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New research into what actually caused the financial crisis New research by housing expert Edward Pinto, a former chief credit officer for Fannie Mae, found that the principal cause of the financial crisis is that Finnie and Freddie's misrepresentation of the nature of the loans they were buying. It seems that from the moment that Fannie and Freddie started buying risky loans in 1993, they routinely misrepresented the mortgages as prime, when they had characteristics that caused them to very clearly fall into the subprime or Alt-A category.

This deception by the two government-founded mortgage agencies created a tremendous amount of artificial demand for home ownership, inflating housing prices to outlandish levels. While keeping rating agencies and investors in the dark about the vast number of questionable mortgages infecting the financial system in the years just before the crash.

The magnitude of the Fannie/Freddie fraud on the world's investors is staggering. Pinto reports that of the 26 million subprime and Alt-A loans outstanding in 2008, 10 million were held or guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie, 5.2 million by other government agencies, and 1.4 million were on the books of the four largest U.S. banks. Additionally, the Fannie/Freddie conspiracy to inflate mortgage ratings was the primary culprit for the 7.7 million subprime and Alt-A housing loans that wound up in mortgage pools issued by Wall Street banks. By both stealing the banks traditional mortgage market with lower-cost government-backed securities and vastly increased the number of risky loans, while obscuring this fact from bond rating companies and investors, the Fannie/Freddie conspiracy precipitated the real estate crash.

Why did they engage in such blatantly fraudulent activities?

The likely reason, Pinto concludes, is the intense pressure to fulfill the department of Housing and Urban Development's affordable housing regulations. These regs required Fannie and Freddie to issue trillions in loans to low income high default risk borrows. Something Fannie and Freddie would not have been able to get investors to do, without keeping them in the dark about the extremely risky nature of the loans they were buying.

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Even maxing out global warming by burning up ALL the world's fossil fuels isn't enough to save New York from eventual destruction by ice age glaciers. Duke University

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Humans given the herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba do not show a slower rate of cognitive decline compared to adults who received a placebo. University of Pittsburgh Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory (GEM) study.

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Life extension foundation calls immunosuppressant rapamycin, the most exciting longevity development of 2009. The Methuselah Foundation

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Low-power consumption makes electroactive polymer artificial muscles (EPAM) an excellent new alternative for prosthetic devices. SRI International and Artificial Muscle, Inc.

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Teaching smart bots how to acquire generalized knowledge of dynamic environments like your living space. University of Southern California

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New chip can find hundreds of mutations in dozen of genes allowing individually tailored therapies based on your unique genetic makeup. Georgetown University Medical Center

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Researchers find proteins markers for monitoring and tweaking the lifespan extension effectiveness of calorie-restricted diets. NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Department of Human Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre and Hasselt University, Biomedical Research Institute and Transnational University Limburg, School of Life Sciences.

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Researchers show that the superior colliculus, your brain's structure for control of eye and head movements, also guides your mind's focus. Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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Using implanted electrodes, scientists have demonstrated real-time wireless conversion of neural signals into synthesized speech. Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems and the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University, the Division of Health Science and Technology at Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Neural Signals, Inc., StatsANC LLC, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Gwinnett Medical Center and Emory University Hospital.

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Scientists discover that Jarid2 protein performs delicate balancing act of keeping stem cells poised for action without acting too early. Stanford University Medical Center.

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Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at the level of the synapse, where neurons connect with each other. University of California, Santa Barbara Neuroscience Research Institute

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CtIP protein is recruited to sites of DNA damage in your cells and is critical to keeping your DNA in good repair. Salk Institute

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Vitamin C accelerates gene expression changes and promoted a more efficient transition of adult cells into stem cells. South China Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health.

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Genomic toggle switch that predispose an individual to one set of autoimmune disorders can protect that person against another set Stanford University Medical Center

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Researchers discover an immune system protein that can quickly and efficiently reprogram human skin cells to express embryonic stem cell genes Stanford University School of Medicine

12/23/2009 PERMALINK
Kids worldwide watching you on all those surveillance cameras to earn a bounty for reporting you when you do anything local authorities don't like. I call it WOMO (Weapons Of Mass Opppression) and harnessing developing world kids to spy on you is just phase one. Phase two is designing smart bots that can track everyone, everywhere through all those security cameras and intensive data mining. Queen Mary University of London's Samurai Project. ~ Note to researchers: Working on WOMO is evil, don't be evil! If you help this happen, you will come to regret it.

