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Dietary fiber not only keeps you regular, it also plays a vital role in letting your immune system keep diseases at bay Garvan Institute of Medical Research

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High protein diet shrinks your brain The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and the James J Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx NY.

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Retinal Imaging Display (RID) glasses that augment regular vision Brother Industries, Ltd.

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Brain pleasure centers became progressively less responsive in rats fed a diet of high-fat, high-calorie junk food Scripps Research Institute

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Pakistan could be the next giant crack in the collapsing foundation of the old world order Pakistan's urban infrastructure has deteriorated so much over the last decade that just a few tiny pushes is all that would be required to collapse it completely. Eventually, one of the many Pashtun and Pakhtoon tribes fighting the army for control of their mountain homelands is sure to make this connection. Were the current effort one of those tribes has on to attack Pakistani army personnel in the urban areas, shifted over to attacking the urban infrastructure instead. It would be more than sufficient to cause Pakistan's creaky old urban infrastructure to fold up like a Walmart lawn chair under a sumo wrestler. Then the old order would face its worst nightmare, Islamic fundamentalists running around with nukes.

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Watch Petman, an amazing walking bot, in action Boston Dynamics

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Men and women become gradually less fit with age, with declines accelerating after age 45 University of Houston

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Scientists discover gene that 'cancer-proofs' rodent's cells University of Rochester

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The end of sleep? Researchers find a way to prevent the cognitive impairment caused by sleep deprivation University of Pennsylvania

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For thousands of years religious myths were our only explanation for reality, then science changed that A lecture by Physicist David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

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The "vob + fab = fob" era There is a fascinating meme that has been circulating among the tech-savvy since Moore's Law became apparent. What happens when the mesh and smart bot devices extend Moore's Law to everything.

From Cory Doctorow's new book "Makers"

The individual startups, given sufficient agility to switch rapidly to new products as returns collapsed on the old ones, could produce enormous ROI compared to traditional industrial investment. The problem is that, despite the astronomical rate of return, the absolute quantities of capital required for such startups was so small; even a million garage shops, if they require only a few grand to get started, will use only a fraction of the capital that used to be invested in conventional industry. So the overwhelming majority of available capital still sat idle without any productive outlet. What’s more, those enormous ROIs were as unstable as a uranium atom; the problem was that with the initial capital outlays required so small, and entry barriers so low, the period of entrepreneurial rents from being first to market kept getting shorter and shorter, until the investors were barely staying ahead of the shock wave of competitive price implosion.

A meme that has grown out of this meme is the idea of a singularity. Where things begin to accelerate so rapidly that even the near term future becomes completely unknowable.

There are today, for example, machines that assemble DNA strands, one molecule at a time.

What will happen when there is a $200 smart bot for your smart phone that includes a gene printer that will let you bang out a bacteria that can turn your household waste into fuel for your car for a pittance?

A bio development of this kind seems just around the corner.

Nano is moving a bit slower, but there is every reason to believe cheap nano printers are also possible in the near future.

When everyone has access to instant wet or dry fab, of what use is capital at that stage?

Would this be a post-capitalism age?

Of what use are institutions like nation states to someone that can make pretty much anything he or she needs cheaply with minimal external inputs required?

It is hard to see a place for industrial age institution like Wall Street and nation states in this sort of future?

I use this formula to think about the shape of things to come:

vob + fab = fob

vob (virtual object - a design put together on the mesh) + fab (fabricators - DNA printers and nano printers) = fob (fabricated object - a real world smart bot device or artificial life-form)

Radical life extension also seems destine to flow from a vob + fab = fob world, where anything, even our own minds and bodies becomes easily hackable.

What will happen to religions when living forever is a practical reality. Not just a promise only obtainable after death, when no refund is possible should the promise prove to only be a priest, minister, mullah or rabbi's self-serving lie.

It seems doubtful that any of the old order's institutions will be able to survive change this extreme. They just weren't designed for anything remotely like the era we have netered.

Some will, of course, continue to believe in the old institutions in a pointless flat earth society sort of way, but their practical utility is likely to fall rapidly towards zero.

What will be needed is more of an informal mesh of problem solving minds, tied together with a mesh of makers equipped with the latest low/no cost (crowd sourced vob and maker fab) nano/bio/mesh smart bot devices and artificial lifeforms.

