Thursday 30 April 2009

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Robotic Nation, by Marshall Brain

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 10:37 AM PDT

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

Mind Control Stories – Brain Research Shows Future Mind Control Techniques - Popular Mechanics

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 10:13 AM PDT

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4272246.html

YouTube - Trapdoor - Creepy Crawly

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:51 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIDXJXGORC4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp%3F&feature=player_embedded

YouTube - Pulse Ultra Acceptance Phase I Guitar angle (Dominic Cifarelli)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:25 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEx7kCYZjoY

YouTube - Finger Eleven - "Above" Official Video

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:08 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKckrP8cANQ&feature=PlayList&p=904F48FB190DE2F8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

Summertime camps boom: The 'Godless alternative' for non-believers - Home News, UK - The Independent

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:27 AM PDT

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/summertime-camps-boom-the-godless-alternative-for-nonbelievers-1675815.html

Framed by Clouds

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:06 AM PDT

Framed by Clouds Last Sunday's fading evening twilight featured a young crescent Moon along the western horizon. The young Moon also shared the sky with the lovely Pleiades star cluster and wandering planet Mercury. Framed by clouds in this serene skyscape from Selsey, UK, a similar twilight scene was visible around the globe. Emerging from the cloud bank below the Pleiades, the narrow sunlit lunar crescent is overexposed. Still, the Moon's dim night side is impressively clear, illuminated by earthshine. Bright, innermost planet Mercury lies near the bottom of the field. Mercury will remain near the Pleiades, low in the west after sunset over the coming days, an ongoing conjunction of planet and star cluster that will offer skygazers some excellent binocular views.

The Amazing Wheelchair... Controlled by the Power of Thought

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:51 AM PDT

Scientists have developed a wheelchair controlled by the power of thought. The robotic chair could revolutionise life for those with severe disabilities who are unable to use a conventional joystick. It works by creating a three-dimensional picture of the area around it, with a laser scanner. This is displayed on a screen in front of the user.

Scientists witness space's oldest event

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:20 AM PDT

Astronomers have spied a gamma-ray burst from the universe's infancy, making it the oldest event ever witnessed and shedding light on cosmic origins, say US and British scientists.

Debut for world's fastest

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 01:30 AM PDT

The fastest imaging system ever devised has been demonstrated by researchers reporting in the journal Nature.

Johnald's Fantastical Daily Link Splurge

Johnald's Fantastical Daily Link Splurge

Robotic Nation, by Marshall Brain

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 10:37 AM PDT

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

Mind Control Stories – Brain Research Shows Future Mind Control Techniques - Popular Mechanics

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 10:13 AM PDT

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4272246.html

YouTube - Trapdoor - Creepy Crawly

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:51 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIDXJXGORC4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp%3F&feature=player_embedded

YouTube - Pulse Ultra Acceptance Phase I Guitar angle (Dominic Cifarelli)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:25 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEx7kCYZjoY

YouTube - Finger Eleven - "Above" Official Video

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:08 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKckrP8cANQ&feature=PlayList&p=904F48FB190DE2F8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

Summertime camps boom: The 'Godless alternative' for non-believers - Home News, UK - The Independent

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:27 AM PDT

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/summertime-camps-boom-the-godless-alternative-for-nonbelievers-1675815.html

Framed by Clouds

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:06 AM PDT

Framed by Clouds Last Sunday's fading evening twilight featured a young crescent Moon along the western horizon. The young Moon also shared the sky with the lovely Pleiades star cluster and wandering planet Mercury. Framed by clouds in this serene skyscape from Selsey, UK, a similar twilight scene was visible around the globe. Emerging from the cloud bank below the Pleiades, the narrow sunlit lunar crescent is overexposed. Still, the Moon's dim night side is impressively clear, illuminated by earthshine. Bright, innermost planet Mercury lies near the bottom of the field. Mercury will remain near the Pleiades, low in the west after sunset over the coming days, an ongoing conjunction of planet and star cluster that will offer skygazers some excellent binocular views.

The Amazing Wheelchair... Controlled by the Power of Thought

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:51 AM PDT

Scientists have developed a wheelchair controlled by the power of thought. The robotic chair could revolutionise life for those with severe disabilities who are unable to use a conventional joystick. It works by creating a three-dimensional picture of the area around it, with a laser scanner. This is displayed on a screen in front of the user.

Scientists witness space's oldest event

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:20 AM PDT

Astronomers have spied a gamma-ray burst from the universe's infancy, making it the oldest event ever witnessed and shedding light on cosmic origins, say US and British scientists.

Debut for world's fastest

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 01:30 AM PDT

The fastest imaging system ever devised has been demonstrated by researchers reporting in the journal Nature.