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Researchers find evidence that microcephaly genes control human brain size. A path to the Einstein brain mod? University of Oslo, the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California

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Researchers develop a new bot able to measures mouth movements to allow an artificial larynx to sound more like a human than a machine. University of Witwatersrand in South Africa

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Researchers discover a new gene therapy that can prevent the progression of emphysema. Boston University Medical Center.

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A simple amino acid that is repeated in the center of proteins found in tooth enamel determines how strong and resilient your teeth are. University of Illinois at Chicago.

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New nanoparticles that can penetrate deep into skin abscesses to destroy bacteria festering there, even those that are resistant to most antibiotics. Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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New smart bot scans uploaded pictures with facial recognition software to find someone who looks like you, but isn't. Facebook's Facial Profile.

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If you are carrying the germ-line MSH6 mutation, you are at high risk for colorectal and a number of other forms of cancer. Mayo Clinic.

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Using bacteria to create artificial blood vessels carries a lower risk of blood clots than the synthetic materials now used in bypass operations. Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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A smart, active & energy-storing prosthesis called SPARKy literally puts the spring back into an amputee's step. Arizona State University.

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TRPC6 protein found to be key mediator of aggressive brain tumor growth. University of Central Florida.

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New research shows definitively that reducing intake of calories from glucose extends the lifespan of human cells. Center for Aging and Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Researchers have induced significant blood vessel growth in areas of damaged tissue using synthetic polymers called hydrogels. Georgia Institute of Technology.

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As the percentage of smart bot driven cars on the roads increases, traffic will flow much more efficiently concludes a new study. Technical University of Dresden.

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Tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger have been fabbed by researchers. Sandia National Laboratories.

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Your neural network that controls your appetite and energy also has the ability to alter your bone density. Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney.

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Modding the intracellular machinery that modulates actin remodeling in cancer cells to prevent them from spreading through your body. Texas A&M University.

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Researchers mechanically stretch living nerves to grow resilient transplants for mending previously unrepairable injuries. University of Pennsylvania.

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At Obama's request the Supreme Court has put the final nail in the coffin of the founding father's constitution, corporate media yawns. After hearing passionate arguments from the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court acquiesced and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a "suspected enemy combatant" by the president or his designated minions no longer has any human rights at all. It is hard to overstate the significance of this horrid decision. Fascinating that a black president would be the one to get the Supreme Court to declare any citizens can become the property of their government with no legal rights at the whim of those in power. America's rule of laws has ended and the rule of men has begun. Trial by a jury of your peers is gone, justice is now completely dependent on the whims of the powerful. This steps across the line into fascism. ~ more ~ more

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Engineers create versatile fingers called Pro-Digits controlled by skin pads that can read nerve signals. Watch Pro-Digits in action. ~ Touch Bionics.

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The DHA type of omega-3 fatty acids, commonly found in fatty fish and algae, improve your nervous-system's ability to avoid sensory overload. Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

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Three proteins, called E2f1, E2f2 and E2f3, found to play a key role in the transition of stem cells into their final, differentiated, states. Ohio State University Medical Center.

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Researchers find an enzyme that disturbs the communication processes between bacteria offering a entirely new method of treating bacterial infections. University of Groningen.

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Researchers learn how to induce controlled mutations in human cells, activate several repair systems and trigger controlled suicide in human cells Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona

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Stem cells offering regenerative therapies for blood, muscle and bone disorders can be easily harvested from the tissue of the umbilical cord University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences

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Biomedical engineers have devised a method for making future genome sequencing faster and cheaper by dramatically reducing the amount of DNA required Boston University College of Engineering

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Researchers create new "laser spinning" method to manufacture bioglass nanofibres, the bioactive glass used in regenerating bone. University of Vigo, Rutgers University, Imperial College London.