The Humods Project is an effort to bring this mesh of problem solving maker minds together.

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Mice bread to have short telomeres for ten generations regain ability to lengthen telomeres in later generations Telomeres are the caps that protect the ends of each chromosome, loss these caps causes errors in cell replication, leading to cancer and many diseases associated with aging. ~ Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto and Institute of Biogenesis Research at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii

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Reports that moderate alcohol extends lifespan disputed - even modest consumption found bad for your health Lund University, Sweden

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Researchers discover powerful new technique for triggering nano self-assembly of 3-D arrays Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Patient's own stem cells used to grow facial bones Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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Paralyzed monkey grasps ball using system that translates brain signals into complex muscle movements in real time Stanford University

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A single injection of genes that produce light-sensitive pigments in the eye allows a congenitally blind child to see University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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Researchers create synthetic biological cells capable of generating electric voltages and functioning as tiny batteries Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Regular cells transformed into stem cells without foreign genetic materials promises new treatments against degenerative diseases University of Nebraska Medical Center

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Researchers show that the loss of the PTEN gene in normal cells promotes tumor growth Ohio State University Medical Center

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Experimental electronic eye implant partially restores blind woman's vision New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

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For the first time researchers carry out successful experiments injecting 'nanowires' into the brain Lund University, Sweden

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Groups of neurons that precisely keep time have been discovered in the primate brain by a team of researchers Pennsylvania State University

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Researchers show that a beam of light can control brain activity with great precision Stanford University

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Healthy eating, not supplements, is the best way to keep the good bacteria in your gut healthy Some take dozens or even hundreds of supplements in the hope this might extend their lives, but is this an exercise in futility? ~ Medical College of Georgia

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The deep layers of superior colliculus (DLSC) found regulate your emotional responses to threatening situations Georgetown University Medical Center

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Understanding the future dangers of the many Weapons of Mass Oppression (WOMO) developed for Iraq & Afghanistan This comic strip says it all ~ xkcd

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What a concept: if it is too big to fail, it is too big to exist! First Volcker, then Greenspan and in a speech yesterday, Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England and one of the most articulate, persuasive and influential central bankers on the planet, all now calling for banks that are too big to fail to be broken up.

King getting so strongly behind this idea is going to give it some powerful mojo. I'm starting to think it might just happen, despite the opposition of an army of lobbyists from the big banks.

Of course, what needs to happen is taxpayers need to stop guaranteeing bank deposits. Deposit insurance turns capitalism into "lemon socialism" the very worst kind of socialism where profits go to the bankers but loses are assumed by taxpayers. Under such a system, the most recklessly insane risk taking bankers, actually have an advantage over competent, frugal bankers.

Before deposit insurance, all smart people actually evaluated the balance sheet and executive track record of a bank before depositing their money. Competence, caution and good loan making practices were rewarded by cautious depositors with more deposits.

After deposit insurance, money flowed to whichever bank offered the highest interest. Depositors no longer cared if their bankers were competence or not. Why should they, if their bankers were incompetent, the government would cover them anyway. Getting 5% interest from a speculating fool is better than 4% from a frugal, experienced, risk-savvy banker, who knows he can't pay more than that without making highly risky loans and investments.

When governments impose "lemon socialism" by assuming the risk of failure, while allowing private speculators to retain any profits, the incentives are reversed and creative destruction becomes wealth destruction. Then the whole capitalist system begins to unravel, as we are in the early stages of finding out.

But, so long as deposit insurance exists, isn't keeping banks smaller so no single failure can wreck the entire system a good idea?

Maybe, as long as it doesn't involve taking on any more private risk. Because the more private risk a government takes on, the more foreign investors lose confidence in that government's currency, which is why the dollar has plunged so much since this crisis began.

