are like a species with Amnesia, trying to piece together our past with fragments we find here and there.” One thing is for certain, there is no lack of ...
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles Alaska
Post Date: 2018-08-23 06:31:25 by BTP Holdings
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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles Alaska 3 hrs ago © via USGS Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles Alaska ADAK, Alaska — A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Wednesday night in Alaska. The Alaska Earthquake Center says the quake occurred in the remote Andreanof Islands region of Alaska, but was felt almost 70 miles (115 km) away in Adak. It had a depth of about 7 miles (11 km). There were no immediate reports of any injuries or damages. Poster Comment:I wonder what the chance of a tsunami would be?
Why you can't travel at the speed of light
Post Date: 2018-08-23 06:22:17 by BTP Holdings
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Why you can't travel at the speed of light A short history of Einstein's theory of relativity Alok Jha Sun 12 Jan 2014 06.51 EST First published on Sun 12 Jan 2014 06.51 EST Einstein's theory of special relativity. Photograph: Observer Albert Einstein is famous for many things, not least his theories of relativity. The first, the special theory of relativity, was the one that began the physicist's reputation for tearing apart the classical worldview that had come before. Special relativity, a way of relating the motion of objects in the universe, led scientists to re-evaluate their assumptions about things as fundamental as time and space. And it led to important ...
Planet Mars: It's Not Just a Rock
Post Date: 2018-08-19 18:23:59 by BTP Holdings
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38 Minutes that are guaranteed to change your perspective on the reality of both past and present life on Mars. The basics of "HOW, WHY and WHO" are covered here along with hundreds of telling images. This is not conspiracy theory. This is not the occult. This is reality and it is extremely important that we begin to understand our relationship to both the past and present inhabitants of the Red Planet. Why? Because evidence strongly indicates they were destroyed by nuclear explosions. Poster Comment:Paging My Favorite Martian, Ray Walston.
An Explanation of the EmDrive and Cannae Drive Part II
Post Date: 2018-08-19 09:28:39 by BTP Holdings
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Part II of an explanation of the EmDrive and the Cannae Drive and why they are controversial.
Chinese scientists discover gene helping rice adapt to cold climate
Post Date: 2018-08-19 03:15:22 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have found a gene which plays an important role in helping rice, originating in warm southern China, expand to the relatively cold northern regions. Rices grown in Asia include two subspecies: indica rice and japonica rice. The heat-resistant indica rice is mainly planted in southern China, as well as the tropical and subtropical areas in South Asia and Southeast Asia, while the japonica rice, after nearly 10,000 years of domestication and selection, can tolerate cold weather and has been expanded to northern China and the temperate zones in Northeast Asia. After analyzing 202 rice samples from various growing regions around the world ...
Is US Government Developing Real-Life Supersoldier, Wonder-Dog In New Research Program? Is US Government Developing Real-Life Supersoldier, Wonder-Dog In New Research Program?
Post Date: 2018-08-19 02:04:57 by Horse
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The US army has announced a new proposal for what really looks like a program to develop supersoldiers and wonder-dogs capable of fast healing, optimized physiological and mental performance, withstanding extreme environments, and wearing high-tech bio-enhancements and other gear. According to documents from the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), the "primary emphasis of the USSOCOM Biomedical, Human Performance, and Canine Research Program is to identify and develop techniques… for early intervention in life-threatening injuries, prolonged field care, human performance optimization, and canine medicine/performance." The project will allocate $15 million on ...
Mycorrhizal Fungi: The World’s Biggest Drinking Straws And Largest Unseen Communication System
Post Date: 2018-08-18 22:24:42 by Horse
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Quick, which is the biggest symbiotic association on Earth? Did you guess the mycorrhizae? They are the huge symbioses between fungi and the roots of most terrestrial plants. Their total size is not easy to measure because not all the fungal filaments in soils are mycorrhizal nor are the mycorrhizal ones always mycorrhizing (a new verb?). Even so, one can make the case that the combined mass of the participating fungi and plant roots is colossal. A friend, the soil microbiologist David Lipson, tells me that the mass of mycorrhizal fungi on the planet is estimated to be somewhere around 1-3 x 1010 tons (that’s between 1.4 and 4 tons per person). We are obviously talking about a topic ...
An Explanation of the EmDrive and Cannae Drive Part I
Post Date: 2018-08-18 21:19:58 by BTP Holdings
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Part I of an explanation of the EmDrive and the Cannae Drive and why they are controversial. Part II is now here: youtu.be/z8WBsNAjj24 Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Lots of links and other info at source. We are living in exciting times.
