100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011)

Sex book filled with 200 blank pages storms up charts

Outselling the likes of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, 'Professor' Sheridan Simove's publication moved 134,256 places up Amazon's bestseller list to reach number 744.
What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex is a completely empty book. What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex is a completely empty book.

The book claims to reveal the mysterious workings of the male mind, providing a probing insight into what, other than sex, occupies their thoughts, and recently featured on the ITV1 show Lorraine, with Lorraine Kelly.

However, each of the 200 pages are completely blank.

It seems the £4.69 journal has become a craze on campuses up and down the country, with students using the blank pages to take notes in lectures.

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/857136-sex-book-filled-with-200-blank-pages-storms-up-charts#ixzz1i6XwzFk4


http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/857136-sex-book-filled-with-200-blank-pages-storms-up-charts#ixzz1hgVHBiab

Top 5 US enemies of 2008

1. Iran
2. Iraq
3. China
4. North Korea
5. The U.S.A.

Deadly Iraq war ends with exit of last U.S. troops

Early Sunday, as the sun ascended to the winter sky, the very last American convoy made its way down the main highway that connects Iraq and Kuwait.

The military called it its final "tactical road march." A series of 110 heavily armored, hulking trucks and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles carrying about 500 soldiers streamed slowly but steadily out of the combat zone.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/17/world/meast/iraq-troops-leave/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

North Korea says its leader Kim Jong-il has died.

As reported by numerous sources, Kim Jong Il has died at the age of 70 (69 by some tallies), after 17 years as the brutal head of North Korea. While the cause of death is uncertain, Bloomberg News says "Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports."

http://nl.hardware.info/extern/nieuws/21301612/north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-il-dead-at-70

Obama Signs NDAA Martial Law

Vision Scientists Demonstrate Innovative Learning Method

New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It's the kind of thing seen in Hollywood's "Matrix" franchise.

Experiments conducted at Boston University (BU) and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, recently demonstrated that through a person's visual cortex, researchers could use decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to induce brain activity patterns to match a previously known target state and thereby improve performance on visual tasks.

Think of a person watching a computer screen and having his or her brain patterns modified to match those of a high-performing athlete or modified to recuperate from an accident or disease. Though preliminary, researchers say such possibilities may exist in the future.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=122523&preview=false

UK police to test laser weapon that blinds rioters

British police are reported to be testing a new weapon for use against rioters following this summer's violence. The SMU 100 shoots a laser and anyone who looks at it the source will be temporarily blinded. The weapon emits a wall of light measuring around 12 feet square that can temporary impair the vision of targets up to 1,500 feet away.

New military tires & wheels on Humvee

Google exposes secret US base in Nevada

NASA ignores Arthur C. Clarke, may attempt landings on Europa

Of all the places in our solar system (besides Earth) where life has a real shot at being lifeish, Europa is probably at the top of the list. This is why, in defiance of the warnings in 2010: Odyssey Two, NASA may send a pair of landers to Europa in 2020.

Our best guess is that Europa (one of the larger moons of Jupiter) is covered with a thick coat of ice, beneath which is a warm (or at least liquid) ocean. And if you've got water, and an energy source (Jupiter), all it takes is some happy little organic molecules and you've got life soup. And GIANT AQUATIC SPACE MONSTERS. Maybe...

Read More:

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/12/nasa-ignores-ar.php

AI to predict sun's next attack on Earth JUST before noon on 1 September 1859, an English solar astronomer named Richard Carrington witnessed the bigg

JUST before noon on 1 September 1859, an English solar astronomer named Richard Carrington witnessed the biggest solar flare ever recorded. About 18 hours later, an intense magnetic storm hit Earth. Currents induced in telegraph wires in Europe and North America sparked fires.

If the 1859 event were to occur today, it could devastate our modern technological infrastructure. So researchers are now turning to automated image-processing and artificial intelligence to better forecast the sun's behaviour and give us time to prepare for a solar onslaught.

Read more:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228424.800-ai-to-predict-suns-next-attack-on-earth.html

What facebook knows about you

Near-future Car Interface Technology - Mitsubishi EMIRAI

Transparent tablet

The Animals House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix

KOBOT City EV Concept Vehicle

Dealing with cops.

