_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ NASA’s rover Curiosity successfully landed on Mars early Monday on a mission to better explore the red planet. Projects like this are considered difficult and even though the US has cut funding to NASA other countries are looking to compete in the new space race. China is spending more and more resources on space […]
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Investing and mining planets?
http://news.discovery.com/space/mining-asteroids-not-mankinds-silver-bullet-yet-120424.html Since were using all of our resources on this planet, I guess this makes sense.
A Dutch Company Wants To Colonize Mars By 2023
http://youtu.be/n4tgkyUBkbY
Some people aren’t content with merely taking pictures on the surface of Mars–they want to plant their flag and colonize the red planet as soon as possible.
http://mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/team
Engineering An High-Tech Astronaut Suit For Space Tourism
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670313/victorias-secret-costume-designer-now-engineering-an-high-tech-astronaut-suit-for-space-tour#1 Great Article! The huspa that these men displayed in moving forward with this project is commendable.
Unfortunately A Common Assumption – Read this article
Thankfully through science and technology, Archaeologists have revealed the remains of what they say was a “high status” woman of African origin who lived in York during Roman times. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8538888.stm Roman remains in York are ‘elite’ African woman
How it feels to have a stroke
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how […]
Steve Jobs
Nationality: American Place of birth: San Francisco, California Ethnicity: Syrian and German American Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. […]
Intelligence Study – Article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejudice_n_1237796.html
Superficial Diversity
Mark Shriver briefly discusses his research efforts in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University. Mr. Shriver Quote: “I had the result for two or three years before I even looked up the ID number of the person whom we tested. I looked at who it was and it was me! I checked myself and […]
Applachia’s Melungeon
“There were a whole lot of people upset by this study,” lead researcher Roberta Estes said. “They just knew they were Portuguese, or Native American.” In recent decades, interest in the origin of the Melungeons has risen dramatically with advances both in DNA research and in the advent of Internet resources that allow individuals to […]
$3 Million award given to 9 Physicists
http://youtu.be/AWZPVS-5e5Q
http://fundamentalphysicsprize.org/
phyllis hyman
Nationality and Ethnicity: African American Deep-voiced and statuesque, Phyllis Hyman sang with a life-affirming energy and emotional intensity found in few other female vocalists. Born in Philadelphia in 1949 (and raised in Pittsburgh), her professional career began in New York City where, during an engagement, she was spotted by producer Norman Connors and contemporaries Jean Carne and Roberta Flack, among […]
Michael Michele
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American and Caucasian Michael Michele has won acclaim for her portrayals of strong and capable women on television as well as in feature films. Born in Evansville, Indiana, on August 30, 1966, she, like practically everyone in the Hoosier State, grew up a big basketball fan. Michele played roundball […]
the Global Consciousness Project
The Global Consciousness Project is an international collaboration of scientists, engineers, and artists. We maintain a global network that has been collecting data continuously since 1998 from sensitive instruments which produce random sequences. Our purpose is to examine subtle correlations and structure in the data that seem to reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the […]
The Genius Gene
The Genius Sperm Bank was created in the late 1970s by Robert Klark Graham, an American millionaire optometrist. Officially named the Repository for Germinal Choice, its aim was to breed highly intelligent people in order to save the world from genetic decline.Graham believed he could achieve this by getting clever men to donate sperm. To be […]
Dr. Royal Raymond Rife
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 August 5, 1971) was an American inventor known for his belief that he could observe and render inert a number of viruses which he thought were causal factors in several diseases, most notably cancer. The observations were made though a specially designed optical microscope, only five of which were […]
Possible Cure?
http://youtu.be/dNvlDnxFNIc http://youtu.be/PFu_7B0JNpU
The Richest Person In The World
Carlos Slim Helu doesn’t believe in handouts. He’s got another approach to improving people’s lives. The 2012 Forbes Billionaires list: http://www.forbes.com/billionaires
Forgotten Inventors
Continue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/index.html http://youtu.be/JJ2Cd9Jin1k http://youtu.be/bw4U30nvCOU http://youtu.be/q1nhkvG4DK0 http://youtu.be/pQ0XamAS4co Tonee Ndungu is a media consultant with a specialty in New and Rich Media Tools and Applications. He is the founder of the Wazimba Youth Foundation, which is an African youth IT outreach organization that educates and emphasizes the use of Internet-based media tools and social networks among teens in […]
South African Royalty: Tsidii Le Loka
Tsidii Le Loka was studying economics and music at the University of Massachusetts when she got a call to come to New York and audition for “The Lion King.” Not only did she get the part of Rafiki, but she went on to receive a Tony nomination for her work. It was a defining […]
Ancient Egyptian Beauty Secrets and Tips.
An Introduction Exfoliants, depilatories, anti-wrinkle cream. Methods for the elimination of stretch-marks, halitosis and unpleasant body odors. Hair extensions. This all sounds pretty modern, doesn’t it? It could perhaps be a list of advertisers from a fashion magazine on the newsstand on the street today. Yet all of the above were also concerns and creations of […]
Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
http://youtu.be/ygRNoieAnzI
http://www.ted.com Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in grayscale, Harbisson can hear a symphony of color — and yes, even listen to faces and paintings.