At this stage, maintaining a sufficient levels of foreign investor confidence is the important thing for the US gov. Next to that, unwinding banks that are too big to fail, is much like rearranging a few deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Why we must learn how to control our planet's climate Activists and politicos give the public the impression that the Earth's climate is normally stable and humans are the only reason there is any risk of destructive climate change. Making people believe this certainly helps climate activists raise lots of money for their organizations and allows the world's politicos to grab more power, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Science conclusively shows us that over the last billion years the Earth's climate has fluctuated between very hot periods and glacial periods. Long before humans even existed, there were many hot periods of no summer ice on our planet and many cold periods of glaciation. During the hot periods, most of today's coastal cities would be under a hundred or more feet of water. While during the glacial periods, many of today's cities would be under hundreds of feet of ice. A few especially unlucky cities, like New York, are located where they are underwater in the hot periods and under ice when the glaciers advance. Only during the brief (geologically speaking) mild periods between the hot and cold, like today, can New York City exist.

In just the last, 2.5 million years alone, there have been about 60 glacial advances and retreats. Climate scientists know that even if ALL effect humans might have on the climate could be fully erased. Radical, potentially civilization destroying climate shifts will still happen at regular intervals in the future.

If humans aren't really to blame, then can we just forget about climate change?

Not unless we are willing to doom some future generation of our species to seeing their cities and most of their population destroyed.

We must learn how to efficiently control the Earth's climate, and we should acquire this knowledge as quickly as we can. Because one cause of sudden, radical climate change, is that a number of so-called "super volcanoes" located at various places around the world, regularly erupt with sufficient force to cause an ice age.

Most of Yellowstone Park sits in a giant volcanic crater called a caldera. The Yellowstone caldera has enormous eruptions that come every 600,000 to 800,000 years. The last one was 640,000 years ago, so we are already within the period of maximum risk. Moreover, in the last decade, Yellowstone has begun to show heightened levels of caldera activity. The next Yellowstone caldera eruption could come 50,000 years from now, or it could come next year, or the year after. The increased activity over the last decade at Yellowstone makes an earlier arrival more of a risk. And there are other super volcanoes, the last eruption of one was 74,000 years ago.

We don't know when the next "super volcano" eruption will happen, but we do know that if it happens before humans have figured out how to counteract the drastic effects it will have on our planet's climate. Most of our cities will be destroyed, our crops will be wiped out worldwide, and our species could even face extinction.

The last time humanity experience a "super volcano" eruption, genetic archeologists now estimate that over 95% of all the humans on the planet died of starvation or exposure to the cold. It appears that less than 2,000 breeding pairs of humans survived the climate catastrophe that followed that previous "super volcano" eruption.

If we allow a second such eruption to catch our species without the knowledge necessary to quickly mitigate the negative effects on our planet's climate. The price we will pay will be horrendous, on the order of five to six billion human lives are likely to be lost.

Clearly, we need to learn how to effectively and efficiently control out planet's climate. ~ European Commission Research Information Center

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An animation that looks exactly like you and a chat bot that answers questions with your words The photo-real image generator and the smart chat bot

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Team of scientists developing bee-mimicking mesh-communicating hive mind bot swarm "RoboBees" Project, Microrobotics Lab, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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A team of scientists has taken a giant step toward the possibility of using human stem cells to repair damaged hearts Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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The first artificial 'smart' hand that gives user feeling feedback through a direct connection to the brain see the hand in action ~ ARTS Lab - Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

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Attach self-propelling bacteria to a gear cog and they'll set it spinning for you University of Rome

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Watch the little DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod) bug bot run and leap off tall buildings Biomimetic Millisystems Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

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Aggressive microdermabrasion induces wound-healing response in aging skin University of Michigan

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Researchers develop biologically active "scaffold" made from soluble fibers for the regeneration of lost or damaged bones and tissues Tel Aviv University

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Gene mod over-expressing a gene that helps brain cells communicate creates 'genius' rat Medical College of Georgia and East China Normal University

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Newts can lose a leg and grow a new one, Zebrafish can re-grow fins, could two genes, hspd1 and mps1, offer a master mechanism for all regeneration? University of Michigan

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First-time net users get boost in their brain function after just one week University of California - Los Angeles

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Mobile bot surrogate testing visual prostheses for the blind California Institute of Technology

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If Earth was once molten, why didn't all precious metals sink to the core? They did, 'rain' of meteorites reseeded Earth's crust University of Toronto and the University of Maryland ~ Far more mineral wealth likely exists in the asteroid belt than in the Earth's crust. It is where we should go next.