Bridgestone Air-Free Concept Tyres

A quick history of satellites in space

a quick history of satellites in space from ne0nle0n on Vimeo.

The Living Room

We created a unique physical 3D video-mapping experience by turing a white living room into a spacious 360° projection area.

This technique allowed us to take control of all colors, patterns and textures of the furniture, wallpapers and carpet. All done with 2 projectors.

Music: Free the Robots - Jazzhole

Living Room from Mr.Beam on Vimeo.

Temperature as an Interface Element for Gaming, Drawing and Sitting.

Millions of butterflies begin annual migration to Mexico

Welcome To The Future: The EXODesk First Look

Walktopus?

Underwater fluorescence disco

Giant Sea Icicle Freezing Everything In Its Path

Frozen sea brine is freezing everything in its path.

The BBC filmed brinicles, solidified salt water, as they descended into Antarctic water and iced over everything sitting at the ocean bottom.

Brinicles are underwater icicles that form around salt water sinking from sea ice.

The film crew found a brinicle beneath the ice off the foothills of the volcano Mount Erebus.

Once the phenomenon was spotted, the news organization set up time lapse cameras to capture the freezing salt overtaking starfish and sea urchins as it coated the sea floor in ice.

The video is the first-ever footage of a brinicle forming, according to the BBC.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/arctic-sea-brine-2011-11#ixzz1eYdE3A1M

Robot Guide Dog

Libyan Rebels hit the jackpot

Four Libyan Rebels hit the jackpot. In the backyard of a high ranking official, Millions of Libyan Dinars ($ 0.82 per Dinar) Euros, Jewelry, and Gold.

Visual Effects

Aerogel

It looks like frozen smoke. And it's the lightest solid material on the planet. Aerogel insulates space suits, makes tennis rackets stronger and could be used one day to clean up oil spills. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Alex Gash shows us some remarkable properties of this truly unique substance.

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

The Man Who Made Things Fly

Seoul Boomerang Expert

Impossible Motions 2

'True 3D' Display Using Laser Plasma Technology

This True 3D display technology, developed by Burton, uses a laser to creates luminous points of light at desired locations in air or underwater.

http://www.diginfo.tv/2011/11/14/11-0231-r-en.php

Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms

In 2005, third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider bought as big as an apartment as he could afford in Manhattan. He paid $235,000 for a 450-square-foot studio with a tiny kitchen.

Nokia HumanForm

A look at new possabilities

The Candy Bomber

In July 1948, 27-year-old Air Force lieutenant Gail Halvorsen was flying food and supplies into West Berlin, which was blockaded by the Soviet Union. One night he encountered a group of hungry children who had gathered near the runway to watch the planes land.

“They could speak a little English,” he recalled later. “Their clothes were patched and they hadn’t had gum and candy for two or three years. They barely had enough to eat.”

Halvorsen gave them two sticks of gum and promised to drop more candy for them the next day from his C-54. He said he’d rock his wings so that they could distinguish him from the other planes. Then he returned to the base and spent the night tying bundles of candy to handkerchief parachutes.

Over the next three days he dropped candy to growing crowds of West German children. He had wanted to keep the project secret (“It seemed like something you weren’t supposed to do”), but when a newsman snapped a photograph Halvorsen began receiving boxes of candy from all over the United States, many with parachutes already attached. Halvorsen went home in February 1949, and the blockade was lifted three months later.

In 1998, when Halvorsen returned to Berlin, a “dignified, well-dressed man of 60 years” approached him. He said, “Fifty years ago I was a boy of 10 on my way to school. The clouds were very low with light rain. I could hear the planes landing though I couldn’t see them. Suddenly out of the mist came a parachute with a fresh Hershey chocolate bar from America. It landed right at my feet. I knew it was happening but couldn’t believe it was for me. It took me a week to eat that candy bar. I hid it day and night. The chocolate was wonderful but it wasn’t the chocolate that was most important. What it meant was that someone in America knew I was here, in trouble and needed help. Someone in America cared. That parachute was something more important than candy. It represented hope. Hope that some day we would be free.”

