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Britain said Wednesday it will not support any U.S. military action against Iran, signaling London preferred to diplomatically deal with Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
Washington Times
Bacteria have been programmed like a computer to produce colored patterns by communicating with each other.
The bacteria, E. coli, were programmed to emit red or green fluorescent light in response to signals from other E. coli.
In one experiment, they glowed green in high concentrations of a signal chemical and red in low, forming a bull’s-eye pattern in a Petri dish.
“We are really moving beyond the ability to program individual cells to programming a large collection?millions or billions?of cells to do interesting things,” says researcher Ron Weiss of Princeton University.
BetterHumans
Bioengineers have built a robotic exoskeleton arm to “retrain” the limbs of stroke survivors. The team from Arizona State University and Kinetic Muscles Inc. will present their work at this summer’s 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics. From sponsor The Whitaker Foundation:
Recent research suggests that stroke survivors can recover significant use of their arms by performing repetitive motor function exercises over a period of time. This labor intensive physical therapy is expensive, however, claiming up to 4 percent of the national health budget, according to the National Institutes of Health. Moreover, health insurers may limit or deny coverage before stroke survivors achieve best results, (principal investigator Jiping He) said.
“This device is intended to provide cost-effective therapy to a wider population for a longer period of time for maximum recovery of motor function,” He said of the device, dubbed RUPERT I, for Robotic Upper Extremity Repetitive Therapy.
Switch off and get a life say protesters armed with remote control device that can blank out sets from 45 feet.
TS Eliot once said that “television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome”. He is not the only one who thinks so.
From today, a group of anti-TV guerrillas, as scathing as the poet about the influence of the small screen on society, plans to liberate people from its irresistible grip. They will be using a recently launched gizmo called TV-B-Gone to take direct action against television sets in public places.
Guardian.Uk
Ever since physicists invented particle accelerators, nearly 80 years ago, they have used them for such exotic tasks as splitting atoms, transmuting elements, producing antimatter and creating particles not previously observed in nature. With luck, though, they could soon undertake a challenge that will make those achievements seem almost pedestrian. Accelerators may produce the most profoundly mysterious objects in the universe: black holes.
When one thinks of black holes, one usually envisions massive monsters that can swallow spaceships, or even stars, whole. But the holes that might be produced at the highest-energy accelerators—perhaps as early as 2007, when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva starts up—are distant cousins of such astrophysical behemoths. They would be microscopic, comparable in size to elementary particles. They would not rip apart stars, reign over galaxies or pose a threat to our planet, but in some respects their properties should be even more dramatic. Because of quantum effects, they would evaporate shortly after they formed, lighting up the particle detectors like Christmas trees. In so doing, they could give clues about how space-time is woven together and whether it has unseen higher dimensions.
Scientific American
(PRWEB) April 22, 2005—Ultraculture? is world-renowned for its ability to apply creative thinking strategies in the application of integral policy. Clients draw on a wide range of creative solutions and practical know-how in the creation of long-term success strategies. Enterprise customers and creative professionals rely on Ultraculture to enhance their psychic productivity and cultural resonance.
Today, Ultraculture is excited to announce the upcoming release of our patented Myth Fusion Technologies. By synergizing personal intent with the global information marketplace, Myth Fusion Technologies employs advanced temporal strategies and traditional archetypes to vastly extend the reach of our enterprise clients. Users will dramatically improve the bandwidth of non-local communication pipelines while seeing a hundred-fold increase in mythic productivity.
Leveraging hive memetics and psychic resonance, Ultraculture has been solving critical phase transition problems for 23 years. As an advisor to News Corp, KBR, and the Trialteral Commision, Ultraculture has contributed to the progressive values of modern youth movements and the evolution of the global political myth complex.
So …... here we are. How did we get here? What is this situation? What happens next? What can happen? There is body, mind and senses. There is pleasure and pain, feeling good and feeling not so good. There is sky, stars, ocean, fire and wind. There are changes of season, cause and effect. There are moments of great joy, and there is sickness, old age and death. What are all these things … really?
Future Hi
Editors Note:
In Western societies, the dominant paradigm presents a cosmology in which humans, as biological matter, live and die in a universe governed by the laws of physics. In this worldview, there is no room for the possibility of life after death, and different states of consciousness have significance only as pathological deviations from that worldview.
In sharp contrast, the cosmologies of other cultures?ancient and contemporary pre-industrial?have taken for granted the existence of an afterlife. For them, dying is a meaningful part of life, and death is a journey for which the individual can and should prepare. To aid in this, many cultures throughout history have developed experiential “technologies”?techniques and practices intended to train initiates in the art and science of dying and postmortem survival. These experiential “technologies” invariably involve training in altered or non-ordinary states of consciousness throughout the individual?s lifetime.
This fundamental difference between Western and pre-industrial cosmologies and their respective end-of-life technologies has profound consequences for how societies view living, dying, death, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. In this article, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof explores some of the key elements in pre-industrial cosmologies and their emphasis on transformative “technologies” for training in altered states throughout the individual?s lifetime.
Future Hi
Thomas Kuhn coined the term “paradigm” to refer to the beliefs and assumptions that underlie a particular science. But beneath all our scientific paradigms lies an even deeper and more pervasive assumption. It is the belief in the primacy of the material world. When we fully understand the world of space, time and matter, we will, it is held, be able to account for everything in the cosmos. Being the paradigm behind all our scientific paradigms, this worldview has the status of a “superparadigm”. Eminently successful as this model has been at explaining the world around us, it has very little to say about the non-material world of mind.
This article is an abridgement of Peter Russell’s book From Science to God from Future Hi.
Inner breathlessness, outer restlessness
By the time I caught up to freedom I was out of breath
Grandma asked me what I’m running for
I guess I’m out for the same thing the sun is sunning for
What mothers birth their youngens for
And some say Jesus coming for
For all I know the earth is spinning slow
Suns at half mast ‘cause masses ain’t aglow
On bended knee, prostrate before an altered tree
I’ve made the forest suit me
Tables and chairs
Papers and prayers
Matter versus spirit
Researchers at UCSD and UC Irvine have captured on video for the first time chemical signals that traverse human cells in response to tiny mechanical jabs, like waves spreading from pebbles tossed into a pond. The scientists released the videos and technical details that explain how the visualization effect was created as part of a paper published in the April 21 issue of Nature.
Science Daily
PARIS (AFP) – Music lovers in North Carolina are due for a strange treat next month.
They will hear two piano virtuosi in concert… but both musicians are long dead.
The music will be played on a grand piano that has been specially programmed to give a note-perfect, live rendition of ancient recordings made by Alfred Cortot in 1928 and Glenn Gould in 1962.
Yahoo!
Mice have been placed in a state of near suspended animation, raising the possibility that hibernation could one day be induced in humans.
In this case, suspended animation means the reversible cessation of all visible life processes in an organism.
BBC News
By studying diseases in which the human body generates too much bone, UCLA researchers have discovered and isolated a natural molecule that can be used to heal fractures and generate new bone growth in patients who lack it.
The NanoAging Institute
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