IFA, the world’s leading trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances opened in Berlin. Up to 1500 exhibitors and 240,000 visitors tuned in to see how they might be watching television in the years ahead, surfing the net on a tablet or using their mobile smart phone to connect with all sorts of tasks. […]
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J. Craig Venter’s Adrenaline: Fight or Flight Response
J. Craig Venter went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. When faced with immediate danger, the brain releases adrenaline, a hormone secreted from glands above the kidneys. In the case of a police officer confronted with a raging fire surge, adrenaline triggered the body to release stored ATP so […]
Read MoreShould we focus on social equality instead of gene pools?
Let’s Move On From Race by Jonathan Marks http://www.mesacc.edu/dept/d10/asb/origins/hominid_journey/modernorigins.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120820152204.htm
Read MoreAncient DNA
http://youtu.be/yAzWNkCMt8w Ancient DNA Reveals That Some Neanderthals Were Redheads http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071025143311.htm Science writer Carl Zimmer speaks at Yale Medical School about how new discoveries about Neanderthals are helping us better understand what it means to be human. For more information, see http://carlzimmer.com
Read MoreGeneticists Uncover the Origin of Blue Eyes
http://occupycorporatism.com/blue-eyes-originated-10000-years-ago-in-the-black-sea-region/ Blue Eyes Originated 10,000 Years Ago in the Black Sea Region http://www.springerlink.com/content/2045q6234h66p744/fulltext.html Blue eye color in humans may be caused by a perfectly associated founder mutation in a regulatory element located within the HERC2 gene inhibiting OCA2 expression
Read MoreThe Effects of Music on the Brain
The effects of music on the brain from NOVA The growth of media has had an ever-expanding role in the lives of children, especially in terms of a child’s physical and mental health. Here, Michael Rich, MD, MPH, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, comments on media as […]
Read MoreRobots and Humans
Robots are no longer science fiction. Today, they help build products, they even explore Mars. Robots have assisted human beings now for decades. Someday they’ll be part of our daily life
Read MoreMen’s infatuation with expensive watches
inside story of the fascinating and little-known world of luxury watches, meeting some famous names who are addicted to these expensive time-pieces
Read Moreancient Egypt and our origins
The Pyramid Code is a documentary that explores the pyramid fields and ancient temples in Egypt as well as ancient megalithic sites around the world looking for clues to matriarchal consciousness, ancient knowledge and sophisticated technology in a Golden Age. It’s based on the extensive research done in 25 trips to Egypt and 51 other […]
Read MoreJobs For European Doctors in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Oman
Doctors for the Gulf Ltd is an acknowledged medical recruitment company providing permanent & full-time jobs for European doctors in United Arabic Emirates of Middle East (Dubai, Abu Dhabi), as well as in Sultanate of Oman & Qatar. Doctors for the Gulf Ltd was founded in 2010 in England by experienced & acknowledged experts in […]
Read MoreThe Quarter Billion Dollar Yacht
Forbes’ Luisa Kroll’s exclusive tour of billionaire industrialist Dennis Washington’s Attessa IV.
Read Morehome made of recycled materials
Elemér Zalotay has built his home almost entirely from second-hand material. While other buildings undergo costly renovations or are demolished after just a few decades use, this Hungarian architect found his own way to deal with the effects of time. Architect Karl Wanaselja built his home in Berkeley, California the junkyard became his urban forest […]
Read MoreGreat Inventor: Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, andfuturist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 […]
Read MoreCorporations replace states in space
Exploration of space is in full swing. But after NASA retired its space shuttle program last year, the terms “space race” got a whole new meaning: once symbolic of a country’s political power and might, the space race seems to be turning into some commercial endeavor. A dozen companies are now bidding to develop space […]
Read MoreThe art of creating awe
Rob Legato creates movie effects so good they (sometimes) trump the real thing. Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
Read More0-60mph Electric Powered Drag Racer
Northampton, UK. — The Black Current, constructed from a 1965 VW Beetle and an old milk float, created by brothers Olly and Sam Young has beaten a million pound Bugatti Veyron in a drag race; racing from zero to 60 miles per hour in 1.6 seconds it set a world record for Fastest electric-powered drag […]
Read MoreWorld first synthetic organ transplant
Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient.
Read MoreHomemade Planes
Ingenuity isn’t dead. I love these stories from around the world. This machine was built by Antonio Saldarriga of Columbia. Home built at a cost of 5,700 English pounds in 1954.And claimed to be the first helicopter built in Columbia, it says flight trials were satisfactory?…2 seats, 125 H.P piston engine, 27 ft rotor,experimental Below of […]
Read MoreEngineer/inventor Created A “FREE ENERGY” Device
Finishing his master’s, Lonnie G. Johnson joined the Air Force and was assigned to the Strategic Air Command, where he helped develop the stealth bomber program. His other assignments included working as a systems engineer for the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Cassini mission to Saturn. Johnson also created the Super Soaker squirt gun, which became one of […]
Read MoreAmerican education
Americans have grown accustomed to bad news about student performance in math and science. On a 2009 study administered by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 15-year-olds in the U.S. placed 23rd in science and 31st in math out of 65 countries. On last year’s Nation’s Report Card assessments, only one third of eighth […]
Read MoreTuskegee Airmen
In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans have played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past 300 years. They were denied military leadership roles and skilled training because many believed they lacked qualifications for combat duty. Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the US military. Civil rights […]
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