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2011/11/15/the-candy-bomber/

Earth From Space

surveillance 2011

Microsoft Touch Mouse

Ed Sheeran - The (Class) A Team

Astronauts falling on the moon

Ross Nanotechnology's NeverWet superhydrophobic spray-on coating

Incredible Flights With The Hawk

Girl Witnesses An Amazing Act Of Nature While Boat Rowing

All-new ASIMO (Nov 2011)

Drug Money

Signs of ageing halted in the lab

The onset of wrinkles, muscle wasting and cataracts has been delayed and even eliminated in mice, say researchers in the US.

It was done by "flushing out" retired cells that had stopped dividing. They accumulate naturally with age.

The scientists believe their findings could eventually "really have an impact" in the care of the elderly.

Experts said the results were "fascinating", but should be taken with a bit of caution.

The study, published in Nature, focused on what are known as "senescent cells". They stop dividing into new cells and have an important role in preventing tumours from progressing.

These cells are cleared out by the immune system, but their numbers build up with time. The researchers estimated that around 10% of cells are senescent in very old people.

read more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15552964

New CPR technique revives man after 63 minutes without pulse

The rules of how to treat cardiac arrest are being re-written at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Technology, new drug treatments, conventional CPR and the use of hypothermia are now being coordinated with great affect - in one case reviving a man who'd been clinically dead for more than an hour. Ben Gruber reports.

Drake Talks About Social Media

"I'm really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is Tumblr. I hate what Tumblr has become. Because it like, it reminds me of those clique-y girls in high school that used to make fun of everyone else and define what was cool, but in five years, when you all graduate, that sh** doesn't matter.

No one gives a f**k about that sh**. Instead of kids going out and making their own moments, they're just taking these images and living vicariously through other people's moments. It just kills me. Then you'll meet them and they're just the biggest turkey in the world. They don't actually embody any of those things. They just emulate. It's scary man, simulation life that we're living. It scares me."

Drake also talks about Twitter:

"I'll tell you, my biggest thing was, I remember, it was on twitter. I remember the day my mom was getting surgery and someone came on Twitter and they were like, 'Yo, Drake, I hope your mom dies...

Like, you know you're going to see something bad. Out of 1000 compliments, it's so crazy. It's basically, like, when you used to sit there as a kid, and want to know what everyone is thinking. That's your superpower. [Twitter is] knowing what everyone is thinking."

World's first manned flight with an electric multicopter

9-11 and 7-7 Synchronicity and The 2012 Olympics

Petman - The two-legged humanoid war droid

PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does simple calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest, Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. The work is being done for the DoD CBDP. For more information about PETMAN visit us at

Bionic exoskeleton helps wheelchair users walk

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: Engineer Thomas Dwyer stands with the new Bionic Exoskeleton next to Amanda Boxtel during its launch at the Excel centre on October 21, 2011 in London, England. The bionic device developed by Ekso Bionics is a wearable, battery-powered, robotic exoskeleton, designed to aid wheelchair users and those who have suffered from spinal chord injuries to stand and walk.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/bionic-exoskeleton-helps-wheelchair-users-walk-1319228126-slideshow/;_ylt=AkeXADAeszWIn29O1Hztvkb99XQA;_ylu=X3oDMTQ5c2poMXZvBG1pdANUZWNoIEZlYXR1cmVkIExlZnQgUmFpbARwa2cDMDk#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fbionic-exoskeleton-helps-wheelchair-users-walk-1319228126-slideshow%252Flaunch-bionic-exoskeleton-ekso-20111021-052847-579.html

First-Ever Nationwide Test of US Emergency System to Broadcast Next Week

(NewsCore) - Every US television and radio provider will broadcast the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) next Wednesday.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said the test, which will start at 2:00pm ET and last approximately three minutes, will resemble periodic monthly EAS tests -- the ones with long tonal sounds and a "this is a test" announcement -- that most people are familiar with.