Wednesday 29 April 2009

Johnald's Fantastical Daily Link Splurge

Johnald's Fantastical Daily Link Splurge

A Broad Look at Psychedelics: Manifesting the Mind Trailer

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 10:23 AM PDT


(10 votes - 0 comments - 85 views)
Manifesting the Mind is a broad look at psychedelics. Why are psychedelics so brutally suppressed in our culture? What exactly are some of the psychedelic plants and chemicals and how can they benefit us? With philosophy and insight from Dennis McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey, and many others, this film is not to be missed by anyone interested in psychedelics and shamanism.

More here.

Swine Flu Is Evolution in Action

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 09:10 AM PDT

Anyone who thinks evolution is for the birds should not be afraid of swine flu. Because if there's no such thing as evolution, then there's no such thing as a new strain of swine flu infecting people.

Evidence of the 'Lost World' -- Scientific evidence support.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 09:00 AM PDT

New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the extinction, and that dinosaurs may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years.

78 Billion-Journey to the Beginning of Time -A Hubble VIDEO

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 08:21 AM PDT

It helps to put things in perspective here on our planet with a look at this extraordinarily powerful and moving video of the Hubble Space Telescope mapping of the Universe, whose known size is 78 billion light years across. The video is the equivalent of using a "time machine" to look into the past to witness the early formation of galaxies.

Colossal spy airships with 15-story radars get $400M reality

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 07:50 AM PDT

US scientists this week got the go ahead to build a roughly 1/3-scale model of a stratospheric airship that if completed in-scale will house a floating 15-story radar system capable of detecting and tracking everything from missiles to people from 70,00 ft

Bill Maher - Be More Cynical on Religion

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 07:44 AM PDT


(20 votes - 2 comments - 282 views)
Bill Maher in his 2000 special "Be More Cynical" talking about the Christian religion.

GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 06:06 AM PDT

GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured An explosion so powerful it was seen clear across the visible universe was recorded in gamma-radiation last week by NASA's orbiting Swift Observatory. Farther than any known galaxy, quasar, or optical supernova, the gamma-ray burst recorded last week was clocked at redshift 8.2, making it the farthest explosion of any type yet detected. Occurring only 630 million years after the Big Bang, GRB 090423 detonated so early that astronomers had no direct evidence that anything explodable even existed back then. The faint infrared afterglow of GRB 090423 was recovered by large ground telescopes within minutes of being discovered. The afterglow is circled in the above picture taken by the large Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, USA. An exciting possibility is that this gamma-ray burst occurred in one of the very first generation of stars and announced the birth of an early black hole. Surely, GRB 090423 provides unique data from a relatively unexplored epoch in our universe and a distant beacon from which the intervening universe can be studied.

all things underwater: rusaman: 伊藤クロニクル:魚釣島は&#35...

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:34 AM PDT

http://jraffunderwater.tumblr.com/post/87187607/rusaman-livedoor-blog

all things underwater: rusaman:Close up of a Port Jackson shark.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:12 AM PDT

http://jraffunderwater.tumblr.com/post/84632452/rusaman-close-up-of-a-port-jackson-shark

all things underwater: kikuchige: zumbi: Wetpixel.com :: Photo of the...

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:09 AM PDT

http://jraffunderwater.tumblr.com/post/87722722/kikuchige-zumbi-wetpixel-com-photo-of-the

Daily Link Splurge

Daily Link Splurge

A Broad Look at Psychedelics: Manifesting the Mind Trailer

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 10:23 AM PDT


(10 votes - 0 comments - 85 views)
Manifesting the Mind is a broad look at psychedelics. Why are psychedelics so brutally suppressed in our culture? What exactly are some of the psychedelic plants and chemicals and how can they benefit us? With philosophy and insight from Dennis McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey, and many others, this film is not to be missed by anyone interested in psychedelics and shamanism.

More here.

Swine Flu Is Evolution in Action

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 09:10 AM PDT

Anyone who thinks evolution is for the birds should not be afraid of swine flu. Because if there's no such thing as evolution, then there's no such thing as a new strain of swine flu infecting people.

Evidence of the 'Lost World' -- Scientific evidence support.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 09:00 AM PDT

New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the extinction, and that dinosaurs may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years.

78 Billion-Journey to the Beginning of Time -A Hubble VIDEO

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 08:21 AM PDT

It helps to put things in perspective here on our planet with a look at this extraordinarily powerful and moving video of the Hubble Space Telescope mapping of the Universe, whose known size is 78 billion light years across. The video is the equivalent of using a "time machine" to look into the past to witness the early formation of galaxies.

