Meet the reptilian predator that’s older than the earliest dinosaurs (w/ Video)
io9 This is Dimetrodon, the world’s top predator about 270 million years ago. Living before the dawn of the dinosaurs, this striking creature was actual a distant ancestor of mammals like us. Now we’ve discovered the most complete Dimetrodon skeleton ever. The skeleton was discovered by paleontologists from the Houston Museum of Natural Science. We’ve [...]
Read More →The size of your brain’s visual cortex determines whether optical illusions fool you
io9 How we perceive the world is determined by the visual cortex, but not everybody’s cortex is created equal. One person’s visual cortex can be up to three times bigger than someone else’s, and size matters when it comes to perception. The primary visual cortex has a far more active role in shaping how we [...]
Read More →PROPAGANDA: Frankenbombers are ‘new kind of terrorism’: Al Qaeda hopes to surgically implant bombs into thugs
New York Daily News Jihadis bent on concocting a “new kind of terrorism” are brainstorming how to surgically implant explosives to make undetectable Frankenbombers. “What is your opinion about surgeries through which I can implant the bomb …inside the operative’s body?” an apparent mad surgeon recently asked an online forum used by Al Qaeda affiliates. [...]
Read More →Nanosatellite Successfully Ejected from Free-Flying Microsatellite in Space
Science Daily On Dec. 6 at 1:31 a.m. EST, NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite. NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, FASTSAT, demonstrating the capability to deploy a small cubesat payload from an autonomous microsatellite in space. Nanosatellites or cubesats are typically launched and [...]
Read More →Info pirates seek an alternative internet
New Scientist After dumping thousands of secret US diplomatic cables in the public domain last week, WikiLeaks ended up losing its web hosting company – twice – and its wikileaks.org web domain to boot as providers got cold feet about its content. But a plan being hatched by fellow travellers in the file-sharing community may [...]
Read More →Secret US space plane lands itself
New Scientist The return of a robotic space plane to Earth last week marked a milestone for US space capabilities, but did nothing to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the vehicle’s mission. After spending more than seven months in orbit, the US Air Force’s X-37B spacecraft returned safely to Earth on Friday, landing at [...]
Read More →Exclusion of scientists from drugs council ‘worrying’
Independent Government plans which could potentially see no scientists sitting on its drugs advisory council are “worrying”, campaigners said today. Neuroscience professor Colin Blakemore said scrapping the statutory requirement for scientists to sit on the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) was wrong and urged ministers to listen to scientific advice even when [...]
Read More →Big Sis Invades Wal-Mart: ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ (w/ video)
TV monitors at checkout with government message Drudge Report Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the expansion of the Department’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign to hundreds of Walmart stores across the country—launching a new partnership between DHS and Walmart to help the American public play an active [...]
Read More →WikiLeaks Being Used to Justify "Patriot Act" Legislation For Internet
Activist Post Senator Mitch McConnell called Assange a “high-tech terrorist” on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday and said, “if it‘s found that Assange hasn’t violated the law, then the law should be changed.” Over the weekend, an insightful article by Zen Gardner exposed how WikiLeaks resembles an establishment creation. The article correctly pointed out that the [...]
Read More →Israel fears growing Palestine support
PressTV Israel has criticized the recent recognition of a Palestinian state by several South American nations, saying the move is against the spirit of the Mideast talks. “Recognition of a Palestinian state is a violation of the interim agreement signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1995, which established that the status of [...]
Read More →Laser Light Can Lift Tiny Objects (w/ video)
Wired Light has been put to work generating the same force that makes airplanes fly, a study appearing online December 5 in Nature Photonics shows. With the right design, a uniform stream of light has pushed tiny objects in much the same way that an airplane wing hoists a 747 off the ground. Researchers have [...]
Read More →Twinkling Stars May Reveal Human-Size Wormholes
Wired If wormholes big enough to fit a human or a spaceship exist, telescopes should be able to detect any wavering starlight the space-time shortcuts cause while moving in front of a distant star. Star brightness would fluctuate from a wormhole because of gravitational lensing, caused when a massive object (such as a galaxy) warps [...]
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