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1 - 04/28/11 - "The shock of the possible" - Learn Productive Thinking
2 - 04/28/11 - Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
3 - 04/28/11 - Brainstorming Clever Ways To Detect Alien Civilizations
4 - 04/28/11 - Have we Screwed up so bad now we are ready for Alien Intervention?
5 - 04/28/11 - Fire Pot Stove burns Cleanly
6 - 04/28/11 - Timothy Leary's 1985 software Mind Mirror
7 - 04/28/11 - Side Effect of Liposuction
8 - 04/28/11 - Safe Thorium Reactors for the Future
9 - 04/28/11 - To dial your cell phone, just think of the number
10 - 04/28/11 - Plaques that clog your arteries form quickly and late in life
11 - 04/28/11 - Modding viruses to do things we want and make things we need
12 - 04/28/11 - Mars atmosphere was much denser in the past
13 - 04/28/11 - New Condiment Tastes Like Meat (Apr, 1931)
14 - 04/28/11 - Horrific global food crisis is looming
15 - 04/28/11 - SpaceX Aims To Put Man On Mars In 10-20 Years
16 - 04/28/11 - New Tool Hides Data In Plain Sight On HDDs
17 - 04/28/11 - Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice
18 - 04/28/11 - Can we Cure Aging?
19 - 04/28/11 - When will Obama crack in public?
20 - 04/28/11 - NASA Fires Up Jet Fuel That Tastes Like Chicken
21 - 04/28/11 - Ear Size Related To Age
22 - 04/28/11 - NASA Looking To Build 'Gas' Stations In Space
23 - 04/28/11 - Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors
24 - 04/28/11 - Copyright Law Is Killing Science
25 - 04/28/11 - Artificial Synapse Created For Synthetic Brain
26 - 04/28/11 - Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record
27 - 04/28/11 - China Plans Space Station By 2020
28 - 04/28/11 - Feds To Remotely Uninstall Bot From Some PCs
29 - 04/28/11 - China's High-Speed Trains Coming Off the Rails
30 - 04/25/11 - Google Will Save Videos After All
31 - 04/25/11 - How bad is it?
32 - 04/25/11 - Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information"
33 - 04/25/11 - Engineer claims oil burner energy solution
34 - 04/25/11 - Texas governor proclaims three days of "Prayer for Rain"
35 - 04/25/11 - Older Workers Are More Productive Than Younger Employees
36 - 04/25/11 - Electric Motorcycle Gets 185 Miles on a Charge
37 - 04/25/11 - Energy Saving Light Bulbs May Cause Cancer
38 - 04/25/11 - Distributed solar approaches grid parity
39 - 04/25/11 - Nerf mind bullets
40 - 04/25/11 - Functioning Synapse Created Using Carbon Nanotubes
41 - 04/25/11 - Have Fun Putting Out Candles
42 - 04/25/11 - Court Rulings Depend On Food
43 - 04/25/11 - Opening Up the Brain with Ultrasound
44 - 04/25/11 - Soil Lamp: Grow Your Own Light
45 - 04/25/11 - Infrared digital camera
46 - 04/25/11 - Graphene Super Paper Is 10x Stronger Than Steel
47 - 04/25/11 - The Space Station As a Simulated Mars Mission?
48 - 04/25/11 - Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam
49 - 04/25/11 - EV Fast-Charging Standards In Flux
50 - 04/25/11 - Render frosted glass transparent with Scotch tape
51 - 04/25/11 - Solar Panels Increase Home Value
52 - 04/25/11 - Wal-Mart Tests Online Grocery Delivery
53 - 04/25/11 - Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car
54 - 04/25/11 - Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill
55 - 04/25/11 - US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects
56 - 04/25/11 - The Art of the Animated GIF
57 - 04/22/11 - Massive doses of Vitamin C to cure & heal
58 - 04/22/11 - A World Without Cancer - The Story Of Vitamin B17 (and Vitamin C)
59 - 04/21/11 - Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?
60 - 04/21/11 - Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine
61 - 04/21/11 - Instant Quantum Communication Is Near
62 - 04/21/11 - An RC Car That Runs On Soda Can Rings
63 - 04/21/11 - Using Neutrons To Precisely Test Newton's Law of Gravity
64 - 04/21/11 - Gadget Tracks Brainwaves As You Watch TV
65 - 04/21/11 - China Space Official Confounded By SpaceX Price
66 - 04/21/11 - Establishment Admits Magnets Can Harness Space Energy
67 - 04/21/11 - Muscular Pains & MSM
68 - 04/21/11 - U.S. Military Spending Has Almost Doubled Since 2001
69 - 04/21/11 - Drafting The Sun for Defense! (Jun, 1941)
70 - 04/21/11 - Famed Egyptologist sentenced in corruption case
71 - 04/21/11 - Do bacteria control your brain?
72 - 04/21/11 - Giant ocean whirlpools puzzle scientists
73 - 04/21/11 - Medicines Lose Effectiveness In Space
74 - 04/21/11 - A 9V Battery To Your Brain Can Improve Your Gaming
75 - 04/21/11 - Walking HECTOR Robot Inspired By Stick Insect
76 - 04/21/11 - The Ideal 0101: three tons of force hard disk destroyer
77 - 04/21/11 - Swedish File-Sharers File For Religious Status
78 - 04/21/11 - Is Sugar Toxic?
79 - 04/21/11 - Chocolate compound beats codeine for cough-suppression
80 - 04/21/11 - Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity
81 - 04/21/11 - Worlds With Two Suns May Sport Black Plants
82 - 04/21/11 - Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops
83 - 04/21/11 - ACLU to Michigan cops: stop searching phones during traffic stops
84 - 04/21/11 - Euthanasia coaster: assisted suicide by thrills
85 - 04/21/11 - Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind
86 - 04/21/11 - Printing your boarding card out REALLY BIG
87 - 04/21/11 - Lasers To Replace Sparkplugs In Engines?
88 - 04/21/11 - Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game
89 - 04/21/11 - Store Clutter Is Good
90 - 04/21/11 - Freak Manhole Cover Accident
91 - 04/17/11 - Indian Students Invent Oxygen powered Motorbike
92 - 04/17/11 - Compact Fluorescent Invention Recycles The Ballast
93 - 04/17/11 - Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells
94 - 04/17/11 - Realistic dinosaur puppet scares and delights schoolchildren
95 - 04/17/11 - Gullibility may be early sign of dementia
96 - 04/17/11 - Keely, Altzheimers and Untangling Neural Knots
97 - 04/17/11 - Scientists untangle mystery on why long strands become knotted
98 - 04/17/11 - Lightning—Man’s and Nature’s (Jan, 1934)
99 - 04/17/11 - Make your Sweat Matter
100 - 04/17/11 - Air filled balloons retrieve Sunken Ships
101 - 04/17/11 - Why People Think Cell Phones Cause Cancer
102 - 04/17/11 - Luminous Cat frightens Timid Mice
103 - 04/17/11 - Invention reduces Viscosity of Pipeline Oil
104 - 04/17/11 - The douche
105 - 04/17/11 - MAFIAA Fire: add-on reverses US government domain censorship
106 - 04/17/11 - USPS accidentally issues Vegas Statue of Liberty stamp
107 - 04/17/11 - Baby Pygmy Goat Stampede: Cavalcade of Cuteness
108 - 04/17/11 - Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want
109 - 04/17/11 - One Wheeled vehicle propelled by Hand Crank
110 - 04/17/11 - FBI Vault 1950 UFO Memo Based on Hoax
111 - 04/15/11 - Biofuel pushes millions of people towards poverty
112 - 04/15/11 - Document states U.S. Air Force found three UFOs in New Mexico
113 - 04/15/11 - Taking Radioactive Contaminants From Water With Shells
114 - 04/15/11 - The End of the "Age of Speed"
115 - 04/15/11 - New Houses Killing Wi-Fi
116 - 04/15/11 - Google Invests In World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant
117 - 04/15/11 - Temporary Brain Changes Lead to Accelerated Learning
118 - 04/11/11 - Magical Chinese Hard Drive
119 - 04/11/11 - New invention to zap superbugs dead
120 - 04/11/11 - How oven rust could be the key to unlimited fuel that will power anything
121 - 04/11/11 - Texas Proposes 85mph speed limit - GO TEXAS ADULTS!
122 - 04/11/11 - 50,000 Volt Taser Grenade
123 - 04/11/11 - Over Half of Energy in the U.S. is Wasted
124 - 04/11/11 - Lafayette company pushes for greener handling of dead with Coffin Spa
125 - 04/11/11 - Batteries that Recharge in Seconds
126 - 04/11/11 - Shovel, Strain, Stack No More in High Water
127 - 04/11/11 - Patently absurd system encourages litigation, not innovation
128 - 04/11/11 - 2011 James Dyson Award Now Accepting Entries
129 - 04/11/11 - In memory of the real inventor of the steamboat
130 - 04/11/11 - Heidelberg's Austin Health invention a major Altzheimer breakthrough
131 - 04/11/11 - Learnable
132 - 04/11/11 - New Gasoline Engine Prototype Claims 3X Current Engine Efficiency
133 - 04/11/11 - Holograms That Don't Change Color As You Move
134 - 04/11/11 - All Star Trek TV Coming To Netflix
135 - 04/11/11 - An Autonomous Sailing Robot To Clean Up Oil Spills
136 - 04/11/11 - What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane?
137 - 04/11/11 - US Navy Close To On-Ship Laser Cannons
138 - 04/11/11 - Inflatable Crowds
139 - 04/11/11 - Researchers Build Wearable Generators
140 - 04/11/11 - Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC?
141 - 04/08/11 - Quirky turns concept into a real product and pays you too
142 - 04/08/11 - EPA Fudges Radiation limits while Canada turns off fallout detectors
143 - 04/08/11 - Japan Tsunami Warnings From Ancestors Were Forgotten
144 - 04/08/11 - Risk From Water in India as Deadly Bugs Uncovered
145 - 04/08/11 - Dam good invention the answer to our dry land's problem
146 - 04/08/11 - Pasadena duo create unique refrigeration coil
147 - 04/08/11 - Foldaway toilet brings relief to disaster victims
148 - 04/08/11 - ‘War machine props up the market’
149 - 04/08/11 - Food technology has LONG been bad for human health
150 - 04/08/11 - Battery Research will give electric cars same range as petrol cars
151 - 04/08/11 - More technology experimentation required
152 - 04/08/11 - 5 Odd Things Inventors Tell Patent Attorneys
153 - 04/08/11 - Will prison realignment happen?
154 - 04/08/11 - Alternatives to Alternative Energy
155 - 04/08/11 - Endocube Reduces Spoilage while Lowering Energy Costs
156 - 04/08/11 - Energy policy or exploitation policy?
157 - 04/08/11 - An Awakening for Natural Gas Vehicles
158 - 04/08/11 - Law gives Florida's electric monopolies control of solar energy
159 - 04/08/11 - Fed Web sites will likely go offline if government shuts down
160 - 04/08/11 - Accidental Find May Lead To a Cure For Baldness
161 - 04/08/11 - Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers
162 - 04/08/11 - Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute?
163 - 04/08/11 - Electromagnetic Automobile Suspension Demonstrated
164 - 04/08/11 - NASA Green-lights $16.5M To Advance Future Jets
165 - 04/08/11 - Fermi Lab May Have Discovered New Particle or Force
166 - 04/08/11 - Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe
167 - 04/08/11 - Hammer blow freezes Water
168 - 04/08/11 - Is Science Just a Matter of Faith?
169 - 04/08/11 - Iceboat sails Faster than wind that blows it
170 - 04/08/11 - Brain-Computer Interface Works With Speech Centers
171 - 04/05/11 - Hidro FREE renewable energy
172 - 04/04/11 - Advice from Ray Bradbury: Love what YOU love
173 - 04/04/11 - Eureka! Archimedes screw powers back after 70-year break
174 - 04/04/11 - Plugless Power Induction Charging
175 - 04/04/11 - Mind-control tests causing TV presenters' brains to melt down?
176 - 04/04/11 - Rechargeable Lightglobe
177 - 04/04/11 - We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
178 - 04/04/11 - TiFoam Titanium Bone
179 - 04/04/11 - Be Wary of Space Visitors
180 - 04/04/11 - Funding the search for life in the solar system
181 - 04/04/11 - US Patents On Stem Cell Research Hindering Progress
182 - 04/04/11 - ErockIT: 50 mph Electric Motorcycle
183 - 04/04/11 - Bone treatment may extend life by 5 years
184 - 04/04/11 - Solution found for climate change: Nuclear war
185 - 04/04/11 - New cheap gas, not nature, is nuclear's biggest worry
186 - 04/04/11 - DARPA: Send limbless troops back to war with robo-arms
187 - 04/04/11 - How silica helps plants grow, flourish
188 - 04/04/11 - Was There a Natural Nuclear Blast on Mars?
189 - 04/04/11 - Homeopathy Not All It’s Quacked Up to Be
190 - 04/04/11 - Lawsuit seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s GMO patents
191 - 04/04/11 - Students Create Thought-Controlled Prosthetic Arm
192 - 04/04/11 - CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator
193 - 04/04/11 - Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs
194 - 04/04/11 - Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism
195 - 04/04/11 - Top Gear Fights Back At Tesla
196 - 04/04/11 - StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light
197 - 04/04/11 - Meanwhile, Between DC and the Left Coast
198 - 04/04/11 - DVD - the Physics of Crystals, Pyramids and Tetrahedrons
199 - 04/04/11 - KeelyNet BBS Files w/bonus PDF of 'Keely and his Discoveries'
200 - 04/04/11 - 'The Evolution of Matter' and 'The Evolution of Forces' on CD
201 - 04/04/11 - High Voltage & Free Energy Devices Handbook
202 - 04/04/11 - Hypnosis CD - 3 eBooks with How To Techniques and Many Cases
203 - 04/04/11 - 14 Ways to Save Money on Fuel Costs
204 - 04/04/11 - The Physics of the Primary State of Matter
205 - 04/04/11 - $5 Alt Science MP3s to listen while working/driving/jogging
206 - 04/04/11 - 15 New Alternative Science DVDs & 15 MP3s

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ITEM #1 04/28/11 - "The shock of the possible" - Learn Productive Thinking Think you think as well as you can? Think again. Regardless of your basic equipment you can learn to think better — more productively, more creatively, more effectively. Tim Hurson (@tim_hurson) shows you a proven, repeatable process that will help you ha ve more ideas, better ideas, more of the time. Tim Hurson's Productive Thinking model has helped thousands of people in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 corporations around the world think more creatively, more innovatively, and more productively. Learn the real secret of the great minds in history — that productive thinking is a skill that can be learned and developed. - Full Article Source ITEM #2 04/28/11 - Open-sourced blueprints for civilization Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an ins truction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). Check out OpenFarmTech.org - Full Article Source ITEM #3 04/28/11 - Brainstorming Clever Ways To Detect Alien Civilizations "In what is starting to become a familiar theme, researchers have speculated on what types of observational data from distant planetary systems might indicate the presence of an alien civilization. Potential indicators of the presence of an alien civiliza tion might include: atmospheric pollutants, like chlorofluorocarbons – which, unlike methane or molecular oxygen, are clearly manufactured rather than just biogenically produced; propulsion signatures – like how the Vulcans detected humanity in Star Trek: First Contact; evidence of stellar engineering – where a star's lifetime is artificially extended to maintain the habitable zone of its planetary system; or debris created from asteroid mining." - Full Article Source ITEM #4 04/28/11 - Have we Screwed up so bad now we are ready for Alien Intervention? War in Iraq, War in Afghanistan, War in Libya, Gulf oil spill, Government Imploding, Plutonium in the air, in the water and on the ground worldwide, People desperate and out of jobs with no hope, financial meltdowns and countries failing worldwide, drough t, tornados, firestorms, hasn't been such chaos since WWII. If ever there was a time for aliens to step in and either HELP fix our problems or Invade, now is the time. Maybe all this is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Armegeddon, Aztec/Mayan 2012 or whatever end times theory to which you subscribe. Sure seems like we just can't help but screw up everything mankind touches, out of greed or sheer stupidity. - Full Article Source ITEM #5 04/28/11 - Fire Pot Stove burns Cleanly An Australian resident, Adama Kamara, has invented a cooking stove that allows people in developing areas to cook without breathing toxic fumes or contributing to deforestation in search of wood fuels. The invention for this low-cost stove may be importan t news for many trying to cook indoors for families in poorly ventilated rooms. Kamara cites the United Nations, saying some 1.4 million women and children die annually due to inhaling the fumes from wood or other forms of solid biomass that is burned in traditional cook stoves. Kamara’s invention, the Fire Pot Stove, is an inexpensive box that features grated burner-like holes on the top. Beneath each hole, a metal receptacle holds a natural fiber wick that sits in a pool of relatively clean-burning crud e biodiesel, made from waste vegetable oil blended with methanol or ethanol and wood ash. The net result is a relatively clean-burning fuel for cooking purposes. - Full Article Source ITEM #6 04/28/11 - Timothy Leary's 1985 software Mind Mirror Timothy Leary was an expert psychologist and futurist who taught that information technology will radically expand human intelligence. He designed MIND MIRROR for Electronic Arts in 1985. MIND MIRROR empowers users with psychometric routines of the type D r. Leary pioneered earlier in his career in a funny and insightful role-playing game. MIND MIRROR is both a game and a self-coaching tool. Play as yourself, someone else, an object, or even an idea to gain the clarity of MIND MIRROR. / You can download th e software for free from various places and run it using a DOS emulator, or check out the "Mind Mirror Profiler" variation for Facebook. - Full Article Source ITEM #7 04/28/11 - Side Effect of Liposuction Interesting evidence that liposuction isn't medically benign. A new study in Nature found that suctioning fat off the thighs and butt tended to result in patients later accumulating fat around their midsections—exactly where you don't want excess fat, if you're worried about heart health. On the Obesity Panacea blog, Peter Janiszewski puts this new study into context with other bad news about lipo. - Full Article Source ITEM #8 04/28/11 - Safe Thorium Reactors for the Future Kirk Sorensen tells TED attendees about the inherent safety of Thorium reactors. Kirk Sorensen is author of the blog 'Energy from Thorium.' He has helped grow an online community of thousands of technologists who support a renewed effort to develop thoriu m as an energy source. Thorium is more plentiful than uranium, and unlike the uranium designs we rely on today. If anything causes the reactor temperature to rise a little higher than normal, Tsunami, stupid operators, power failures, backup generator fai lures. Whatever the problem might be, a thorium reactor automatically shuts down, no electricity or human action required. - Full Article Source ITEM #9 04/28/11 - To dial your cell phone, just think of the number Tzyy-Ping Jung, a researcher at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues have created a way to place a call on a cell phone using just your thoughts. Their new brain-computer interface is almost 100 percent accurate for most people after only a brief training period. Numbers oscillate on a screen at different frequencies—an EEG headband picks up on these signals to enable mobile phone input using thought control. Like many other such inter faces, Jung's system relies on electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes on the scalp to analyze electrical activity in the brain. An EEG headband is hooked up to a Bluetooth module that wirelessly sends the signals to a Nokia N73 cell phone, which uses algor ithms to process the signals. Participants were trained on the system via a novel visual feedback system. They were shown images on a computer screen that flashed on and off almost imperceptibly at different speeds. These oscillations can be detected in a part of the brain called the midline occipital. Jung and his colleagues exploited this by displaying a keypad on a large screen with each number flashing at a slightly different frequency. For instance, "1" flashed at nine hertz, and "2" at 9.25 hertz, a nd so on. Jung says this frequency can be detected through the EEG, thus making it possible to tell which number the subject is looking at. - Full Article Source ITEM #10 04/28/11 - Plaques that clog your arteries form quickly and late in life In a new study performed in humans, researchers from Karolinska Institutet have determined the age of atherosclerotic plaques by taking advantage of Carbon-14 (14C) residues in the atmosphere, prevailing after the extensive atomic bomb tests in the 50ties and 60ties. Their findings suggest that in most people plaque formation occurs during a relatively short and late time period in life of just 3 to 5 years. "We suspected that the plaque would be substantially younger than the patients, who were on averag e were 68 years old at surgery, but we were surprised when we found that the average age of these plaques was less than 10 years", says Associate Professor Johan Bjorkegren, who lead the study at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. / (T his patent 5,278,189 claims to remove plague from the arteries and cardiovascular system. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #11 04/28/11 - Modding viruses to do things we want and make things we need MIT's Angela Belcher speeks at TED about how her lab is programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, she's produced viruses that can construct powerful new batte ries, clean hydrogen fuels and record-breaking solar cells. This research is one of the most powerful approaches to creating the bots necessary to fix the bugs in our bodies that allow us to get sick and to age. Viruses have spent millions of years gettin g very good at interacting with and reprogramming our cells. All we need to do is code them to enhance rather than damage our cells. Sounds like Grebennikov's Flying Platform which uses nano structures to repel local gravity a nd produce lift. "How and why did I come to this discovery? In the summer of 1988, as I was examining under a microscope the chitin shells of insects, their pinnate (feathery) feelers, and the thinnest structure of butterflies' wings, I got interested in an amazi ngly rhythmical microstructure of one large insect detail. It was an extremely well-ordered composition, as though pressed on a complex machine according to special blueprints and calculations. As I saw it, the intricate sponginess was clearly not necessary either for the durability of the detail, or for its decoration. I had never observed anything like this unusual micro-ornament either in nature, in technology, or in art." I love this woman, bet she'd be fascinating to be around! She has it in one, the key is ARRAYS to scale up very weak effects. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #12 04/28/11 - Mars atmosphere was much denser in the past Scientists have discovered that the atmosphere of Mars may have been denser than it is currently and contained liquid water, according to a study published on Thursday (21) in the scientific journal Science. The study reveals that the Red Planet's atmosph ere was much denser in the past. Fragments of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) found in the south polar region of Mars demonstrated this fact. These new findings provide evidence that the south pole is home to 30 times more dry ice than previously thought. The results add to a series of recent studies suggesting that, in the past, Mars had a denser atmosphere full of carbon dioxide and water. The authors of the study show that during periods of high polar inclination, most of the frozen carbon dioxide coul d have melted and been released into the atmosphere. When the axis of Mars tilts, its poles receive enough sunlight to thaw any ice. The carbon dioxide released would have made the atmosphere more dense, due to the formation of frequent and intense dust s torms, and would have allowed water to remain liquid without boiling in more regions of the Martian surface, the researchers note. - Full Article Source ITEM #13 04/28/11 - New Condiment Tastes Like Meat (Apr, 1931) A WHITE powder that tastes like the juice of red meat yet can be eaten by the strictest vegetarian, since it has no trace of meat in it but is made from the gluten of flour, is announced by A. D. Little, Inc., Boston chemical engineers, as increasing in p opularity in Japan and China and as now being introduced into the United States. It is a chemical called sodium glutamate made by boiling gluten from wheat flour for hours with strong hydrochloric acid, neutralizing with soda and allowing the resulting sa lt to crystallize. There is obtained a fine white powder resembling baking soda which keeps well and may be used in an ordinary shaker like salt. Side Effects of Monosodium Glutamate - While food additives aren't unusual (for instance, salt is an additive), it is rare to include a food a dditive that can actually cause severe health problems. Some of the side effects of consuming MSG include: burning sensations in the back, neck, chest; paralysis; numbness in the same areas; tingling or warmth in the face, arms or back; nausea; facial tig htness; rapid heartbeat; chest pains, asthma attacks; drowsiness or cravings for other foods. Reactions to MSG may happen at any time, from right after MSG is consumed to up to two days later. Some studies have suggested that glutamic acid, of which MSG f orms the sodium salt, can cause brain lesions. So far, this has been shown only in animals and at very large doses. - Full Article Source ITEM #14 04/28/11 - Horrific global food crisis is looming In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen. Crazy weather and horrifyin g natural disasters have played havoc with agricultural production in many areas of the globe over the past couple of years. Meanwhile, the price of oil has begun to skyrocket. The entire global economy is predicated on the ability to use massive amount s of inexpensive oil to cheaply produce food and other goods and transport them over vast distances. Without cheap oil the whole game changes. Topsoil is being depleted at a staggering rate and key aquifers all over the world are being drained at an ala rming pace. Global food prices are already at an all-time high and they continue to move up aggressively. So what is going to happen to our world when hundreds of millions more people cannot afford to feed themselves? Most Americans are so accustomed to supermarkets that are absolutely packed to the gills with massive amounts of really inexpensive food that they cannot even imagine that life could be any other way. Unfortunately, that era is ending. There are all kinds of indications that we are now en tering a time when there will not be nearly enough food for everyone in the world. The following are 20 signs that a horrific global food crisis is coming; #1 According to the World Bank, 44 million people around the globe have been pushed into extreme poverty since last June because of rising food prices. #2 The world is losing topsoil at an astounding rate. In fact, according to Lester Brown, "one third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming through natural processes". #3 Due to U.S. ethanol subsidies, almost a third of all corn grown in the United States is now used for fuel. This is putting a lot of stress on the price of corn. #4 Due to a lack of water, some countries in the Middle East find themselves forced to almost totally rely on other nations for basic food staples. For example, it is being projected that there will be no more wheat production in Saudi Arabia by the year 2012. #5 Water tables all over the globe are being depleted at an alarming rate due to "overpumping". According to the World Bank, there are 130 million people in China and 175 million people in India that are being fed with grain with water that is being pump ed out of aquifers faster than it can be replaced. So what happens once all of that water is gone? #6 In the United States, the systematic depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer could eventually turn "America's Breadbasket" back into the "Dust Bowl". #7 Diseases such as UG99 wheat rust are wiping out increasingly large segments of the world food supply. #8 The tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan have rendered vast agricultural areas in that nation unusable. In fact, there are many that believe that eventually a significant portion of northern Japan will be considered to be uninhabitable. Not only that, many are now convinced that the Japanese economy, the third largest economy in the world, is likely to totally collapse as a result of all this. #9 The price of oil may be the biggest factor on this list. The way that we produce our food is very heavily dependent on oil. The way that we transport our food is very heavily dependent on oil. When you have skyrocketing oil prices, our entire food p roduction system becomes much more expensive. If the price of oil continues to stay high, we are going to see much higher food prices and some forms of food production will no longer make economic sense at all. #10 At some point the world could experience a very serious fertilizer shortage. According to scientists with the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative, the world is not going to have enough phosphorous to meet agricultural demand in just 30 to 40 years. #11 Food inflation is already devastating many economies around the globe. For example, India is dealing with an annual food inflation rate of 18 percent. #12 According to the United Nations, the global price of food reached a new all-time high in February. #13 According to the World Bank, the global price of food has risen 36% over the past 12 months. #14 The commodity price of wheat has approximately doubled since last summer. #15 The commodity price of corn has also about doubled since last summer. #16 The commodity price of soybeans is up about 50% since last June. #17 The commodity price of orange juice has doubled since 2009. #18 There are about 3 billion people around the globe that live on the equivalent of 2 dollars a day or less and the world was already on the verge of economic disaster before this year even began. #19 2011 has already been one of the craziest years since World War 2. Revolutions have swept across the Middle East, the United States has gotten involved in the civil war in Libya, Europe is on the verge of a financial meltdown and the U.S. dollar is d ying. None of this is good news for global food production. #20 There have been persistent rumors of shortages at some of the biggest suppliers of emergency food in the United States. The following is an excerpt from a recent "special alert" posted on Raiders News Network.... As competition for food supplies increases, food prices are going to go up. In fact, at some point they are going to go way up. - Full Article Source ITEM #15 04/28/11 - SpaceX Aims To Put Man On Mars In 10-20 Years "SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years. From the article: '"We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."'" (ROFL...with ROCKETS...idiots...fund my lab and we'll have gravity control and oh so much more. We keep screwing up the planet more and more, time to move off planet and that means we need gravity control and free energy for starters. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #16 04/28/11 - New Tool Hides Data In Plain Sight On HDDs "A group of researchers has developed a new application that can hide sensitive data on a hard drive without encrypting it or leaving any obvious signs that the data is present. The new steganography system relies on the old principle of hiding valuables in plain sight. Developed by a group of academic researchers in the US and Pakistan, the system can be used to embed secret data in existing structures on a given HDD by taking advantage of the way file systems are designed and implemented. The software d oes this by breaking a file to be hidden into a number of fragments and placing the individual pieces in clusters scattered around the hard drive." - Full Article Source ITEM #17 04/28/11 - Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice "bama had a town hall meeting at Facebook's headquarters last week and said that he wanted to encourage females and minorities to pursue STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). However, Pastabagel writes that the need for Ame rican students to study STEM is one of the tired refrains in modern American politics and that plenty of people already study science, but they don't work in science. 