February 2012
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Physicists 'record' magnetic breakthrough
The researchers found they could record information using only heat - a previously unimaginable scenario. They believe this discovery will not only make future magnetic recording devices faster, but more energy-efficient too.
The results of the research, which was led by the University of York’s Department of Physics, are reported in the February edition of Nature Communications.
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January 2012
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Yeast Experiment Hints at a Faster Evolution From...
Our ancestors were single-celled microbes for about three billion years before they evolved bodies. But in a laboratory at the University of Minnesota, brewer’s yeast cells can evolve primitive bodies in about two weeks.
The transition to multicellular life has long intrigued evolutionary biologists. The cells in our bodies have evolved to cooperate with exquisite precision. The human body has...
princealiababwaa asked: I didnt do anything. The guy went on one date with me. And we tried hanging out 4-5 times and he canceled & had an excuse for all of em. I'm ignoring the rest of his texts. I'm so annoyed lol I was dressed and everything and he stood me up. oh and this excuse wasnt even a good one. He said "I was sleep" -____- so you dont text me til the next day? then tells me he was...
December 2011
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October 2011
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There may appear to be some bias in this article but the facts presented do speak for themselves. Sources are found via the links.
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What is money?
Protests against the world’s financial institutions are growing, but do most people even know where money comes from?
We spend a lot of time thinking about money, one way or another. We think about how to get our hands on it, how to keep it safe and how to spend it. When we aren’t asleep, there’s a good chance that we’re paying attention to money. But while money is never...
Prohibit Prohibition
Quote of the Day: “That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson To prohibitionists of all kinds, the ends justify the means, even if those means include murder. I realized this while watching the Ken Burns 3-part documentary Prohibition, which debuted last week. During Alcohol Prohibition, the Federal State deliberately poisoned alcohol supplies...
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Should Congress Impeach the President?
Quote of the Day: ”It isn’t illegal if the President does it.” — Richard M. Nixon
We have re-launched a campaign to impeach the President. The sample letter below will explain why we have done this.
WARNING: Those who maintain partisan loyalties may wrongly believe we are pursuing this campaign for partisan reasons, or out of personal animosity for the President....
September 2011
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Take His Gold
Fact of the Day: Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102 on April 5, 1933, “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates within the continental United States”. The order criminalized the possession of monetary gold by any individual, partnership, association or corporation. Statists hate gold. Gold weakens their power to monopolize your...
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Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
August 2011
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Hurricane Irene Could Sprout Bumper Crop Of Magic...
Everyone knows the potential destructive power of hurricanes, but few people are aware that storms like Hurricane Irene encourage growth of psychedelic mushrooms.
Yes, it sounds trippy, but one of the strange aftermaths of a hurricane is an increased amount ofmushrooms popping up — especially the psilocybin — or “magic” kind — the ones that cause hallucinations.
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Second-largest U.S. Indian tribe expels slave...
the native americans got to it.
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The nation’s second-largest Indian tribe formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170...
Sun's singing helps researchers predict sunspots
Amid the solar flares and bursts of charged particles showered on our planet by the sun in the past couple weeks, the star our world revolves around has been quietly singing.
The sun’s superheated gases produce sound waves, which scientists at Stanford University can now use to determine where sunspots will erupt a day or two before they appear on the surface.
Sunspots are often associated...
I, IBM: A Chip That Is Measured In Neurons And...
IBM announced that it has developed experimental cognitive computer chips that are based on the structure that were “inspired” by the human brain, which, if used in the future, could be much smaller and use less power than today’s chips.
IBM’s cognitive chips have already been labeled as brain-like processors, which is scary and impressive at the same time. To explain the headline, if IBM is...
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Quantum super-computing sees microwave...
PARIS — Physicists in the United States on Wednesday notched up a lab success in the quest for quantum computers, whose stellar capacities have already earned them the nickname of “super-computers on steroids.”
Atoms can be excited to a quantum condition using microwaves, an advance over larger and bulkier lasers, until now the only way to achieve this essential state, they said.
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Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism
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Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better
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Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
July 2011
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The biggest threat to Western values
Multiculturalism does not pose a significant danger to Western values - but neoliberalism does.
The paranoid style in politics often imagines unlikely alliances that coalesce into an overwhelming threat that must be countered by all necessary means.
In Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington conjured an amalgamated East - an alliance between “Confucian” and...
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Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations
Rick Scott’s plutocratic Florida
There’s a reason no amount of robocalls and prefab letters to the editor will save Rick Scott from his dismal poll numbers: the nagging suspicion, including among a growing number of Republicans, that whatever his motivations, Mr. “777” isn’t in this for the Sunshine State.
Scott has no history of public service. He popped up on the political radar in 2009 to wage war against healthcare reform....
The Internet is Changing Our Brains
It has become a part of everyday vernacular to say, “Oh, just Google it,” in order to find information not readily known. Because Google has seemingly become a part of everyday life, a new study indicates that it is altering our brains.
Or, to put it more precisely, Google — and therefore, the Internet - is changing the way our brains choose to remember.
In an amnesia...
Pentagon hit by huge cyber theft
A top Pentagon official has admitted that a massive amount of data related to new defence technologies were stolen earlier this year.
“It was 24,000 files, which is a lot, but I don’t think it’s the largest we’ve seen,” William Lynn, the US deputy defence secretary, said on Thursday.
Lynn revealed the theft as he unveiled a new Pentagon cybersecurity strategy that...