Read more: First-Ever Nationwide Test of US Emergency System to Broadcast Next Week

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpps/news/first-ever-nationwide-test-of-us-emergency-system-dpgonc-20111102-to-_15764547#ixzz1cxrZkJXg

'Fortress' Cannes braces for G20 summit

Whale and surfer

Geomagnetic Storm at Perry Lake, Kansas

SAWSTOP in TimeWarp

21 Year Old Naked Woman Climbed Inside A Dead Horse Becasue She Wanted To Get Feels!

Marijuana Can Cure Cancer

Fatal Familial Insomnia

Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrPC, but can also develop spontaneously in patients with a non-inherited mutation variant called sporadic fatal insomnia (SFI). FFI is an incurable disease, involving progressively worsening insomnia, which leads to hallucinations, delirium, and confusional states like that of dementia.[1] The average survival span for patients diagnosed with FFI is 18 months.[2]

The mutated protein, called PrPSc, has been found in just 40 families worldwide, affecting about 100 people; if only one parent has the gene, the offspring have a 50% chance of inheriting it and developing the disease. The first recorded victim was an Italian man, deceased in Venice in the year 1765. [3]

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

12 BEST Kinect HACKS

Why Do We Dream?

Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever

Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm.

Listen here: http://www.shortlist.com/resource/binary//f930079828e80dc02164c02d88e78283/Weightless.mp3


http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/scientists-discover-most-relaxing-tune-ever

They are way bigger than you think

TWENTY MILLION tons of Japan tsunami debris is closing in on Hawaii

Televisions, fridges and furniture pieces are heading for Hawaii, as a huge amount of debris from Japan’s earthquake sails across the Pacific.

Up to 20 million tons of debris from the earthquake in March is traveling faster than expected and could reach the U.S. West Coast in three years.

A Russian ship’s crew spotted the debris - which included a 20ft long fishing boat - last month after passing the Midway Islands.

‘We have a rough estimate of 5 to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan,’ University of Hawaii researcher Jan Hafner told KITV.

http://www.trustedworldnews.com/hawaiijapandebris.html

Conquest KNIGHT XV

CONQUEST KNIGHT XV (demo 3) - Motherfuckers ! door Agent__001

Chinese-Manned Moon Base to Be Massive Lunar Land Grab?

There is at least one person who believes that ownership of the moon could go to China once the country's efforts to actualize a moon base are realized (planned for the 2020s) -- even though there exists an international treaty that forbids direct ownership by claim, use, or other means of the moon by any one country or organization.

However, space exploration advocate Robert Bigelow says, according to Discovery News, that China's economic strength, national direction, and proposed timeline for reaching the moon and constructing a lunar base will place the Asian nation in an optimum position to dictate moon matters and claim important mineral rights. He says the international treaty will not matter and ownership of the moon will be the first step in China's gambit to win what he calls "Solar System Monopoly."

"This will characterize the 21st and 22nd centuries and beyond. If we ignore this, it will be at our extreme peril," Bigelow told his audience at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight going on this week in Las Cruces, N.M. "Nothing else China could possibly do in the next 15 years would cause as great a benefit for China."

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PEOPLE ARE AWESOME 2011

Man Is Scared Of A Puppy

Go Beyond The Cover: Behind the Scenes

Self-Driving Car

Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator

TSA in Tennessee

The Bouncing Droplet

Lytro - The Start of a Picture Revolution

Try it:

www.lytro.com

Ohio Man Lets His 50 Wild Animals Loose & Commits Suicide

"There was no choice but to kill 49 animals, including tigers, lions and bears, that were released from their enclosures in Zanesville, Ohio, wildlife expert Jack Hanna told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer. “I’m sorry to say, but what the sheriff did had to be done,” Hanna said. “Otherwise, we would have had carnage out here in Zanesville, Ohio. “Tragedy-wise for me,” he added, “[it's] probably the worst thing in 45 years of history of working with animals. … I’ve seen poachers kill in the wild. I’ve seen animals killed right in front of me with their horns cut off. I’ve seen a lot of things happen in my career, but nothing like this have I ever witnessed.” Hanna said tranquilizing wild animals is not as easy as many people believe. “I’ve been out all over the world tranquilizing animals,” he said. “Can you imagine trying to tranquilize an animal in the dark. Fine, we have a spotlight. We hit it. You don’t know exactly: Did you hit a muscle? Did you hit a bone? If you hit the bone, the plunger might not work and put the medicine in. So what do we do? Then we send a veterinarian or the sheriff up there to see if the animal is down, right? What’s gonna happen if the animal is just sitting there not even asleep? You’re dead.”" - ABC



A mountain lion, grizzly bear and monkey were the only animals still running loose after being set free from an exotic-animal preserve, an Ohio sheriff said. What is not clear is why their owner set them free before killing himself.