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How stem cells are able to pattern and construct your cerebral cortex Salk Institute

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RISC-loading complex of RNA snippets that control if genes are silenced or expressed is imaged for the first time Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Faith at work -- 17 year-old winner of best Koran reciter contest wins computer, AK-47, 2 grenades & anti-tank mine Reuters report ~ Religion vs Freedom ~ A better worldview

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Researchers find cells can live in more than one internal state causing the same external stimulation to produce different results Duke University

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Researchers exploit one-atom-wide graphene's optoelectronic properties to make photo-detectors from graphene sheets IBM

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Research finds that the loss of tumor-suppressor gene PTEN is a key factor in turning benign tumors into cancers University of California - Los Angeles

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A wireless memory chip sealed in silicon that can store your data reliably for 1,000 years Keio University in Japan

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22q11 gene deletion causes brain structural changes leading to behavioral disorders like autism and schizophrenia University of North Carolina School of Medicine

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Scientists unravel the central mysteries of how your brain computes language University of California - San Diego

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Holographic heads-up displays will soon be augmenting your reality Light Blue Optics, Cambridge, UK

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Stem cells used to fab replacement jaw bone Columbia University

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More studies confirm intermittent fasting appears able to produce same life extension effects as calorie restriction Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino

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Intelligent smart drive in-vehicle technologies ready for testing on real roads with real drivers in Europe euroFOT

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What's new in bots - exoskeletons and morphing Next Big Future

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A gene that encodes an extracellular matrix protein (MMP20) has been linked to kidney aging Stanford University

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Inexpensively culturing of a few skin cells may be able to provide early warning for cancer anywhere in your body University of California, Berkeley

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By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had University of Oxford

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A few of the hundreds of species of 'friendly' bacteria in your intestines may help to shape your immune responses Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the New York University School of Medicine

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Manipulation of your brain's own immune cells with IL-6 could lead to removal of dementia-causing amyloid plaques from your brain Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida

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Is a sphere the best shape for all terrain mobile bots? MIT

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Augmented reality restaurant evaluation bot called "Scope" available for your iPhone UrbanSpoon

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Autodoc chip a thousand times more sensitive than previous tech, detects biomarkers for numerous diseases early Stanford University

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Bots that swim & crawl around inside your stomach & bowels to spot health problems BBC

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New augmented reality bot for your iPhone WhereMark

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Artificial black hole created in Chinese lab - microwaves go in but they don't come out State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves at Southeast University in Nanjing, China

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Recent research claiming light-to-moderate alcohol consumption reduced risk of functional decline due to aging may be bogus University of Ferrara, Italy

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Team of molecular scientists discover a new rapid messaging system between adjacent cells within your body Monash University

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Nerve-muscle connection bioengineering to improve prosthetic hands for wounded soldiers University of Michigan Health System

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Researchers create the first detailed map of the human epigenome, the layer of genetic control beyond the sequence of the genes themselves Salk Institute

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Tiny fragments of RNA previously dismissed as cellular junk are actually stable molecules that play a significant role in gene regulation University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences

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Scientists find how master gene regulator p53 switches a gene "on" or "off" by recognizing specific sequences of nucleotides in a cell's DNA Singapore Immunology Network

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Retirees who continue working part-time have fewer major diseases and function better psychologically than people who stop working entirely University of Maryland

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In plant, animal & human cells undergoing programmed cell death, TUDOR-SN is degraded in same way by so-called proteases Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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No long battery change or charge needed as you travel cross-country in an electric car, just pump out discharged fluid, pump in charged fluid Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

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Surgical implant relieves chronic depression Medical University of South Carolina

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Engineering bot faces able to recognize & respond to emotions with expressions humans will intuitively understand David Hanson's TED talk: Robots that show emotion

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Designing the smart bot controlled, flexibly resilient, self-sufficient living pod of tomorrow BeauSoleil University of Louisiana Solar Home

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Teaching bot to find pic of the playwright when you type in "Shakespeare," not more popular Gwyneth Paltrow "Shakespeare in Love" pic MIT

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Seeking out a top rated hospital, rather than just going to a nearby one, cuts your chance of dying in half "The fact is, patients are twice as likely to die at low-rated hospitals than at highly rated hospitals for the same diagnoses and procedures," said Rick May, MD, an author of the HealthGrades study. ~ Summary of findings

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Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Kyoto, Japan

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Researchers find first RNA repair system to be discovered in bacteria University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Dollar risks plunge into death spiral as central banks and other investors opt to hold other currencies instead of dollars Bloomberg ~ I don't think being in yen or euro will protect much from a dollar death spiral. Since those currencies are also fiat monies backed by nothing more than a politico's promise and are likely to be pulled down themselves by the ferocious undertow of the dollar's sinking.