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In the USA, most of the time & money available for producing new therapies from scientific advances gets wasted on satisfying regulators Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine

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Nano-particles used to create synthetic platelets that mimic & augment regular platelets to stop internal or external bleeding twice as fast Watch bioengineer Erin Lavik explain her invention ~ Case Western University in Cleveland. As the previous story points out, there will likely be tens of thousands of needless deaths while these researchers are forced to spend years jumping through many needless hoops to make this therapy available to the dying. Why is our system so broken? Because 40,000 deaths from automobiles annually causes little comment in the media, but let just 4 people die from experiment drugs and the media and politicos will be howling for blood. Regulators respond by putting up more hoops and another six months gets tacked onto the already ridiculously long approval process. Needless FDA delays already kill far more than the 40,000 killed by cars each year, but where is the outrage? The vast potential of gene and molecular engineering to cure all our ills and dramatically expand our lifespans is being stymied by our obsolete medical regulatory gestapo.

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The Case for Ebeneezer

It is out of profound respect for those whose pursuits of their selfish interests have done far more to better the lives of others than have the combined efforts of all the self-styled altruists, saints, social workers, politicians, and other mischievous beings, that I have undertaken this defense of one of the most maligned financiers of this humanizing epoch. As you read my defense of Scrooge, and make a comparative judgment of my client and his accuser, Charles Dickens, I ask you to keep in mind the warnings of another 19th-century writer, Anatole France, who observed, "Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbours very miserable." ~ Ludwig von Mises Institute

Bill Gates has certainly helped some people with his shift from code designer to philanthropist. But the world as a whole is probably worse off, not better. Suppose he had turned his attentions to coding the ultimate cloud bot for assisting scientific inquiry and collaboration, even if that project made his fortune even greater? What a tragedy if Gates, influenced by some bad meme, had used his seed capital for Microsoft to feed a few poor families for a year or two? There is nothing wrong with giving away wealth, but giving up what you do best to do so full time, doesn't help humanity as a whole, it hurts. Many institutions within our society work to instilled memes within us that can delay human progress enough to cause the extinction of our species. Gates made the mistake of failing to realize the destructive nature of one of these memes, thus depriving us all of what he might have done with his greatest talent. ~ A better meme set

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Scientists engineer an all-optical technique that uses light to determine when neurons inhibit or excite one another and can map these effects Harvard University

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Scientists discover natural flu-fighting protein in human cells (able to prevent H1N1) Howard Hughes Medical Institute ~ Harvard Medical School

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Scientist image the actin-driven, mitochondrial machinery inside each of your cells that makes possible intracellular transport University of Oregon

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Personalized medicine conference Jan 19-20, 2010 covers the latest advances in genomic and proteomic technologies at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum

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Restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, extends the life of healthy cells and speeds the death of precancerous cells University of Alabama at Birmingham

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With fear spreading pervasive surveillance throughout most western cities, soon wearing a burka will be the only way to have any privacy The terrorists have won.

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Engineers figure out how to fab 3D nanotube circuits minus the short circuits that have plagued other nanotube chip attempts Another step towards smaller, smarter implants that don't require batteries. ~ Stanford University

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Roomba killer? Smarter, stronger, faster, better, laser scanner equipped, charger self-docking bot vac auto cleans your living pod for just $399 Watch the Neato XV-11 in action ~ Neato Robotics

12/16/2009 PERMALINK
Researchers determine exactly how the carcinogens in cigarettes bind to human DNA to create the gene mutations that cause cancer University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Researchers promise first practical, affordable off-grid home energy creation/storage with new photosynthesis mimicking hydrogen from sunshine process MIT

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Researchers create biodegradable, biocompatible nanoparticles able to mimic the function of your red blood cells University of California at Santa Barbara

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Activation of the Sirt1 enzyme that may cause life extension effects of calorie restrictin, appears to also function to keep you thin Brown University, Providence, RI

12/16/2009 PERMALINK
Researchers develop a new technique using gel electrophoresis for detecting the proteins that cause you to age University of Bath