'MIT grads are more likely to end up in the financial industry, where quants and traders are very well compensated, than in the semiconductor industry where the spectre of outsourcing to India and Asia will hang over their heads for their entire career.' Philip Greenspun adds that science can be fun, but considered as a career, science suffers by comparison to the professions and the business world. 'The average scientist that I encounter expresses bitterness about (a) low pay, (b) not getting enough credit or references to his or her work, (c) not knowing where the next job is coming from, (d) not having enough money or job security to get married and/or have children,' writes Greenspun. 'Pursuing science as a career seems so irrational that one wonders why any young American would do it.'" (And the idiot government planners put out 130 million for energy research and blow 663.8 billion (in 2010) for useless, endless wars and military spending...country is going to hell in a handbasket and dragging down the whole world, American childr en are dumber than ever with little or no interest in science and we can't stop messing in other countries business and destroying our own in the process. What annoys me is many of the root causes for all these problems are identified and recognized but there is rarely if ever a concerted, organized effort to correct them. President Dwight Eisenhower was absolutely PRESCIENT in his warnings about science , freedom, industry and the threat from the military/industrial complex as in the excellent sound archives below. You've probably heard the small excerpt but it would behoove all of us to listen to and heed with all seriousness the entire speech. There will come a time when people say enough..what form will it take, marches or armed revolution, we shall see. - JWD ) - Full Article Source ITEM #18 04/28/11 - Can we Cure Aging? I have collected several novel methods which offer promise for controlled apoptosis (cellular death), enhanced iontophoresis (transfer of matter between tissues using ions), reprogramming and amplifying of the body's bio-plasma and overall increase of sys temic energy to facilitate age regression and even rejuvenation. Our bodies begin to die somewhere between 18 to 22 years of age. No longer can we eat anything we wish, stay up many hours without sleep, require only a few hours for rest or heal easily fro m serious damage to the body. The body changes from growing up to growing out as we begin to collect toxins, fat and dead or dying tissue which can replicate themselves to create disease and malfunction in the body. In addition, I believe this accumulatio n of toxins and damaged tissues lowers not only the intracellular energy, but also the overall body energy level. Thus begins the downward death spiral, slowly decreasing our energy and destroying our health as our tight birth spiral unwinds to eventually terminate our life. - Full Article Source America’s Population of 100 Year Olds is Booming - The rising number of centenarians is not just a byproduct of the nation’s grow ing population — they make up a bigger chunk of it. In 1990, about 15 in every 100,000 Americans had reached 100; in 2010, it was more than 23 per 100,000, according to census figures. Perls said the rise in 100-year-olds is attributed largely to better m edical care and the dramatic drop in childhood-mortality rates since the early 1900s. Centenarians also have good genes on their side, he said, and have made common-sense health decisions, such as not smoking and keeping their weight down. Peters Adler ca utioned against growing too accustomed to centenarians, saying they still deserve to be recognized. After all, census estimates indicate they represent only about one out of every 4,300 Americans. (For myself, I prefer QUALITY over QUANTITY. What is the point if we are feeble, can't walk or take care of ourselves or spend our time consuming resources and not growing and improving ourselves, whether from just being lazy, content or too worn ou t to physically do anything. - JWD) ITEM #19 04/28/11 - When will Obama crack in public? At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie, Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs, Obama said, "Get used to it" – and with an i nsouciant grin and chortle, he told another person at the event, who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family, to "get a more fuel-efficient car." The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington. And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they're spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf. Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States. The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it's so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order "to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don't have to sacrifice the America we believe in. " The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they've never had two nickels to rub together – and now, having hit the mother lode, they're going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers' exp ense. Steve McCann wrote: Obama's speech "was chock full of lies, deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most dishonest, deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed" ("The Mendacity of Barack Obama, " AmericanThinker.com, April 15, 2011). McCann continued: "[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in t he bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character f laws his entire life, aided and abetted by sycophants around him. …" - Full Article Source ITEM #20 04/28/11 - NASA Fires Up Jet Fuel That Tastes Like Chicken "It may never make it into everyday jet-fighter use, but NASA is checking out biofuel made from chicken and beef fat. The chicken fat fuel, known as Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel, was burned in the engine of a DC-8 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Cente r as part of its Alternative Aviation Fuels Experiment, which is looking at developing all manner of biofuel alternatives to traditional Jet Propellant 8. The DC-8 is used as a test vehicle because its engine operations are well-documented and well-unders tood, NASA says." - Full Article Source ITEM #21 04/28/11 - Ear Size Related To Age Old men have big ears, is the consensus of several medical studies. But in Japan and in Germany, wide-ranging investigations have made plain a long-untold half of the story: that old women also have big ears.?/ The British action played out in the British Medical Journal, where body parts are always of interest. In 1993, Dr James A Heathcote, a general practitioner in Bromley, Kent, set out to answer the question, “as you get older do your ears get bigger?” - Full Article Source ITEM #22 04/28/11 - NASA Looking To Build 'Gas' Stations In Space "Fuel is a major issue when it comes to long-duration spaceflights — its weight is a problem for launch and once a spacecraft runs out of fuel there's no place to get more. That's where in-space 'gas' stations located at strategic spots along a route woul d be a boon to spaceflight. Which is exactly what NASA is looking to do by beginning to solicit proposals for what it calls an In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer Demonstration that will lay the groundwork for humans to safely reach multipl e destinations, including the Moon, asteroids, Lagrange points and Mars." - Full Article Source ITEM #23 04/28/11 - Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors SEWilco pointed out that the last typewriter factory has shut its doors. Indian typewriter manufacturer Godrej and Boyce stopped production today after 60 years. The company's general manager, Milind Dukle, says, "We are not getting many orders now. From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us." / "Although typewriters became obsolete years ago in the west, they were still common in India -- until recently," according to the Daily Mail, which ran a special story this morning about the typewriters demise. "Demand for the machines has sunk in the last ten years as consumers switch to computers." Secretaries, rejoice. "We are not getting many orders now," Milind Dukle, G odrej and Boyce's general manager, told the paper. "From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us. 'Till 2009, we used to produce 10,000 to 12,000 machines a year. But this might be the last chance for typewriter lovers. Now, our primary market is among the defence agencies, courts and government offices." Godrej and Boyce has been around for about 60 years now, having opened in a time when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Ne hru celebrated the typewriter as a "symbol of India's emerging independence and industrialisation." For decades, the company was producing -- and selling -- tens of thousands of units annually. It the early 1990s, the Daily Mail points out, it was still a ble to sell 50,000 machines. In less than 20 years, though, that number dropped to fewer than 800. There's still a market, albeit a (very) small one. And we're not enough to sustain an industry. - Full Article Source ITEM #24 04/28/11 - Copyright Law Is Killing Science "Whereas copyright tends to focus on protecting artists' ability to make money from their work, scientists don't use similar incentives. And yet, her work is often kept within the gates of the ivory tower, reserved for those whose universities or institut ions have purchased access, often at high costs. And for science in the age of the internet, which wants ideas to spread as widely as possible to encourage more creativity and development, this isn't just bad: it's immoral." - Full Article Source ITEM #25 04/28/11 - Artificial Synapse Created For Synthetic Brain "It's probably still going to be a while before autonomous, self-aware androids are wandering amongst us. That scenario has come a little closer to reality, however, with researchers from the University of Southern California having created a functioning synapse circuit using carbon nanotubes. An artificial version of the connections that allow electrical impulses to pass between neurons in our brains, the circuit could someday be one component of a synthetic brain." - Full Article Source ITEM #26 04/28/11 - Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record "US Submarines CEO Bruce Jones and his team have just announced that they've developed new technology for a submersible that could take ocean explorers 36,000 feet deep, to the bottom of the Pacific's Mariana Trench." - Full Article Source ITEM #27 04/28/11 - China Plans Space Station By 2020 "China unveiled plans for its own space station, to be completed by 2020, along with a cargo ship to ferry supplies to and from orbit. The fact that the country is proposing one is a sign of the Chinese government's ambitions in space. China is the third nation to launch its own manned rockets into space, sending its first astronaut into orbit in 2003 aboard the Shenzhou 5 rocket. Since then two other manned missions have been launched." / An 18.1-meter-long core module, with a maximum diameter of 4.2 met ers and weighing 20 to 22 tons, will be launched first. Two experiment modules will then be launched and dock with the core module. Each laboratory module will be 14.4 meters long, with the same maximum diameter and weight of the core module. The proposed space station is smaller than the International Space Station, which consists of 16 pressurized modules and weighs in at 419 metric tons. The Russian Mir space station weighed 130 metric tons. - Full Article Source ITEM #28 04/28/11 - Feds To Remotely Uninstall Bot From Some PCs "Federal authorities will remotely uninstall the Coreflood botnet Trojan from some infected Windows PCs over the next four weeks. Coreflood will be removed from infected computers only when the owners have been identified by the DOJ and they have submitte d an authorization form to the FBI. The DOJ's plan to uninstall Coreflood is the latest step in a coordinated campaign to cripple the botnet, which controls more than 2 million compromised computers. The remote wipe move will require consent, and the acti on does does come with warnings from the court that provided the injunction against the botnet, however. 'While the 'uninstall' command has been tested by the FBI and appears to work, it is nevertheless possible that the execution of the 'uninstall' comma nd may produce unanticipated consequences, including damage to the infected computers,' the authorization form reads. FBI Special Agent Briana Neumiller said, 'The process does not affect any user files on an infected computer, nor does it ... access any data on the infected computer.' The DOJ and FBI did not say how many machines it has identified as candidates for its uninstall strategy, but told the judge that FBI field offices would be notifying affected people, companies and organizations." - Full Article Source ITEM #29 04/28/11 - China's High-Speed Trains Coming Off the Rails "The Washington Post reports that China's expanding network of ultramodern high-speed trains is coming under growing scrutiny over costs and because of concerns that builders ignored safety standards in the quest to build faster trains in record time as n ew leadership at the Railways Ministry announced that to enhance safety, the top speed of all trains was being decreased from about 218 mph to 186. Without elaborating, the ministry called the safety situation 'severe' and said it was launching safety che cks along the entire network of tracks. Meanwhile China's Finance Ministry announced that the Railways Ministry continues to lose money as the ministry's debt stands at $276 billion, almost all borrowed from Chinese banks. 'In China, we will have a debt c risis — a high-speed rail debt crisis,' says Zhao Jian, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and longtime critic of high-speed rail who worries that the cost of the project might have created a hidden debt bomb that threatens China's banking system. 'I think it is more serious than your subprime mortgage crisis. You can always leave a house or use it. The rail system is there. It's a burden. You must operate the rail system, and when you operate it, the cost is very high.'" - Full Article Source ITEM #30 04/25/11 - Google Will Save Videos After All "After Google announced it would permanently shutter its Google Videos collection, dozens of volunteers from around the world sprung into action in a massive effort to make a copy of the entire site. It was originally slated to go dark on April 29th, but now they have eliminated any such deadline and furthermore they will be migrating the collection to YouTube. We wish Google would have planned to do that from the beginning, but ultimately this is a victory for the preservation of user-generated content o n the Internet." - Full Article Source ITEM #31 04/25/11 - How bad is it? March 12th, before the disinformation scramble to hush this up. www.beyondnuclear.org has a potential fallout exposure map I found this information below from an atomic bomb blast for example: 0-50 rads - No obvious short-term effects 80-120 rads - You have a 10% chance of vomiting and experiencing nausea for a few days 130 -170 rads - You have a 25% chance of vomiting and contracting other symptoms 180-220 rads - You have a 50% chance of vomiting and having other severe physical effects 270-330 rads - 20% chance of death in 6 weeks, or you will recover in a few months. 400-500 rads - 50% chance of death 550-750 rads - Nausea within a few hours ; no survivors 1000 rads - immediate incapacitation and death within a week or less. There could be many errors in this so don't freak out just yet. What is posted here is information I found on the internet so you can take that for what it's worth as to reliability. - Full Article Source ITEM #32 04/25/11 - Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information" "The Japanese government says that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send letters of request to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. The measures include erasing any infor mation from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality." - Full Article Source ITEM #33 04/25/11 - Engineer claims oil burner energy solution Eric LaVoie says he has figured out a way to get more heat and less soot from the oil that heats many houses in New England, and his new contraption - which is only sold in New Hampshire - will keep toxic pollutants out of the air while reducing the amoun t of oil needed to heat homes and offices. How did you come up with the idea? I saw somebody burning waste motor oil at a garage that does tune-ups. . . . Some garages burn the used motor oil and transmission fluid to heat the garage. (The garage owner) h ad kind of an expensive operation going with a lot of apparatuses to try to make the system burn clean, but it wasn't clean and would often fail. I started putting my thoughts together, and within two days I put an idea together in paper. Within four mont hs I had built a working prototype. How does it work? The science basically is that we are using a much higher pressure. The pressure in a traditional system is about 100 pounds per square inch. In the Burner Booster, it's between 1,000 and 1,600 (pounds per square inch). The other part of it is that the fuel oil is heated, warmed up to enhance the atomization. It becomes a fine mist, compared to fine droplets in other burners. The droplets take longer to burn, travels in the boiler and once you put heat in the chimney, it's not doing any good except warming the town you live in. And those emissions that you're sending up the stack are more toxic if they aren't burned in the combustion chamber. (The Burner Booster) keeps the heat inside the center of comb ustion chamber, and the mist burns up quickly. It's a cleaner burn. - Full Article Source ITEM #34 04/25/11 - Texas governor proclaims three days of "Prayer for Rain" Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) today issued a proclamation calling upon Texans to pray for rain from Friday to Sunday, April 24, in order to combat the state's "exceptional drought." WHEREAS, the state of Texas is in the midst of an exceptional drought, with some parts of the state receiving no significant rainfall for almost three months, matching rainfall deficit records dating back to the 1930s ... NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the Stat e of Texas. I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions to offer prayers on that day for the healing of our land, the rebuilding of our communities and the restoration of our normal way of life. (Clearly he thinks we Texans are collectivelly too stupid and inept to take responsibility for 'healing our land (that we screwed up), rebuilding our communities (that we screwed up) and restoring our normal way of life (also that we screwed up)'. It reminds me of believers who await the Rapture...many I have spoken with say 'What is the Point?' of trying to fix our world and make things better for all, BECAUSE when the Rapture comes, Jesus will fix it all up for us...right.... Like Dixie Carter in Designing Women says, IT HAS BEEN THE MEN who have screwed up our world, not god(s), not women, not children. - JWD) (As a native 4th generation Texan, I find this embarrassing, primitive and pathetic... Praying to any 'god' to bail us out from our own stupidity is ridiculous enough but a 'god' from overseas? Wouldn't it be better to also pray to the Mexican 'rain god Tlaloc', or the American Indian rain god 'Kokopelli' or the Maya rain god 'Chac' just to cover our bases? I'd much prefer modern, educated, intelligent politicians who don't believe in fairy tales and who would be makin every effort to use rain making technology such as has proven so successful for the Russians, Chinese and now the Saudis instead of promot ing such nonsense. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #35 04/25/11 - Older Workers Are More Productive Than Younger Employees More mature members of staff may be weaker and less agile than their junior counterparts, but they more than compensate with their greater experience, ability to work in teams, and success at coping when things go wrong. The researchers say: ‘While older workers make more errors, perhaps due to declining physical attributes, they hardly make any severe errors, perhaps due to more experience. ‘It is experience that prevents severe errors.’ The scientists who studied production lines at a Mercedes-Benz truc k factory in southern Germany also found that younger, more highly educated workers were less productive than those who had fewer qualifications – perhaps because the educated workers got bored more easily. The researchers, from the University of Mannheim , said their findings debunked the idea that older workers should be made redundant to boost productivity. They write: ‘In many countries, lower productivity among older workers is used as a motivation for early retirement policies. ‘If this were true, th e ageing populations in many developed countries would have negative effects on overall productivity. These results cast doubt on such beliefs.’ - Full Article Source ITEM #36 04/25/11 - Electric Motorcycle Gets 185 Miles on a Charge The Sora is a new electric motorcycle by Lito Green Motion, a Canadian company. It looks fairly badass and thanks to its 12 kWh advanced lithium-polymer batteries, it has an electric range of 300 kilometers (185 miles) and a top speed of 200 kph (124 mph) . Read on for more specs and photos. - Full Article Source ITEM #37 04/25/11 - Energy Saving Light Bulbs May Cause Cancer Energy saving light bulbs should not be left on for long periods or be positioned near a person’s head as they emit poisonous substances. German scientists said toxins like phenol, naphthalene and styrene, were released when the supposedly green compact f luorescent lamps (CFLs) were switched on. Andreas Kirchner, of the Federation of German Engineers, said: “Electrical smog develops around these lamps. “I, therefore, use them only very economically. They should not be used in unventilated areas and defini tely not in the proximity of the head.” The latest report follows claims by Abraham Haim, professor of biology at Haifa University in Israel, that the bulbs could result in higher breast cancer rates if used late at night. He said the bluer light that CFL s emitted closely mimicked daylight, disrupting the body’s production of the hormone melatonin more than older-style filament bulbs, which cast a yellower light. The Migraine Action Association has warned they could trigger migraines and skin care special ists have claimed their intense light could exacerbate a range of existing skin problems. - Full Article Source ITEM #38 04/25/11 - Distributed solar approaches grid parity Grid parity is an approaching target for distributed solar power, and can be helped along with smarter electricity pricing policy. For some marginal prices, solar PV is cheaper than grid electricity when coupled with the federal tax credit. What is solar\ 's competition?Click for a larger version.Over the course of the year, solar is not less than grid electricity. A very rough calculation of the expected time of day production of a solar array in Los Angeles finds that the average value of a solar-produce d kilowatt-hour is 15.1 cents over a year. That suggests that solar power is not yet at grid parity, even with time-of-use pricing. There are other considerations, as well. For one, there are additional incentives for solar power, including federal accele rated depreciation (for commercially-owned systems) as well as state and utility incentive programs. These programs substitute taxpayer dollars for ratepayer ones, making the cost of solar to the grid lower. - Full Article Source ITEM #39 04/25/11 - Nerf mind bullets [Chris] thinks that using your brain to control your trigger finger is a passé way of operating a toy firearm. Instead, he’s using his mind to fire foam bullets at whatever he thinks needs to pretend-die. To read his will, he’s chosen the Neurosky MindWav e, a device that we just looked at for servo control. That hack shows how to patch into the USB dongle that comes with the device, but [Chris] opted to use a BlueSMiRF module from Sparkfun to connect the headset to an Arduino via Bluetooth. The rest of th e hack involves modifying the gun for automatic firing. It’s a Nerf Stampede, which takes six D-cells to power the electrical firing system. [Chris] didn’t want to carry that weight around in the body of the weapon itself so he installed a port for extern al power and added a firing mechanism at the same time. It uses relays to complete the circuit normally operated by the trigger. Now logic-level signals have no problem dispensing justice from the brightly-colored device. - Full Article Source ITEM #40 04/25/11 - Functioning Synapse Created Using Carbon Nanotubes Carbon nanotubes are molecular carbon structures that are extremely small, with a diameter a million times smaller than a pencil point. These nanotubes can be used in electronic circuits, acting as metallic conductors or semiconductors. "This is a necessa ry first step in the process," said Parker, who began the looking at the possibility of developing a synthetic brain in 2006. "We wanted to answer the question: Can you build a circuit that would act like a neuron? The next step is even more complex. How can we build structures out of these circuits that mimic the function of the brain, which has 100 billion neurons and 10,000 synapses per neuron?" Parker emphasized that the actual development of a synthetic brain, or even a functional brain area is decad es away, and she said the next hurdle for the research centers on reproducing brain plasticity in the circuits. The human brain continually produces new neurons, makes new connections and adapts throughout life, and creating this process through analog ci rcuits will be a monumental task, according to Parker. - Full Article Source ITEM #41 04/25/11 - Have Fun Putting Out Candles - Full Article Source ITEM #42 04/25/11 - Court Rulings Depend On Food Shai Danziger of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and his colleagues followed eight Israeli judges for ten months as they ruled on over 1,000 applications made by prisoners to parole boards. The plaintiffs were asking either to be allowed out on parole or to have the conditions of their incarceration changed. The team found that, at the start of the day, the judges granted around two-thirds of the applications before them. As the hours passed, that number fell sharply (see chart), eventually reaching ze ro. But clemency returned after each of two daily breaks, during which the judges retired for food. The approval rate shot back up to near its original value, before falling again as the day wore on. - Full Article Source ITEM #43 04/25/11 - Opening Up the Brain with Ultrasound The cells lining the brain's blood vessels are tightly packed together—like a good defensive line, they keep bacteria and other blood-borne intruders from getting through, shielding the brain. But this protective layer, called the blood-brain barrier, als o thwarts efforts to deliver drugs like chemotherapy agents to the brain, so scientists have long searched for ways to disrupt it selectively to allow treatments in. A startup company called Perfusion Technology is developing a technique to open this barr ier by bathing the brain in ultrasound waves. Perfusion Technology is developing a headset that would deliver ultrasound waves throughout the brain, allowing cancer drugs or other large molecules to slip through the blood-brain barrier. A section o f a monkey's brain after treatment with the device shows that it allowed a chemical marker (brown) to penetrate the brain. (For those who know the history of AIDS, and that Joan McKenna found over 80% of AIDS cases are in fact third and fourth stage syphilis. You see back around 1970-1972, the drug companies changed from water based penicillin to oil based penicillin. Cheaper to make of course and you can give massive doses of the oil based penicillin. "Penicillin may be administered intramuscularly, intravenously, intrathecally, topically and orally. Penicillin in oil suspension may be injected in very large doses: 300,000 units, intramuscularly, and the effect will extend over two or three days." The problem is, the oil molecules are so big they don't allow the penicillin they carry to penetrate the blood brain barrier, so syphilis hides inside the brain where it mutates and putresces and produces many of the symptoms identified as AIDS. Syphilis was once called 'the Great Pretender' because it produced a variety of symptoms that were often misdiagnosed when in fact the cause was syphilis. So from about 1972, AIDS cases proliferated because many cases are in fact syphilis which is easi ly destroyed by using aqueous penicillin (water-based). This new method of using ultrasound to inject drugs past the blood brain barrier could make it easier to inject either Oil based or Aqueous penicillin into the brain to eliminate AIDS-like symptoms and cure the patient.) - Full Article Source ITEM #44 04/25/11 - Soil Lamp: Grow Your Own Light Environmentally friendly energy.. forever! All you have to do is water it. Literally. Soil Lamp is an invention of the Dutch designer Marieke Staps and it consists of an LED bulb planted in.. mud. The mud is enclosed in cells which contain zinc and copper that conduct electricity generated by the metabolism of biological life. - Full Article Source ITEM #45 04/25/11 - Infrared digital camera ThinkGeek has an infrared point-and-shoot digital camera in stock for $130: "You'll notice that during the daytime in night vision mode you can see through some types of clothing, paper and other various thin materials. ... Important Note: Respect the pri vacy of your fellow humans and don't use the Midnight Shot NV-1 Night Vision Camera for evil." / The Midnight Shot NV-1 Night Vision Camera is switchable between standard photography mode and infrared night-shot mode. When you enter night-shot the infrare d blocking filter normally over the lens retracts to let all infrared light through, at the same time a super-bright IR LED invisibly illuminates (to your eyes) the entire scene. - Full Article Source ITEM #46 04/25/11 - Graphene Super Paper Is 10x Stronger Than Steel "The University of Technology in Sydney recently unveiled a new type of graphene nano paper that is ten times stronger than a sheet of steel. Composed of processed and pressed graphite, the material is as thin as a sheet of paper yet incredible durable — this strength and thinness gives it remarkable applications in many industries, and it is completely recyclable to boot." - Full Article Source ITEM #47 04/25/11 - The Space Station As a Simulated Mars Mission? "NASA is looking at using the International Space Station as a testbed for a human mission to Mars, beginning with a planned week-long simulation to be staged next summer. Preliminary tests would involve working on systems that give astronauts more autono my, perhaps culminating in a full mission analog, sealing a crew inside a separate module of the station with minimal interaction with the rest of the station and mission control. 