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Due to a court ruling on August 23rd, 2010 all stem cell research came to a halt claiming:

“The American people should not be forced to pay for experiments — prohibited by federal law — that destroy human life,” said Steven H. Aden, the group’s senior legal counsel. “The court is simply enforcing an existing law passed by Congress that prevents Americans from paying another penny for needless research on human embryos.”

Quote @ Localtechwire

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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — The city of Atlanta will pay $4.9 million to the family of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman killed in a botched November 2006 drug raid, Mayor Kasim Reed’s office announced Monday.

Johnston was shot to death by narcotics officers conducting a “no-knock” warrant. Investigators later determined the raid was based on falsified paperwork stating that illegal drugs were present in the home……

As the search warrant was being executed November 21, 2006, at Johnston’s home, she fired at officers with an old pistol, apparently believing her home was being broken into. Six officers returned fire. Johnston’s one shot went through her front door and over the officers’ heads. They responded with 39 shots, hitting the elderly woman five times.

Read full story @CNN.com

39 shots and only 5 hits?

And if the warrant was a “no-nock” warrant how did she have time to get the pistol and shot back?

This whole story just seems fishy…

Authenticated case of a plant growing in a mans lung, mind you only a small pea plant. Video of the interview is included.

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According to a recent study  and several previous studies, restricting calorie intake can drastically increase your life span.

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With the advent of fiber optic cables, and Googles plan to install fiber optic cables strait to the house holds of america; the need for a computer run on fiber optics, over the groggy copper wire is greater than ever. Luckily within the next few years computers with fiber optic cables will become available, read the story below:

Last week, Paniccia’s team demonstrated the first complete photonic communications system made from components fully integrated into silicon chips. Electronic data piped into one chip is converted into laser light that travels down an optical fiber and is transferred back into electrical signals a few fractions of a second later. The system can carry data at a rate of 50 gigabytes per second, enough to transfer a full-length HD movie in less than a second.

The silicon photonic chips could replace the electronic connections between a computer’s key components, such as its processors and memory. Copper wiring used today can carry data signals at little more than 10 gigabytes per second. That means critical components like the central processing unit and the memory in a server cannot be too far apart, which restricts how computers can be built.

The new Intel setup has four lasers built into its transmitter chip that shine data into a single optical fiber at slightly different wavelengths, or “colors.” Chips with even more lasers should make it possible to communicate at 1,000 gigabytes per second.

Full story @MIT Technology Review

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I look much like the man on the cover, when I read about the upcoming film.

Wearly I weep…

Atlas shrugged started with no cast to speak of, which virtually remains the same.

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