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Smart bot surveillance cameras that can identifying, profile and tracking individuals acting suspiciously across crowded public spaces Note to Researchers: working on WOMO (Weapons of Mass Oppression) bots is evil. You won't want to live in the world you are creating. ~ Queen Mary, University of London

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New system turns any LCD display into a giant lenseless camera to give you full gestural control MIT Media Lab

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Google sends tags to over 100,000 businesses in USA, scan the tag with your smart phone for special offers & customer reviews QuickMark

12/16/2009 PERMALINK
New book asks will smart bots destroy all the jobs and cause and economic collapse? Since the idea of robots was first conceived over a century ago, every couple of years someone gets another book or article published by warning about bots causing massive unemployment. That a productivity increasing device will destroy all the jobs is a foolish worry that was put to rest long ago by the farm tractor. Prior to the farm tractor around 95% of all labor toiled with hand tools and horse drawn plows on the farm to produce just enough surplus for 5% of the population to live in towns. Now only 1% need work on farms, thanks to the tractor. So are the 94% of workers displaced from their agricultural jobs by the farm tractor out of work, a displacement number that smart bots could never achieve. No way, we never had any massive unemployment problem due to the tractor eliminating 94% of all existing jobs. They all found better paying, less grueling work in the cities and civilization advanced tremendously. Maybe someday we will wise up enough to stop wasting our time and money on books that exploit our unjustified fears to make a fast buck. The same thing goes on with life extension and human enhancement technologies. ~ The Lights in the Tunnel

12/16/2009 PERMALINK
Gene callled TRAPPC9 is found to be involved in around 50% of inherited intellectual disability Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto

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Aging adults that do volunteer work tutoring children are rewarded with delay and reversal of declining brain function Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Researchers find that higher levels leptin, a protein controlling weight & appetite, lowers incidence of dementia as you age Boston University School of Medicine

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The conversations neurons have as they form and recall memories have been decoded by scientists Medical College of Georgia

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Smart bot electric bicycle wheel powers your ride and functions as your personal trainer through link to your smart phone Watch Copenhagen Wheel in action ~ MIT

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First flexible retinal implant processes light like a solar cell to restore impaired vision Stanford University

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Microfluidic regeneration implants get closer with fab of self-assembling mimics of tiny hair-like cilia that sway in unison to move your body fluids MIT

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Quantum dot behaviors of light within photonic crystals offers path to supercomputers cool, small & power-sipping enough for brain-enhancing implants University of Toronto

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For the narcissist that has everything droid receptionist company offers to build identical mech twin for $223,000 Kokoro

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A new gene designated Brd2 that regulates obesity and diabetes has been discovered Boston University School of Medicine

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Researchers find that transplanted reproductive germ cells are able to survive and thrive even in another species University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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New study strengthens the link between longevity proteins called sirtuins and the lifespan-extending effects of calorie restriction MIT

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Researchers have identified a group of 12 genetic variants in the HSPB7 gene associated with heart failure in humans Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis

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Want to burn more calories, get slimmer, enjoy better health, live longer, very easy researchers say, just watch less TV University of Vermont

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Scientists isolate antifreeze molecule that lets Alaska beetle survive at minus 100F -- a human mod using this would be great University of Alaska Fairbanks

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SOCS1 gene found to prevent the cancer-causing inflamation producing activity of cytokines hormones University of Montreal and the University of Sherbrooke

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Researchers study proteins salamanders use to regrow limbs to find way to induce similar regeneration in humans Indiana University School of Medicine

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High doses of stem cells, which mature into immune cells, can overcome rejection due to imperfect donor match Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel

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Scientists discover five genetic variants that appear to control the health of the human lung University of Leicester

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Clinic established at Dominikus hospital in Dusseldorf to offer state-of-the-art regenerative stem cell therapies XCell-Center, the Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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Life extension therapies also push back the clock on Alzheimer's disease, concludes new animal-model study The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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Researchers create a new kind of cheap, flexible, plastic flash memory perfect for improving wearware University of Tokyo

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Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) integrates vision, sonar and laser systems for mobile bot guidance Politecnico di Milano University in Italy

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The first nanosensors with the ability to sniff out cancer biomarkers in your blood Yale University