'We want to use the space station as a way to get smarter about what a miss ion to Mars or a mission to an asteroid might look like,' space station flight controller Pete Hasbrook told Discovery News." - Full Article Source ITEM #48 04/25/11 - Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam "The entertainment and electronics industries keep trying to push 3D on consumers, even though a lot of smart people have caught on to the fact that it is a scam and not innovation as the industry would like you to believe. From the article: 'This is a ba d experiment that the industry is forcing consumers to subsidize. And since they can’t create a better product, they’ve simply latched on to 3D as a marketing ploy that the entertainment and electronics industries can use to trick people into thinking tha t they are getting a superior experience. It’s only working because just enough people are falling for the scam to keep it alive.'" - Full Article Source ITEM #49 04/25/11 - EV Fast-Charging Standards In Flux "With the first battery electric vehicles becoming available on markets worldwide, there is an increased push to establish standards for fast-charging plugs. Unfortunately, the story is far from simple. The US hopes to establish its own DC fast-charging s tandard by 2012, and Europe cannot come to an agreement about their version. Meanwhile, the CHAdeMO fast-charge standard developed and widely deployed in Japan, used on both the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi MiEV, is gaining momentum with deployments underwa y both in the US and Europe. CHAdeMO is limited to a 62kW charge rate, able to charge smaller battery packs to 80% SoC in 15-30 minutes." - Full Article Source ITEM #50 04/25/11 - Render frosted glass transparent with Scotch tape TheFarmacyMan discovered that his workplace frosted glass privacy screen could be rendered transparent by applying a piece of Scotch tape to it. A useful detail for anyone planning a caper novel or a robbery. A user called rawnoodles10 posits "..the glue on the tape fills in the small imperfections on the surface of the glass. Since the glass, the glue, and the tape are clear, filling in the imperfections (the frosting) makes? the glass clear." - Full Article Source ITEM #51 04/25/11 - Solar Panels Increase Home Value "Venture Beat reports that a study (PDF) by Berkeley National Labs has found that homes sold in California earned a premium for solar panels. The benefit ranged from $3900 to $6400 per kW of capacity. An earlier study found that proximity to solar or wind power may also raise home values. These results contradict the arguments based on degrading home values used by putative NIMBY (Not In My Back-Yard) opponents to installing or living near such energy-generating equipment." - Full Article Source ITEM #52 04/25/11 - Wal-Mart Tests Online Grocery Delivery "The world's biggest retailer had been rumored to be considering dipping its toe into online grocery delivery for the past few years. The 'Walmart To Go' test allows customers to visit Walmart.com to order groceries and consumables found in a Walmart stor e and have them delivered to their homes, the spokesman said. Products include fresh produce, meat and seafood, frozen, bakery, baby, over-the-counter pharmacy, household supplies and health and beauty items." - Full Article Source ITEM #53 04/25/11 - Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car "With fuel prices rising like crazy, a man from Kentucky came up with a solution to high gas prices. 62-year-old Mickey Nilsson, of Bardstown, Kentucky, made a bourbon-powered junk car. He got the idea from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Nilsson said that his inspiration came from a character played by Dick Van Dyke in the classic Disney movie." / It took Nilsson approximately six months to manufacture the vehicle which actually runs on a $24 (EUR16.5) Makers Mark bottle of bourbon. “The car will run on almost any bourbon, but she really purrs on Maker’s Mark,” said Nilsson. - Full Article Source ITEM #54 04/25/11 - Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill "In an attempt to rationalize and give focus to NASA's human space flight program, Rep. Bill Posey, Republican of Florida, has introduced a bill that will direct the space agency to send astronauts back to the Moon with a goal of permanent habitation of E arth's nearest neighbor." / The key wording of the legislation is a directive to NASA to plan to return to the moon. "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall plan to return to the moon by 2022 and develop a sustained human presence on the moon in order to promote exploration, commerce, science and United States preeminence in space as a stepping stone for the future exploration of Mars and other destinations. The budget requests and expenditures of the National Aeronautics and Space Admini stration shall be consistent with achieving this goal." The bill has a list of findings that spell out the reason why the primary mission of NASA should be a return to the moon. These range from developing technology to enhancing national security. The cu rious omission, often cited by supporters of a return to the moon, is resource utilization. The discovery of water and other resources on the moon suggest that it is not only a suitable venue for a human settlement, but also as a refueling stop for spacec raft bound for other destinations in the solar system. - Full Article Source ITEM #55 04/25/11 - US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects "Taking aim at developing some progressive energy technologies the US Department of Energy said it will write a $130 million check to develop five areas, including plants engineered to replace oil, thermal power storage, rare earth alternatives and what i t calls the energy equivalent of an Internet router." (This is PATHETIC, we NEED to spend at LEAST 1/10th of what we BLOW on military for energy research. For 2010 = $663.8 BILLION / 10 = $66,000 Million MORE BETTER than measly $130 Million! - JWD) I'm pretty sure most of the wars and interference the US exerts in other countries is for OIL and control of their natural resources. Like the old Russian joke, 'What's mine is mine and what's your's is negotiable.' So doesn't it make sense that by foc using way more money on new energy sources, we could stop all these fake wars in the name of 'terrorism'? The problem is what Ike warned about the military/industrial complex...war makes lots of money so what they need to do is figure out how to use these new energy sources to make that kind of money. - Full Article Source ITEM #56 04/25/11 - The Art of the Animated GIF "Some artists work in oils, some in pastels, some in acrylics. Photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg? Their medium of choice is animated GIFs. 'We wanted to tell more of a story than a single still frame photograph but didn't want the high maintenance aspect of a video,' said the two of their unusual collaboration. Needless to say, these are not your father's GeoCities 'Under Construction' GIFs — it can take several hours of manual editing for Beck and Burg to breathe the whisper o f life into each image." - Full Article Source ITEM #57 04/22/11 - Massive doses of Vitamin C to cure & heal The amazing story of a King Country dairy farmer who caught swine flu and very nearly died. Massive doses of liquid Vitamin C cured his terminal condition. (My Tweets on this; Lypo-SphericTM Vitamin C — most powerful form - pack of 30 - $39.95; http://shiloka.ning.com/forum/topics/breakthrough-lypospherictm where to buy Lypo-SphericTM Vitamin C proven many times more powerful than all other oral forms of Vitamin C; http://www.livonlabs.com you can also buy 1000mg Vitamin C tablets at Walmart & other pharmacies for about $8-$10 for 100 tablets, much cheaper than lypo-spheric clean & heal cardiovascular problems with off-the-shelf megadoses (4-6 GRAMS) of Vitamin C & Lysine; http://keelynet.com/biology/plaque.htm You'll note in that cardiovasular tweet that my friends doctor source said to take GRAMS where 1 Gram = 1000mg...it's a lot of pills but to clean out the arteries and help heal the body, sounds to me like its worth it. Why do we not have cures for s o many illnesses? Because if people are cured, what would doctors and big hospitals have to do if they can't keep'em'sick and paying. In Mexico, you can go to many farmacias such as the Farmacias Similares which have an attending doctor onsite. For about 20-25 pesos ($2US) he or she will check you out for whatever ails you, give you a recommendation and a prescription which you can h ave filled next door using very cheap, but equally effective generic medicines including vaccinations. Anywhere from $2 up to $15 is the absolute most I've ever paid there and always I am healed in 2-3 days (or less). Some of them are miracle workers and can tell you in minutes exactly what your problem is and what you need to take or do to fix it. Please consult your doctor before trying any of the items reported here solely for your information and edification. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #58 04/22/11 - A World Without Cancer - The Story Of Vitamin B17 (and Vitamin C) G. Edward Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease - like scurvy or pellagra - aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modern man's diet. That substance is vitamin B17. In its purified form developed for cancer the rapy, it is known as Laetrile. This story is not approved by orthodox medicine. The FDA, the AMA, and The American Cancer Society have labeled it fraud and quackery. Yet the evidence is clear that here, at last, is the final answer to the cancer riddle. W hy has orthodox medicine waged war against this non-drug approach? The author contends that the answer is to be found, not in science, but in politics - and is based upon the hidden economic and power agenda of those who dominate the medical establishment . With billions of dollars spent each year on research, with other billions taken in on the sale of cancer-related drugs, and with fund-raising at an all-time high, there are now more people making a living from cancer than dying from it. If the solution should be found in a simple vitamin, this gigantic industry could be wiped out over night. The result is that the politics of cancer therapy is more complicated than the science. (You can download the book as a .pdf at the link. - thanks to Pat Kirol for the correction and source. - JWD) - Full Article Source Google Video - World without Cancer - to be removed April 29th, 2011 Youtubes - A World Without Cancer (part 1 of 6) ITEM #59 04/21/11 - Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? "As one of only three countries on Earth that hasn't converted to a metric system of units and measurements, there is a huge amount of resistance within the US to change the status quo. Whilst the cost of switching would be huge, there is also a massive h idden cost in not switching when dealing with the rest of the world (except for Liberia & Burma, the only other two countries that don't use the metric system) With one of the largest organisations in the US, the military, using metric units extensively, why does the general public in the US still cling to their customary system of units?" - Full Article Source ITEM #60 04/21/11 - Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine With 244 steps The Time Machine, built by by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, took first place and broke a world record at the 24th Annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. From the article: "It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. I n its precisely executed review of history, 'The Time Machine,' a Rube Goldberg contraption built by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, incorporates a record-breaking 244 steps—all to wa ter a single flower." - Full Article Source ITEM #61 04/21/11 - Instant Quantum Communication Is Near "In this experiment, researchers in Australia and Japan were able to transfer quantum information from one place to another without having to physically move it. It was destroyed in one place and instantly resurrected in another, 'alive' again and unchang ed. This is a major advance, as previous teleportation experiments were either very slow or caused some information to be lost." - Full Article Source ITEM #62 04/21/11 - An RC Car That Runs On Soda Can Rings "A pair of Spanish engineers have recently unveiled the dAlH2Orean (see what they did there?), a R/C car that runs on aluminum. Dropping a few soda can tabs into a tank of sodium hydroxide produces enough hydrogen to power the little speedster for 40 minu tes — at almost 20mph." - Full Article Source dAlH2Orean H2 R/C Car powered by Aluminium from Aleix Llovet on Vimeo. ITEM #63 04/21/11 - Using Neutrons To Precisely Test Newton's Law of Gravity "The neutrons are shot between two parallel plates, one above another and separated by about 25 micrometres — half a hair's width. The upper plate absorbs neutrons, and the lower plate reflects them. As they pass through, they trace out an arc, just like a thrown ball falling due to gravity. ... The new work by the ILL team has added what is known as a piezoelectric resonator to the bottom plate; its purpose is to jiggle the bottom plate at a very particular frequency. The researchers found that as they c hanged the bottom plate's vibration frequency, there were distinct dips in the number of neutrons detected outside the plates — particular, well-spaced 'resonant' frequencies that the neutrons were inclined to absorb. These frequencies, then, are the grav itational quantum states of neutrons, essentially having energy bounced into them by the bottom plate, and the researchers were able for the first time to force the neutrons from one quantum state to another. The differences in the frequencies — which are proportional to energy — of each of these transitions will be an incredibly sensitive test of gravity at the microscopic scale." The researchers found that as they changed the bottom plate's vibration frequency, there were distinct dips in the number of neutrons detected outside the plates - particular, well-spaced "resonant" frequencies that the neutrons were inclined to absorb . These frequencies, then, are the gravitational quantum states of neutrons, essentially having energy bounced into them by the bottom plate, and the researchers were able for the first time to force the neutrons from one quantum state to another. The dif ferences in the frequencies - which are proportional to energy - of each of these transitions will be an incredibly sensitive test of gravity at the microscopic scale. While it is easy to measure the effects of gravity on grander planetary or even galacti c scales, the force's weakness has meant its detailed nature has been difficult to observe up until now. And any variations from the gravity that Newton's theory predicts could be a hint of some new physics. "With theory you can assume there's only purely Newton's gravity, then to make a transition you need a certain energy," study co-author Peter Geltenbort of the ILL told BBC News. "Now we can compare this energy with what we've measured and if there is a deviation then it would be a hint that Newton's gravity on these short distances is not 100% valid." Any such deviations could give hints of the postulated particle known as the axion, which could in turn prove the existence and nature of dark matter. - Full Article Source ITEM #64 04/21/11 - Gadget Tracks Brainwaves As You Watch TV Taking a cue from A Clockwork Orange, San Francisco neuromarketing firm EmSense has launched what it says is "the first ever scalable, non-invasive psychological and brainwave measurement technology — made specifically for market research." The EmBand mea sures your brain activity, your emotional responses, and your level of engagement in what you are watching on TV. The collected data is then sold to marketers who can come up with more interesting ads to be skipped over with your DVR. / This has been comp ared to the controversial 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, where authorities try to psychologically modify the behaviour of a teenage thug. But the big difference with EmSense is that the test subjects are volunteers. It says market research firms want to me asure emotional responses more accurately to get better reactions to advertising, creative concepts, packaging and shopping. EmSense ships the user a kit with an EmBand wireless headset and a wireless receiver for use with his or her PC computer, directin g them to a specific web page. The firm, which has 80 employees, was founded by technologists from Hewlett-Packard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. It has tested more than 100,000 respondents in 25 countries, reported Venture Beat. - Full Article Source ITEM #65 04/21/11 - China Space Official Confounded By SpaceX Price "Declining to speak for attribution, the Chinese officials from Great Wall Industry, a marketing arm of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CAST), say they find the published prices on the SpaceX website very low for the services offered, and co ncede they could not match them with the Long March series of launch vehicles even if it were possible for them to launch satellites with U.S. components in them. According to the SpaceX website, launch on a Falcon 9 — which has an advertised lift capacit y of 10,450 kg. (23,000 lb.) — from Cape Canaveral costs $54 million — $59.5 million. If the SpaceX price is real and its quality is proven, both are big IFs, it is remarkable to see that US can beat China in term of price. Between August 1996 and August 2009, the Chinese rockets have achieved 75 consecutive successful launches were conducted, ending with a partial failure in the launch of Palapa-D on August 31, 2009. If we all learn from SpaceX, maybe soon China will outsource from the US." - Full Article Source ITEM #66 04/21/11 - Establishment Admits Magnets Can Harness Space Energy Here's the scoop: According to the April 9-15th, 2011 weekly issue of NEW SCIENTIST magazine, magnets of sufficient strength can "Pluck current from void" of space. The article was written by Maggie McKee and here is a piece from the article: "Could the vacuum of space be harnessed to create ultra-efficient electricity? Nice idea, says Dmitri Kharzeev of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, but it won't be happening any time soon. The required magnetic field dwarfs even the mo st magnetic things in the universe today - neutron stars called magnetars, which boast fields of up to 1011 Tesla." Article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028073.800-how-to-turn-the-vacuum-into-a-superconductor.html What I find interesting is that on one hand they admit we can extract current and transmit it using magnets and the "vacuum" (aka ether plenum !) of space itself. But, notice that they add the bit about the magnets cannot yet be produced by humans, in other words, they have to add that to "save" the establishment's position, because magnets harnessing current from space is too close to what alot of alternative energy and zero point power researchers have already been saying for decades, way back to Nikola Tesla himself. The fact is this: Energy can be harnessed from the ether or space or whatever you want to call it. Numerous researchers and engineers have done it, and there is alot of suppression and intentional ignorance from the establishment physics community r egarding it. The water itself is NOT the source of energy for "Water Fuel" systems. The water acts as a gate way or door way to extract energy from space itself, from the ether. - Full Article Source ITEM #67 04/21/11 - Muscular Pains & MSM Recently, a 95 year old friend passed away here so his family asked me to help dispose of his things since they could not come to Mexico. I asked some of his closer friends if they wanted to take this on but all declined saying it was too much for them at their age. What a mess. And strangeness involved but I won't go into that here. I ended up having a young lady and a guy help me clean the house of blood, then sort, organize and sell or give away his things with any income going to my friend's family. < /p> Of course all this work played heck with my muscles. Usually the Mexistim I've used on my bed for the past 9 years takes care of muscle pains, soreness, allergies and such, but this time the muscle pains were too much so I remembered I had a bottle of MSM. "methylsulfonylmethane (METH-ul-sul-FON-il-METH-ane) provides sulfur, a vital building block of joints, cartilage, skin, hair and nails, and methyl groups, which support many vital biochemical processes in the body, including energy production ." MSM has a unique action on body tissues. It decreases the pressure inside the cell. In removing fluids and toxins, sulfur affects the cell membrane. MSM is an organic form of sulfur, whereas sulfites in foodstuffs are inorganic. Sue Williams s tates "sulfur is present in all cells" and is in the form of "organic compounds throughout the body’. However, sulfur can be found in the body in sulfate forms. It forms sulfate compounds with sodium, potassium, magnesium, and selenium. MSM has a signific ance, because sulfur compounds are found everywhere throughout the body and in nature. One current use of MSM is for joint problems, as sulfur is found in and near osseous structures. Sulfur supports healthy muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Arthritic cond itions have responded to oral MSM. Some researchers note results from MSM when used for post-exercise muscle pain. MSM normalizes pressure inside cells and removes toxins. Oregon Health Sciences University has conducted arthritis studies with mice. The mice which received MSM had "no degeneration of articular cartilage" (1). The other non-MSM mice had cartilaginous degeneration. The university has used MSM on over 12,000 patents. Researchers make no claim about MSM as a supplement, but osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, muscle soreness and muscle pain respond to oral MSM. One researcher claims MSM is about as safe as water. One should drink extra water with MSM use. I took two capsules with half a glass of water, took a nap for an hour and wow, I woke up with no muscle or joint pains whatsoever. I haven't had these kinds of pains in years that would require the extra potency from MSM but I'll swear by it. I only took those two capsules and haven't had to take anymore. A few days later, while riding home on my little Honda motorcycle, I passed a local friend with his wife, their new baby and his mom and dad sitting on the sidewalk so stopped to chat. He works for the post office and happened to mention he had ongoing muscle pains from a soccer induced knee injury. I rode over to my house to get the MSM and a plastic bag so he could take what he wanted. Saw him a couple of days later and he was ecstatic that his long standing joint pains were greatly relieved when tak ing the MSM capsules. For myself, I don't like taking pills, so I rely on my Mexistim to keep me together and painfree but every now and then you need a bigger jolt of power and MSM will certainly do it. - Full Article Source ITEM #68 04/21/11 - U.S. Military Spending Has Almost Doubled Since 2001 A new report released today by SIPRI, a Swedish-based think tank, reveals that U.S. military spending has almost doubled since 2001. The U.S. spent an astounding $698 billion on the military last year, an 81% increase over the last decade. U.S. spending o n the military last year far exceeded any other country. We spent six times more than China — the second largest spender. Overall, the world expended $1.6 trillion on the military, with the United States accounting for the lion’s share. As a percentage of GDP, U.S. military spending has increased from 3.1% in 2001 to 4.8% last year. The report notes that, “even in the face of efforts to bring down the soaring US budget deficit, military spending continues to receive privileged treatment.” Indeed, House Sp eaker John Boehner (R-OH) and others on the right are passing legislation increasing defense spending. At the same time, they are insisting on massive cuts to social programs that provide vital assistance to the elderly, the poor and the middle class. - Full Article Source ITEM #69 04/21/11 - Drafting The Sun for Defense! (Jun, 1941) Otto H. Mohr, inventor of the submarine detector, is the originator of the Solar Mohr Detonator, and has successfully demonstrated it to Army officials. Canvas bags containing charges of powder used to fire a one pound shell were placed in the middle of a field. Twenty feet, away Mr. Mohr stood by his model Detonator, a cubical measuring about two feet. He adjusted a cone-shaped antenna on top until a metal tube in its core pointed to the sun. A gentle buzz from within indicated that it was in exact posit ion, then a dim light appeared in a tube extending from the front of the instrument. The inventor focused this tube in the direction of the bags of powder. Nine minutes later the powder exploded. Other tests devised by the officers convinced them that the Detonator is a remarkable and practical defense weapon, and they recommended favorable consideration by the United States Army. Mr. Mohr stumbled onto the Detonator Ray by accident. While working on another instrument which utilized solar energy, a small amount of powder nearby exploded. It took five years to discover the secret of this accident and to construct an instrument t o command and control the principle of remote detonation. Did you ever focus the sun’s rays to pin-point intensity with a lens and set fire to paper or straw? That, very roughly, is the underlying principle of the Detonator. The cone-shaped antenna on top gathers the sun’s magnetic force which has transformed inside the instrument to motivated vibratory currents. These vibrations are synchronized or “tuned” to the atomic vibrations of the explosive substance and sent on a beam from the focusing tube in the direction of the target. Four secret essentials control the Detonator, and to safeguard the invention, Mr. Mohr dismantles it after every demonstration. A bright, sunny day is not essential to the use of the Detonator, but the brighter days make, it possible to gather more solar energy in less time, thus shortening the time it takes to explode the target. But any amount of sunlight is effective. It is possible, too, that a mercury arc may some day be substituted at night for solar energy. The explosive principle is simi lar to that causing combustion when two sticks are rubbed together rapidly; the energy vibrations from the sun’s magnetic force which is transferred along the beam, set up a friction with the explosive elements. They become hot, and hotter, then explode.< /p> Explosive substances used in ammunition are always compounds of several elements—gun powder is a combination of potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal—but any explosive with a hydrocarbon base is subject to the Detonator Ray. However, there is one req uirement: the atomic vibration of the constituents must be known so that the Detonator may be “tuned” to effective action. Otherwise the solar vibrations would slide past the explosive’s atoms without the friction essential to explosion. Mr. Mohr has determined the atomic vibrations of some elements, but many types of explosives have not yet been analyzed, and the atomic vibrations of many elements are not yet known. Gun powder, gasoline vapor, and some other explosive substances ha ve been successfully fired by the Detonator. All others will be calculated as soon, as time and money will permit, and as fast as further atomic vibrations are formulated, they will be turned over to the Army. Another improvement that is being worked on is the extension of the distance at which the Detonator will be effective. It is like the projecting of shot from a cannon; the greater the power behind the shot, the farther and harder it will be sent. The i nventor believes that the beam of the Detonator may be extended to the reach of light rays; approximately forty miles on a level with the horizon, when sufficient solar energy can be accumulated. When larger, more powerful models of the Detonator are buil t, invading machines will have small chance of coming within shooting or bombing distance of the United States. Battleships or tanks would be spontaneously blown up by their own ammunition, and bombers would be destroyed by the very missiles they planned to drop on others. - Full Article Source ITEM #70 04/21/11 - Famed Egyptologist sentenced in corruption case On Sunday, an Egyptian court sentenced Hawass to a year in jail and a fine equivalent to $1600. Until December 2010, tourists visiting the Cairo Museum came in and out by the main entrance, on the south side of the building. Beside the entrance was a bookstore that opened many years ago. Every three years, the concession of this bookstore was publicly auctioned and given to the applicant who presented the best offering, in price and in merchandise. The last two auctions were won by Farid Atiya. Accord ing to Farid Atiya, Dr Zahi Hawass was annoyed by Atiya's successful applications as Hawass wanted the concession of the book shop to be given to the American University in Cairo Press (AUC Press). In 2006 Mark Linz, the director of the AUC Press, told At iya about the plans to build the new shop and that the AUC Press would be given the lease of the new shop. When Farid Atiya won the auction again in 2007 Dr Hawass swore that Atiya would not stay long. Under the pretext of a museum embellishment, Dr Hawas s had the idea of building a new gift shop on the western side of the museum. Visitors would enter the museum via the original entrance and would exit the museum through the new shop on the western side, thereby circumventing the old shop that was being l eased to Atiya. The new shop was built and it's concession had to be auctioned to comply with the law. In October 2009 the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced a limited auction to rent the Museum's new gift shop. In limited auctions only certai n companies are invited, as opposed to a public auction in which any company can participate. Later it would be revealed that Zahi Hawass' intention was to rent the new gift shop to a government owned company called "Sound and Light" and that this company would give the management of the shop to the AUC Press. The Sound and Light company is responsible for operating the Sound and Light show and other functions on the Giza plateau and other sites. In 1990 Zahi Hawass was the Member of the Board of Trustees of the Sound and Light company. (Based on what some people told us about Hawass in Egypt back around 1998, I think if they dig deeper they will find out a lot more corruption and kickbacks for this guy. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #71 04/21/11 - Do bacteria control your brain? This new study is the first to extensively evaluate the influence of gut bacteria on the biochemistry and development of the brain. The scientists raised mice lacking normal gut microflora, then compared their behavior, brain chemistry and brain developme nt to mice having normal gut bacteria. The microbe-free animals were more active and, in specific behavioral tests, were less anxious than microbe-colonized mice. In one test of anxiety, animals were given the choice of staying in the relative safety of a dark box, or of venturing into a lighted box. Bacteria-free animals spent significantly more time in the light box than their bacterially colonized littermates. Similarly, in another test of anxiety, animals were given the choice of venturing out on an e levated and unprotected bar to explore their environment, or remain in the relative safety of a similar bar protected by enclosing walls. Once again, the microbe-free animals proved themselves bolder than their colonized kin ... Consistent with these beha vioral findings, two genes implicated in anxiety -- nerve growth factor-inducible clone A (NGF1-A) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) -- were found to be down-regulated in multiple brain regions in the germ-free animals ... When Pettersson's tea m performed a comprehensive gene expression analysis of five different brain regions, they found nearly 40 genes that were affected by the presence of gut bacteria. Not only were these primitive microbes able to influence signaling between nerve cells whi le sequestered far away in the gut, they had the astonishing ability to influence whether brain cells turn on or off specific genes. - Full Article Source ITEM #72 04/21/11 - Giant ocean whirlpools puzzle scientists US scientists discovered two giant whirlpools in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Guyana and Suriname. According to Brazilian scientist Guilherme Castellane, the two funnels are approximately 400 kilometers in diameter. Until now, these were not known on Earth. The funnels reportedly exert a strong influence on climate changes that have been registered during the recent years. "Funnels rotate clockwise. They are moving in the ocean like giant frisbees, two discs thrown into the air. Rotation occurs at a rate of one meter per second, the speed is sufficiently large compared to the speed of oceanic currents, on the border hoppers is a wave-step height of 40 cm," Castellane said. Even during the dry months, when the movement of oceanic currents and the f low of the Amazon River practically comes to a standstill, the funnels do not disappear. Therefore, the nature of the funnels does not depend on the flow of water, which one of the world's biggest rivers brings into the ocean. The natural phenomenon, whic h creates the whirlpools, is unknown to modern science. It is not ruled out that the reason for the appearance of the whirlpools off the coast of South America is the same as in other parts of the World Ocean. Scientists are currently studying the influen ce of those giant funnels on the climate of Latin America and Africa. Such whirlpools show influence on the atmosphere and form cyclonical air mass. They can also affect the movement of air mass formed in other places. For the time being, scientists do no t know how the newly discovered water craters can affect the climate of Central and South Americas. - Full Article Source ITEM #73 04/21/11 - Medicines Lose Effectiveness In Space "Scientists at the Johnson Space Center have shown that the effectiveness of drugs declines more rapidly in space. Engineers are working on a project which could bring space travel to the general public but experiments suggest that the health hazards faci ng astronauts may be greater than previously thought. Astronauts on long space missions may not be able to take paracetamol to treat a headache or antibiotics to fight infection, a study has found. I wonder if diseases are also affected?" - Full Article Source ITEM #74 04/21/11 - A 9V Battery To Your Brain Can Improve Your Gaming An intriguing story found at Nature about direct electrical stimulation's effect on the brain. By applying low levels of electrical current to different parts of the brain via electrodes placed on the scalp, University of New Mexico researchers claim to h ave documented some significant changes in brain activity, which vary depending on the part of the brain targeted. Gamers, take note: in one experiment in which volunteers were recorded while playing a video war game, "those receiving 2 milliamps to the s calp (about one-five-hundredth the amount drawn by a 100-watt light bulb) showed twice as much improvement in the game after a short amount of training as those receiving one-twentieth the amount of current." The idea of affecting the brain by electric st imulation isn't new; but the battery-powered, non-invasive variety naturally leads some people to consider rolling their own. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has several benefits that may make this a fairly useful treatment in the near future. For one thing, it doesn't appear to have the risk of causing a seizure that is associated with transcranial magnetic st imulation (TMS). tDCS can also simultaneously upregulate activity in one area of the brain while decreasing activity in another. The electrode attached to the anode increases brain activity while the electrode attached to the cathode decreases brain activ ity. For many brain disorders it is common to have certain areas that are overactive or under active compared to a normal brain. So being able to selectively activate or deactivate cortical brain areas at the same time may be beneficial for mental illness . Another benefit to tDCS is that the device is highly portable. This means that scientists can perform brain stimulation on patients while they are on the go, or when they are performing certain tasks. With TMS, it is much harder to do this since TMS is a fairly bulky device and you have to be lying down to get brain stimulation. With tDCS, a much wider variety of experiments become available. For instance recently scientists have used tDCS to reduce subjects propensity to punish unfair behavior in a gam e. Nitsche and others have begun to clarify how tDCS works. Physiological studies indicate that direct current creates an electric field in brain tissue that changes the voltage across the neuronal membranes. 'Anodal' stimulation, in which electrons flow into the electrode on the head, pulls neurons a few millivolts towards 'depolarization', making them more likely to fire when signals arrive from other cells. 'Cathodal' stimulation, in which electrons flow out of the electrode on the head, has the opposi te effect, 'hyperpolarizing' neurons and making them less responsive to signals from other cells. Effects seen after the electricity is shut off can last for an hour or so and seem to arise from a second mechanism. Pharmacological evidence suggests that t he current increases the expression of proteins called NMDA receptors at the synapses, the connections between neurons. This heightens the plasticity of brain tissue — leaving it in a temporary state somewhat like wet clay, in which it is more apt to resh ape its synaptic connections in response to stimuli, such as when learning a video game. tDCS improved people's ability to learn a simple coordination exercise — and that the improvement was still apparent three months after the experiment ended. Such res ults have led to an interest in stroke rehabilitation strategies. That's not stopping some people from trying it at home. Discussions are already appearing on the Internet: buy a 9-volt battery, some wire and a resistor, and you're theoretically there. One person, hoping to improve his concentration, was alarmed by t he flashing lights he experienced — a commonly reported side effect, along with burning or itching at the site of the electrode. "I probably won't be doing this again," he said in a message posted online. Another wrote in an online patients' forum that th e tDCS treatments he was giving to his wife were alleviating her chronic pain. Safety is an important issue. "With wires and batteries and home hobbyists trying to run electricity through their heads, somebody could get hurt," says Farah. - Full Article Source #1 and another more amusing article Full Article Source #2 ITEM #75 04/21/11 - Walking HECTOR Robot Inspired By Stick Insect "In an effort to understand how animals move elegantly and in turn provide robots with the same ability, researchers at the University of Bielefeld's Center of Excellence 'Cognitive Interaction Technology' (CITEC) have developed the hexapod walking robot called HECTOR (Hexapod Cognitive autonomously Operating Robot). Designed within CITEC's multi-disciplinary Mulero project, the robot possesses the scaled up morphology of a stick insect and will be used as a test bed in various departments and projects at the University." - Full Article Source ITEM #76 04/21/11 - The Ideal 0101: three tons of force hard disk destroyer While it looks like a kitchen cabinet from the eighties, it’s actually a serious piece of kit, with a heavy-duty punch that makes mincemeat out of both 3.5in and 2.5in drives. Duplo International delivered the machine to us with a bin full of already-dest royed hard disks in tow, but we had to give it a go ourselves. Sure enough, the 3.5in disk we dug up from the bottom of the Labs – an IBM Deskstar sporting a capacious 185GB – was soon rendered useless thanks to a punch that pierces disks with between 2.5 and 3 tons of force, as the video demonstrates. That’s enough power, according to Duplo, to theoretically lift a truck, so you can be sure it’ll put a rather large dent in the average hard disk. It’s not the quick cut-and-shut process you’d assume it is, either – instead, the 0101 seems to enjoy its particular method of torture. Press the power button with a hard disk in the slot and, once it’s illuminated by a green light, the punch emerges from the side of the bay, slowing piercing its way through meta l, silicon and glass, before retreating once the disk is destroyed. Once that’s done, a flick of a switch drops the hard disk into an obsolete abyss. Or, more realistically, a bin in the bottom of the cabinet. Of course, punching a hole through a hard dis k doesn’t necessarily render the data destroyed – I’m pretty sure NASA would be able to retrieve it, for instance – but it certainly makes it incredibly difficult to retrieve any information without specialist equipment. - Full Article Source ITEM #77 04/21/11 - Swedish File-Sharers File For Religious Status "A group of file-sharers in Sweden have requested that their religion, Kopimism, be officially recognized in Sweden. Although this status has been denied once in the past the struggle for religious freedom from persecution continues. Aside from deeming CT RL+C CTRL+V as sacred symbols other beliefs include the flow of information being ethically right and closed source software being 'akin to slavery.'" - Full Article Source ITEM #78 04/21/11 - Is Sugar Toxic? An article by Gary Taubes in the NYTimes Magazine that evaluates claims from Dr. Robert Lustig's virally popular lecture on the negative effects of sugar on peoples' health. (YouTube video of the lecture.) Taubes discusses the science behind the claims an d the odd willingness of people to accept Lustig's arguments without further inspection. Quoting: "When I set out to interview public health authorities and researchers for this article, they would often initiate the interview with some variation of the c omment 'surely you’ve spoken to Robert Lustig,' not because Lustig has done any of the key research on sugar himself, which he hasn’t, but because he’s willing to insist publicly and unambiguously, when most researchers are not, that sugar is a toxic subs tance that people abuse. In Lustig’s view, sugar should be thought of, like cigarettes and alcohol, as something that’s killing us. This brings us to the salient question: Can sugar possibly be as bad as Lustig says it is?" - Full Article Source ITEM #79 04/21/11 - Chocolate compound beats codeine for cough-suppression The compound, theobromine, was written up in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal following a small placebo-controlled study at Imperial College London. Our GP told us that the best thing for a cough was a spoonful of hone y, and it's pretty much all we use around our house. The researchers believe theobromine acts on the sensory nerve endings of the vagus nerve, which runs through the airways in the lungs to the brain. Capsaicin stimulates these endings to provoke coughing . The team explored their hypothesis by looking at theobromine's action on the vagus nerve in separate experiments involving guinea pigs and excised human trachea tissue. Their results confirmed that theobromine does indeed inhibit the capsaicin-induced s ensory nerve depolarisation in the vagus nerve. - Full Article Source ITEM #80 04/21/11 - Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity "One enterprising individual has created the most secure way to wipe out Compact Discs, by using a step-up transformer and creating a 150,000 Volt pd, whilst a CD rotates in the middle. The sparks arc through the metal in the CD and evaporates it, ripping it all off as the CD rotates. The CD is rendered transparent and unreadable. This may be the most secure method to remove data on conventional recordable CDs used in offices." / (Doesn't this look like the effect used to electrically destroy Klingon W arbirds and the space station in Star Trek 'The Motion Picture'? - JWD) - Full Article Source Watch 2:20 - 2:32 and 8:15 - 8:55 for the High Voltage Disintegration Effect ITEM #81 04/21/11 - Worlds With Two Suns May Sport Black Plants "If Tatooine were real, it would probably be filled with black plants and trees. A new study finds that, to maximize energy absorption for photosynthesis, the flora on worlds that orbit two suns may have evolved to use one or more types of light-absorbing pigments that absorb across a broad range of wavelengths, which would tend to make the plant appear black or gray. Although the idea that planets that could host such life may sound far-fetched, such orbs may not be so rare: The team's computer simulatio ns indicate that Earth-like planets can exist in several types of stable orbits in multistar systems. More than one-fourth of the sunlike stars in our galaxy and about half of the long-lived but dim, cool stars called red dwarfs are found in solar systems containing two or more stars, the researchers note." - Full Article Source ITEM #82 04/21/11 - Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops "The Michigan State Police have a high-tech mobile forensics device that can be used to extract information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan last Wednesday demanded that state officials stop stonewalling freedom of information requests for information on the program. A US Department of Justice test of the CelleBrite UFED used by Michigan police found the device could grab all of the photos and videos off of an iPhone within one-and-a-half minutes. The device works with 3000 different phone models and can even defeat password protections. 'Complete extraction of existing, hidden, and deleted phone data, including call history, text messages, contacts, images, and geotags,' a CelleBrite brochure explains regarding the device's capabilities." Popular Mechanics has a short conversation with a 4th Amendment lawyer about the practice of slurping cellphone data, too, though it's unclear if the Michigan police are a ctually using these devices to their full potential. - Full Article Source ITEM #83 04/21/11 - ACLU to Michigan cops: stop searching phones during traffic stops According to the ACLU's letter, the organization requested usage logs from the Michigan troopers' devices, but the state police requested more than half a million dollars to pay for retrieval of the documents and records, which the ACLU claims is unreason ably high. In a statement to PM, Tiffany Brown of the Michigan State Police said: "The Michigan State Police will provide information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As with any FOIA request under statute, there may be a processi ng fee to search for, retrieve, review, examine and separate exempt materials, if any." We wanted to know exactly how the Fourth Amendment applies when it came to traffic stops and phones, so we spoke with Fourth Amendment expert Wayne Logan, at the Flori da State University. "One way to conceive of the Fourth Amendment is as an off-and-on switch," he says. "It's not on if it's not a search or a seizure, and it's not on if the citizen consents to the search or seizure." Logan told us that there is currentl y disagreement in the courts about whether cellphones, and smartphones in particular, can be searched after a person is arrested. "One way of looking at it is that phones are just like any other container. Let's say I'm stopped for speeding and the police find cocaine, and then I'm arrested for cocaine possession; the police could search my car. They could also search any duffel bags that were in my car, and let's say that I had a box of notecards--they could search that. If [an officer] can search that c ontainer of notecards, the question becomes: Can he also search my iPhone, which also contains note cards of a sort? But the other argument is that it differs completely in kind, since the type of information on the phone is so different." Logan agrees th at, if not under arrest, a citizen is under no legal obligation to surrender a phone. But it is unclear whether people have been volunteering their phones to the Michigan State Police or police seized those phones during arrests. - Full Article Source ITEM #84 04/21/11 - Euthanasia coaster: assisted suicide by thrills Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, designed this "Euthanasia Coaster" that will kill its riders with a series of brain-scrambling loops: "a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely -- with elegance and euphoria -- take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster's track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death." - Full Article Source ITEM #85 04/21/11 - Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind "Dropbox, the online backup and file sharing service claims to have hit 25 million users in a single year. But a change in terms, noting that Dropbox will give up data to law enforcement under a legal request, showed that the company's security claims cou ldn't be possible. It turns out that Dropbox claims in one place that encrypted data makes it impossible for employees to see into user files, but in another says that they're only 'prohibited' from doing so." - Full Article Source ITEM #86 04/21/11 - Printing your boarding card out REALLY BIG Back in October 2007, Bill Bryson (not the author, a different Bill Bryson) printed out his boarding pass on a giant sheet of poster paper about 3' x 1.5'. He had quite an adventure. After my extremely long flight down to Minneapolis I headed into the Wor ld Club (NWA's rendition of the Board Room). When you enter their facility with an Alaska Airlines board room pass you need to show them a NWA ticket to get in. So I handed them my board room card and unrolled my boarding pass on the counter. The two ladi es looked at each other and started laughing. They called over the other people working in the world club over to take a look. They asked me if I had won a trip or something. I told them that I was just doing it to get a smile out of people. They laughed and told me to have a nice day. One of them said that they'd like to see the gate agent try to scan that thing in. - Full Article Source ITEM #87 04/21/11 - Lasers To Replace Sparkplugs In Engines? "For more than 150 years, spark plugs have powered internal combustion engines. Automakers are now getting close to being able to replace this long-standing technology with laser igniters, which should enable cleaner, more efficient, and more economical v ehicles. Price and size have been issues holding up such an advance, but a Japanese team is set to announce they've overcome those hurdles." - Full Article Source ITEM #88 04/21/11 - Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game "The first ball at the Phillies-Brewers game will get thrown by a robot — but Roy Halladay's job is still safe. As part of an outreach program and the Phillies' 'Science Day At The Ballpark,' the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Appl ied Science is showcasing a robot made from a Segway and featuring an arm that acts more like a human throwing than an ordinary pitching machine. A pitching machine functions more like a gun, firing a baseball in what amounts to a straight line. But the r obot has an armature connected to a hand that was specifically designed for throwing. Another thing the robot can do is identify the strike zone." - Full Article Source ITEM #89 04/21/11 - Store Clutter Is Good Back in 2009, Walmart surveyed its customers and asked "Would you like Walmart to be less cluttered?" They said yes. So Walmart cleared out space and reduced inventory and customer satisfaction shot up. However, same-store sales plummeted, by Phil Terry's estimate, by $1.85 billion, and now Walmart has fired the team that put the idea into place and is spending hundreds of millions to undo what they spent hundreds of millions doing. So they key is to load the aisles with all kinds of stuff and make it dif ficult for customers to get around. Some of that stuff accidentally falls into the shopping carts. Walmart gets an easy sale, and the customer gets something he probably wouldn't have bought otherwise. It's what we call a win-win situation. Grocery stores are very good at this technique.- Full Article Source ITEM #90 04/21/11 - Freak Manhole Cover Accident Found at Sewer History -- just one of many sewer-related disasters. - Full Article Source ITEM #91 04/17/11 - Indian Students Invent Oxygen powered Motorbike (I'm pretty sure these guys are using compressed AIR and not pure oxygen...just to be clear..LOL... - JWD) The students say their model is a breakthrough invention for eco-friendly vehicles and will reduce dependency on non-renewable fuels such as gasolin e and diesel. [Pratham Pal, Engineering Student]: "This bike is different from others because the engine doesn’t burn fuel, nor does the temperature rise. The air is compressed and transferred to the engine without any combustion. The piston reciprocates from the air pressure leading to an up-down movement, making the flywheel run and the bike move.” Students say the basic concept behind the invention is to achieve an equivalent thrust of blast inside the engine without using any combustion. The bike can run at a speed of six to 12 miles an hour for up to 370 miles using 100 liters of 300 PSI oxygen. Eco-friendly vehicles are becoming more popular in India as pollution increases, making the students’ prototype viable. The students are hoping to get financ ial assistance to develop their prototype further so that they can reach a wider range of customers. - Full Article Source ITEM #92 04/17/11 - Compact Fluorescent Invention Recycles The Ballast When compact fluorescent bulbs first hit the scene, they were a revolution. A bulb that lasted many times as long as the incandescent counterpart and used only a fraction of the power. Well, GE put out an ecomagination challenge to see what they could do next and this idea is easily one of the best. In the video below, you can see Robert Hand show a prototype of his idea that requires you to just replace the “bulb” part of a compact fluorescent rather than replacing the whole thing. The ballast part ca n be reused, Hand say it’s really the most expensive part of the package anyhow and easily outlasts the tubular twisty bit containing the chemical gas. CFLs are supposed to save you money in the long run because they last so much longer and use less e nergy. They can get even cheaper if you can reuse the ballast part. (This clever guy needs to be rewarded in a BIG WAY and lighting manufacturers should be required to adopt this idea, brilliant! This is what INNOVATION is all ABOUT! - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #93 04/17/11 - Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells An anonymous reader tips a University of Michigan news release about the creation of what's being called an "optical battery" that could lead to the use of solar power without traditional solar cells (abstract). Quoting: "Light has electric and magnetic c omponents. Until now, scientists thought the effects of the magnetic field were so weak that they could be ignored. What Rand and his colleagues found is that at the right intensity, when light is traveling through a material that does not conduct electri city, the light field can generate magnetic effects that are 100 million times stronger than previously expected. Under these circumstances, the magnetic effects develop strength equivalent to a strong electric effect. 'This could lead to a new kind of so lar cell without semiconductors and without absorption to produce charge separation,' Rand said. 'In solar cells, the light goes into a material, gets absorbed and creates heat. Here, we expect to have a very low heat load. Instead of the light being abso rbed, energy is stored in the magnetic moment. Intense magnetization can be induced by intense light and then it is ultimately capable of providing a capacitive power source.'" - Full Article Source ITEM #94 04/17/11 - Realistic dinosaur puppet scares and delights schoolchildren These Australian schoolchildren were treated to a visit from an extremely lifelike dinosaur puppet. Between the virtuoso performance by the puppeteer and the great design of the puppet, this is a hell of a performance. / Bondi Elementary School near the Australian city of Sydney has had a visit from a baby dinosaur. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was a 2 meters wide promotion for the show "Walking with Dinosaurs', the Australian company Global Creatures, which will soon go on tour again. The copy was visiting, is one of the twenty mechanical dinosaurs that puts the history of the animals into view. (raw images of APTN - 01/04/1911) - from the video zone deredactie.be - Full Article Source ITEM #95 04/17/11 - Gullibility may be early sign of dementia Healthy older subjects in the study could easily distinguish sincere from insincere speech. However, the subjects who had frontotemporal dementia were less able to discern among lies, sarcasm, and fact. Patients with other forms of dementia, such as Alzh eimer's disease, did better. To associate the detection inability with neurodegeneration, the UCSF team used MRI to make extremely accurate maps of the brains of the subjects in the study. This allowed them to measure the volumes of different regions of t he brain showing that the sizes of those regions correlated with the inability to detect sarcasm or lying. According to Rankin, the work should help raise awareness of the fact that this extreme form of gullibility can actually be a warning sign of dement ia -- something that could help more patients be correctly diagnosed and receive treatment earlier in the long run. - Full Article Source ITEM #96 04/17/11 - Keely, Altzheimers and Untangling Neural Knots People who haven't studied John W. Keely's claims know nothing of his study of biology to copy various natural structures into mechanical structures. My mother and several close friends have died with Altzheimer's and now a local friend's husband has deme ntia which could well be Altzheimers. I know there are several videos showing knots and tangles being UNTANGLED by using vibration, but I couldn't find the links for them. Just as you can create knots, by using phase conjugation you would be able to untangle and straighten out knots, no matter the media in which they exist. For more information about Altzheimer research, see the Scientific Frontiers video in the preceding news item. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia which is characterized by memory loss. Other diseases that can cause symptoms of dementia are vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington’s disease, and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Alzheimer's disease usually begins after age 60, and risk goes up with age. About 3 percent of men and women ages 65 to 74 have AD, and nearly half of those age 85 and older may have the disease. While younger people may get AD, it is much less common. Note this interesting comment from the below referenced 'Full Article' website; Plaques and neurofibrillary (pronounced NUR-o-FI-bri-lair-ee) tangles in the brain are hallmarks of AD. How they develop and what factors modify their rate of development, as well as other mechanisms of brain cell damage and destruction are subjects of intense study. For example, beta-amyloid (pronounced BAY-tah AM-i-loyd) may be an important clue in the development of AD as it is the major substance plaques are made of. Beta-amyloid is formed when a particular brain protein, amyloid precursor protein (APP), is broken down abnormally into shorter fragments. Three different protease enzymes (proteins that accelerate chemical reactions) called secretases (pronounced SEE-kre-tays-es) are involved in breaking down APP: alpha secretase, beta secretase and gamma secretase. Alpha secretase and gamma secretase to gether cut APP into shorter fragments that are easily dissolved in the brain. When beta secretase and gamma secretase together cut APP, they produce longer fragments, called beta-amyloid 40 and 42. Beta-amyloid 42 fragments are stickier than beta-amyloid 40 fragments and that causes them to build up and combine with other fragments to form Alzheimer's plaques. Recently, a strain of mice genetically engineered to develop more APP and therefore more plaques surprised researchers. They did not develop more plaques. The explanation: very high levels of transthyretin, a protein that binds with the bad longer frag ment beta-amyloid, preventing formation of plaques and other changes found in AD. Further studies of transthyretin are underway. (When the fragments stick they produce TANGLES and KNOTS (neurofibrillary tangle). "Topologically, a knotted string is not a real knot, as long as its ends are free. That's because either of the ends can always thread back through any entanglemen t and undo the knot. An open string, no matter how garbled, is the same as a straight segment." - JWD) Now I get to my link. Keely said that the convolutions of the brain become twisted and knotted which restricts or stops the flow of neural force to various parts of the body. These 'kinks and knots' produce both mental and physical problems which ca n be REPAIRED by using the correct acoustic chords to untangle the knots to allow a full flow of neural force to the malfunctioning part of the brain or body. Here is the link; Keely - The Brain as an Acoustic Resonator - Keely, writing on brain disturbance, says; "In considering the mental forces as associated with the physical, I find, by my past researches, that the convolutions which exist in the cerebral field are ENTIRELY GOVERNED by the sympathetic conditions that surround them." The question arises, what are these aggregations and what do they represent, as being linked with physical impulses? They (convolutions of the brain) are SIMPLY VIBROMETRIC RESONATORS, thoroughly SUBSERVIENT TO SYMPATHETIC ACOUSTIC IMPULSES given to them by their atomic sympathetic SURROUNDING MEDIA, all the sympathetic impulses that so entirely govern the physical in their many and perfect impulses (we are now discussing PURITY OF CONDITIONS) are NOT EMANATIONS properly INHERENT IN THEIR OWN COMPOSITION. They are ONLY MEDIA - THE ACOUSTIC MEDIA - for TRANSFERRING from their vibratory surroundings the CONDITIONS NECESSARY to the pure connective link for VITALIZING AND BRINGING INTO ACTION THE VARIED IMPULSES OF THE PHYSICAL. All ABNORMAL DISCORDANT AGGREGATIONS in these resonating convolutions PRODUCE DIFFERENTIATION to CONCORDANT TRANSMISSION; and, according AS THESE DIFFERENTIATIONS EXIST IN VOLUME so the transmissions are DISCORDANTLY TRANSFERRED, PRODUCING ANTAGONISM TO PURE PHYSICAL ACTION. Thus, in motor ataxy, a differentiation of the MINOR THIRDS of the posterior parietal lobule produces the same condition between the retractors and exteriors of the leg and foot, and thus the CONTROL OF THE PROPER MOVEMENTS IS LOST THROUGH THIS DIFFERENTIATION. The same truth can be universally applied to any of the cerebral convolutions that are in a state of differential harmony to the mass of immediate cerebral surroundings. CERTAIN ORDERS OF ATTRACTIVE VIBRATION PRODUCE CERTAIN ORDERS OF STRUCTURE; thus the infinite variety of effects; more especially in the cerebral organs. The bar of iron or the mass of steel, have, in each, all the qualifications necessary, under certain vibratory impulses, to evolve all the conditions that govern that animal organism - the brain : and it is as possible TO DIFFERENTIATE THE