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Stone Age humans brought deer to Scotland by sea: study
Post Date: 2016-04-05 20:09:19 by Ada
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DNA analysis revealed that deer on Scotland's northermost islands were unlikely to have come from the closest and seemingly most obvious places -- mainland Scotland, Ireland or Norway Paris (AFP) - Stone Age humans populated the Scottish islands with red deer transported "considerable distances" by boat, said researchers Wednesday who admitted surprise at our prehistoric ancestors' seafaring prowess. DNA analysis revealed that deer on Scotland's northermost islands were unlikely to have come from the closest and seemingly most obvious places -- mainland Scotland, Ireland or Norway, said a study in the Royal Society journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. ...
Scientists may hold key to cutting coal carbon emissions in half, while producing twice the power
Post Date: 2016-04-04 23:29:24 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Slashing greenhouse gas emissions has not always been a pleasant task for the coal power industry, but a new process could radically change that, according to models created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers. The method proposed by MIT Professor Ronald C. Crane and doctoral student Katherine Ong could double the amount of electricity produced for each unit of coal, meaning the amount of emissions produced per unit of power would be cut in half, according to the abstract of their paper published in the Journal of Power Sciences on Monday. While the concept could represent a huge leap forward in terms of coal’s environmental friendliness, it’s ...
"Neural Imprinting" is new technology that will blow your mind
Post Date: 2016-04-03 16:18:42 by BTP Holdings
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Silicon Valley's biggest CEO just shocked everyone... Mark Zuckerberg recently made a surprise visit to a low-key tech conference full of 1,500 ordinary developers and programmers. But he had a huge announcement to make... You see, in early 2016 - about a week from now - a groundbreaking new technology is expected to be released for commercial sales. And Zuckerberg said it's "the next great tech... that's going to define the future." According to analysts, the market for this type of technology is "expected to grow by over 13,000% in the next 3 years." Zuckerberg invested $2.1 billion in it himself. And Microsoft's CEO jumped in with $150 million, ...
Directed Energy Technology/ on c2C Wed.
Post Date: 2016-04-02 01:53:03 by Tatarewicz
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Directed Energy Technology/ Midweek Open Lines Date: Wednesday - April 6, 2016 Host: George Noory Guests: Judy D. Wood Former professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, Dr. Judy Wood, will update her work describing the physics of the destruction of buildings on 9/11. She cites evidence of directed energy technology - not fire, thermite or bombs, or even planes for that matter. She would like for this amazing technology to be made for constructive and beneficial purposes. Followed by Open Lines in the latter half. Website(s): drjudywood.com wheredidthetowersgo.com Book(s): Where Did the Towers Go
Holes in the Sun Are Threatening to Throw Birds, GPS Off Course
Post Date: 2016-04-01 09:55:51 by Ada
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Solar wind arrives Saturday, touching off geomagnetic storms Minor events could also show off Northern Lights in New York Birds flying north for the spring and humans relying on global positioning satellites to navigate could get a little lost this weekend. Three coronal holes spread across the sun are pointing at the Earth. As a result, a minor geomagnetic storm alert has been issued for Saturday by the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, and the Space Weather Operations Centre of the U.K. Met Office in Exeter. “Early on Day 3 (2nd April), a high-speed stream from coronal hole 67 is expected to reach Earth,” said the Met Office. Forecasters in the ...
Health officials seek source of infection linked to 18 deaths in Wisconsin
Post Date: 2016-03-31 22:42:23 by Tatarewicz
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AP... An outbreak of deadly bloodstream infections is hitting southeastern Wisconsin. The infections are caused by called Elizabethkingia, a bacteria that rarely causes illness in humans. Mar. 3, 2016. (WTMJ Milwaukee) Tribune news servicesContact Reporter The source of a bacterial bloodstream infection linked to 18 deaths in Wisconsin remains a mystery, health officials said Thursday as a team of federal and state investigators worked to find a common thread among those sickened. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent five employees to Wisconsin to help the Department of Health Services pinpoint a link to those that who been infected by the Elizabethkingia bacteria. ...
Bill Gates is backing a waterless toilet that generates energy from human waste
Post Date: 2016-03-30 04:51:15 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Five years after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation first challenged the world to design a sustainable and inexpensive toilet, researchers from Cranfield University may have a viable contender. It’s known as the Nano Membrane Toilet, and it was funded by the Gates Foundation in September 2012 for US $710,000. March 22 is World Water Day, an appropriate time to highlight the grim fact that more than 2.4 billion people around the world still live in unsanitary conditions. Without access to clean running water, these at-risk communities face life-threatening sanitation-related diseases. The Nano Membrane toilet’s design is meant to offset this scarcity. ...
How to Build an H-Bomb
Post Date: 2016-03-30 00:59:25 by Tatarewicz
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Making and owning an H-bomb is the kind of challenge real Americans seek. Who wants to be a passive victim of nuclear war when, with a little effort, you can be an active participant? Bomb shelters are for losers. Who wants to huddle together underground eating canned Spam? Winners want to push the button themselves. Making your own H-bomb is a big step in nuclear assertiveness training -- it's called Taking Charge. We're sure you'll enjoy the risks and the heady thrill of playing nuclear chicken. Introduction When the Feds clamped down on The Progressive magazine for attempting to publish an article on the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb, it piqued our curiosity. Was it ...