Colossal spy airships with 15-story radars get $400M reality

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 07:50 AM PDT

US scientists this week got the go ahead to build a roughly 1/3-scale model of a stratospheric airship that if completed in-scale will house a floating 15-story radar system capable of detecting and tracking everything from missiles to people from 70,00 ft

Bill Maher - Be More Cynical on Religion

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 07:44 AM PDT


(20 votes - 2 comments - 282 views)
Bill Maher in his 2000 special "Be More Cynical" talking about the Christian religion.

GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 06:06 AM PDT

GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured An explosion so powerful it was seen clear across the visible universe was recorded in gamma-radiation last week by NASA's orbiting Swift Observatory. Farther than any known galaxy, quasar, or optical supernova, the gamma-ray burst recorded last week was clocked at redshift 8.2, making it the farthest explosion of any type yet detected. Occurring only 630 million years after the Big Bang, GRB 090423 detonated so early that astronomers had no direct evidence that anything explodable even existed back then. The faint infrared afterglow of GRB 090423 was recovered by large ground telescopes within minutes of being discovered. The afterglow is circled in the above picture taken by the large Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, USA. An exciting possibility is that this gamma-ray burst occurred in one of the very first generation of stars and announced the birth of an early black hole. Surely, GRB 090423 provides unique data from a relatively unexplored epoch in our universe and a distant beacon from which the intervening universe can be studied.

all things underwater: rusaman: 伊藤クロニクル:魚釣島は&#35...

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:34 AM PDT

http://jraffunderwater.tumblr.com/post/87187607/rusaman-livedoor-blog

all things underwater: rusaman:Close up of a Port Jackson shark.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:12 AM PDT

http://jraffunderwater.tumblr.com/post/84632452/rusaman-close-up-of-a-port-jackson-shark

all things underwater: kikuchige: zumbi: Wetpixel.com :: Photo of the...

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:09 AM PDT

http://jraffunderwater.tumblr.com/post/87722722/kikuchige-zumbi-wetpixel-com-photo-of-the

Tuesday 28 April 2009

Johnald's Fantastical Daily Link Splurge

Johnald's Fantastical Daily Link Splurge

Elephant Seals & King Penguins Sharing Antarctic Ground[PIC]

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 02:10 AM PDT

Beautiful shot, enlargeable, wallpaper.

Mythbusters: Homemade Hi-Def Speakers

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:21 PM PDT


(12 votes - 4 comments - 413 views)

U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency - Swine Flu

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 09:04 PM PDT


(12 votes - 8 comments - 167 views)
U.S. government releaseing 25% of Tamiflu stockpiles.

This is scary stuff. Confirmed cases in Canada now.

Keep in mind - YOU CANNOT GET SWINE FLU FROM EATING PORK.

(Had to resist adding *viral)

Babies' minds more advanced than once thought

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 08:20 PM PDT

New studies and experiments comparing the minds of babies with those of adults indicate that the processes that help babies learn and develop are more advanced than adults and could benefit adults.

Where Did I Leave My Car? How the Brain Translates Memory

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT

When we emerge from a supermarket laden down with bags and faced with a sea of vehicles, how do we remember where we've parked our car and translate the memory into the correct action to get back there? New research identifies the specific parts of the brain responsible for solving this everyday problem.

Fall into a Black Hole

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Dare to fall into a black hole and you would get vaporized in what is probably the most violent place in the universe. But the journey would yield some amazing sights, though you might need three eyes for the best view of what's going on, new research suggests.

YouTube - Steve Brule & The Griddleman

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 04:52 PM PDT

from Tim & Eric

NASA Scientist Predicts We’ll Meet E.T. by 2019

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT

The good news is that Peter Smith who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission predicts that within ten years we'll find life on other planets — but the bad news for us fanboys with hopes of hanging out with Vulcans and Klingons is that E.T. may be a clump of lowly microbes sitting underneath a rock on Mars

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Doctors, Cancer & God

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 03:59 PM PDT


(11 votes - 3 comments - 145 views)
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about being misdiagnosed, belief in a higher power, and makes note of who might be making those diagnoses.

New technique may help find alien life

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new method for detecting extraterrestrial life. The technique will not spot aliens directly. Instead, it looks for a telltale sign that life may have influenced a landscape - a preponderance of molecules that have a certain "chirality," or handedness.

Daily Link Splurge

Daily Link Splurge

Elephant Seals & King Penguins Sharing Antarctic Ground[PIC]

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 02:10 AM PDT

Beautiful shot, enlargeable, wallpaper.