MOLECULAR CONDITIONS of a mass of metal of any shape so as to produce what you may express as a CRAZY PIECE OF IRON OR A CRAZY PIECE OF STEEL ; or, vice versa, AN INTELLIGENT CONDITION IN THE SAME. Discordance in any mass is the RESULT OF DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS INDUCED BY *** ANTAGONISTIC CHORDS ***, and the flight or motion of such, when intensified by sound, are very tortuous and zigzag; but when free of this differentiation are in STRAIGHT LINES. TORTUOUS LINES DENOTE DISCORD, OR PAIN; STRAIGHT LINES DENOTE HARMONY, OR PLEASURE. Any differentiated mass can be brought to a condition of harmony or equation by proper chord media, and an equated sympathy produced. There is good reason for believing that INSANITY IS SIMPLY A DIFFERENTIATION IN THE MASS-CHORDS OF THE CEREBRAL CONVOLUTIONS, which CREATES AN ANTAGONISTIC MOLECULAR BOMBARDMENT towards the neutral or attractive centres of such convolutions; which, in turn, produce a morbid irritation in the cortical sensory centres in the substance of ideation; accompanied, as a general thing, by sensory hallucinations, ushered in by subjective sensations; such as flashes of light and colour, or confused sounds and disagreeable odours, etc., etc. There is no condition of the human brain that ought not to be SYMPATHETICALLY COINCIDENT to that order of atomic flow to which its position, IN THE CEREBRAL FIELD, is fitted. Any differentiation in that special organ (the brain), or, more plainly, any discordant grouping tends to produce a discordant bombardment - an ANTAGONISTIC CONFLICT; which means the same disturbance (will be) transferred to the physical, PRODUCING ENHARMONIOUS DISASTER to that portion of the physical field (section of the body) which is controlled by that especial convolution. This unsuitable aggregation may be COMPARED TO A KNOT ON A VIOLIN STRING. As long as this knot remains, it is impossible to elicit, from its sympathetic surroundings, the condition which transfers pure concordance to its resonating body. Snake venom grown in Air Snake venom grown in Oxygen Enriched Air And finally the incredible experiments of Dr. Carl Baugh - Dr. Baugh and an unidentified associate handle deadly copperhead snakes used in an experiment to test whether increased o xygen levels, as would be experienced in pre-flood conditions, might alter the physiology of the snakes. He contends an artificial pre-flood environment could be duplicated with increased oxygen, higher pressure and the use of higher EM fields. Another investigation at the creation evidence museum, the gnarled 'spaghetti-like' formation of copperhead snake venom as seen under the scanning electron microscope before the copperhead snake was 'housed' in a small hyperbaric chamber. After four weeks in the hyperbaric chamber, venom from the same copperhead snake shows a much less distorted structure (less gnarled) indicating a lowering of the toxicity level. Conditions in the hyperbaric chamber are seeking to provide the type of e nvironment that existed in the time prior to the great flood. (I also need to mention the incredible experiments by Lily Kolisko where she found that certain combinations of planetary influences could alter the physical properties and characteristics of anything formed under those energies. The best story tell s of shells that exploded in the breach of massive guns during WWI. Kolisko discovered that all the defective shell casings had been cast on the same day and about the same time. When these shells with their defective casings were recalled, the unpredicta ble breech explosions stopped. Subsequent tests showed the planetary energies at that time of year weakened the metal so they blew up in the faces of the soldiers. Many such curious phenomena and discoveries are mostly lost or forgotten now but there is incredible research which has many real world applications and might help explain unpredictable, seemingly chaotic variations that could avoid problems in research and manufacturing. Here is a file I wrote way back in 1997 which you might find of interest - On Stellar Influences to alter Matter or DNA. There are many fascinating experiments with drying sal ts and other materials which show the definite influence of not only planetary influences but also of surrounding energies. - JWD) - Full Article Source Vibration produces knots (standing waves/solitons) to create Matter Proof that Matter is Vibrating ITEM #97 04/17/11 - Scientists untangle mystery on why long strands become knotted Writing in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Douglas Smith, an assistant professor of physics, and Dorian Raymer, a research assistant, reported on the results of thousands of experiments involving loose string in motion, ul timately developing a computer model that accurately predicts and describes real-world knots. The Oct. 16 paper - "Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String" - attracted immediate interest. There's even something called "knot theory," a mathematical bran ch of topology, which is the study of how things connect or interact with each other in space. But knot theory is not real life. Its knots are abstractions, mathematical constructs developed to describe all possible permutations and categories. There is, for example, just one knot consisting of three crossings. It's called a trefoil, the simplest knot known. "Some people call it a granny knot," Smith said. After the trefoil, though, things get more complicated. There's just one knot with four crossings, but three with six crossings. The more crossings in a knot, the more complex it becomes and the more numerous its variations. There are thousands of knot s with 10 crossings. Tightness or looseness doesn't matter. To a knot theorist or topologist, a knot is simply a closed loop tied up in a particular way in three-dimensional space that cannot be changed without cutting or untying. Raymer constructed a kin d of knot probability machine that featured clear plastic boxes rotating like clothes dryer drums inside the milk crates. The speed and number of rotations were controlled by special motors; the resulting data were fed into an attached computer. The experiment involved placing a single length of floppy string into a plastic box, sealing it, then rotating the box at a set speed for a brief time. The researchers did this 3,415 times, sometimes changing variables such as box size and string lengt h. In the interest of full scientific disclosure, the primary plastic box used was 0.30 by 0.30 by 0.30 meters and rotated at one revolution per second for 10 seconds. The string chosen had a diameter of 3.2 millimeters, a density of 0.04 g/cm and a flexu ral rigidity of 3.1 X 10(to the fourth power) dynes-cm(squared). In other words, the string had the diameter of a computer-mouse cord and the stiffness of half-cooked spaghetti. "Obviously, you can't do this experiment with anything too rigid," Smi th said. "Then it wouldn't be string; it would be a rod." But why do the experiment 3,415 times? Why not less? Or more? "The scientific answer is that 3,415 was around the point where we had statistically compelling results," Smith said. "The human answer is that 3,415 times was about as much as we could stan d." Despite the short agitation period, Raymer and Smith discovered that knots formed about half the time, usually within the first few seconds. Creating tangles was the easy part. Much more difficult was finding a way to mathematically differentiate them , to describe them physically as more than mere jumbles. The researchers discovered that the likelihood of a knot forming depended upon a few key factors. First, a minimum length was required. In Smith's and Raymer's work, that turned out to be 18.124 inches. Second, there had to be sufficient movement. "If too much string was packed in a box," said Smith, "there usually wasn't enough space left for the ends to weave and become tangled." Remarkably, the experiment produced all possible types of knots with up to seven crossings and some knots with up to 11 crossings. The finding reinforced a fundamental and profoundly unsettling quality about knots: They basically tie themselves. "Knots are generated by the combination of a long string with some sort of random motion," wrote Belmonte in an admiring journal commentary that followed Smith's and Raymer's paper. "This is a sort of derivative law of nature stemming from the Second Law of Thermodynamics," which broadly states that things naturally tend toward disorder over time. In the case of knots, said Belmonte, that means "long things get tangled." If scientists better understand the principles of knot formation, they might find ways to prevent knotting with negative consequences, such as tangled umbilical cords, a phen omenon that affects 1 percent of the population at birth. More deeply, they might pull apart some of the deeper mysteries of DNA. For example, inside each nucleated cell of your body is a whopping 6 feet of tightly packed, double-stranded DNA. In order to fit into such tight quarters, the DNA microscopical ly folds back and loops around itself. Sometimes it gets tangled, and that can be problematic when the cell tries to divide, separating its DNA into two distinct strands. Cells solve the problem by using enzymes to snip snarls and stitch the ends back tog ether. - Full Article Source ITEM #98 04/17/11 - Lightning—Man’s and Nature’s (Jan, 1934) The ball lightning evidently represents an enormously high electrical charge accumulated on dust particles, which move with the wind, illuminating the gases with which they come in contact, like that around the plate of a neon lamp, by ionization. Finally the electricity encounters a path to ground, and disappears in a violent discharge. While the sparks of electric apparatus have been increased in length and force, by the employment of large condensers, until they seem like miniature lightning bolts, the ball of lightning has not yet been produced artificially. Nevertheless, with electric generators of sufficient voltage and power, we may consider this a possibility. Dr. R. J. van de Graaff, whose electrostatic machine, designed for atom smashing, was il lustrated in the January, 1932, issue of “Everyday Science and Mechanics,” has suggested the production of huge electrostatic machines as the generators of the future. These would produce direct current at enormously high voltages; so that the electricity could be transmitted to a great distance with far less loss than by the present systems. Such machines we must imagine running in a high vacuum, not merely to reduce air resistance, but for insulation. We are limited in the electrical pressure, or voltag es, that could be built up by such machines, running in series, only by the quality of the solid insulators that could be used. (The artist has drawn for this article a machine based on the Toepler-Holtz system, well known to experimenters). With such a g enerator, we might be able to make even ball lightning, and discover a use for it; as well as smash common elements into the rare ones, and produce types of radiation far more penetrating than the X-ray. - Full Article Source ITEM #99 04/17/11 - Make your Sweat Matter If you’re a spin enthusiast, you have almost certainly gone through the stats on how much energy you burn for your every 40-minute session. And just as definitely, the more energy you burn, the more awesome you feel at the end of your spin class. The Gree n Revolution lets you double your feel-good factor by letting you work out on a bike that generates electricity as you power on. A new patent-pending invention that converts human energy spent during aerobic activity into clean, renewable energy. Accordin g to Jay Whelan, founder and CEO of The Green Revolution, an average household needs approximately 600 kilowatts of electricity for its annual needs. Consider this is light of the fact that a group cycling class of 20 spin bikes, if it operates four class es a day, would be able to produce 600 kilowatts of electricity from the human effort that is spent in cycling in just two months. Seems brilliant right? And so simple! Why isn’t it being done already? Curnyn, co-founder of The Green Revolution said in a statement, “Some people have already invented a similar kind of prototype but for personal use; we’re taking it to a large scale.” Some gyms across North America – such as the New York Sports Club and the Ridgefield Fitness Club –already have spin studios that put The Green Revolution into practice, allowing the fitness buffs using these classes to generate energy and reduce their carbon footprint while working out. These cycling studios are equipped with around 20 indoor cycles, all of which are attached to the electrical grid. This allows a maximized use of the energy generated by way of. Moreover, any excess power generated can be stored for other uses. In real terms, the estimated cost to adapt a bike with The Green Revolution technology is about US$7 50. So for an entire spin studio of about 20 bikes, fitness clubs would need to invest nearly US$15,000, which might not be easy. But Curnyn, co-founder of The Green Revolution is convinced that given the kind of power-savings these gyms would start seein g on implementing the technology, the cost of adapting bikes will soon seem worth it. - Full Article Source ITEM #100 04/17/11 - Air filled balloons retrieve Sunken Ships - Full Article Source ITEM #101 04/17/11 - Why People Think Cell Phones Cause Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee deftly tells you everything you need to know about the current state of knowledge of the risks to human health from use of cellular phones. Mukherjee, a doctor and professor of medicine at Columbia, does so in a few thousand words in the New York Times without dismissing concerns, and while explaining why this issue is so fraught with interpretation bias and confusion. Mukherjee's key points are well understood in epidemiological circles, and typically misstated in the mainstream pres s. They are: • Rates of cancer types expected to be associated with long-term mobile phone use have declined in America during the rise of cell calling. • The low incidence of such expected cancers in the general population makes it nearly impossible to conduct prospective longitudinal studies: find a large cohort of people with no disease and follow them for 5, 10, or 20 years to see in which groups n ormal and abnormal rates occur. • Retrospective studies that ask people to remember past usage of cell phones are deeply flawed due to recall bias. • Cellular tests examining DNA after exposure to phone emissions were found in a meta-review of papers and research to have no provable link. (Mukherjee also explains that the recently reported "cell phones make your brain light up" study showed unexplained brain activity when a silent cell phone was active in areas adjacent to the phone, which was near one or the other of a subject's ears. However, the brain activity wasn't harmful--it was similar to activity from other routine activities--just inexplicable. And the study only involved under 50 people.) - Full Article Source ITEM #102 04/17/11 - Luminous Cat frightens Timid Mice - Full Article Source ITEM #103 04/17/11 - Invention reduces Viscosity of Pipeline Oil The technology used in the prototype reduces the viscosity, or thickness, of oil and will allow it to flow more smoothly through pipelines, which lowers pumping costs. "With more than 400,000 miles of pipeline in operation around the world, the dollar val ue impact to consumers and corporations could be in the billions each year," said Cecil Bond Kye, STWA's chairman and chief executive, in a media release. The testing, which is scheduled for mid-April, will evaluate the magnitude and duration of viscosity changes and define how the technology will reduce power consumption. The testing is co-funded through a contract with the Pipeline Research Council International, a energy pipeline research and development organization. - Full Article Source ITEM #104 04/17/11 - The douche Let's put this one under...anthropology...we all know guys like this, maybe we are them!!! For a few weeks, the BBC film crew had the opportunity to follow a unique specimen, they were able to observe and record its mannerisms, rituals and way of life. Th e result of this is BBC Human Planet: The Douche. - Full Article Source ITEM #105 04/17/11 - MAFIAA Fire: add-on reverses US government domain censorship "This is just a start, now that we have opened this can of worms people can expect many add-ons, extensions and plug-ins from us," TorrentFreak was told. "Our goal is to reverse governments attempts to censor the Internet, and nearly anything the anti-pir acy people put up to protect their dinosaur business models. "Imagine the old game of whack-a-mole, now imagine playing on multiple machines all around you at the same time." "We really are tired of the corruption at the highest levels of government by th ese people. Enough is enough. There is a time to moan and there is a time to take action - and taking action has been long overdue," the MAFIAA Fire developer said. - Full Article Source ITEM #106 04/17/11 - USPS accidentally issues Vegas Statue of Liberty stamp How fantastically hyperreal: Turns out the United States Postal Service's brand new Statue of Liberty stamp, seen below, accidentally features an illustration of the Lady Liberty replica at Las Vegas's New York-New York casino as opposed to the real statu e in New York Harbor. A philatelist and fan of the NYC statue noticed the error and informed Linn's Stamp News. They investigated and published the above comparative photos, with the replica at top left. - Full Article Source ITEM #107 04/17/11 - Baby Pygmy Goat Stampede: Cavalcade of Cuteness Aren't these the cutest things? - Full Article Source ITEM #108 04/17/11 - Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want An anonymous reader writes "I received this email this morning: 'Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we're removing the remaining hosted c ontent... On April 29, 2011, videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback.' They've added a download button for saving your content but it expires after May 13, 2011 and they encourage users to move the content t o YouTube." Not all is lost, though. Writes reader none295: "If you want to help archive Google Video, get some Linux machines running and join us in IRC (EFNet #archiveteam / #googlegrape)." - Full Article Source ITEM #109 04/17/11 - One Wheeled vehicle propelled by Hand Crank - Full Article Source ITEM #110 04/17/11 - FBI Vault 1950 UFO Memo Based on Hoax A recent news item about a memo regarding the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico UFO/alien incident created controversy. Was the memorandum based on fact or a hoax? On April 13, 2011, there was a news item about a 1950 UFO FBI memo alleging that aliens landed in Ro swell. The memo appeared on the new FBI site, The Vault, which allows the public to read an assortment of documents, including some regarding UFOs. The memo, dated March 22, 1950, was written by Guy Hottel, special agent in charge of the Washington field office, addressed to the then-Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. The subject was flying saucers. Hottel claimed that an Air Force investigator told an FBI special agent that three spaceships and alien bodies were recovered in Roswell, New Mexico. The F BI redacted the names of the agent and investigator names. Maccabee and others believe, while the memo is genuine, that it’s based on a hoax. - Full Article Source ITEM #111 04/15/11 - Biofuel pushes millions of people towards poverty The growing production of bioethanol increases the shortage of food. Corn, sugar, other types of farm crops are required for the production of the biofuel. In addition, the growth of sowing for the green fuel reduces the square of lands designated for foo d cultures, which leads to smaller harvest and higher prices on food. According to experts' estimates, the number of undernourished people in the world will exceed the level of one billion people already in near future. According to the UN, there were not more than 925 million of such people last year. The growing prices on food push people towards poverty and puts pressure on most vulnerable layers of the population - those who spend over 50 percent of their income on food. As a result, when prices incre ased by 15 percent from October to January, as many as 44 million more people found themselves below the poverty line, WB specialists said. - Full Article Source ITEM #112 04/15/11 - Document states U.S. Air Force found three UFOs in New Mexico This Monday, the FBI published a document that apparently proves the capture of UFOs in the famous Roswell, New Mexico. According to the document, dated March 29, 1950, an investigator for the U.S. Air Force reports the meeting of three flying saucers, wh ich were oval with a bump in the center (as in science fiction films dealing with the matter), about 15 m in diameter. The document, sent by special agent, Guy Hottel, to the director of the FBI is available on the Internet with thousands of other documen ts in the new search system called "The Vault." The name of the researcher who discovered the flying saucers and the agent to whom he reported the incident were erased in the available online document. The memorandum, located on page 34, can be read in fu ll text. Also according to the document, the investigator would have found in each one of the flying saucers three bodies similar to that of a human, but with short stature. The "beings" measured about 90 cm and were dressed in ultrathin metal clothes, ac cording to what was reported. According to several theories, the bodies of aliens were autopsied by the U.S. army, and they have covered up the incident. (text from http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/14-04-2011/117581-us_air_force_found_three_ufos -0/) - Full Article Source ITEM #113 04/15/11 - Taking Radioactive Contaminants From Water With Shells "Crab shells may soon be used to take radioactive contaminants out of water. Joel Pawlak, an associate professor of forest biomaterials at North Carolina State University, has developed a material similar to foam rubber that absorbs water and attaches to molecules dissolved in it, leaving pure and potable water behind. The material is a combination of hemicellulose and chitosan. The first comes from wood and is extracted by the ton in the paper-making process. Chitosan is extracted from ordinary crustacea n shells — primarily crab, shrimp and lobster — by treatment with hydrochloric acid and then sodium hydroxide." - Full Article Source ITEM #114 04/15/11 - The End of the "Age of Speed" "'The human race is slowing down,' begins an article in the Wall Street Journal that laments the state of man's quest of aerial speed: we're going backwards. With the end of the Space Shuttle program, man is losing its fastest carrier of human beings (onl y single use moonshot rockets were faster). 'The shuttles' retirement follows the grounding over recent years of other ultra-fast people carriers, including the supersonic Concorde and the speedier SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. With nothing ready to replace them, our species is decelerating—perhaps for the first time in history,' the article notes. Astronauts are interviewed, and their sadness and disappointment is apparent. In the '60s and '70s, it was assumed that Mach 2+ airline travel would one day be ch eap and commonplace. And now it seems that we, and our children, will fly no faster than our grandparents did in 707s. The last major attempt at faster commerical air travel — Boeing's Sonic Cruiser — was abandoned and replaced with the Dreamliner, an air liner designed from the ground up for fuel efficiency." - Full Article Source ITEM #115 04/15/11 - New Houses Killing Wi-Fi "Poor Wi-Fi or mobile reception is one of the banes of modern living — and modern building techniques could be making things worse. PC Pro has photos of a new-build being covered from floorboards to rafters in a tin-foil like material. The "highly reflect ive" material could have unpredictable results for radio signals, potentially bouncing mobile signals away from the house or preventing Wi-Fi signals from reaching the garden. And the new householder is likely to be none the wiser." - Full Article Source ITEM #116 04/15/11 - Google Invests In World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant "Google has chipped in a US$168 million investment in what will be the world's largest solar power tower plant. To be located on 3,600 acres of land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will boast 173,000 heliostats that will concentrate the sun's rays onto a solar tower standing approximately 450 feet (137 m) tall. The plant commenced construction in October 2010 and is expected to generate 392 MW of solar energy following its projected com pletion in 2013." - Full Article Source ITEM #117 04/15/11 - Temporary Brain Changes Lead to Accelerated Learning "In an advance that could help the treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that stimulating nerves in the brain accelerates learning in laboratory tests. When the juice was turned off, resear chers monitoring brain activity in rats found that brain responses eventually returned to their pre-stimulation state — but the animals kept the ability to perform their newly learned tasks." - Full Article Source ITEM #118 04/11/11 - Magical Chinese Hard Drive "From TFA: 'A Russian friend .... works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town, located near the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a customer brought a broken 500GB USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insan ely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film.' Apparently, the contents of the external HDD box included: two nuts, glued to the inner surface of the box with a 128MB flash drive wedged between them (image). And it was a clever hack, too — if ever an attempt was made to write a file that's too large, it got cycled — rewriting itself over and over from the beginning, while leavi ng the existing files intact. And it reported everything correctly — file sizes and all!" - Full Article Source ITEM #119 04/11/11 - New invention to zap superbugs dead A NEW invention by computer giant IBM kills bacteria by popping them like balloons. It uses ultra-small plastic particles that attach to bacteria and drill holes in their cell walls, causing the bacteria to collapse and die. The innovation, which came abo ut from a collaboration with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) here, could be applied to kill drug-resistant superbugs, holding the promise of saving hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide each year. IBM chief technology officer F oong Sew Bun said the idea for the method came from the semiconductor industry. He said: 'Semiconductor chips are bonded through a process called electrostatic magnetism. Two parts of the chip have opposite electrical charges, so they attract each other.' Because bacteria carry a negative charge on their surface, researchers gave the plastic particles a positive charge, so they adhere to the bacteria and damage their cell walls. The result: Dead bacteria. - Full Article Source ITEM #120 04/11/11 - How oven rust could be the key to unlimited fuel that will power anything Rust from ovens could be the key to making unlimited amounts of cheap fuel that could power anything, scientists have discovered. A team used ceria, which forms when ovens are heated, to strip oxygen from water and carbon dioxide and leave them with the b asics of a liquid fuel. They said that potentially this fuel could be turned into cells which could power machines or converted into a natural gas for a generator. The researchers used ceria, which is the oxidised form of cerium and forms in self-cleaning ovens, to make their discovery. The first phase involved heating the ceria to 3,000F (1,650C) using concentrated sunlight so that it naturally released oxygen from its surface. When the temperature was lowered the researchers observed that it sucked oxyg en in - as if it were ‘inhaling or exhaling’ depending on the temperature. When the researchers added water and carbon dioxide and lowered the temperature, the ceria stripped the oxygen away, leaving hydrogen in place of the water and carbon monoxide in p lace of the carbon dioxide. Hydrogen, or H2, and carbon monoxide, CO, together can be used to make fuels. Professor Haile, said: ‘You could use the H2 and CO to make methane (natural gas) for a gas-fired electricity generator. ‘Or, because the fuels we pr oduce are so pure, they could be easily used to run fuel cells, which generate power very efficiently.’ She explained that because cerium is 100,000 more plentiful than platinum, which had been used in previous similar experiments, it made the process muc h more affordable. She added that more tests need to be done to make it more efficient. ‘As a second step, it will be important to develop materials with even better characteristics than ceria,’ she told Physorg.com. ‘Ideally, one wants a material with a smaller temperature swing required as this will also increase efficiency. - Full Article Source ITEM #121 04/11/11 - Texas Proposes 85mph speed limit - GO TEXAS ADULTS! The proposal would allow the Texas Department of Transportation to establish a speed limit not to exceed 85 miles per hour on a part of a state highway system, as long as engineering and safety studies determine the higher speed limit is appropriate. Eigh ty-five miles per hour would be the highest posted speed limit in the United States and the second-highest posted speed limit in the world, according to the European auto rental firm Rhino Car Hire. A speed of 140 kilometers per hour, or about 86 mph, is posted on some motorways in Poland. Texas and Utah are the only states that now allow speed limits of 80 miles per hour. In 2006, 80-mile-per-hour speed limit signs were posted on roads in two remote areas of west Texas. One is a 432-mile stretch of Inter state 10; the other is an 89-mile stretch of Interstate 20. In Utah, about 40 miles of Interstate 15 has been posted at 80 mph since early 2009. - Full Article Source ITEM #122 04/11/11 - 50,000 Volt Taser Grenade Taser International’s 50,000 volt projectile, the Taser Grenade, can incapacitate those who need to be incapacitated at distances of up to 900 feet. - Full Article Source ITEM #123 04/11/11 - Over Half of Energy in the U.S. is Wasted This flow chart of the estimated US energy use in 2009, assembled by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), paints a pretty sobering picture of our energy situation. To begin with, it shows that more than half (58%) of the total energy produce d in the US is wasted due to inefficiencies, such as waste heat from power plants, vehicles, and light bulbs. In other words, the US has an energy efficiency of 42%. And, despite the numerous reports of progress in solar, wind, and geothermal energy, thos e three energy sources combined provide just 1.2% of our total energy production. The vast majority of our energy still comes from petroleum (37%), natural gas (25%), and coal (21%). - Full Article Source ITEM #124 04/11/11 - Lafayette company pushes for greener handling of dead with Coffin Spa Ed Gazvoda wants to use a process called alkaline hydrolysis to reduce a corpse to a bag of bone powder and a barrel of gray water. The 51-year-old "serial entrepreneur" started a company called CycledLife out of the basement of his Waneka Lake home a cou ple of years ago in order to develop a way of making the disposition of human remains environmentally friendly. His invention, dubbed the Coffin Spa, is being designed by Lafayette's API Engineering LLC. It is slated to hit the market sometime this summer . Gazvoda argues that alkaline hydrolysis mimics natural decomposition -- albeit compressed into hours rather than weeks or months. It works by breaking down proteins and destroying DNA and leaving behind nothing but harmless pathogen-free byproducts clea n enough to fertilize pasture land or a farmer's field. The process has been around for nearly two decades, but has mostly been used to decompose animal carcasses and donated human cadavers. CycledLife for the first time brings the procedure to the nation 's funeral homes. In the Coffin Spa, a body is submerged in an alkaline/water mixture that is pumped through the "coffin" and heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. After six to eight hours, the corpse is reduced to a brown liquid and a small pile of bone resi due. The advantages of liquefaction over cremation or burial, Gazvoda claims, are numerous. "With cremation, you get back about 5 percent of the body," he said, pulling up a YouTube video of a crematory on his laptop. "Where did the rest of it go? It got spewed out of a smokestack." That means the release of nitrogen oxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and dioxins. Worse, Gazvoda said, mercury from dental fillings vaporizes and goes into the atmosphere. And crematories aren't typically equipped wit h pollutants scrubbers. "If a crematory were a power plant, people would be up in arms," Gazvoda said. With burials, he said, bodies filled with medications and pathogens act as sources of groundwater contamination. "They are full of pills, full of embalm ing fluid, full of prions," he said. During alkaline hydrolysis, medical devices, mercury fillings and other contaminants can easily be removed after the fact and disposed of properly, Gazvoda said. "I think cremation is dead -- it will be dead in five to 10 years," he said. Arlen Brown, president of the Colorado Funeral Directors Association, said breaking down bodies with alkaline is the wave of the future, but he said much needs to be accomplished on the regulatory and technological side before the pra ctice will be given the same legitimacy as existing methods. - Full Article Source ITEM #125 04/11/11 - Batteries that Recharge in Seconds A new way of making battery electrodes based on nanostructured metal foams has been used to make a lithium-ion battery that can be 90 percent charged in two minutes. If the method can be commercialized, it could lead to laptops that charge in a few minute s or cell phones that charge in 30 seconds. The methods used to make the ultrafast-charging electrodes are compatible with a range of battery chemistries; the researchers have also used them to make nickel-metal-hydride batteries, the kind commonly used i n hybrid and electric vehicles. - Full Article Source ITEM #126 04/11/11 - Shovel, Strain, Stack No More in High Water As Fargo, N.D., confronts its third major flood in three years, local governments, businesses and residents are shifting to a number of modern alternatives to hold back the waters of the Red River. “I’ve seen enough sandbags for a lifetime,” said Alan Kal lmeyer, who enlisted dozens of friends and co-workers the last two years for a full day of this grueling masonry, filling and stacking thousands of sandbags around his riverside house. This year, Mr. Kallmeyer bought a device, already used by several of h is neighbors, that rings his house with a four-foot-tall tube of water. The device, known as an AquaDam, cost nearly $8,000. But it took just a few strain-free hours to set up and will be just as easy to take down. Indeed, Fargo seems braced to repel an i nvading army. Once again there are plenty of the usual sandbag piles and earthen levies. But this year, for the first time, less of the city will be protected by sandbags than by alternative barriers, like the braced L-shaped walls of the AquaFence, indus trial-size sacks of sand known as TrapBags and the earth-filled wire cages of the Hesco bastions. “This is pretty new to have this many products,” said Tim Bertschi, a flood engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Bertschi added that the federal gov ernment would be watching closely to see how well these systems worked in coming days. “It’s a real-life test. This isn’t laboratory stuff,” he said. “But it wouldn’t be out there if they didn’t think it worked.” Helge Kroegenes, chairman of AquaFence, in Norway, said that Fargo placed such a big order that he could only fill a quarter of it. And David Doolaege, the California-based inventor of AquaDam, said he spent several weeks traveling around the Fargo area delivering his devices to more than 50 priv ate homes. All three men, not surprisingly, were dismissive of the humble tool they were trying to replace, and described sandbags as messy, cumbersome, prone to leaks and requiring an unsustainable amount of brute labor. - Full Article Source ITEM #127 04/11/11 - Patently absurd system encourages litigation, not innovation In 2001, a Melbourne, Australia, man won a patent for an ingenious invention he called a "circular transportation facilitation device." That is to say, using nothing more than his thesaurus, he managed to reinvent the wheel. For those tempted to laugh it off as the antics of Aussies, note that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office saw fit in 2002 to hand a 5-year-old from Minnesota the exclusive rights to use, sell or license a method for swinging on a swing. (It will surprise no one that his father was a patent attorney.) These are silly examples that point to a serious problem: Patent offices around the globe are apparently only too willing to grant rights to inventors who haven't done a whole lot of inventing. And businesses are only too ready to rush t heir claims to court to gain an upper hand in the market or draw revenue from dubious innovations. - Full Article Source ITEM #128 04/11/11 - 2011 James Dyson Award Now Accepting Entries Starting on April 5, 2011. The James Dyson award program challenges young engineers and designers to develop problem solving inventions and runs in eighteen countries. Celebrating ingenu ity and creativity, the winner receives £10,000 (around $16,000) to develop their invention and £10,000 for their university. Entries are accepted until August 2, 2011. - Full Article Source ITEM #129 04/11/11 - In memory of the real inventor of the steamboat John Fitch was strolling home from Sunday services at the Neshaminy Meeting on Bristol Road in Warwick. He was forced to walk after renting out his horse to a farmer because he couldn't afford to feed the animal. A horse and carriage drove by and Fitch th ought there must be a better way to travel, surely one that was cheaper than caring for a horse. The proverbial light bulb went off in his head -a steam-powered carriage. But Fitch knew the roads of Bucks County were much too bumpy for such a venture. So he quickly revised his idea and began focusing on the waterways. It was April 1785, and in no time, Fitch would develop the first steam-engine powered boat, two decades before Robert Fulton. But Fitch lost his investors and was not adept at public relatio ns. So his name and contribution fell into historical obscurity. But a new museum in Warminster is helping to change all that. "In our opinion this is the man who started the transportation revolution," said Erik Fleischer, president of the Craven Hall Hi storical Society. A highlight of the museum is a one-tenth scale model of Fitch's steamboat Perseverance, which, in the summer of 1790, carried passengers between Philadelphia, Bristol and Trenton. It was the world's first commercial steamboat service. Ab out 25 people could sit in the 60-foot-long craft, which had a duck paddle mechanism at the stern. The boat moved at 7 to 8 mph and passengers were treated to sausages, beer and rum; the latter was a staple of Fitch's diet. In 1786, with the help of his p artner Henry Voigt, Fitch succeeded in building his first steamboat in Philadelphia. By summer 1790, Fitch had a new design, and launched the commercial passenger service, which was cheaper than stagecoach. Technically, the boat was a success, logging 3,0 00 miles. But commercially, it lost money on every trip. After the summer, the service was discontinued and Fitch's investors fled, leaving him in ruin. Fitch moved to Kentucky, where he drank himself to death, dying in 1798 at age 55. Just before he died , he prophesized, "The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention." That man was Fulton. Described as well-groomed with solid financial backing, Fulton turned the steamboat into a commercial success in 1807 and fo r decades his name was associated with the invention. But it was Fitch who started it all and envisioned a day when steam-powered ships and vehicles would unite the world. - Full Article Source ITEM #130 04/11/11 - Heidelberg's Austin Health invention a major Altzheimer breakthrough AN Australian first skin patch to treat Alzheimer’s disease developed by an Austin Hospital researcher is now available to the public. The Exelon Patch, the first and only patch to treat mild to moderate forms of the disease, became subsidised on the Phar maceutical Benefits Scheme from July 1. The patch was developed by Associate Professor Michael Woodward, Head of Aged Care at Austin Health, based at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, where trials of the patch also took place. There are at least 2000 people with Alzheimer’s disease in Banyule. Prof Woodward said the patch gave smooth and continuous medication through the skin over 24 hours to treat the disease’s symptoms. “Exelon Patch is the first major advancement in Alzheimer’s disease for many yea rs, offering people an alternative to current oral medications,” Dr Woodward said. Details: Medical and Cognitive Research Unit at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital on 9496 2181. For more information on the patch visit www. novartis. com.au. / Exelon Patch works by preventing the breakdown of a chemical in the brain called acetylcholine. This chemical is needed to help keep the brain working properly. Exelon Patch helps to slow down the mental decline that happens in people with Alzheimer's disease and it helps to improve the ability to cope with everyday activities. It does not cure the condition. - Full Article Source ITEM #131 04/11/11 - Learnable Teachers can earn money online at Learnable.com. A typical lesson costs $20 and Learnable takes half of that, so the teacher earns $10 for each person that signs up for the course. Besides courses in business and technology, there are some oddities — lik e learning to play the Irish whistle. (Always wanted that.) If you want to take a course at Learnable, read the teacher’s biography and look at an outline of the course. All courses are vetted before they appear. About a fourth of the courses involve pro gramming or web design. - Full Article Source ITEM #132 04/11/11 - New Gasoline Engine Prototype Claims 3X Current Engine Efficiency "A cool new high-efficiency gasoline engine prototype has no radiator, no pistons, no valves, no transmission, and no fluids (except for the fuel). At first glance it has a few similarities with the Wankel engine, but is more advanced. The engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles, but that's okay. The efficiency they are claiming: is over 3x what today's gasoline engines produce. The developers, a team at Michigan State University, hope to have this engine on the market in the next two/three yea rs." / The Wave Disk Generator uses 60 percent of its fuel for propulsion; standard car engines use just 15 percent. As a result, the generator is 3.5 times more fuel efficient than typical combustion engines. Researchers estimate the new model could shav e almost 1,000 pounds off a car's weight currently taken up by conventional engine systems. - Full Article Source ITEM #133 04/11/11 - Holograms That Don't Change Color As You Move "By harnessing the power of tiny waves dancing in an electron sea, Japanese physicists have developed a novel way to project holograms that don't change color when you move your head. 'In a conventional hologram, if you change the angle, the color changes ,' said optical physicist Satoshi Kawata of Osaka University in Japan. 'Our hologram shows natural color at any angle you observe.' The researchers’ machine takes advantage of how beams of light trigger waves of activity in free electrons, unattached to a ny atom, arrayed on a metal surface. Called surface plasmons, these waves could be used to blast cancer cells and build ultra-fast computer processors. They also show up in medieval stained glass windows, where plasmons on flecks of gold suspended in the glass make the window change color as the sun sets." - Full Article Source ITEM #134 04/11/11 - All Star Trek TV Coming To Netflix "This is great news for all the Star Trek fans out there. Starting in July, every episode from every Star Trek series will be available for Instant Watch over Netflix. Right now Star Trek TOS is available for Instant Watch, and the movies, but that's all. Soon it will all be here for our viewing pleasure." - Full Article Source ITEM #135 04/11/11 - An Autonomous Sailing Robot To Clean Up Oil Spills "Protei is a low-cost, open-source oil collecting robot that autonomously sails upwind, intercepting oil sheens going downwind. This crowd sourced, open source hardware, collaboratively developed project could help prevent the tragedy of the next oil spil l. Furthermore, it is a prime example of what people can do together when they collaborate, working together on the research and development, design, and funding. Licensed under the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) license guarantees that as many people in all parts of the world will benefit from this effort as possible." - Full Article Source ITEM #136 04/11/11 - What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? "We've all wondered about it. When flying at 30,000ft, you look around the cramped economy class cabin thinking 'I wonder if I'd survive being sucked out of this plane if a hole, say, just opened above my head?' That's probably around the time that you sh ould fasten your seat belt. According to medical experts interviewed by Discovery News in the wake of the Southwest Airlines gaping hole incident, the rapid depressurization, low oxygen levels and freezing cold would render you unconscious very quickly. A ssuming you don't get chopped in half as you exit through the hole and hit the tail, you'd be long dead before you hit the ground. Nice." - Full Article Source ITEM #137 04/11/11 - US Navy Close To On-Ship Laser Cannons "The Office of Naval Research and industry partner Northrop Grumman said they successfully tested for the first time an on-board laser defense system known as the Maritime Laser Demonstrator (MLD), using it to destroy a small target vessel. The test actua lly accomplished several other benchmarks, including integrating MLD with a ship's radar and navigation system, and firing an electric laser weapon from a moving platform at-sea in a humid environment." - Full Article Source ITEM #138 04/11/11 - Inflatable Crowds Need a crowd of people, but don't want to bother finding real humans? Go here: The Inflatable Crowd Company. The Inflatable Crowd Company was created for SEABISCUIT in 2002. Since then, our Inflatable Crowds have been seen (but not noticed) in over 80 fea ture films & many TV shows & commercials. The company claims to have 30,000 realistic inflatable torsos. / Texture is the key to making inflatables a realistic solution. We provide an unparalleled level of detail customized to match the look of your crowd including everything necessary to blend the inflatables seamlessly among the real, non inflatable extras: Real clothing / Individual, 3D faces / Wigs, hats, etc. P.S. In case you are curious about our successful defense in the patent lawsuit filed against us by Crowd in a Box in 2007... - Full Article Source ITEM #139 04/11/11 - Researchers Build Wearable Generators "From the itnews article: 'Bioengineers from the University of Auckland have developed cheap, lightweight rubber power generators that could harvest up to a Watt of power if embedded in shoes. The researchers built on "dielectric elastomer generator" tech nology that used the movements of a flexible, non-conductive material to build up charge in attached electrodes.'" - Full Article Sourc e ITEM #140 04/11/11 - Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC? "Brian Krebs recently posted an interesting piece looking at an invite-only service marketed on shadowy underground forums that lets crooks 'rent' or 'buy' access to individual botted PCs that can be used to tunnel traffic. The story looks at the mechanic s of renting out bots, and the author traces some of the infected systems back to real businesses. From the post: 'The Limited; Santiam Memorial Hospital in Stayton, Ore.; Salem, Mass. based North Shore Medical Center; marketing communications firm McCann -Erickson Worldwide; and the Greater Reno-Tahoe Economic Development Authority.'" - Full Article Source ITEM #141 04/08/11 - Quirky turns concept into a real product and pays you too You can continue to let it sit till someone else makes it, or you can go through the hassle and expense of designing the thing, making a prototype, trying to get someone to manufacture it and bugging some retailer to buy a bunch and put them on the shelve s. Or you can pay $10 and suggest your idea to Quirky, which just might build it and get it into stores - and hand you some cash for your troubles. Quirky accepts ideas from anyone with $10 to sp end, and members vote on their favorites. Every week, Quirky looks at the ideas with the highest feedback and potential to succeed, and holds a wild Friday afternoon staff meeting where Quirky's 40 workers plead, cajole and vote for their favorites. Two a re picked and analyzed for their potential success, then the product design team makes a mockup. Products usually must sell for $150 or less - the higher the value of the idea, the more complexity, and the more cost in getting it made. The item then goes on presale, when anyone on quirky.com can commit to ordering it. If the item gets enough presales, it goes into production, the money comes in and Quirky shares it with the inventor and any other Quirky visitors who suggested how to make it better, so-cal led influencers. Sometimes, before the presale concludes, Quirky finds a retailer - such as Fry's Electronics; Bed, Bath and Beyond; Amazon; OfficeMax; Home Shopping Network and others - who'll order the product at wholesale and sell it at retail. Again, Quirky shares income with inventors and influencers. Quirky is a community of everyday people who like inventing everyday problem-solvers. If you're not feeling inventive, you can earn influence by commenting on others' ideas and proposing ways to improve the product. The more you contribute, the more you'll get out of it. - Full Article Source ITEM #142 04/08/11 - EPA Fudges Radiation limits while Canada turns off fallout detectors The mass radioactive contamination of our planet is now under way thanks to the astonishing actions taking place at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. As of last night, TEPCO announced it is releasing 10,000 tons of radioactive water directly into t he Pacific Ocean. That 2.4 million gallons of planetary poison being dumped directly into the ocean. This water is being released because they have run out of places to keep it on land. It's too deadly to transport anywhere else, and all the storage pools around Fukushima are already overflowing. So they're dumping it into the ocean, then calling it "safe" because they claim the ocean will "disperse" all the radiation and make it harmless. Quick, fudge the numbers before anybody notices! Fukushima, you see, is doing to the Pacific Ocean what BP and the Deepwater Horizon did to the Gulf of Mexico last summer. Except that in the case of Fukushima, that radiation doesn't just disappear with the help of millions of gallons of toxic chemicals. Nope, that radiation sticks around for decades. So what to do? If you're the United States Environment Protection Agency, there's only one option: Declare radiation to be safe! Yes indeed, friends, we have reached a moment of comedic insanity at the EPA, where those in charge of protecting the environment are hastily rewriting the definition of "radioactive contamination" in order to make sure that whatever fallout reaches the United States falls under the new limits of "safe" radiation. (This reminds me of this fool Noel who would dilute the chemically contaminated water in a photo plant during EPA testing and joke about it saying 'The Solution to Pollution is Dilution'. He got away with it and a promotion to boot. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #143 04/08/11 - Japan Tsunami Warnings From Ancestors Were Forgotten Modern sea walls failed to protect coastal towns from Japan's destructive tsunami last month. But in the hamlet of Aneyoshi, a single centuries-old tablet saved the day. "High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants," the stone slab reads. "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point." It was advice the dozen or so households of Aneyoshi heeded, and their homes emerged unscathed from a disaster that flattened low-lying communities elsewhere and kille d thousands along Japan's northeastern shore. Hundreds of such markers dot the coastline, some more than 600 years old. Collectively they form a crude warning system for Japan, whose long coasts along major fault lines have made it a repeated target of ea rthquakes and tsunamis over the centuries. The markers don't all indicate where it's safe to build. Some simply stand – or stood, until they were washed away by the tsunami – as daily reminders of the risk. "If an earthquake comes, beware of tsunamis," re ads one. In the bustle of modern life, many forgot. (This goes for New Orleans, Holland and anywhere people are stupid enough to build on a known flood plain or below sea level. No one should bail them out if they brought it on themselves. And it's rep eat stupidity because they keep REBUILDING and getting washed away again and again, LEARN FOOLS! It's like Sam Kinisons take on 'move where the food is' instead of forever hauling food into deserts to feed the starving...it's ridiculous. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #144 04/08/11 - Risk From Water in India as Deadly Bugs Uncovered Scientists testing water samples from New Delhi found more than a dozen species of bacteria, ranging from strains that cause pneumonia to cholera. The bugs had genes that enable them to resist almost all medicines, according to a study published today in the medical journal The Lancet. The research exposes the role played by India, a booming economy with more mobile-phone subscribers than toilets, in fanning the development of drug-evading bacteria. As 30 million people fly out of the country annually, so me are leaving with bowel-dwelling bugs that may cause deadly sepsis and defeat the most powerful antibiotic treatments. “There is not even a light you can see at the end of this dark tunnel,” said Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases doctor who teache s at the Australian National University in Canberra. “People are dying from infections that are no longer treatable with available antibiotics.” The researchers, led by Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University in Wales, collected 171 swabs from some of the dra ins that line New Delhi’s streets and 50 samples of public tap water in September and October. The samples were tested in the U.K. to identify the bacteria they contained and whether the germs had a gene known as NDM-1, which makes them resistant to a cla ss of antibiotics-of-last resort known as carbapenems. - Full Article Source ITEM #145 04/08/11 - Dam good invention the answer to our dry land's problem I HAVE a brilliant idea for water management in Australia. What this dry continent needs is a way of storing and reticulating water to vast numbers of people in cities. I have come up with an invention that I call a "dam". Let's build these "dams" outside each major city so that water might be stored and drawn down upon when needed. It's so simple and so cheap I cannot believe that no one in government or the bureaucracy has thought of it before. It sure would save a lot of money. There are by my count si x desalination plants either recently completed or under construction in Australia. These things can cost in excess of $5 billion plus financing and operating costs. A "dam" on the other hand can store and deliver vastly more water at a cost of say $2bn. There, I've just saved the taxpayer $3bn and that's on a single project. Which do you think the property industry would prefer if it was purely self-interested: a desalination plant costing $5bn or a dam at $2bn? The Australian people are indebted to the anti-dam lobby for forcing behavioural change with regard to water usage over the past 30 years: we have evolved a long way from water profligacy. But there comes a point in a city's growth when practical and hard-headed decisions need to be taken. We hav en't built a dam to service Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane for a generation. We've had a dam-building hiatus and we've moderated our water usage, now it's time to build cost-efficient dams. Or at the very least let's have a conversation about the subject r ather than allowing various levels of government to solely pursue less efficient and more expensive alternatives such as pipelines and desalination plants. - Full Article Source ITEM #146 04/08/11 - Pasadena duo create unique refrigeration coil Hector Delgadillo and Jose Carbajal took all of six months to revolutionize the restaurant refrigeration industry. "The coil industry is dominated by two major companies," Delgadillo said from the Turbo C oil headquarters in Pasadena. "They don't like what we are doing. And we've come up against a lot of resistance, but we just keep on going." The company just got a contract with the Denny's restaurant chain. Delgadillo projects the food service gi ant can save up to 70 percent on maintenance costs using his product. Unlike the competition, which uses aluminum material in manufacturing, Turbo Coil manufactures a stainless steel cooling coil used in restaurant-grade refrigerators. Turbo Coil also fea tures a replaceable core and an easy, break-away fan assembly. Competitor coils need to be replaced every four to five years, Delgadillo said, but Turbo Coils can last up to 15 years with minor repairs. "They have an vested interest in making a product th at needs to be replaced every four years," Carbajal said. "We created a product that can actually be easily repaired and doesn't have to be completely replaced." "We are not engineers, we are just mechanics," Delgadillo said. "And we don't have degrees, b ut we have experience. We've had to crawl into these big refrigerator units to refill them." Turbo Coil only uses American made material in each unit, and many of the pieces are made locally. The units are assembled in Pasadena. The Turbo Coil unit is al so more eco-friendly. All coils use Freon or some type of refrigerant that is harmful to the environment. As coils wear, they leak Freon, which contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer and the heating that causes climate change. Turbo Coils have a five year guarantee that they will not leak. After five years, the container that holds the Freon can be replaced at a minimal cost. In other coils, the whole unit would have to be replaced. Delgadillo said the Turbo Coil is also more efficient because it 's the only coil with a digital thermostat. "The competitors still use analog, which is often four or five degrees off," he said. "The digital thermostat is more accurate and leads to less waste. So our coil is basically a green product." - Full Article Source ITEM #147 04/08/11 - Foldaway toilet brings relief to disaster victims A French doctor has designed a foldaway toilet, which is biodegradable, lightweight and easy to carry to be used in emergency situations following natural disasters. Mayer Helewa had the idea after Hurricane Katrina and thinks the invention might be usefu l in other such disaster situations where thousands of displaced people are crowded into emergency accommodation, with inadequate, if any, toilet facilities. “The first problem is to have access to a toilet. Because if not, people will do their business wherever, and you end up with epidemics such as cholera,” Helewa told the French news agency. The unit weighs about two kilogrammes and is essentially a piece of cardboard, which folds into a boxed seat in one minute. It comes with plastic bags which each contain an absorbent pad to soak up liquids. The heavy-duty version was tested by four armies, and can withstand a weight of 200kg and a usage of 20 hours per day. - Full Article Source ITEM #148 04/08/11 - ‘War machine props up the market’ The short message of ‘Super Boom: Why the Dow will hit 38,820 and how you can profit from it’ by Jeffrey A. Hirsch (www.wiley.com) is that the peak will be reached by 2025, following a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Inflation effect - The author takes up the question, ‘What makes the market range bound during wartime and rise during peacetime?’ and says the answer is inflation. “The government empties the treasury during a war. It also focuses on foreign issues rather than domestic concerns and t he economy. The result is a sustained rise in inflation. Only after the economy settles down and Washington refocuses on domestic issues will the stock market soar to new highs,” he reasons. One of the four tenets of wartime markets that Hirsch lays down is, ‘The war machine props up the market.’ After the initial shock of a new war, the market forms a floor near the pre-war low, he explains. “The combination of government spending, investor bargain hunting, and good old American pride help insulate the m arket from breaching that pre-war low.” - Full Article Source ITEM #149 04/08/11 - Food technology has LONG been bad for human health The diet of modern Americans bears little resemblance to the foods our ancestors ate, and this discrepancy is often noted in discussions about the causes of the current “obesity epidemic.” The argument goes like this: Since fat and sugar were historically hard to come by, our bodies are built to hold on to them to help us get through the lean times. This may have served us well in the caveman days, but not so much in the era of the KFC Double Down sandwich. Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life program at Children's Hospital Boston, takes a fascinating look at how innovations in food technology have backfired for humankind over the millenia in this week’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. The roots of America’s weigh t problem go back much further than the invention of high-fructose corn syrup and the introduction of frozen TV dinners. - Full Article Source ITEM #150 04/08/11 - Battery Research will give electric cars same range as petrol cars Li-air batteries are a promising opportunity for electric cars. "If we succeed in developing this technology, we are facing the ultimate breakthrough for electric cars, because in practice, the energy density of Li-air batteries will be comparable to that of petrol and diesel, if you take into account that a combustion engine only has an efficiency of around 30 percent," says Tejs Vegge, senior scientist in the Materials Research Division at Risø DTU. If batteries with an energy density this great become a reality, one could easily imagine electrically powered trucks. 