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Breakthrough solar shingle promises affordable solar power for your living pod POWERHOUSE from Dow Chemical Company

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Scientist discover how your first-responder molecules actual work, rushing in to prevent cancer by fixing DNA strand breaks Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Scripps Research Institute

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Natural killer (NK) cells essential to keeping your immune system in balance by preventing your T cells from over-responding Brown University

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Removing Lkb1 gene reverses diabetes by causing beta cells to grow larger, proliferate more, and secrete more insulin Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (pdf)

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Advances in precision magnetic force control could revolutionize everything from medical imaging to nano assembly Innovative Magnetics Research

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Bot read signal from human brain, transmit signal over the net to another person's brain, where 2nd bot reads data directly from receiver brain Watch experiment ~ University of Southampton

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New understanding of how histones function could help prevent cell damage that causes aging & disease Florida State University College of Medicine

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Scientists figure out how the crucial first steps in RNA synthesis are executed to initiate gene transcription Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen

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Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy

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Ever wonder how those two meter long double helix DNA strands fit inside the nucleus of your cells? Wonder no more! MIT

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Stem cells genetically engineered using biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles to regrow veins and repair damaged limbs MIT

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Body heat powered implants made possible by first diode that allows a heat current to travel in only one direction Waseda University

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Scientists have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening up the possibility for repairing aging or diseased livers Medical College of Wisconsin

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You can date the end of dollar hegemony from China's decision last month to sell its first batch of sovereign bonds in Chinese yuan to foreigners UK Telegraph: Beijing does not need to raise money abroad since it has $2 trillion dollars in reserves. The sole purpose is to prepare the way for the emergence of the yuan as a full-fledged global currency. "It's the tolling of the bell," said Michael Power from Investec Asset Management. "We are only beginning to grasp the enormity and historical significance of what has happened."

China is playing out a carefully crafted plan to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency. China is just doing what America did to the UK when their leaders failed them. Blame for this isn't China's, it falls on the idiots Americans elected to lead them in the first decade of the 21st century. Preparing kids for a successful life? Make sure they speak fluent Mandarin.

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First Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for work on life extension The winners were Carol Greider, Jack Szostak, and Elizabeth Blackburn "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase".

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Stem cells which 'fool immune system' may provide vaccination for cancer University of Connecticut Stem Cell Institute

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Thinking about facts lights up brain's memory retrieval region, thoughts about religion lights up regions for emotions & conflicts UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center ~ USC Brain and Creativity Institute

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VASIMR plasma rocket engine could make Mars run in 39 days, allow space colonization, asteroid mining and prevent our extinction Ad Astra Rocket Company ~ Failure to move outward quickly enough will doom our species to extinct.

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Resveratrol, thought to mimic the anti-aging effects of calorie restriction, has also been shown to improve diabetes University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Researchers create nuclear battery the size of a penny that holds 100,000 times more power than a similar size chemical battery University of Missouri-Columbia

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Researchers have bio-engineered human tissue patches free of past problems that have stymied stem-cell repair of aging & damaged hearts University of Washington

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Taking anti-oxidants, touted by some as offering anti-aging effects, may cause early onset of type 2 diabetics Monash University, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, University of Melbourne and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Can nanopore DNA sequencing ultimately bring the cost of sequencing a genome down to under $100? IBM

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Clinical trial will test if gene transfer therapy can restore mobility in Parkinson's patients Henry Ford Health System

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Paul Romer explains how his civilization 2.0 concept of "charter cities" could improve life for many millions Interview ~ Romer's Plan

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Roomba creator Rodney Brooks is out to make bots smart enough to do all sorts of jobs, here's an update on his progress Heartland Robotics Inc.