Mozilla / Firefox goes all in for EVIL
Post Date: 2018-08-18 20:51:32 by Ada
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… Pushes corporate news collusion to silence independent media Remember the day you found out Google was steeped in pure evil? So you sought out a different browser to escape the evil overlords that run Chrome. Many of us sought out Firefox from Mozilla, an organization with a strong history supporting free speech and open access to information. But now Mozilla has joined the dark side. They’re jumping in bed with pure evil, pushing an “Information Trust Initiative” that would block independent media sources at the browser level while favoring corporate media giants like CNN, a cesspool of deliberately fake news. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. The Mozilla ...
NASA Tests 'Impossible' Engine, Finds Out It's Really Fast
Post Date: 2018-08-18 15:57:15 by BTP Holdings
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An engine thought not to be possible was tested by NASA researchers who found that surprisingly, it actually worked opening the door to faster travel. Follow Matt Moreno: http://www.twitter.com/TheMattMoreno See more at www.newsy.com Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Fascinating.
Live Yellowstone Updates! Massive Crack Opens Up South of Park, Scientists Reveal!!
Post Date: 2018-08-18 14:28:47 by BTP Holdings
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Yellowstone Updates! Massive Crack Opens Up South of Park, Scientists Reveal!! Please subscribe channel: goo.gl/JXsPmz ► Group Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/17018... There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine," said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena. Some of these clues relate to the gravitational tug of Planet Nine, which appears to be disturbing the distant Kuiper Belt, which is made up of icy objects and stretches from Neptune out into deep space. Its believed Planet Nine is a "super-Earth", the name for a type of large world which appears to be very common in ...
Scientists create mineral to absorb CO2 from atmosphere
Post Date: 2018-08-18 00:22:25 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have found a rapid way of creating magnesite, a mineral that can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, offering a potential solution to global warming. The research, presented recently at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Boston, explained how magnesite can form at low temperatures and offered a way to dramatically accelerate its crystallization. Magnesite is a naturally occurring rock used in jewelery and for various industrial processes. Every ton of magnesite is capable of removing about half a ton of CO2 from the air. However, the process normally takes thousands of years in nature at Earth's surface. In the lab, the ...
VIDEO 1 The Yellowstone Volcano Beast Arising
Post Date: 2018-08-16 22:24:08 by BTP Holdings
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Video produced by: Eddie Page The recent data sheets from Yellowstone show what is taking place with the Yellowstone Supervolcano and the seismic charts show it all. Eddie Page showing us things the USGS is not revealing to the American public. The Washington Post reported “The Yellowstone Supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen. Yellowstone is capable of eruptions thousands of times more violent than the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980.” YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO…The hype over a possible eruption and the cataclysmic events that will follow. Eddie gives the current data that is available on the situation. Eddie holds a Masters degree in Geo-Physics and has watched and ...
Debunking the Myth that the Moon Landing Was a Hoax
Post Date: 2018-08-16 17:40:26 by BTP Holdings
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Debunking the Myth that the Moon Landing Was a Hoax By Donald Sinclair Updated July 21, 2014 14:29 BST One of the few photographs of Neil Armstrong on the moon shows him working on his space craft on the lunar surface Nasa Forty five years ago today, for the first time in history humanity existed on two worlds at the same time. On Earth, approximately 1 in 7 of the 3.6 billion people on its surface was watching two people step out onto the Moon. This moment followed an eight year space race, a 3 day journey to a lunar orbit, a two and a half hour descent that nearly had to be aborted at the last minute, and what you can only imagine was a uniquely tense 7 hour wait in the lunar ...
Antimatter Propulsion - Ryan Weed, CEO of Positron Dynamics
Post Date: 2018-08-16 06:57:49 by BTP Holdings
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Positron Dynamics is out to make space travel to distant stars a reality using antimatter. Antimatter is the most energy-dense material known. Positrons are the easiest form of antimatter to produce. With physics that is understood today, any hopes of traveling beyond the edge of the Solar System can only be realized with antimatter. To get there, our first steps lie in Earth’s orbit.
Inside Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L During The Accident (Higher Quality)
Post Date: 2018-08-16 06:43:35 by BTP Holdings
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On January 28, 1986 despite the warnings of engineers not to launch in freezing temperatures, NASA management chose to launch Space Shuttle Challenger. The result was the loss of 7 astronauts in a horrific explosion 73 seconds later when flames from a solid rocket booster leak from a cracked o-ring and burned through the main fuel tank. The solid rocket boosters remained intact after the explosion and continued on out of control before mission control sent a self destruct signal to them so they could not cause destruction on the ground. This video gives a detailed and technical explanation of the entire Challenger accident including pre-launch assembly, launch, post-launch, and accident ...
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