2 tonnes of batteries or 50 litres of petrol - Today, battery packs are expensive and are only able to store a relatively low amount of energy. Researchers all over the world are working to change that. In the current setting, an electric car is no good if you are taking the family on holiday to Lake Garda in Italy. For electric cars to become the consumers' preferred mode of transport, the battery capacity must be significantly increased. I n Risø Energy Report 9, page 58, you can read that the energy density in today's batteries is almost two orders lower than that of fossil fuels. This means that a battery pack containing energy corresponding to 50 litres of petrol, would weigh between 1.5 and 2 tonnes. - Full Article Source ITEM #151 04/08/11 - More technology experimentation required People who are currently on a renewable energy course may agree with the view that more research needs to be carried out on a variety of different technologies. While most investment in the UK goes into wind power, Dr John Constable, director of policy an d research at the Renewable Energy Foundation, explained that much of the renewables sector is still in the research and development stage. He said that as a result of this, more experimentation into the different forms of technology out there is desirabl e. "Subsidy-induced deployment at scale in order to meet targets is likely to be technologically counterproductive, stunting invention and inhibiting innovation," Dr Constable said. - Full Article Source ITEM #152 04/08/11 - 5 Odd Things Inventors Tell Patent Attorneys Over the years the one thing that has probably amazed me most is that those who contact me for assistance or advice frequently ask the same questions and present with the same stories, although not the same inventions or technologies. So I thought it mig ht be worthwhile to write about the most common misconceptions in the inventor community. 1. I need you to sign a Confidentiality Agreement 2. I need your help but I don’t have any money 3. I want to let you in on my great idea 4. No one would ever have come up with my invention 5. I have decided to hire Attorney X and I need your advice on how to proceed - Full Article Source ITEM #153 04/08/11 - Will prison realignment happen? Earlier this week, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill of his own invention, Assembly Bill 109. The bill authorizes significant changes to California’s prison system: it sends non-violent, non-serious offenders (about 38,000 inmates) to county jails, it el iminates parole for the same offender group, and it encourages counties to keep juvenile offenders at the local level. It’s also entirely dependent on the state raising taxes, to fund county departments’ ability to take over these services from the state. One thing is pretty certain: local sheriffs say that without additional money, they won’t be able to take in more inmates–and according to California Watch, they’re already “skeptical of the state’s financial intentions.” - Full Article Source ITEM #154 04/08/11 - Alternatives to Alternative Energy The problem of long-term energy sources has been drifting towards crisis for decades. Indeed, the catastrophes in Japan might finally achieve what decades of conflict in the Middle East have not: compel governments to invest in the research required to de velop viable energy alternatives. If there was ever a time for a massive investment in research into long-term energy sources, that time is now. We need something on the scale of the Manhattan Project (which created the atomic bomb), or the Apollo Program (which put a man on the moon). (read the full story, its quite on the money. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #155 04/08/11 - Endocube Reduces Spoilage while Lowering Energy Costs Endocube is a perfectly simple idea that addresses the improvement of one of our greatest (though least considered) energy demands – r efrigeration. Most people are shocked to learn that about 1/5 of all commercially produced energy in the world is spent on keeping things cold to preserve their utility. From food that would otherwise spoil to medications and even things like blood and or gans, cold storage is vital to our survival. British food safety engineers originally developed the science behind the Endocube while searching for a way to reduce food spoilage and the associated sicknesses it caused. It worked, but it wasn't until they field tested the invention that a major ancillary benefit was discovered: it saved energy – lots of it! Part of the problem is that a refrigerator or freezer thermostat measures the temperature of the air inside of the unit, rather than that of the food. The two often differ and while it's the food temperature that is trying to be maintained, the compressor is still working according to the air, as it does in an air conditioning unit. Endocube is a small attachment that is affixed to the unit's thermostat . A non-toxic gel mimics the composition of food (fish in particular) and reflects the temperature of the food to the thermostat, rather than the constantly changing air. In a case study with Chic-fil-A, their refrigerators ran 65 percent less cycles, dra stically reducing energy costs (McDonald's and Wendy's achieved similar success). Pratt explained that for restaurants, refrigeration is nearly half of their overhead and the single biggest factor that can be improved. With energy demands constantly risin g as sources become less plentiful and more expensive, improving efficiency is vital. Platt has focused his attention on other local restaurants who he sees as the ideal candidate for Endocube's services. - Full Article Source ITEM #156 04/08/11 - Energy policy or exploitation policy? The way we pay for energy is destroying not only the beauty and biodiversity of our planet, but our ability to live on it. The scientific evidence is stifling, but if we ignore the scientists, they’re not real, right? But we now have a chance to wake up f rom our apparently rather stubborn malaise. As the saying goes, necessity breeds invention. And if we actively clamp down on harmful industries, we will need to emphasize solar, wind and water power. The money will have to go to renewable energy — not ene rgy that chains us to the Middle East and destroys our systems of living. The arguments for energy policy rest on stubborn traditionalism and “But wait! Look! No one died because of Three Mile Island!” Not good enough. EPA, do your job. - Full Article Source ITEM #157 04/08/11 - An Awakening for Natural Gas Vehicles A new bill was introduced by congressmen from Oklahoma (obviously) and Connecticut (not so obviously) to restart the Natural Gas Act and finally bring some government support to marshal our cheapest, most abundant domestic resource. Oklahoma Reps. John Su llivan and Dan Boren introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at increasing the nation’s supply of natural gas vehicles, with hopes that President Barack Obama’s embrace of the legislation will ensure its passage this year. …the bill would offer credits for purchasing all new natural gas vehicles — and certain dual-fuel and bi-fuel natural gas vehicles — on a sliding scale based on weight; the credits would range from $7,500 to $64,000. T. Boone Pickens has said he will get this done or die tryin g. He is closer than ever. The hundreds of thousands of American jobs that would be created building out this infrastructure would be a godsend. The drop in air pollution and dollars sent to terrorist-sponsoring regimes are just the cherry on top. - Full Article Source ITEM #158 04/08/11 - Law gives Florida's electric monopolies control of solar energy My colleague Mary Ellen Klas recently reported: Since 2009, FPL and its affiliates have spent at least $4 million on campaign contributions to legislators and candidates for governor, according to campaign finance reports. It created Citizens for Clean En ergy, a nonprofit renewable-energy coalition to push the issue. It has hired 30 lobbyists, including the former head of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, Mike Sole, at a salary and benefits package of more than $350,000, to work legislat ors and earn support. You ain't gettin' any more hints. Of course the Legislature is going to give the electric company what it wants. It will pass Senate Bill 7082 or a comparable House version. It is a brutal use of government power, and it is the oppos ite of the "free market." The bill bypasses the normal process of determining whether any of these projects are a good idea in the first place, otherwise known as "need determination." The bill says that the Legislature itself automatically finds there is "need" for whatever the electric companies decide to build, and that the question of need "may not be raised in any other forum," such as at the Public Service Commission. Second, although the Legislature likes to brag about not raising "taxes" on Florid ians, this is a direct order from the government that Floridians will pay more. So, I hope that the electric companies flourish. I hope FPL builds the best gosh-darned solar plants ever. Although Progress Energy Florida is not backing this bill, I hope th ose guys get in on the action, too. I hope they come up with something that costs negative-eleventy cents per kilowatt and makes them the Richest Corporation in the History of the World. But that probably isn't going to happen. What will probably happen i s that the companies will muddle along, charge more, build something bureaucratic, and profit. - Full Article Source ITEM #159 04/08/11 - Fed Web sites will likely go offline if government shuts down Declan McCullagh at CNET reports that many federal Web sites will likely go offline if the government shuts down Friday night. "A 16-page memo (PDF) to federal agencies says their Web sites may stay online only in a small number of situations, including t ax collection and handling 'exempted' activities such as payments and other functions that are paid for by previous annual budgets." The 17 government shutdowns since 1977 have all been blips on the radar, with the longest lasting 21 days, from December 15, 1995, to January 6, 1996. So what really happens when the government is shuttered? Not much. During the 21-day shutdown, les s than 15 percent of the federal workforce was actually idled. National-security and public-safety operations continue. So do benefit payments, medical care, tax collection, border protection, prison patrol, crime investigation, and air traffic control. The Postal Service and the Federal Reserve will both be open for business because they generate their own revenues. Government museums close; people can’t apply for passports; tourism takes a hit. But the Office of Management and Budget, which set the basic rules for shutdowns back in 1981, stipulates that agencies continue to conduct essential activities “to protec t life and property.” Any employee deemed “essential”-- from Transportation Security Administration agents to Social Security check writers -- is considered exempt from the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the acceptance of voluntary services and forbids federal official s to assign funds before an appropriations measure has been enacted. Nonessential employees, on the other hand, cannot report to work. In the first shutdown in 1995, which lasted five days, some 800,000 workers were furloughed; the second, longer closure resulted in 284,000 being furloughed, according to the Congression al Research Service. When the government resumed operations in 1996, employees were paid retroactively, but that isn't a given. - Full Article Source ITEM #160 04/08/11 - Accidental Find May Lead To a Cure For Baldness "Science is full of stories in which great discoveries are made by accident: the discovery of radiation, the discovery of the universe's shape through x-ray detection, and now perhaps the cure for hair loss. At the time they returned to the cages to find that their bald mice had miraculously grown their hair back, the scientists at UCLA had no intention of curing baldness. Originally, theirs was in fact a study aimed at reducing the harmful affects of chronic stress. The unanticipated side effect of their treatment could prove a boon to balding men and women everywhere, not to mention to the drug company that delivers the cure to them." - Full Article Source ITEM #161 04/08/11 - Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers "The website of the Alzheimer's Institute of America (AIA) doesn't reveal much about the organization, but portrays it as committed to supporting research and patients. Among people who study Alzheimer's disease, however, the AIA, based in St Louis, Misso uri, is best known for filing lawsuits against companies and researchers — a practice that scientists say could hamper the progress of research into combating the dreaded disease." - Full Article Source ITEM #162 04/08/11 - Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute? "IT pros want to telecommute — so much so that more than one-third of those surveyed by Dice.com said they would take a pay cut for the chance to work full time from home. In a survey conducted by the careers site, 35% of technology professionals said the y would sacrifice up to 10% of their salaries for full-time telecommuting. The average tech pro was paid $79,384 last year, according to Dice's annual salary survey, which means a 10% pay cut is equivalent to $7,900 on average." - Full Article Source ITEM #163 04/08/11 - Electromagnetic Automobile Suspension Demonstrated "Last December at the Future of Electric Vehicles conference in San Jose, a representative from The Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology presented research that his institution had been doing into a novel type of electromagnetic vehicle suspens ion. Now that a test car equipped with the suspension is about to appear at the AutoRAI exhibition in Amsterdam, the university has released some more details about the technology. For starters, it is not only electromagnetic but also active, meaning that it doesn't just mechanically respond to bumps in the road, but is controlled by an onboard computer. It is claimed to improve the overall ride quality of cars by 60 percent." - Full Article Source ITEM #164 04/08/11 - NASA Green-lights $16.5M To Advance Future Jets "NASA said this week four research teams would split $16.5 million to continue developing quieter, cleaner, and more fuel-efficient jets that the agency says will be three generations ahead of airliners in use today. NASA said the money was awarded after an 18-month study of all manner of advanced technologies from alloys, ceramic or fiber composites, carbon nanotube and fiber optic cabling to self-healing skin, hybrid electric engines, folding wings, double fuselages and virtual reality windows to come u p with a series of aircraft designs that could end up taking you on a business trip by about 2030." - Full Article Source ITEM #165 04/08/11 - Fermi Lab May Have Discovered New Particle or Force "Physicists at Fermi Lab have found a 'suspicious bump' in their data that could indicate they've found a new elementary particle or even a new force of nature. The discovery could 'be the most significant discovery in physics in half a century.' Physicis ts have ruled out that the particle could be the standard model Higgs boson, but theorize that it could be some new and unexpected version of the Higgs. This discovery comes as the Tevatron is slated to go offline sometime in September." - Full Article Source ITEM #166 04/08/11 - Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe "We've heard of nuclear pulse propulsion being the ideal way to travel through interstellar space, but what would such a system look like? In the 1970's, the British Interstellar Society's (BIS) Project Daedalus was conceived to fire pellets of fusion fue l out the rear of an interstellar space probe that were ignited using a powerful laser system. The 'pulsed inertial confinement fusion' wouldn't be 'vastly different from a conventional internal combustion engine, where small droplets of gasoline are inje cted into a combustion chamber and ignited,' says Richard Obousy, Project Leader and Co-Founder of Project Icarus. Now, building on the knowledge of Daedalus, the researchers of Project Icarus have prepared a nifty animation of a fusion pulse propulsion s ystem in operation on the original Daedalus vehicle." - Full Article Source ITEM #167 04/08/11 - Hammer blow freezes Water - Full Article Source ITEM #168 04/08/11 - Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? "Pastabagel writes that the actual scientific answers to the questions of the origins of the universe, the evolution of man, and the fundamental nature of the cosmos involve things like wave equations and quantum electrodynamics and molecular biology that very few non-scientists can ever hope to understand and that if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that we accept the incredibly complex scientific phenomena in physics, astronomy, and biology through the process of belief, not through reason. W hen Richard Fenyman wrote "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics," he was including himself which is disconcerting given how many books he wrote on that very subject. The fact is that it takes years of dedicated study before s cientific truth in its truest, mathematical and symbolic forms can be understood. The rest of us rely on experts to explain it, someone who has seen and understood the truth and can dumb it down for us in a language we can understand. And therein lies the big problem for science and scientists. For most people, science is really a matter of trusting the expert who tells it to us and believing what they tell us. Trust and belief. Faith. Not understanding. How can we understand science, if we can't understa nd the language of science? "We don't learn science by doing science, we learn science by reading and memorizing. The same way we learn history. Do you really know what an atom is, or that a Higgs boson is a rather important thing, or did you simply accep t they were what someone told you they were?"" - Full Article Source ITEM #169 04/08/11 - Iceboat sails Faster than wind that blows it - Full Article Source ITEM #170 04/08/11 - Brain-Computer Interface Works With Speech Centers "Science Daily reports on new research that uses electrodes placed in the speech centers of the brain to move a cursor around the screen. Participants were instructed to utter different vowel sounds while their neural activity was parsed and analyzed. Onc e analyzed and connected to a cursor-control program, participants quickly learned to use the different vowel sounds to move a cursor around a screen. The system can distinguish between actual speech and the cursor controlling thought sounds." - Full Article Source ITEM #171 04/05/11 - Hidro FREE renewable energy Engineer James Kwok is the pioneer behind the Australian company Hidro. Hidro is the only Australian company to have a PROVEN, patented commercially available self sustaining free energy principle -Ready to be deployed world wide. James has been able to t hink out side of the square of most inventors and formulate a working FREE energy principle that is emission free, high capacity and a self sustaining continuous generator. This means no energy input is needed after the first phase. The user does not need to input any fossil fuel, solar, batteries, wind or wave power to make it work. This new discovery works with a combination of gravity, buoyancy, gas density differences and pressure gradients to create a water pressure energy conversion.This produces CONSTANT motion. All these make it possible to harness energy freely from the environment. Simplified, if you think of a container of water, there is a constant pressure gradient present (which is why a device can float or sink). This constant FREE pressure gradient is not a force that the user needs to input or create. "This Australian comp any uses a 15m water column with counterbalanced buoys to drive a linear generator. Compressed air is injected into a buoy, which floats to the top of the column. The air is released at the top, causing it to fall. The buoys are connected mechanically to a weight, and the up-and-down motion drives a linear generator as well as a piston or flywheel to generate electricity. The founders envision this as a distributed, base-load system. A set of 13 towers has approximately 1MW capacity." (Dec. 12, 2009) In 2008 Professor Ion Boldea of Politehnica University, Timisoara Romania, joined James Kwok as a co-developer in the Hidro+ Multi-module Tower Linear Electric Generator (MTLEG) technology. The Hidro+ MTLEG is a joint patent between James Kwok and Prof essor Ion Boldea, and is currently world patent pending. At present the commercial cost for a 1MW Hidro Tower is approximately US$3.75 million. With maintenance & capital replacement this will cost approximately 1 cent/KW Hr to operate. This is a cleaner and cheaper method to produce energy compared to the current steam turbines which produce power from burning coal. Hidro is also safer and cheaper electricity compared to the dangerous natural gas fracturing process. Hidro dwarfs both, it is cheaper and m ore carbon negative then coal and gas fracturing, plus more reliable then solar and wind power. Regrettably a self contained home power system is not currently being offered by Hidro to the domestic market. A 10-15KW version of this technology would end t he need for energy cartels. (Thanks to Ashton Palise for the headsup about this incredible device. Ashton send an email reporting on the new 20KW version. "This is 20Kw and we saw a 5Kw demo where it was putting 300 watts in and getting 1Kw of lights out, the flywheel builds up to 20Kw over an hour. He showed me a 600 kilowatt rated metal wire that snapped like a TWIG! This thing is DANGEROUSLY powerful, I told him we have people EVERYWHERE and VERY capable of moving this if the conditions were right, the lowest I could get him down to was 50Kw, s adly he said a 10kw is "not efficient" for maintenance and power. I think it needs to be 20-50 at least for the hydrostatic PRESSURE to build up the flywheel to have CONTINUOUS power. I said don't worry we could pulse charge batteries with 10Kw, he was not interested saying that would be for more "R and D". But he had a conservative price, 200 grand for 50Kw could do a free man society. THIS WORKS, we need a transmission license to qualify for them to sell it though, I'll work on trying to get him to do 10kw R and D, I think the PRINCIPLE can work for pul se charging... Okay, will have more news ASAP." - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #172 04/04/11 - Advice from Ray Bradbury: Love what YOU love From Letters of Note, via The Happiness Project. - Full Article Source ITEM #173 04/04/11 - Eureka! Archimedes screw powers back after 70-year break A HISTORIC hydro-electric scheme once used to power a sanatorium is be revived by a Highland community after 70 years. The £180,000 project will use the Archimedes Screw method, a system that has been used since ancient times to lift water to higher level s. The electricity from the new scheme will be fed to the national grid and the community is set to receive income of about £15,000 a year to fund other local projects. Duncan Bryden, CNPA planning committee convener, said: "This scheme will be a huge ass et to the people of Kingussie, generating enough electricity annually to power 15 average houses. "Surveys carried out at the site show the scheme should have a minimal impact on wildlife in the area. "Conditions have been attached to the permission to en sure salmon and mammals are protected and there is minimal disruption to anyone who enjoys walking or canoeing." - Full Article Source ITEM #174 04/04/11 - Plugless Power Induction Charging Evatran is looking to provide convenient, universal, and reliable charging solutions for electric vehicles. With its Plugless Power electric vehicle supply equipment, the company is aiming to make EV charging a fairly simple affair. The system consists of two main parts, one fitted to the vehicle and the other on the ground in front of a control tower. First off, owners will need to get a specially designed adapter fitted and linked up to the car's onboard battery charger. After this, when the car pulls u p in front of a Plugless Power control tower the floor-mounted parking block automatically detects and aligns itself to the adapter in the car. The system then uses magnetic induction to bridge the small gap and start charging the battery. Evatran's curre nt system does lose some energy during transfer (around 20 per cent) but by the time the system is launched, the company anticipates that it can get its enhanced solution operating at 90 per cent efficiency or more. Still short of perfect but the company says that this won't necessarily lead to increased charging times as "the charger will draw additional watts from the electrical outlet to compensate for the small efficiency loss." - Full Article Source ITEM #175 04/04/11 - Mind-control tests causing TV presenters' brains to melt down? A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the U.S. military could be to blame. In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge Judy, the presenters have started off speaking prope rly but have then descended into undecipherable nonsense - looking confused and unstable. The frequency of the 'attacks' - and the fact that recorded examples of the mental meltdowns have been popular on websites - has led to conspiracy theorists pointing the finger at shadowy government experiments. - Full Article Source ITEM #176 04/04/11 - Rechargeable Lightglobe Chinese company Magic Bulb has patented a new type of device which incorporates a battery and LED light globe to produce a light globe which uses only 4 watts but produces the equivalent light of a traditional 50W globe. If the power fails, the globe wil l keep running for around three hours or it can be screwed out of its socket and the handle extended to turn it into a bright torch. The Magic Bulb was on show in the China section of IFA in Berlin this week and is expected to retail for between US$30 and $40 when it finds distribution in other parts of the world. Does it have a significant and viable point-of-difference to other globes. It's a set and forget solution that will almost certainly come in handy when the electricity goes down next. It has a l ife of 20,000 hours, saves over 70 percent of the power used by an equivalent brightness 50W filament globe, and meets all the international standards. - Full Article Source ITEM #177 04/04/11 - We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 1 5 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government. It gets worse. More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined. We hav e moved decisively from a nation of makers to a nation of takers. Nearly half of the $2.2 trillion cost of state and local governments is the $1 trillion-a-year tab for pay and benefits of state and local employees. Is it any wonder that so many states an d cities cannot pay their bills? Every state in America today except for two—Indiana and Wisconsin—has more government workers on the payroll than people manufacturing industrial goods. - Full Article Source ITEM #178 04/04/11 - TiFoam Titanium Bone TiFoam is a titanium foam to be used for replacing injured bone and is intended for load-bearing areas, where a balance of strength and flexibility are essential. However, it’s designed to encourage surrounding bone to grow into the implant. Typically, th e more stress a bone has to endure, the thicker and stronger it gets. Traditional titanium bone replacements tend to be stiffer than the bone to which they’re attached, so the implant ends up taking most of the load of activities such as walking, lifting, or even just standing. The material is made by saturating open-cell polyurethane foam with a fine titanium powder and a binding agent. Once the titanium has bonded to the various nooks and crannies, the foam and the binding agent are vaporized. What’s le ft is nothing but titanium, which is then heated and compressed to form something with a structure very much like that of the spongiosa inside bones. - Full Article Source ITEM #179 04/04/11 - Be Wary of Space Visitors When considering the prospect of alien life, humankind should prepare for the worst, according to a new study: Either we're alone, or any aliens out there are acquisitive and resource-hungry, just like us. These two unpalatable options are pretty much the only possibilities, according to the new study. That's because evolution is predictable, and alien biospheres should thus produce intelligent creatures much like us, with technological prowess and an ever-increasing need for resources. But the fact that we haven't run across E.T. yet argues strongly for the latter possibility -- that we are alone in the universe's howling void, the study suggests. While Conway Morris' study recommends caution when considering the possibility of alien life, another new re port suggests that humanity would probably be happy to learn that we're not alone. Writing in the same issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, psychologist Albert Harrison predicts that the discovery of alien life -- should it happ en anytime soon -- would be more likely to inspire delight than incite pandemonium here on Earth. That's partly because E.T. would probably seem pretty non-threatening, and fairly abstract, when we first discover it. The first evidence of alien life would likely be a microbe from Mars or other solar system body, or an electromagnetic signal snagged out of the air, according to Harrison. And, though he doesn't advocate letting our guard down, Harrison is not quite as worried about aliens' possible malignan t intentions as Conway Morris is. It's not necessarily inevitable that alien civilizations advance to stages of interstellar imperialism, cruising the cosmos for resources, Harrison said. Despite the atrocities leading the news every night, societies here on Earth seem to be trending more toward peaceful coexistence, Harrison said. And even if an alien civilization got greedy and imperialistic, there's no guarantee it would be able to run roughshod over its neighbors. "It's possible to have very acquisiti ve civilizations out there," Harrison said. "Maybe they get to a certain point, but they may collapse or be beaten back. No one civilization is necessarily going to take over, because there will be coalitions of other civilizations that will keep them in check." People around the world seem to share Harrison's more positive outlook. In the new study, he cites one poll that found that 86 percent of Americans believe that aliens are more likely to be friendly than hostile. - Full Article Source ITEM #180 04/04/11 - Funding the search for life in the solar system The search for extraterrestrial life is very much a search for ourselves. We want to understand our place in the universe, the conditions that make us unique or special, the evolution of how we came to be, and our ultimate destiny—on planet Earth and perh aps other worlds. These questions about ourselves and the nature and destiny of life are also questions that religions address. I think that accounts for a good part of the public interest in Mars and in the search for extraterrestrial life. We might bene fit from engaging with those religious interests more. I am focusing on the intellectual parts of religious inquiry, that search to understand our place in the universe, and not the assertive parts that seek to spread their “truth,” or the fundamental par ts that want no inquiry at all. Space interests have sought involvement from charitable interests that promote scientific inquiry and humanity’s accomplishments; they have sought to involve private and commercial interests that wish to develop new product s and services for business and profit; and they have sought to involve the industrial community seeking to advance technology and processes for product development. Maybe they should also seek to involve religious communities and philosophers seeking to understand our place in the universe. - Full Article Source ITEM #181 04/04/11 - US Patents On Stem Cell Research Hindering Progress Experts say that cures for paralysis, blindness and diabetes could all be in reach with embryonic stem cell research, but the U.S. rush to secure patents is choking the pursuit of medical progress. Scientists are filing for legal patents that give them ex clusive intellectual property rights for each discovery they make in the hopes that one day, one will lead to a blockbuster cure and big cash for those who devise it. However, the process means U.S. scientists often find themselves blocked because other u niversities or private companies have already secured exclusive rights. "You just have this complete minefield out there and you know who the victims are? It's the patients," Bob Lanza, chief scientific officer at Advanced Cell Technology, told AFP. Lanza said that competing against Geron Corporation when researching stem cells in reversing diabetes was a process he had been working on with animals for many years. "When I came to ACT to try to do it with stem cells I couldn't because the rights to use emb ryonic stem cells for diabetes had been exclusively licensed to Geron," he said. "Here I was, a scientist trying to cure diabetes and I couldn't use my entire lifetime of expertise to try and develop that technology," he said. - Full Article Source ITEM #182 04/04/11 - ErockIT: 50 mph Electric Motorcycle The ErockIT is more a motorcycle than a bike, and indeed, it might be one of today's quickest forms of inner city transport. The whole thing weighs just 110 kilograms and with over 45lb/ft of torque and 13bhp, it can top 50mph. The range can be extended b y pedaling along, though your strokes don't actually ever make it to the wheels in a conventional way. Instead, your legs turn a small generator which adds a bit of juice to the battery. The company has plans for a limited model release starting next year . ErockIT says it is using a nano-phosphate lithium battery in its present design, which it expects to last for 10 years or 50,000 kilometers of use. Depending on driving or pedaling style, a charge should last for 60 to 80 kilometers, and cost the German consumer about 60 Euro cents, or just under U.S.