Cat gets caught barking

Athens Clashes

Painting Without Lifting The Pen

Rioters Capture and Burn Carabinieri Vehicle - Rome

Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum

An artificial cerebellum has restored lost brain function in rats, bringing the prospect of cyborg-style brain implants a step closer to reality

AN ARTIFICIAL cerebellum has restored lost brain function in rats, bringing the prospect of cyborg-style brain implants a step closer to reality. Such implants could eventually be used to replace areas of brain tissue damaged by stroke and other conditions, or even to enhance healthy brain function and restore learning processes that decline with age.

Cochlear implants and prosthetic limbs have already proved that it is possible to wire electrical devices into the brain and make sense of them, but such devices involve only one-way communication, either from the device to the brain or vice versa.

Now Matti Mintz of Tel Aviv University in Israel and his colleagues have created a synthetic cerebellum which can receive sensory inputs from the brainstem - a region that acts as a conduit for neuronal information from the rest of the body. Their device can interpret these inputs, and send a signal to a different region of the brainstem that prompts motor neurons to execute the appropriate movement.

"It's proof of concept that we can record information from the brain, analyse it in a way similar to the biological network, and return it to the brain," says Mintz, who presented the work this month at the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence meeting in Cambridge, UK.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128315.700-rat-cyborg-gets-digital-cerebellum.html

Doc Zone: Remote Control War Preview

Ultimate Weapons

X-47B



USV

Quantum Levitation

World Population Hits 7 Billion, Challenges Loom

Movie excerpt: DMT research volunteers describe their experience

Apple's Siri and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s new iPhone 4S has met with record sales, topping the release of the iPhone 4 last year. The iPhone 4 debuted with 1.7 million units sold. The iPhone 4S is projected to sell anywhere between 2 and 4 million units by the end of this weekend.

With an improved camera and a faster chip, the iPhone 4S easily outpaces its predecessor as well as most of its competitors.

Even Samsung’s Galaxy SII can’t compete with the remarkable voice recognition software included on the new iPhone: Siri.

Siri is smart voice recognition software, capable of intuitively answering a wide array of questions from iPhone users. But Alexis Madrigal says it’s more than that:

The genius of Siri is to combine the new type of information bot with the old type of human-helper bot. Instead of patterning Siri on a humanoid body, Apple used a human archetype — the secretary or assistant. To do so, Apple gave Siri a voice and a set of skills that seem designed to make everyone feel like Don Draper. Siri listens to you and does what you say. “Take this down, Siri… Remind me to buy Helena flowers!” And if early reviews are any indication, the disembodied robot could be the next big thing in how we interact with our computers.


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The Pyramid code. A New Chronology

Spirit Science 1 - Thoughts

TransHumanism Trailer

Bionic Hand.

Transcendent Man Film Trailer

RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation

Creative Way To Ask Girl's Hand In Marriage

Jaw-Droppin Story: Kid Getting Shot With A Shotgun Multiple Times & Surviving

The Caves of Crystals

Mexico's Cave of Crystals stunned geologists when it was first discovered in 2000. The underground chamber contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found - some of the selenite structures have grown to more than 10m long. Professor Iain Stewart got a rare glimpse of the subterranean spectacle while filming for the new BBC series How the Earth Made Us.
Professor Stewart describes the cave as a geological wonder of the world

We kept on being told how difficult it was going to be to film in the Naica Cave, but nothing really prepares you for the extremes of that cavern.

It's about 50C in there but it's the virtually 100% humidity added on top that makes it a potential killer.

That combination means that when you breathe air into your body, the surface of your lungs is actually the coolest surface the air encounters. That means the fluid starts to condense inside your lungs - and that's really not good news.

'We didn't mean to track you' says Facebook as social network giant admits to 'bugs' in new privacy row

Facebook has admitted that it has been watching the web pages its members visit – even when they have logged out.

In its latest privacy blunder, the social networking site was forced to confirm that it has been constantly tracking its 750million users, even when they are using other sites.