12/13/2009 PERMALINK
AI/human relations in a nutshell: "It's not that I don't like you, it's just that I need your atoms for something else." Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk

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Cockroach successfully drives robot around with help of a light-stimulous array for obstacle avoidance University of California, Irvine

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Quantum computing breakthrough towards engineering smart bots with human-level intelligence. Nearly 50 years of disappointing results from A.I. research lead me some time ago to the conclusion that creation of a human-level smart bot appeared likely to require a game-changing breakthrough. Quantum computing has seemed the most promising, and it seems much more so today after this potentially game-changing announcement by researchers at Google of results they were able to achieve using rf-squid flux qubits from D-Wave in Vancouver.

12/12/2009 PERMALINK
New hi-def retinal implants boost resolution from 60 electrodes to 1000 electrodes allowing the blind to truly see Stanford University

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Diabetes linked to PFKFB3 metabolism regulator gene, mod of gene could offer path to cure Texas A&M and University of Minnesota

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Researchers gene mod a cyanobacterium to convert CO2 into a liquid fuel alternative to gasoline University of California - Los Angeles

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Many diseases occur because proteins are so fragile, researchers discover a way to mod them to be far more stable University of Michigan and University of Leeds

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The 'trigger' gene that allows stem cells to become any cell type has been identified by researchers Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Francisco

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How to get all the entertainment you want without paying the monoplist prices charged by your cable company New York Times has an article about something I've been doing. By paying only $9 to netflix for unlimited downloads and using hulu, I've been getting all my entertainment online. Unlimited, un-metered movies and shows for just $9 per month. And best of all, by no longer paying those monopoly fees for entertainment, you cut the funds the entertainment cartel has to spend to bribe politicos into letting them infiltrate and control your personal technologies.

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Research shows that stem cell transplantation can safely reverse severe sickle cell disease in adults Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

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An open source project is building a road map of the entire world Hopefully, updates for your GPS can soon come for free. ~ OpenStreetMap Project

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Watch the Hubo FX-1 human-carrier bot walker in action Humanoid Robot Research Center of South Korea

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Dip an ordinary piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires, and it turns into a battery Stanford University

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Google's new reality enhancement bot 'goggles' lets you take a pic of something or its bar code to find out more Watch a clip of Google goggles in action

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Can open source, personalized drug development using computer models create effective meds far faster? Andrew Hessel lecture audio

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Researcher develop a brain implant that is able to automatically zap away epileptic seizures Neuropace, Mountain View, California

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Spotless mind - researchers develop noninvasive technique to erase fear memories in humans New York University

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Nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats allowed them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember National Institute for Mental Health and Neuro Sciences and National Centre for Biological Sciences, both in Bangalore

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Protein markers found that can allow monitoring/boosting effectiveness of lifespan extending calorie-restricted diets NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

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Disabling SOCS3 gene, a suppressor of inflammatory signaling, enables injured nerve fibers to regenerate Children's Hospital Boston

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If a person is the type that breaks promises can be accurately predicted by certain patterns of activity in brain scans University of Zurich

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New skin stem cell type found able to generate fat, bone, cartilage & even nerve cells like an embryonic stem cell University of Toronto

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Stem cells can save limbs from amputation due to blood vessel blockage caused by aging or diabetes Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

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Clinical trials using stem-cell-based therapy to repair injured heart muscle moves forward into phase two University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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Umbilical stem cells can clear cloudy vision from corneal damage University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center

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Research shows eating leucine, isoleucine & valine amino acids can restore lost cognitive abilities from brain injury The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Adding to the long list of benefits from Omega-3 fatty acids, researchers find it may also reduce risk of colon cancer National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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Researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV University of California Los Angeles

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Does consciousness ride the cusp of a cosmic time wave that converts the quantum future into the Newtonian past? Two physicists have put forward the fascinating conjecture that the passage of a time-irreversible cosmic wave of state-vector reduction. Could be converting the previously existing future state of quantum uncertainty into the classical Newtonian certainty state of definite particle identities and states. Our consciousnesses may have evolved riding on the cusp of a transformational wave that we perceive as the present moment in time, but which is actually a continuously moving transition event turning our quantum future into our Newtonian past. ~ University of Cape Town in South Africa and Princeton University in New Jersey