Op-Ed Robots are coming for your job
Post Date: 2016-03-29 08:58:59 by Ada
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A viral video released in February showed Boston Dynamics' new bipedal robot, Atlas, performing human-like tasks: opening doors, tromping about in the snow, lifting and stacking boxes. Tech geeks cheered and Silicon Valley investors salivated at the potential end to human manual labor. Shortly thereafter, White House economists released a forecast that calculated more precisely whom Atlas and other forms of automation are going to put out of work. Most occupations that pay less than $20 an hour are likely to be, in the words of the report, “automated into obsolescence.” The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution has found its first victims: blue- collar workers and the poor. ...
Asteroid may strike earth in october 2017
Post Date: 2016-03-28 22:12:28 by Tatarewicz
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Started by vladzo Astronomers at the University of Texas fear an asteroid the size of the Statue of Liberty, that in 2012 came dangerously close to colliding with Earth, is once again on a path to crash into our planet - and what’s worse, scientists have no idea where it might fall. Asteroid 2012 TC4, which narrowly avoided colliding with Earth in October 2012, is set to swing dangerously close to our planet for the second time. Researchers have speculated that this time, the celestial body could be as large as 40 meters wide, almost as large as the famed Statue of Liberty, and about twice the size of the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013 ...
Jupiter's Rings Revealed
Post Date: 2016-03-28 20:03:30 by BTP Holdings
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Jupiter's Rings Revealed Source: NASA Published: 16 September 2011 Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin was a mystery. Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. As a small meteoroid strikes tiny Adrastea, for example, it will bore into the moon, vaporize and explode dirt and dust off into a Jovian orbit. Pictured above is an eclipse of the sun by Jupiter, as viewed from Galileo. Small dust particles high in Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the dust particles that compose ...
Student Solar Car Team Shows the Future is Powered by Sunshine
Post Date: 2016-03-27 11:03:52 by Ada
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Battling extreme heat, kangaroo roadkill and a constant threat of clouds, the University of Michigan Solar Car crew shows how teamwork and technology can produce an engineering feat. For almost five long, sizzling days, an all-star team of 17 University of Michigan students took to the Australian outback, racing a car that guzzles little more than ingenuity and sunshine. The race is the Bridgestone World Solar Car Challenge, a biennial event since 1987 where energy-efficient cars from around the world race almost 1,900 miles to push the limits of solar car innovation. It’s the World Cup of solar car racing, and University of Michigan is a tier-one team. In 2015, the team finished ...
Las Vegas embattled forensics experts respond to scandals and flawed convictions
Post Date: 2016-03-27 07:12:21 by Ada
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“ICAN PEEL a person’s face apart in 90 seconds,” said the well-dressed woman holding tongs, “but I can’t get a quesadilla out of here.” It had been a long day at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Science. At the private reception in Pavilion 5, the food had gone quickly. All that remained was an unappetizing pile of quesadillas, stubbornly stuck together in their stainless steel buffet tray. As she leaned in to dislodge a clump of tortilla and cheese, the woman’s conference badge revealed that she worked in a medical examiner’s office. Her ID hung from a blue lanyard adorned with the iconic retro sign that greets ...
Pentagon Wants to Buy That Bomb You’re Building in the Garage
Post Date: 2016-03-27 02:35:36 by Tatarewicz
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DARPA will pay tinkerers to weaponize off-the-shelf items — in hopes of defending against such hacks. Can you rig your toaster into an improvised explosive device or turn a cheap hobby drone into a weapon of mass destruction? The Pentagon would love to hear from you. On Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they would award money to people who can turn consumer electronics, household chemicals, 3-D printed parts, cheap drones or other “commercially available technology” into the next improvised weapon. “For decades, U.S. national security was ensured in large part by a simple advantage: a near-monopoly on access to the most ...
Microsoft Pulls Robot After It Tweets 'Hitler Was Right I Hate the Jews'
Post Date: 2016-03-25 07:12:48 by Ada
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Among other offending tweets was 'Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. Donald Trump is the only hope we’ve got.' Microsoft put the brakes on its artificial intelligence tweeting robot after it posted several offensive comments, including “Hitler was right I hate the jews.” The so-called chatbot TayTweets was launched by the Seattle-based software company on Wednesday as an experiment in artificial intelligence, or AI, and conversational understanding. But the company was forced to quickly pause the account and delete the vast majority of its tweets after the chatbot posted a number of offensive comments, including ...
U.S. scientists create "minimal cell" with just genes needed for life
Post Date: 2016-03-25 06:20:07 by Tatarewicz
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[More] WASHINGTON, March 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers announced Thursday the design and construction of a minimal synthetic bacterial cell that contains only the genes necessary for life, a breakthrough that may help better understand the secret of life. Genome research pioneer Craig Venter's team shocked the world in 2010 by creating the first synthetic cell in human history and now they went further to simplify and reorganize the cell's genome to retain only 473 genes, making it the smallest genome of any organism that can be grown in laboratory media. "The only way to answer basic questions about life would be to get to a minimal genome, and ... probably the only way ...