The social networking giant says the huge privacy breach was simply a mistake - that software automatically downloaded to users' computers when they logged in to Facebook 'inadvertently' sent information to the company, whether or not they were logged in at the time.

Most would assume that Facebook stops monitoring them after they leave its site, but technology bloggers discovered this was not the case.

In fact, data has been regularly sent back to the social network’s servers – data that could be worth billions when creating 'targeted' advertising based on the sites users visit.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042573/Facebook-privacy-row-Social-network-giant-admits-bugs.html#ixzz1ZHo1dU9Y

CIA-backed IT firm offers view into the future. Recorded Future?

A CIA-backed Swedish-American company claims that it’s new technology can predict disease, terrorist threats, economic swings and resource shortages. The Local’s Karen Holst explores.

A look into the future may no longer require palm readings, star alignments or tarot cards after the release of a new technology purporting to be an all-encompassing oracle of the future.

The Swedish-American software company, Recorded Future, has developed a program that specialises in predictive analysis and with backers including the CIA investment arm In-Q-Tel, it is hoped that averting terrorist attacks could be one of its uses.

“It is a useful aid but prediction is always difficult. The world we face has wicked problems, and it’s important to understand that people like (Anders Behring) Breivik and Al-Qaeda are pretty savvy in concealing themselves through code words and disguised meanings,” says Magnus Ranstorp, Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College (Försvarshögskolan) and one of Sweden’s foremost experts on Islamic terrorism.

http://www.thelocal.se/36384/20110927/

Treasure worth £150m found in Atlantic shipwreck

A SHIPWRECK holding silver worth £150million has been discovered in the Atlantic – the largest amount of precious metal ever found at sea.

About 200 tons of the bullion sank off Ireland with British cargo steamer the SS Gairsoppa when it was hit by a German torpedo in 1941.

But it has now been found by US treasure hunters awarded a contract to conduct a search by our Department for Transport.

They will now attempt to salvage the silver and will have to hand 20% of its value to the British Treasury.

The US team lowered a robot 2.9 miles to the seabed and it found a gaping hole in the side of the ship where the torpedo had struck 70 years ago.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/27/treasure-worth-150m-found-in-atlantic-shipwreck-115875-23448625/#ixzz1ZAhmu68V

Camera lens falls from sky

Donnie Darko ;)

Reconstruction from brain activity

The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject's brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video. (In brief, the algorithm processes each of the 18 million clips through a model of each individual brain, and identifies the clips that would likely have produced brain activity as similar to the measured brain activity as possible. The clips used to fit the model, those used to test the model and those used to reconstruct the stimulus were entirely separate.) Brain activity was sampled every one second, and each one-second section of the viewed movie was reconstructed separately.



The actual paper:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211009377

Electric Eel Man

Electric-Eel Man John Chang aka Dynamo Jack produces energy and heat with his hands. Mo Pai Qigong Ring Magus of Java of Fire An Indonesian Odyssey

Charming Turnip Rock

This island is really located on the rocky shores of Lake Huron. This place is charming and unbelievably beautiful! Take a look at real photos of a wonderful island:

http://izismile.com/tags/Turnip+Rock/

The Lotus Effect

Southern Lights As Viewed From ISS

Police Force (Warning: Graphic)

Bahrain:



New York:



:-( Bahrain Bonus:

Producer araabMuzik Kills It On The MPC.

FLüD Presents: Beats Per Minute with Araab Muzik from FLuD Watches on Vimeo.

World Population Growth

Year Population
1 200 million
1000 275 million
1500 450 million
1650 500 million
1750 700 million
1804 1 billion
1850 1.2 billion
1900 1.6 billion
1927 2 billion
1950 2.55 billion
1955 2.8 billion
1960 3 billion
1965 3.3 billion
1970 3.7 billion
1975 4 billion
1980 4.5 billion
1985 4.85 billion
1990 5.3 billion
1995 5.7 billion
1999 6 billion
2006 6.5 billion
2009 6.8 billion
2011 7 billion

Faces - Realtime face substitution

Faces from arturo castro on Vimeo.

Reminds me of the scramble-suit in A Scanner Darkly:

Tokya Slo-Mode

TOKYO SLO-MODE from alex lee on Vimeo.