Mythbusters: Homemade Hi-Def Speakers

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:21 PM PDT


(12 votes - 4 comments - 413 views)

U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency - Swine Flu

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 09:04 PM PDT


(12 votes - 8 comments - 167 views)
U.S. government releaseing 25% of Tamiflu stockpiles.

This is scary stuff. Confirmed cases in Canada now.

Keep in mind - YOU CANNOT GET SWINE FLU FROM EATING PORK.

(Had to resist adding *viral)

Babies' minds more advanced than once thought

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 08:20 PM PDT

New studies and experiments comparing the minds of babies with those of adults indicate that the processes that help babies learn and develop are more advanced than adults and could benefit adults.

Where Did I Leave My Car? How the Brain Translates Memory

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT

When we emerge from a supermarket laden down with bags and faced with a sea of vehicles, how do we remember where we've parked our car and translate the memory into the correct action to get back there? New research identifies the specific parts of the brain responsible for solving this everyday problem.

Fall into a Black Hole

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Dare to fall into a black hole and you would get vaporized in what is probably the most violent place in the universe. But the journey would yield some amazing sights, though you might need three eyes for the best view of what's going on, new research suggests.

YouTube - Steve Brule & The Griddleman

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 04:52 PM PDT

from Tim & Eric

NASA Scientist Predicts We’ll Meet E.T. by 2019

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT

The good news is that Peter Smith who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission predicts that within ten years we'll find life on other planets — but the bad news for us fanboys with hopes of hanging out with Vulcans and Klingons is that E.T. may be a clump of lowly microbes sitting underneath a rock on Mars

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Doctors, Cancer & God

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 03:59 PM PDT


(11 votes - 3 comments - 145 views)
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about being misdiagnosed, belief in a higher power, and makes note of who might be making those diagnoses.

New technique may help find alien life

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new method for detecting extraterrestrial life. The technique will not spot aliens directly. Instead, it looks for a telltale sign that life may have influenced a landscape - a preponderance of molecules that have a certain "chirality," or handedness.

Monday 27 April 2009

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Daily Link Splurge

Hubble Telescope Repair Attempt With Spacewalk

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 08:50 PM PDT

It's a deep space mission, more ambitious in scope than anything essayed for almost 40 years. The measure of the risk is that when the Nasa space shuttle takes off next month for its last hurrah a second capsule will sit on the launchpad in case an unprecedented rescue mission is needed.

The Floating Water Bridge - Startup & Expansion (Real Time)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 08:26 PM PDT


(15 votes - 5 comments - 267 views)
"The floating water bridge as described in J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 (2007) 6112-6114 by E.C. Fuchs, J. Woisetschläger, K. Gatterer, E. Maier, R. Pecnik, G. Holler and H. Eisenkölbl. The music is a part of the song 'Blue Ale' from the CD 'Just Blood' by Eloah."

From http://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/25/floating-water-bridge/ ...

The Mystery of Magnetic Fields (VIDEO)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 07:40 PM PDT

The lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries.. Very Interesting.

Super-strength Spider Silk Created

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 07:30 PM PDT

Adding small amounts of metal to spider silk – a material already stronger and lighter than steel – makes it up to 10 times tougher, German researchers report. The scientists devised a way to incorporate zinc, titanium and aluminium ions into natural spider silk. They say the method could one day prove useful for creating super-strong textiles.

Viagra Rival 'Can be Rubbed Directly into Skin'

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 06:00 PM PDT

Scientists in the United States have successfully tested the new technique – which involves tiny objects called nanoparticles – on rats and believe it could also be used to help humans.Under the therapy, nanoparticles that release the anti-erectile chemical nitric oxide are rubbed on the problem area, and absorbed directly into the skin.

What We Can Learn from a Baby's Brain

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT

Scientists have begun to dramatically revise their concept of a baby's mind. By using new research techniques and tools, they've revealed that the baby brain is abuzz with activity, capable of learning astonishing amounts of information in a relatively short time. Unlike the adult mind, babies can take in a much wider spectrum of sensation.

Why didn't astronauts float off the moon? Heavy boots. Sigh.

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT

"While a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon." My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?! A pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more slowly." I protested. "No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far away from the Earth's gravity."

Nicholas Samaras | Underwater Photography | Photo-sets | Marine-Life

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT

http://www.underwater-photography.gr/#/photo-sets/Marine-Life/39/

Nicholas Samaras | Underwater Photography | Photo-sets

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:59 PM PDT

http://www.underwater-photography.gr/#/photo-sets/

YouTube - イモムシなネコ

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:25 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUOH2LkD0pM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcute%2Evideosift%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2FDon%2Dt%2DFear%2Dthe%2DCat%2DWorm&feature=player_embedded