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possibilities of genetic cloning

  Explore the miraculous potential and frightening possibilities of genetic cloning as National Geographic’s cameras reveal the history, controversy, and cutting edge developments of a scientific breakthrough capable of literally changing the destiny of the human race. Witness the remarkable effects of the cloning revolution and explore the ”brave new world” of the human cloning […]

Space elevator to the moon for tourist

Space elevator to the moon for tourist

Space elevator to the moon for tourist

If you have already visited the entire globe, then this maybe your next step. 

Space 'lift' could take tourists into orbit within 40 years

GasLand Documentary

GasLand Documentary

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/613/index.html http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called “fracking”.

the business of being born

the business of being born

Better to give birth to your baby at the hospital…or in your home? Co-producer/star Ricki Lake initiated the filming of this eye-opening documentary–during which director Abby Epstein happened to become pregnant–to contrast the experiences of women who deliver their children in a hospital environment with those who complete their pregnancies at home with the assistance […]

Elon Musk’s commercial space travel corporation

Elon Musk’s commercial space travel corporation

Elon Musk Profiled: Bloomberg Risk Takers ELON MUSK comes up with design ideas in the shower. That may be his only free time. In 2010, Tesla successfully IPO’d, and SpaceX became the first commercial company to recover a spacecraft from the Earth’s orbit. As a designer, Musk says, he tries “to imagine, from a physics standpoint, […]

11 Women Who Are Changing the Tech World

Jobs and economic escalation will follow as more women break through “glass walls” to start high-growth ventures. Where are all the women at in the startup world? If you read most articles about tech startup founders, you’re probably under the impression that only men create mobile apps and launch successful tech companies. Women only make […]

Brave New World

Brave New World

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3536993421073315692 In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called ‘engaging’, is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like […]

Ghana Technology

ever heard of this?

  This reminds me of “Mutant Chronicles” a bit. http://youtu.be/c5aX0-PggzM Plot: In the year 2707, war rages between earths four giant corporations as they battle over the planet’s dwindling resources. In an era marked by warfare and social regression, the earth is on the verge of ruin, destruction is everywhere; battles explode on every ravaged continent. […]

Instagram’s Kevin Systrom a Silicon Valley Star

Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of the photo app made Kevin Systrom the latest tech cult hero. It happened only because he chose school of Zuckerberg’s start-up.

Math Gender Gap

Math Gender Gap

Girls’ Math Skills May Fall Short Of Boys’ Because Of Male Impulsiveness. By: LiveScience.com, staff Published: 07/28/2012 10:45 PM EDT on LiveScience From an early age, boys tend to take a more impulsive approach to math problems in the classroom, which might help them get ahead of girls in the long-run, suggests the latest study […]

Amazing Methods of Calculation

25,000 yr old Mathematical Instrument found in Congo The oldest complex Mathematical System was found in 1950 in Eastern Congo in the region known as Ishango. It is a carved bone which consisted of notches on 3 faces on the carved bone. These notches suggests an ancient knowledge of multiplication and prime numbers using the […]

The Image of Cleopatra

The Image of Cleopatra

Cleopatra, the last Egyptian Pharaoh, renowned for her beauty   Click on the article and interview below: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/also_in_the_news/7945333.stm   remains of the queen’s sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Buried city and 17 pyramids revealed by satellite An infra-red satellite image reveals the pattern of streets and houses in the buried ancient city […]

Man Controls Robotic Hand with Mind

Man Controls Robotic Hand with Mind  For a month, Pierpaolo Petruzziello’s amputated arm was connected to a robotic limb, allowing him to feel sensations and control the arm with his thoughts. Rossella Lorenzi talks to him about the bionic experiment. Transcendent Man Inspired by the book The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Barry Ptolemy’s […]

Africa’s Mega City?

Africa’s Mega City?

So let’s look at how this megacity is trying to modernize. The biggest challenge Nigeria faces is a population pyramid that’s overwhelmingly bottom heavy. 61% are younger than 25—that’s a lot of jobs to create and houses to build in the coming years. Thanks for sharing! Govt approves $1.488bn for Lagos … – Premium Times […]

Seeing Color For The First Time

Seeing Color For The First Time

Color blindness affects millions of people worldwide. Most men are color blind, It affects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women. CVD (Color Vision Deficiency) can be acquired, but most are inherited genetically. The genes that influence the colors inside the eyes, called ‘photopigments,’ are carried on the X chromosome. If these genes are […]

What is happening inside your brain when you feel hatred?

What is happening inside your brain when you feel hatred?

Hate involves both the interior, primitive parts of the brain? Our capacity for intense dislike of others of our species may date back as far as 150,000 years. When subjects saw someone they hated, most of the frontal cortex remained active. The more intensively a person said that he or she hated another person, the […]

Science: DNA Of Your Ancestors

Science: DNA Of Your Ancestors

The quest to understand who we are and where we come from has long depended on family lore. But when few relatives or traces of history are available, the search can leave the seekers feeling lost. Now, consumer genetics companies are stepping in where families can not. Popularized by US and British television shows featuring […]

Sequencing My Genome

Sequencing My Genome

For privacy reasons I will not post my specific genetic variations but will share & summarize some pretty interesting facts… 1 – Intelligence; longevity a May 2014 paper suggests this variant improves intelligence. Has higher cranial capacity. Another IQ gene? Better intracranial volume? Slightly increased lifespan? This is a well known longevity gene. Longer telomeres, […]

Astronaut: Jeanette J. Epps

Astronaut: Jeanette J. Epps

 She will be the first black female astronaut to board the International Space Station.  Jeanette Jo Epps  is an aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut. Miss Epps, a former CIA staffer, says her career direction was inspired by an early admiration for astronaut Sally Ride. On January 5, 2016 NASA announced that Epps is set to become […]

Astronaut: Joan Higginbotham

Astronaut: Joan Higginbotham

The 3rd black woman to go in to space, after Mae Jemison and Stephanie Wilson. Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist. Thank you for sharing! Higginbotham began her career in 1987 at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, as […]

Astronaut: Stephanie Wilson

Astronaut: Stephanie Wilson

The second black woman to go into space. Stephanie Diana Wilson is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew to space on board three Space Shuttle missions. –nasa.gov Selected by NASA as an Astronaut Candidate in April 1996, Wilson reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and […]

Science Fiction& Fantasy Art of Ancient Egypt III to inspire

Science Fiction& Fantasy Art of Ancient Egypt III to inspire

Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? –Egyptian Pharaoh by Chris Ducas Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization of ancient Egypt in the lower Nile […]