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Wearable, fractal satellite antennas that can keep your personal/implantable electronics always connected KIZUNA

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Prosthetic aesthetics - a photo essay on prosthetic devices that try to match the beauty of the human body New Scientist

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Researchers boost stem cells' ability to regenerate tissue by modding them with genes that produce extra growth factors MIT

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In move that will put final nail in coffin of USA's economic superpower status, China/Russia/Japan/France/Arabs plot to end dollar pricing of oil China is about to hand America its greatest defeat without a shot ever being fired, loss of America's economic superpower status. To understand what is going on, first read these quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. - Sun Tzu

"To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence." - Sun Tzu

"Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. - Sun Tzu

Then read: The demise of the dollar

The dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, cemented by oil being priced in dollars, is the central pillar of America's economic strength. Take that away and Americans are a massively indebted people, living in a massively indebted nation, who's Congress is currently spending $2 for every $1 they are able to collect in taxes. To call us a banana republic, would insult banana republics, because no other nation's people has ever piled up such a mountain of debt.

Pull the dollar's reserve currency status and its value will plunge to such an extent that we won't even be able to afford to import enough fuel to keep running our farmer's tractors and the trucks that deliver their harvests to our cities.

The Chinese are moving to take advantage of our stupidity to replace us as the world's leading economic superpower. But it isn't them that brought this on us, we did this to ourselves by allowing what has become a corrupt, stupid and inept political elite continue to rule us.

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Follow a Mediterranean diet, rich in vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains and fish, and you are less likely to develop depression University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Clinic of the University of Navarra

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Daily fluctuations in powerful hormones called glucocorticoids synchronize your biological clock as a part of blood sugar regulation mechanism Stanford School of Medicine

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What is that mountain you're driving past? Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry. Science fiction? Not anymore. Wikitude and Cyclopedia via NY Times

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New method combes six photons to form quantum data qubits robust enough to allow creation of a tiny implantable quantum super computer Stockholm University

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Researchers identified a key gene (KLF17) that regulates the ability of breast cancer to spread throughout your body The Wistar Institute

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Lack of sufficient cytoplasmic linker protein-170 (CLIP-170) can cause your cell's DNA to replicated incorrectly leading to cancer Purdue University

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A lack of dopamine-producing brain cells causes addiction & other diseases, now scientists have found a way to cultivate these cells outside the body Karolinska Institutet

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Scientists show that "closed heart" gene therapy can be used to improve an ailing heart's ability to pump properly University of Michigan and University of Minnesota

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Developing intelligent motion pods that can safely drive themselves by schooling like fish Nissan

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Where's the science? Many clinical psychologists & therapists using obsolete methods lacking in scientific rigor University of Wisconsin-Madison ~ Indiana University ~ University of Arizona

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Synthetic biology start-up using breakthrough automation to fab biological machines Ginkgo BioWorks ~ More about their work

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A vision of how Augmented Reality will be used to design and fab things in the future Microsoft

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An article in the prestigious medical journal Lancet calls aging "modifiable" with no fixed ceiling on human longevity The Lancet

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Scientists have discovered a way to mimic the well-known anti-aging benefits of caloric restriction University College London

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New augmented reality bot lets you just snap a pic of a logo with your cell camera to learn about a company's products getfugu.com

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More on the effort by Europe's elites to monitor and control their fellow citizens with a police state beyond George Orwell's worst nightmares Project Indect

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Fish oil's omega-3 fatty acids appear to protect against stroke from ruptured carotid artery plaques Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

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Cells derived from human embryonic stem cells reverse retinal degeneration Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem

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Two independent studies report successful reprogramming human umbilical cord blood cells into cells with human embryonic stem cell properties Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain and The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California

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Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave University College London

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SHP-2 phosphatase protein controls how long resting intervals between learning sessions must last for long-term memory formation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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'Anti-Atkins' low protein diet extends lifespan in flies by boosting mitochondrial function, researchers think effect on humans could be similar Buck Institute for Age Research

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New ability to map quantum dots, tiny well-ordered clusters 10 to 50 atoms across, brings fabrication of nanobots closer University of Michigan

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Scientists find that a nasal spray of interleukin-6 boosts your brain's ability to retain emotional and procedural memories Department of Neuroendocrinology at the University of Lubeck