$1. The ErockIT weighs about 100 kilos (225 pounds) so you won't be able to carry it up the apartment steps, that's for sure. - Full Article Source ITEM #183 04/04/11 - Bone treatment may extend life by 5 years Evidence that patients undergoing bone treatment are not only surviving better than people without osteoporosis, but may also be gaining an extra five years of life has been published in a new study. People taking bisphosphonates - are a class of drugs th at prevent the loss of bone mass – as part of their treatment displayed this unexpected side-effect, which results due to a prevention of toxic metal release caused by bone loss. “We speculate that it may have something to do with the fact that bone acts as a repository for toxic heavy metals such as lead and cadmium,” said John Eisman, from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research. “So when people get older, they lose bone. When this happens, these toxic materials are released back into the body and may adversely affect health.” It has already been shown by Garvan and others that osteoporotic fractures increase a person’s risk of dying, even after relatively minor fractures if that person is elderly. “Osteoporosis is a big societal burden and remain s a poorly understood and severely undertreated disease in Australia,” said Eisman. “It was unexpected and remarkable to find that not only osteoporosis but also life expectancy appear to be improved for people taking bisphosphonates,” said Bennett. - Full Article Source ITEM #184 04/04/11 - Solution found for climate change: Nuclear war A solution has been found to those pesky climate change problems being caused by global warming: nuclear war. One minor niggle: "Widespread famine and disease would likely follow," even if the war were a small-scale one, writes Charles Choi for National G eographic News, describing the study conducted by scientists from NASA and other institutions that reached this good-news/bad-new conclusion. The group built a computer model to discover what effect a relatively low-end nuclear conflict would have – say, a spat between Pakistan and India, for example. The projected arsenal was rather wimpy: 100 Hiroshima-sized nukes. Such a regional dust-up, the scientists determined, would cause conflagrations sufficient to loft about five million metric tons of black ca rbon into the lower atmosphere, where it'd be heated by solar radiation and rise into the higher atmosphere – where it would hang out for a goodly amount of time, getting in the way of sunlight. The cooling caused by this sooty layer wouldn't end life as we know it – as might have been possible if the US and the Soviet Union had ever taken the gloves off back in the Fate of the Earth days. But it would be nasty enough. - Full Article Source ITEM #185 04/04/11 - New cheap gas, not nature, is nuclear's biggest worry New nuclear reactors just aren't economical, says the CEO of the largest nuclear operator in the United States. Exelon's CEO John Rowe says that the economics of cheap gas makes a nuclear renaissance unforeseeable for the next few years – and had done so before the quake prompted regulators to politicians to review their policies. "At the present time, new reactors are not economical anyway. Natural gas-fired generation is now the economic way to produce low carbon electricity, and that will be true for a bout a decade," said Rowe in an interview with Bloomberg. The commercial production of deep gas or "shale gas" has had dramatic effects on the energy markets over the past two to three years – causing the market price to plummet, and divorcing the wholesa le gas price from the market price of crude oil for the first time. Gas has historically been tied to the price of crude – but not any more. The price of crude keeps rising, and the price of gas keeps falling. Gas hit $4 per 1,000m3 – the only commodity t o fall in price last year. This fact, and the local nature of deep shale reserves, has enormous geo-political repercussions that our politicians and policy-makers haven't fully grasped yet. Shale gas threatens the ability of Gazprom to command high prices for its exports in Europe, for example. - Full Article Source ITEM #186 04/04/11 - DARPA: Send limbless troops back to war with robo-arms Radical Pentagon boffins have hit upon a new plan which will assist the USA in its efforts to meet the demand for combat troops in the expanding Wars On Stuff. Disabled servicemen who have lost arms or legs in the fighting thus far will be swiftly equippe d with highly capable, ruggedised robotic replacement limbs and sent straight back into the fray. In a government solicitation paper issued this week, we learn that: Many wounded warriors with upper-limb amputation would like to return to their units in t he field. However, in order to do so they must at least demonstrate the ability to field strip and reassemble their weapons ... [Bids from robotic limb designers must] adequately reflect potential clinical use initially by young and highly active wounded warriors (ie athletic individuals that strive to regain a high level of limb functionality). The current state of the art in prosthetic limbs has been driven forward seriously in recent years due to the flood of young amputees arriving in Western-world ho spitals as a result of the wars following 9/11. Some robo-limbs now have as many degrees of freedom, as much manipulative precision and potentially as much strength as the fleshy arms of fit, muscular soldiers. The problem now lies in control of these pow erful limbs: researchers have struggled to create a viable link between the owner's motor-control centres and the machinery. This is what the new military Reliable Central-Nervous-System Interfaces (RCI) project is intended to address. Such a brain-plug i nterface has long been sought: it would offer many benefits besides allowing troops to be swiftly returned to the fray after suffering disabling injuries. It could be used to restore function to undamaged limbs crippled by nervous-system damage, or serve as a hugely improved method of controlling computers or other machinery. Ultimately it might achieve one of the longest-held dreams of human science: the ability to place titanic, powerful robot juggernaut vehicles or colossi under the command of disembod ied brains in bubbling jars. - Full Article Source ITEM #187 04/04/11 - How silica helps plants grow, flourish A typical man of 70 kg is made up of 43 kg oxygen, 16 kg carbon and just 1 gram of silicon. Yet he cannot do without this little gram. Without it, his skin would suffer, his bones lose strength. He needs to take in anywhere between 5-20 milligrams of sili con per day, and most, if not all, of it comes through diet. Research published ten years ago in the West showed that man takes in 30-33 milligrams per day, while a typical woman takes in a bit less, 24-25 mg per day. Where does this intake come from? Bee r, bananas, string beans and cereals. Banana packs in 14 mg per 250 g of the fruit, high grain cereals 10 mg/100 g and green beans 6 mg/250 g. Brown rice has 4 mg/200 g while white rice has 2.5 mg/200g (Gandhiji was right – eat brown rice and high grain c ereals. And I like the idea of beer as a silicon supplier). Plants happen to be the major source of silicon for our needs. But why did they start taking in this element in the first place? And how do they do it? After all sand, which is silicon dioxide (c alled silica, to differentiate this compound or molecule from its parent element silicon), is not soluble in water. The roots of plants must have a mechanism to take silica in the soluble form and transport it to the stem, leaves and other parts. Strength to stalk - We now know that silica offers strength to the stalk and stem, keeping them from wilting, and to toughen and widen the leaves open so that they may capture light and photosynthesize efficiently. Silica prevents leaves from lodging or falling o ver, and the husk that covers the seeds has silica. And the silicon helps warding off invading pests such as the yellow stem borer by killing off their larvae. Of all plants, rice is the best one to capture silica from the ground and use it for its health . Silica is present to the extent of 10-15 per cent in all parts of the rice plant. However, excessive use of fertilizers, insufficient amounts of water, increasing incidence of pests and microbes, and the depletion of soil silicon have all led to a decli ne in rice production. It has therefore become important to find ways of enhancing the uptake of available silicon using novel methods. It is this challenge that Professor S. Ranganathan of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad has taken up to address and solve. A creative organic chemist who successfully practices and propagates the “art of organic synthesis”, he argued that if one can hook on a water-soluble small molecule to the hydroxyl arm of silicic acid, one should be able to enhan ce the transport of silicon from the soil to the plant via the root. He had known that people had used a polymer-based molecule to dissolve fine silica from the lungs of affected people. He then wondered: why not strip the polymer down to its basic active unit (pyridine-N-oxide) and use it to transport silica? He did so and found this simpler version successful in attaching to the silicic acid ( J. Chem. Sci., 2004, Biologia Plantarum, 2006). Yet, he was not satisfied, because pyridine N-oxides might lead to soil residual effects. He wanted to try more easily available and naturally occurring small molecules, which do not have ill effects on soil microbial organisms that are beneficial to the plant. Extensive research - After extensive search, he found si mple amino acids like glycine, glutamine, histidine, and even imidazole to enhance silica uptake three times better. And these are natural environment-friendly and easily available ( Crop Protection, 2008, and in the journal called P, S, Si and the Relate d Elements, 2009, 2010). The next step was to go from lab to land. Collaborating with the plant physiologist Dr. Voleti Sitapathi Rao of the Directorate of Rice Research (ICMR), Hyderabad, Professor Ranganathan tried his method on rice plants in the green house, field and in normal farmlands. Not only does silica uptake go up (by 18 per cent in the stalk and 11 per cent in leaves) when imidazole is added, but it also cuts down the damage caused by the pest yellow stem borer by over 50 per cent in three di fferent varieties (Rasi, Kasturi, Krishna hamsa) and reduces fungal damage (blast) remarkably. - Full Article Source ITEM #188 04/04/11 - Was There a Natural Nuclear Blast on Mars? About 180 million years ago, a planet-shattering yet naturally occurring nuclear reaction may have wiped out everything on Mars, sending a shockwave that turned the planet into dry sand. Even more incredible: A natural nuclear reaction could have occurred on our own planet -- and could happen again, said Dr. John Brandenburg, a senior propulsion scientist at Orbital Technologies Corp. "The Martian surface is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive pot assium -- and this pattern radiates from a hot spot [on Mars],” Brandenburg told FoxNews.com. “A nuclear explosion could have sent debris all around the planet," he said. "Maps of gamma rays on Mars show a big red spot that seems like a radiating debris p attern ... on the opposite side of the planet there is another red spot." - Full Article Source ITEM #189 04/04/11 - Homeopathy Not All It’s Quacked Up to Be What are the ethical, moral and public health issues when pushing a homeopathic remedy to prevent malaria that is 99.99 percent water with hardly a trace of quinine? And what about the “natural” preparation that promises to cure HIV/AIDS by “oxygenating t he cells” and bringing your T-cells back to normal? Or, as a website exclaims: “Approximately 15,000 European Doctors, Naturopaths, and Homeopaths have supplied this amazing remedy to more than 10 million people during the past 70 years to heal over 50 di fferent diseases.” Being skeptical and thoroughly investigating remedies that defy physics and chemistry can help you avoid taking homeopathic substances that may be safe but not effective. More importantly, these treatments could prevent you from trying ones that actually work. Figuring out what works best with established scientific methodologies is the million-dollar question worth pursuing. - Full Article Source ITEM #190 04/04/11 - Lawsuit seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s GMO patents A landmark lawsuit filed on March 29 in US federal court seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seeds and to prohibit the company from suing those whose crops become genetically contaminated. The Public Patent Foundation filed suit on behalf of 270,000 people from sixty organic and sustainable businesses and trade associations, including thousands of certified-organic farmers. In Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, et al. v. Monsanto, et al. (U.S. District Court, Southern D istrict of New York, Case No. 11 CIV 2163), PUBPAT details the invalidity of any patent that poisons people and the environment, and that is not useful to society, two hallmarks of US patent law. - Full Article Source ITEM #191 04/04/11 - Students Create Thought-Controlled Prosthetic Arm "Two undergraduate students from Toronto's Ryerson University have created a prosthetic arm that is controlled by its wearer's brain signals, and powered by compressed air. Not only is the Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm said to offer a greater range of movement than traditional prostheses, but it also doesn't require the amputee to undergo invasive surgery, is easy to learn to use, and it is relatively inexpensive to make." - Full Article Source ITEM #192 04/04/11 - CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator "A British firm has been banned from advertising a CD ripping device because it 'incites law breaking.' The Brennan JB7 is 'a CD player with a hard disk that stores up to 5,000 CDs.' The adverts for the Brennan highlight the convenience of ripping your en tire CD collection to the device – much like we've all been doing for years on our PCs, iPods and other MP3 players. The Advertising Standards Authority has banned the ads after concluding 'that the ad misleadingly implied it was acceptable to copy CDs, v inyl and cassettes without the permission of the copyright owner.'" - Full Article Source ITEM #193 04/04/11 - Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs "Authorities have captured a 74-foot camouflaged submarine — nearly twice as long as a city bus — with twin propellers and a 5-foot conning tower that, with a crew of four to six, has a maximum operational range of 6,800 nautical miles on the surface, can go 10 days without refueling and was probably designed to ferry cocaine underwater to Mexico. The vessel carries a payload of 9 tons of cocaine with a street value of about $250 million and uses a GPS chart plotter with side-scan capabilities, a high-fre quency radio, an electro-optical periscope and an infrared camera mounted on the conning tower—visual aids that supplement two miniature windows in the makeshift cockpit. "This is the most sophisticated sub we've seen to date," says Jon Wallace who has he aded the Personal Submersibles Organization, or Psubs, for 15 years. "It's a very good design in terms of shape and controls." In the meantime jungle shipbuilders continue to perfect their craft." (Legalize drugs and all this goes away, learn from Proh ibition. - JWD) - Full Article Source ITEM #194 04/04/11 - Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism "The Telegraph reports that the Roman Catholic Church has warned that the internet has fueled a surge in Satanism that has led to a sharp rise in the demand for exorcists. 'The internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about Satan ism. In just a few minutes you can contact Satanist groups and research occultism,' says Carlo Climati, a member of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome who specializes in the dangers posed to young people by Satanism. Organizers of a six- day conference that has brought together more than 60 Catholic clergy as well as doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and youth workers,co-sponsored by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and the Congregation for Cler gy say the rise of Satanism has been dangerously underestimated in recent years." (And what does the vatican promote and coverup??? All religions make the old gods into the new demons...satan came from Egyptian god SET...and on and on...primitives... - JW D) - Full Article Source ITEM #195 04/04/11 - Top Gear Fights Back At Tesla "Top Gear's producer Andy Wilman responds to Tesla's lawsuit: 'We never said that the Tesla's true range is only 55 miles, as opposed to their own claim of 211, or that it had actually ran out of charge. In the film our actual words were: "We calculated t hat on our track it would run out after 55 miles."' Interesting points, and as far as I can remember also correct. But I'm assuming Tesla is going the get the PR they want on this regardless of any court rulings." - Full Article Source ITEM #196 04/04/11 - StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light "Scientific American reports that a newly patented method of non-lethal incapacitation can render an assailant helpless for several minutes by overloading the neural networks connected to the retina with a brief flash of high-intensity light. 'It's the in verse of blindness—the technical term is a loss of contrast sensitivity,' says Todd Eisenberg, the engineer who invented the device. The device consists of a 75-watt lamp, combined with optics that collect and focus the visible light into a targeted beam, which can be aimed like a flashlight to project a controlled beam of white light more than 10 times more intense than an aircraft landing light with a range as far away as 150 feet. Recovery time ranges from 'seconds to 20 minutes,' says Eisenberg. 'It's very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a very dark room.'" - Full Article Source ITEM #197 04/04/11 - Meanwhile, Between DC and the Left Coast Seen from Highway 60-70-84, 5 miles east of Clovis, New Mexico: They can ignore, they can sneer, they can even resort to voter fraud. But they can't make the country they rule go away. - Full Article Source ITEM #198 04/04/11 - DVD - the Physics of Crystals, Pyramids and Tetrahedrons This is a wonderful duel DVD set lasting 2 hours and which presents one man's lifelong study of pyramids, crystals and their effects. Several of his ori ginal and very creative experiments are explained and diagramed out for experimenters. These experiments include; 1) transmutation of zinc to lower elements using a tetrahedron, 2) energy extraction from a pyramid, 3) determining mathematic ratios of nature in a simple experiment, 4) accelerating the growth of food, 5) increasing the abundance of food, 6) how crystals amplify, focus and defocus energy, 7) using crystals to assist natural healing, 8) how the universe uses spirals and vortexes to produce free energy and MORE... - Two DVDs - More Info and check out this Youtube Clip ITEM #199 04/04/11 - KeelyNet BBS Files w/bonus PDF of 'Keely and his Discoveries' Finally, I've gotten around to compiling all the files (almost 1,000 - about 20MB and lots of work doing it) from the original KeelyNet BBS into a form you can easily navigate and read using your browser, ideally Firefox but it does work with IE. Most of these files are extremely targeted, interesting and informative, I had forgotten just how much but now you can have the complete organized, categorized set, not just sprinklings from around the web. They will keep you reading for weeks if not longer and give you clues and insights into many subjects and new ideas for investigation and research. IN ADDITION, I am including as a bonus gift, the book (in PDF form) that started it all for me, 'Keely and his Discoveries - Aerial Navigation' which includes the analysis of Keely's discoveries by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton. This 407 page eBook alone is worth the price of the KeelyNet BBS CD but it will give you some degree of understanding about what all Keely accomplished which is just now being rediscovered, but of course, without recognizing Keely as the original discoverer. Chapters include; Vibratory Sympathetic and Polar Flows, Vibratory Physics, Latent Force in Interstitial Spaces and much more. To give some idea of how Keely's discoveries are being slowly rediscovered in modern times, check out this Keely History. These two excellent bodies of information will be sent to you on CD. If alternative science intrigues and fascinates you, this CD is what you've been looking for... - More Info ITEM #200 04/04/11 - 'The Evolution of Matter' and 'The Evolution of Forces' on CD Years ago, I had been told by several people, that the US government frequently removes books they deem dangerous or 'sensitive' from libraries. Some are replaced with sections removed or rewritten so as to 'contain' information that should not be available to the public despite the authors intent. A key example was during the Manhattan Project when the US was trying to finalize research into atomic bombs. They removed any books that dealt with the subject and two of them were by Dr. Gustave Le Bon since they dealt with both energy and matter including radioactivity. I had been looking for these two books for many years and fortunately stumbled across two copies for which I paid about $40.00 each. I couldn't put down the books once I started reading them. Such a wealth of original discoveries, many not known or remembered today. / Page 88 - Without the ether there could be neither gravity, nor light, nor electricity, nor heat, nor anything, in a word, of which we have knowledge. The universe would be silent and dead, or would reveal itself in a form which we cannot even foresee. If one could construct a glass chamber from which the ether were to be entirely eliminated, heat and light could not pass through it. It would be absolutely dark, and probably gravitation would no longer act on the bodies within it. They would then have lost their weight. / Page 96-97 - A material vortex may be formed by any fluid, liquid or gaseous, turning round an axis, and by the fact of its rotation it describes spirals. The study of these vortices has been the object of important researches by different scholars, notably by Bjerkness and Weyher. They have shown that by them can be produced all the attractions and repulsions recognized in electricity, the deviations of the magnetic needle by currents, etc. These vortices are produced by the rapid rotation of a central rod furnished with pallets, or, more simply, of a sphere. Round this sphere gaseous currents are established, dissymetrical with regard to its equatorial plane, and the result is the attraction or repulsion of bodies brought near to it, according to the position given to them. It is even possible, as Weyher has proved, to compel these bodies to turn round the sphere as do the satellites of a planet without touch ing it. / Page 149 - "The problem of sending a pencil of parallel Hertzian waves to a distance possesses more than a theoretical interest. It is allowable to say that its solution would change the course of our civilization by rendering war impossible. The first physicist who realizes this discovery will be able to avail himself of the presence of an enemy's ironclads gathered together in a harbour to blow them up in a few minutes, from a distance of several kilometres, simply by directing on them a sheaf of electric radiations. On reaching the metal wires with which these vessels are nowadays honeycombed, this will excite an atmosphere of sparks which will at once explode the shells and torpedoes stored in their holds. With the same reflector, giving a p encil of parallel radiations, it would not be much more difficult to cause the explosion of the stores of powder and shells contained in a fortress, or in the artillery sparks of an army corps, and finally the metal cartridges of the soldiers. Science, which at first rendered wars so deadly, would then at length have rendered them impossible, and the relations between nations would have to be established on new bases." - More Info ITEM #201 04/04/11 - High Voltage & Free Energy Devices Handbook This wonderfully informative ebook provides many simple experiments you can do, including hydrogen generation and electrostatic repulsion as well as the keys to EV Gray's Fuelless Engine. One of the most comprehensive compilations of information yet detai ling the effects of high voltage repulsion as a driving force. Ed Gray's engine produced in excess of 300HP and he claimed to be able to 'split the positive' energy of electricity to produce a self-running motor/generator for use as an engine. Schematics and tons of photos of the original machines and more! Excellent gift for your technical friends or for that budding scientist! If you are an experimenter or know someone who investigates such matters, this would make an excellent addition to your library or as an unforgettable gift. The downloadable HVFE eBook pdf file is almost 11MB in size and contains many experiments, photos, diagrams and technical details. Buy a copy and learn all about hydrogen generation, its uses and how to produce electrostatic r epulsion. - 121 pages - More Info ITEM #202 04/04/11 - Hypnosis CD - 3 eBooks with How To Techniques and Many Cases If you have a few minutes, you might want to read my page on hypnosis and all the amazing things associated with its application. Included is an experience I had when I hypnotized a neighbor kid when I was about 14. As well the hypnotic gaze of snakes, th e discovery of 'eyebeams' which can be detected electronically, the Italian Hypnotist Robber who was caught on tape with his eyes glowing as cashiers handed over their money and remembered nothing, glamour and clouding the mind of others, several methods of trance induction and many odd cases, animal catatonia, healing, psychic phenomena, party/stage stunts, including my favorite of negative hallucination where you make your subject NOT see something...much more...if nothing else, its might be a hoot to r ead. - More Info ITEM #203 04/04/11 - 14 Ways to Save Money on Fuel Costs This eBook is the result of years of research into various methods to increase mileage, reduce pollution and most importantly, reduce overall fuel costs. I t starts out with the simplest methods and offers progressively more detailed technologies that have been shown to reduce fuel costs. As a bonus to readers, I have salted the pages with free interesting BONUS items that correlate to the relevant page. Jus t filling up with one tank of gas using this or other methods explained here will pay for this eBook. Of course, many more methods are out there but I provided only the ones which I think are practical and can be studied by the average person who is looki ng for a way to immediately reduce their fuel costs. I am currently using two of the easier methods in my own vehicle which normally gets 18-22 mpg and now gets between 28 and 32 mpg depending on driving conditions. A tank of gas for my 1996 Ford Ranger c osts about $45.00 here so I am saving around $15-$20 PER TANK, without hurting my engine and with 'greener' emissions due to a cleaner burn! The techniques provided in this ebook begin with simple things you can do NOW to improve your mileage and lower yo ur gas costs. - eBook Download / More Info ITEM #204 04/04/11 - The Physics of the Primary State of Matter The Physics of the Primary State of Matter - published in the 1930s, Karl Schappeller described his Prime Mover, a 10-inch steel sphere with quarter-inch copper tubing coils. These were filled with a material not named specifically, but which is s aid to have hardened under the influence of direct current and a magnetic field [electro-rheological fluid]. With such polarization, it might be guessed to act like a dielectric capacitor and as a diode... - More Info ITEM #205 04/04/11 - $5 Alt Science MP3s to listen while working/driving/jogging No time to sit back and watch videos? Here are 15 interesting presentations you can do wnload for just $5 each and listen to while driving, working, jogging, etc. An easy way to learn some fascinating new things that you will find of use. Easy, cheap and simple, better than eBooks or Videos. Roughly 50MB per MP3. - More Info ITEM #206 04/04/11 - 15 New Alternative Science DVDs & 15 MP3s An assortment of alternative science videos that provide many insights and inside information from various experimenters. Also MP3s extracted from these DVDs that you can listen to while working or driving. Reference links for these lectures and workshops by Bill Beaty of Amateur Science on the Dark Side of Amateur Science, Peter Lindemann on the World of Free Energy, Norman Wootan on the History of the EV Gray motor, Dan Davidson on Shape Power and Gravity Wave Phenomena, Lee Crock on a Method for Stimulating Energy, Doug Konzen on the Konzen Pulse Motor, George Wiseman on the Water Torch and Jerry Decker on Aether, ZPE and Dielectric Nano Arrays. Your purchase of these products helps support KeelyNet, thanks! - More Info Six Ways to Support Keelynet

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