Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationOccupy London demonstrators have been listed as domestic terrorists by the City of London Police, who characterized them in the same context as Al-Qaeda, the Colombian FARC and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground. The US Department of Defense is now training its personnel that protest amounts to “low-level terrorism” through tests that DoD…
Cognizant Transmutation
Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureHere, we demonstrate that lifelong administration of rapamycin extends lifespan in female 129/Sv mice characterized by normal mean lifespan of 2 y. Rapamycin inhibited age-related weight gain, decreased aging rate, increased lifespan (especially in the last survivors) and delayed spontaneous cancer. 22.9% of rapamycin-treated mice survived the age of death of the last mouse…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future Exotic materials should lead to new ways of observing and playing with one of the strangest effects in physics, say Chinese physicists… They say that in a particular kind of electromagnetic space called a Rindler space, the Casimir effect is huge. The essential idea here is that the space can be designed to…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureFour autonomous quadcopter robots retrieve foam bricks and then a networked computer vision system directs their placement. The installation consists of more than 1,500 bricks and is a 1:100 model of what the architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler call a “vertical village.”Via boingboing.net
Via Scoop.it – Creating the FuturePULLMAN, Wash. – It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone. And it came off an inkjet printer.Via wsutoday.wsu.edu
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation After oil and gas extraction arrived in southwest Pennsylvania, a massive fill kill occurred. We need to have a “Mission to Renewable Energy” for the US. Via www.salon.com