10 Reasons to Ignore Mainstream Medicine’s “Conventional Wisdom” on Salt
• naturalsociety.comThe accepted dogma on salt is that very little should be consumed or a higher potential for heart attacks and strokes will follow from high blood pressure.
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FDA weighs risks of 3-person embryo fertilization
• myfoxny.comFederal health regulators will consider this week whether to green light a provocative new fertilization technique that could eventually create babies from the DNA of three people, with the goal of preventing mothers from passing on debilitating gene
Robots will be smarter than us all by 2029, warns AI expert Ray Kurzweil
• independent.co.ukWorld’s leading futurologist predicts computers will soon be able to flirt, learn from experience and even make jokes
Gates Foundation Launches Giant Database on School Children 'inBloom'
• truthrevolt.orgPrivate information for over 11 million students is being collected
Q -Warrior brings head-up displays to the battlefield
• http://www.gizmag.com, By David SzondyGreat battles are won with artillery" – Napoleon Bonaparte. In the 21st century, he’d probably change that to information.
Space Elevator Scoping Study Positive
• arcleinThe question is when, of course," Swan said. "But the point is that the technologies are progressing in a positive manner, such that we who work in it believe that there will be space elevators." Pacing technologies Swan said the giggle fact
NASA Seeks Targets For Asteroid-Capture Mission
• http://www.space.com, By Elizabeth HowellNASA has set up a "rapid response system" to pick the best candidates for its ambitious asteroid-capture mission.
5 Private Moon-Race Teams Compete for Bonus $6 Million
• http://www.space.com, By Miriam KramerLanding on the moon is no easy feat, and five teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize might just get a little more money to help them send their probes to the lunar surface.
Herbal Ayurvedic Cure Shown To Work Against Viper Bites
• http://www.popsci.com, By Douglas MainBehold the mongoose plant!
Ayahuasca/DMT Can Effectively Treat Cancer
• arcleinSimilar to the way cancer has been successfully treated with cannabis oil, or vitamin B-17 from the apricot pit, it is emerging as a viable possibility that Ayahuasca is another herbal, ancient cure to disease found in abundance in the new world of s
Sideways Rock and Roll Ice Crusher
• arcleinThe Baltika isn’t adrift—it’s breaking ice. Debuting in the Gulf of Finland in early 2014, the Russian-owned ship will be the first to travel sideways through the frozen stuff. Although smaller than a normal icebreaker, its oblique angle of attack le
Surgeons recover baby’s skull with the help of 3D
• http://med.news.am,When Gabriel was born in August, his father, Manuel Dela Cruz, said everything seemed fine with his new son. It wasn’t until a week after his birth that Gabriel’s parents thought their son’s forehead looked abnormal.
DNA prostate test 'will predict deadliest cancer risk'
• http://www.bbc.co, By James GallagherDNA testing can predict which men face the highest risk of deadly prostate cancer, scientists say.
Synthetic Muscle Made of Fishing Line is 100 Times Stronger Than the Real Thing
• by William HerkewitzOr, how synthetic muscle can be like a Chinese finger-trap.
Synthetic Primordial Cell Copies RNA
• arcleinzostak and his team have been experimenting with simple "protocells", essentially bubbles of fatty acids. These protocells are crude versions of the cells that make up all modern organisms. Despite lacking any of the complex
Tumor Treating EM Fields
• arcleinThe portable device, which weighs about six pounds (three kg), is used continuously throughout the day by the patient. Tests indicate that the device can slow and reverse tumor growth by inhibiting mitosis, the process by which cancerous cells divide
The Week In Drones: Cameras Over Kiev, The Future Of Air Combat, And More
• popsci.comKeeping up with the droneses
Coming Soon: Free Internet From Space
• nationaljournal.comOuternet wants to use tiny satellites to take the whole world online—even in countries where dictators wish they wouldn’t.
Report: Farmers’ Almanac more accurate than government climate scientists
• dailycaller.comThis exceptionally cold and snowy winter has shown that government climate scientists were dead wrong when it came to predicting just how cold this winter would be, while the 197-year old Farmers’ Almanac predicted this winter would be “bitterly cold
The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
• arcleinThis is all part of a quest by computer companies, Hollywood and video game makers to move entertainment closer to reality — or at least a computer-generated version of reality. Rather than simply watch movies, the thinking goes, we could become part
Could a Super Collider or Similar Machine Destroy the World?
• Lew Rockwell blogThere’s an article on LRC that raises this possibility. Could it happen? Yes, I think it could. This possibility occurred to me in the last few months when I was reading articles about relativity and reading about the science of the universe’s origin
Video: A Winter Tire With Retractable Studs
• popsci.comWith the push of a button, a new concept from Nokian Tyres changes from a regular treaded winter tire to a studded one.
Quantum Microscope May Be Able to See Inside Living Cells
• Wired.comBy combining quantum mechanical quirks of light with a technique called photonic force microscopy, scientists can now probe detailed structures inside living cells like never before.
This Three-Story Cube Made of Ropes Is a Jungle Gym for Daredevils
• Wired.comWe’re certain it wasn’t their intention, but Croatian/Austrian design studio Numen/For Use has quickly become our favorite purveyor of adult bouncy castles.
Spike S-512 Supersonic Jet will have screens instead of windows
• gizmag.comAircraft windows have always been a sticking point in the bid to go faster, cheaper and safer.
Paralyzed woman walks again with 3D-printed robotic exoskeleton
• gizmag.com3D Systems, in collaboration with Ekso Bionics, has created a 3D-printed robotic exoskeleton that has restored the ability to walk in a woman paralyzed from the waist down.
Molly Stevens: A new way to grow bone
• http://www.ted.com,What does it take to regrow bone in mass quantities?
GERD - GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease
• arcleinOne of the most important points for doctors and patients to realize is that GERD is a deficiency disease meaning it is not caused by excess acid it is caused by deficient acid. When the stomach does not produce enough acid the food sits in the stoma
Secret Viking Code Decrypted: 'Kiss Me'
• popsci.comMedieval Norse cryptology was more about love than war.
Modern Genes Reveal 100 Major Population Shifts In Human History
• http://www.popsci.com, By Francie DiepWherever conquerors go, they leave a little bit of their genetics. Gene analyses of modern people are able to reveal those influences.
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