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

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Last year’s stimulus package committed the government to spending billions for factories designed to produce advanced batteries for electric cars. One goal is to rejuvenate cities in Michigan that have been devastated by the collapse of the auto industry. Unfortunately, it’s not yet clear if electric cars will sell fast enough to justify all this battery production. Generating the demand for these vehicles could be a long-term project-which could mean even more government investment over the next few years.

-MIT Tech Review

Read full article @MIT Tech Review

I love the government spending the countries tax dollars on something that the government can not justify, although I do find the idea of electrical cars interesting implementation could/will take years. During which time new technologies and fuels will be discovered making it both cheaper and environmentally safer to use those fuels.

This was a question asked on Yahoo answers and I will do my best to explain:

If you were travelling in a car at the speed of light, what would happen if you turned the lights on?

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The new plan for NASA is to..What?

In the $19 billion budget request submitted by President Obama, NASA would receive a slight boost in funding for 2011. It calls for the cancellation of NASA’s space shuttle fleet at the end of this year as planned, but would extend the International Space Station’s lifetime by five years to at least 2020.

Without the shuttle, and the Constellation program shelved, NASA will be reliant on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft to fly Americans to the space station until commercially built spacecraft are available for ferry flights in the United States. The gap is expected to take several years.

Read the full story @msn.com

This new plan may seem like an awful decision by the government (as pointed out in a previous post), but it will leave room for private organizations to develop space craft. The question is, what will NASA be doing with the funds their current funds if not once again venturing to the moon? The answer is invest in technology! Which is not really all a loss; although we are giving up a strategic advantage with space flight, and for a time will have to rely on other nations to even take care of what we do have in space. And what would happen if “The gap [that] is expected to take several years.” takes longer than expected? Or what if another country decides to make a move on the United States by sabotaging our satellites or a space station with astronauts trapped inside. Would it not be wiser to at least have commercial/private space flight before decommissioning our space fleet?

Finally! The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is under review for their “findings” in which several major errors were found, read the full article @msn.com

WASHINGTON – The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it’s seeking some kind of independent review because of recent criticism about its four 2007 reports.

Critics have found a few unsettling errors, including projections of retreats in Himalayan glaciers, in the thousands of pages of the reports.

First, there were more than just a few unsettling errors read Leading scientists now say global cooling? 

Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University and an author of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, believes the lengthy cold weather is merely a pause — a 30-years-long blip — in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.”

-Three years after a panel of scientists win the Nobel Prize claiming that the world is heading towards global warming, there will soon be 30 years of global cooling?

Quotes for those of you who don’t wish to read…

-”The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) agrees that the cold temperatures are unusual, and that the world’s oceans may play a part in temperatures on land.”

-”Many parts of the world have been suffering through record-setting snowfalls and arctic temperatures. The Midwest saw wind chills as low as 49 degrees below zero last week, while Europe saw snows so heavy that Eurostar train service and air travel were canceled across much of the continent. In Asia, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years.”

Once all of the above was announced, the response by the IPCC told the public:

…researchers acknowledge that they have been too slow to respond to a drip-drip-drip of criticisms in the past three months.

Seems to me a there is a little more than just a drip-drip-drip of criticism, try a flood of criticism, and facts to back it up! I do not know how much of an “independent review” the IPCC findings will recieve considering those who will be choosing the independent review board are also the ones who chose the IPCC and believe in their findings. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Acording to the MiT review, it is now possible to create an Atenna out of a metallic plastic, at some point you will be able to add this atenna into virturually anything. Your shirt, attatch it to a listening device in the wall for further distance, embed it in your cell phone for a lighter, more efficient atenna.

Engineers at North Carolina State University created a flexible yet efficient antenna using a liquid metal, a gallium-indium alloy. The antenna is as efficient as a standard copper antenna, transmitting over a broad frequency range at about 90 percent efficiency. It remains functional even when it is twisted, folded, or stretched to 40 percent beyond its normal length.

If you would like to read the full article click Here.

According to the article through stem cell research scientists may have found a way to reduce cancer cells, as well as decrease aging. Researchers have found a way to manipulate telomerase cells to release more telomerase enzymes. In short this will allow your cells to work more efficiently, leading to a younger you! If you wish to learn more click here.

The research adds to previous findings suggesting that enhancing activity of the telomerase enzyme might benefit patients with premature aging disorders. The study also provides a new tool for studying telomerase, an enzyme of great interest to scientists working on both aging and cancer. The shortening of telomeres over a lifetime is thought to be tied to aging. And abnormal activation of telomerase in cancer cells allows them to proliferate uncontrollably. While scientists already knew that reprogramming could lengthen telomeres in cells from healthy people, it was unclear if the same could happen in cells with defective telomerase.

A Subjective reality states that reality and all of the things concepts and “truths” in the universe change between individuals. Meaning that each person lives in their “own world.” This is because each person interrupts the data they receive differently. A Dual-Subjective Reality is caused when an individuals mind interprets information and instead of creating only one interpretation which the conscious mind can make sense of, there are several interpretations of the same information. These differing “realities” then intermingle causing the individual to confuse what is actually happening around them with the alternate realities, which they are experiencing in their mind. An example of this would be the mental disease schizophrenia.

resources

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/09/subjective-reality-simplified/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_character_of_experience