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'Spintronics' advance promises chips so efficent sophisticated implants could be powered by your own body MESA Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente, Netherlands

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Google morphing their Android mobile search system into a reality enhancing smart bot Google Android

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You'll buy a lot more from a Bayesian Inference Engine ad-server bot that understands exactly how YOU think MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Progress reported on many fronts in implantation of human stem cells for self-renewing regeneration of failing tissues 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology

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A bionic kite tapping greater, more steady wind energy higher up might soon be able to power your living pod Kite Bot ~ Bionic Learning Network

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After 50 years of grandiose promises & disapointing results, A.I. researchers seeking to 'reinvent' their field MIT

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Correct combination of vitamins, lipids & amino acids in diet produces life-extending effects of caloric restriction Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne

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New antisense DNA drug SPC3649 blocks liver microRNA-122 that hepatitis C virus needs to replicate itself Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio

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Infusion of lab-grown muscle cells can preventing GERD by restoring ability of sphincters to squeeze shut properly Stanford University Medical Center

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Cholesterol-lowering statins seem to protect stem cell transplant patients from a potentially deadly complication Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Electrodes placed directly on the surface of your brain can allow you to type just by thinking of the letters Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

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Researchers reversed the growth of lung tumors using a naturally occurring tumor suppressor micro-RNA called let-7 Yale University and Mirna Therapeutics Inc.

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Another study confirms adult stem cells can be used to repair heart muscle cells damaged by a heart attack Rush University Medical Center

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Sphingadienes are natural lipids found in soy that new research indicates can prevent & possibly treat colon cancer Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland (pdf)

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Neurons have a remarkable ability to reprogram and rebuild themselves after an injury Pennsylvania State University

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Will compact proton beam accelerators allow you to power your implants with chip-scale nuclear fusion reactors? DARPA's Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams Program

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Scientists prove that the EEG can be used to reliably predict the activity of the neurons within your brain Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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Researchers create bio-sensor that can identify your immune cells that are able to actively suppress tumor growth Italy's MindSeeds Laboratory

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Two-photon microscope proves your dendrites enable your abilities to learn, adapt & retain memories New York University Langone Medicine Center

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Proteins for interacting with your DNA spiral down one of the double helix strands until they find the target sequence Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University and the Indian Institute of Science

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Breakthrough Alert: researchers have succeeded in building a working transistor from a single atom Helsinki University of Technology, University of New South Wales, and University of Melbourne

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First commercial 3D bioprinters move towards ability to print out replacement organs from your own cells Invetech and Organovo technology overview.

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Scientists identify new strategies for growing replacement brain cells to protect from age-related dementia Gladstone Institutes

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Mimicking biological eye functions on latest computer game processors boosts computer vision capabilities Harvard University

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Amputee gets bot hand that allows him to feel direct-to-nerve sensations & control movements with his thoughts Bio-Medical Campus University of Rome

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Direct brain-to-bot control of a humanoid robot achieved as bot picks up & delivers objects to a specific location Neural Systems Lab University of Washington

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MagMite bots examine your organs from inside, deliver drugs direct to diseased tissue or even perform microsurgery ETH Zurich

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Scientists identify two molecules that increase the brain's plasticity enhancing the ability for visual learning Stanford University School of Medicine

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Cancer vaccine delivered by a fingernail-sized implant first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals Harvard University

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Your cells fend off viruses & bacteria by putting the wrong amino acid in new proteins to up their resistance to attack University of Chicago Medical Center

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Researchers discover a link between a particular gene, phosducin, and your blood pressure response to stress Medical College of Wisconsin

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Artificial skin embedded with optical sensors gives bot or prosthetic hands more human-like touch Ghent University in Belgium

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Those with gene variant affecting vitamin D activation twice as likely to suffer heart failure University of Michigan Health System

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Cancer researchers mod virus to destroy brain-tumor cells and block the tumors from creating the blood-vessels they need to grow Ohio State University Medical Center

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Scientists find new signaling pathway that stimulates the production and function of white fat burning brown fat cells University of Bonn