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An innovative way to quickly paint intricate designs

a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures.

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education?  At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.  Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

Policing for Profits - Majority of states got horrible grades for protecting citizens against unconstitutional confiscation of property by police - NY got a D...  Maine is the only one that got an A, NH & ND are the only ones that got B's.

High School students performed a 6 week grow test with Hydro Grow's 504w vertical light that was mounted inside OmegaGarden's Volksgarden.

The most commonly available form of vitamin B-12 on the market is the cheap synthetic form that's actually bound to a cyanide molecule (yes, cyanide, the poison). It's called cyanocobalamin, and you'll find it in all the cheap vitamins made by pharmaceutical companies and sold at grocery stores and big box stores. The proper form of vitamin B-12 to supplement is called methylcobalamin. This is the form that exists in nature, and it is pre-methylated, meaning it's ready for your biochemistry to put to immediate use. Methylcobalamin has several key advantages over cyanocobalamin: * Increased absorption* Better retention in tissues* Contains no toxic cyanide* Supports production of SAMe

The trends that Feingold was tracking at the time included the ad-vancing information and communi-cation technologies that were im-proving office productivity, as well as the opportunities created by medi-cal breakthroughs and the challenges associated with resource depletion.The principles on which Feingold based his forecasts for tomorrow’s  job titles are still sound. The emerg-ing careers he identified (such as ge-netic counselor, ocean hotel manager, and artificial intelligence technician) all would develop from preexisting career areas and would become pos-sible through advances in technol-ogy, changes in the environment, and other megatrends. And the jobs he described were not just momentary fads, appearing and disappearing over a very short period of time. You  

INTJs are prepared to lead if no one else seems up to the task, or if they see a major weakness in the current leadership. They tend to be pragmatic, logical, and creative. They have a low tolerance for spin or rampant emotionalism. They are not generally susceptible to catchphrases and do not recognize authority based on tradition, rank, or title. I – Introversion preferred to extraversion: INTJs tend to be quiet and reserved. They generally prefer interacting with a few close friends rather than a wide circle of acquaintances, and they expend energy in social situations.N – Intuition preferred to sensing: They focus their attention on the big picture rather than the details and on future possibilities rather than immediate realities.T – Thinking preferred to feeling: INTJs tend to value objective logical criteria above personal preference.J – Judgment preferred to perception: They derive a sense of control through predictability, which to perceptive types may seem limiting.

Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world's first synthetic life form. This is an important step both scientifically and philosophically," Dr Venter told the journal. "It has certainly changed my views of definitions of life and how life works. The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray. Dr Venter's team developed a new code based on the four letters of the genetic code, G, T, C and A, that allowed them to draw on the whole alphabet, numbers and punctuation marks to write the watermarks. Anyone who cracks the code is invited to email an address written into the DNA. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719

With the tools of synthetic biology, Wintermute thought they might do better. The ergot fungus takes lysergic acid and turns it into a huge variety of exotic molecules. They could mix and match biological pathways from different species of ergot fungus and make potentially new drug molecules. They might even come up with a next generation dementia drug. Around 20 tonnes of lysergic acid, a precursor of LSD, are made each year and turned into real medicines, such as nicergoline, a treatment for dementia. The drug is purified from big vats of fungus (which make the compound naturally) using technology developed decades ago.

The process requires that there are no cancer cells present in the body (since the process used to reverse ageing is the same the causes cancer cells to grow out of control.  so if there is any cancer present the therapy won't work)  "What we saw in these animals was not a slowing down or stabilisation of the ageing process. We saw a dramatic reversal – and that was unexpected," said Ronald DePinho, who led the study, which was published in the journal Nature. "This could lead to strategies that enhance the regenerative potential of organs as individuals age and so increase their quality of life. Whether it serves to increase longevity is a question we are not yet in a position to answer."

In the 1970s, after a long series of experiments, White performed a transplant of one monkey head onto the body of another monkey, although it lasted just a few days. These operations were continued and perfected to the point where the transplanted head could have survived indefinitely on its new body, though the animals were in fact euthanized. The transplanted heads can see, think, feel, and taste and in short can function in all the ways that they could when attached to their original body, they simply cannot control their new one. The importance of head transplants is that if performed in humans they have the potential to save lives from almost any disease. Anything that afflicts the non-head regions of the body, be it otherwise inoperable non-brain cancer, multiple organ failure, heart disease, diabetes, etc. will be removed if the head is transplanted to a non-afflicted body. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._White

Clips from Ayn Rand interviews showing her stance as an atheist.

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Hangovers are the result of alcohol’s toxicity. Hangover symptoms include headaches, dehydration, irritability, sleep disturbances, liver toxicity, nerve and tissue hypersensitivity, etc. These symptoms can be prevented or significantly reduced by simple interventions that will be discussed in this article. These interventions augment natural detoxification mechanisms that would otherwise be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of alcohol intake.