Strangeness: "New Tech Shows Why You Can't Trust Anything You See on the News"
Post Date: 2016-03-22 01:29:20 by NeoconsNailed
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An eccentric but seemingly credible presentation. Yeah, the dramatizations are old news, but it's hard to imagine them actually using this face manipulations technique. The Weasel Slimeball is used as an example, but his rubber face clearly needs no help and he's made no accusations that they've made him look even more stupid and hateful than he naturally does. Comments please. NN Click for Full Text!
Suppressed 1963 episode of One Step Beyond: magic mushrooms
Post Date: 2016-03-17 05:01:54 by NeoconsNailed
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=================== BrasscheckTV Report =================== It's one of those odd episodes in history. Four days after John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, an Alcoa sponsored TV series introduced American television watchers to the wonder of magic mushrooms. Here's the very popular episode from the series "One Step Beyond" which was pulled from syndication and never shown on TV again. cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa_Presents:_One_Step_Beyond#.22The_Sacred_Mushroom. 22 'On camera, Newland ingested several mushrooms and allowed his reactions to be filmed for broadcast. This was the only episode of the entire series to have a relatively reality-based ...
Raising the Costa Concordia: totally ossome engineering, $1.2B worth
Post Date: 2016-03-17 04:26:22 by NeoconsNailed
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Parbuckling the operative buzzword. Really impressive delicate operation involving humongous flotation devices, winches etc. The team even turned the ships lights on and made it their project headquarters!?!?! 33 lives lost in the original disaster, none in the two-year removal. Just curious, any of yawl see this broadcast on TV? Whoa, breaking up the ship 'will take around 125 workers between 18 months and two and a half years. Once the Concordia's in Genoa, crews will construct a giant tent over the ship and none of us will ever see it again. The front and the back will be dismantled first, and any possessions that passengers left behind as they fled the sinking liner will be ...
This hot robot says she wants to destroy humans 14 Hours Ago Meet Sophia. Hanson Robotics human-like robot that may embody the androids of our future.
Post Date: 2016-03-17 00:36:07 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Video at source.
IQ and fade-out effect: Environmental intervention can raise general intelligence, but the effects aren't permanent
Post Date: 2016-03-15 11:53:06 by Ada
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Summary: A psychologist shows that while environmental intervention can raise general intelligence, the effects aren't permanent. Interventions to raise IQ in young children did raise intelligence levels, but not permanently. Scientists have long agreed that we humans are a complex combination of our inherited traits and the environments in which we are raised. How the scales tip in one direction or the other, however, is still the subject of much debate. To better understand the nature versus nurture question, UC Santa Barbara psychologist John Protzko analyzed an existing study to determine whether and how environmental interventions impacted the intelligence levels of low birth ...
Does Undersea Crater Solve the Bermuda Triangle?
Post Date: 2016-03-15 04:35:16 by Tatarewicz
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New research off the coast of Norway has led to renewed speculation surrounding what may be behind the infamous spate of ship disappearances attributed to the Bermuda Triangle. Scientists from Arctic University of Norway announced that they have discovered a series of massive craters in the nearby Barents Sea. These craters, measuring a half-mile wide and 150 feet deep, are believed to be the result of methane gas bubbling up from the seabed and causing a massive disruption on the surface of the water. The discovery of the craters adds strength to the longstanding theory that the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle is due to vessels being inadvertently struck by the sudden ...
Is a robot coming for your jobs? Biology versus technology
Post Date: 2016-03-14 12:45:19 by NeoconsNailed
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As the human narrator says, "Baxter" or "backster" technology is smart like no previous wave of robotization. Scary or exciting? WHAT WILL PEOPLE LIVE ON when there are NO jobs left except IT and robotics? Who'll buy the products they so smugly turn out? NN Click for Full Text!
4"-wide amoebas and holes belching liquid CO2: 'Earth's 10 Most Mysterious Lost Worlds'
Post Date: 2016-03-13 19:04:23 by NeoconsNailed
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A little break in the political action here. These series are more fun -- except when they're showing humanity for what it really is, natch :-o NN Click for Full Text!
This “Green” Energy Source Gets 326 Times More Subsidies Than Coal, Oil or Natural Gas
Post Date: 2016-03-11 04:18:53 by BTP Holdings
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This “Green” Energy Source Gets 326 Times More Subsidies Than Coal, Oil or Natural Gas February 27th, 2016 Critics of subsidies for renewable energy are usually met with the comeback that the oil industry gets trillions in subsidies – $5.3 trillion a year, to be exact. That estimate is based on three major mistakes: It’s the entire energy industry (not oil); the estimate includes externalities, which aren’t subsidies; and most of the amount tends to benefit consumers, not the industry. Here are some more accurate numbers through a recent article in Forbes, which shows the amount of subsidies given to green energy sources, versus coal, oil or natural gas. And the ...
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