Extreme Sports Compilation

Sky Writing 2011

Computer gamers solve problem in AIDS research that puzzled scientists for years

When scientists struggle with a problem for over a decade, few of them think, “I know! I’ll ask computer gamers to help.” That, however, is exactly what Firas Khatib from the University of Washington did. The result: he and his legion of gaming co-authors have cracked a longstanding problem in AIDS research that scientists have puzzled over for years. It took them three weeks.

Khatib’s recruits played Foldit, a programme that reframes fiendish scientific challenges as a competitive multiplayer computer game. It taps into the collective problem-solving skills of tens of thousands of people, most of whom have little or no background in science....

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/18/computer-gamers-solve-problem-in-aids-research-that-puzzled-scientists-for-years/

Testing wall street september 1st

A video story of a peaceful protest test on Wall Street last Thursday Sept.1st, showing that we are living in a police state.
Each of us who were detained will return there again, brining friends over.
We cary our beliefs and no fears.
More and more people will be coming beginning September 17th.
Meaningless nonsense charges against us will be dismissed in a court, as it was with one of us, the person who was kept in jail that night and brought to the court the next day.
We believe in our constitutional rights for freedom of speech and peaceful demonstrations.

Arctic archeological dig uncovers mysterious disks

The four small pieces, formed from clay, are round and adorned with markings. Two have neatly centered holes. They may be 1,000 years old and, at the moment, what they were used for is anyone's guess.

The existence of similarly decorated boulders at old village sites in Noatak National Preserve was first recorded by archaeologists in the 1960s. But the sites remained unstudied until last summer, when Scott Shirar, a research archaeologist at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, took an expedition for a closer look at two locations....

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/09/12/2064151/arctic-archeological-dig-uncovers.html#ixzz1YPxQ7rX0

An Artificial Sun on Earth

It is science’s star experiment: an attempt to create an artificial sun on earth — and provide an answer to the world’s impending energy shortage. Scientists believe that this can’t be achieved for the next hundred years, but having your own sun for energy need is not an impossible dream! Maybe in future we can solve energy crisis by developing our own artificial sun. Scientists have been trying to harness nuclear fusion since Albert Einstein had derived the equation E=mc² in 1905. This equation raised the hope that fusing atoms together could release incredible amounts of energy. If Einstein’s theory is put to practical use, the amount of energy locked up in one gram of matter is enough to power 28,500 100-watt lightbulbs for a year.

href="http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/

Timelapse of the ISS flying over Earth

Printing a human kidney

Mexican Drug Cartels Send Warning To Bloggers By Hanging Two People From Bridge

"This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet," one sign said. "You better! pay attention. I'm about to get you."

Contact (Movie) - Palmer Joss & Larry King

The question that I'm asking is this: Are we happier as a human race? Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home we surf the web.. but at the same time we feel emptier, lonelier, and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history. We're becoming a synthesized society.... In a great big hurry to get the next......

We're looking for meaning. What is meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things we think will fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

Palmer Joss - Contact

Japan: Waterfall

9/11: A Conspiracy Theory

Where's the Octopus?

"If cephalopods didn’t exist, I’m not sure any science fiction writer could have imagined them. Underwater aliens, right here on Earth:"

Invisibility Cloak for Military vehicles

Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera

Whats that sound?

Florida 1:
STRANGE Trumpet Sounds heard before earthquake.



Florida 2:



Moscow:



Canada:
Before Earthquake.



Kiev 1:



Kiev 2:



Kiev 3:
Turn your volume up for this one:

Vampire bats could save stroke victims

Research has found that a drug derived from the substance can thin blood and dissolve blood clots in the brain, saving lives and limiting the damage caused by strokes.

Currently, patients who suffer most types of strokes need to have clot-busting injections within four hours of the attack for the treatment to work.

But studies have found that jabs using a medicine derived from protein in bats' saliva can have the same effect for up to nine hours...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8739441/Vampire-bats-could-save-stroke-victims.html

Rare cloud spotted

Extreme weather conditions have produced a rare cloud formation over Australia's Mawson station in Antarctica.

Meteorological officer Renae Baker captured spectacular images of the nacreous clouds, otherwise known as polar stratospheric clouds, late last month.

Reflecting like an airborne mother-of-pearl shell, the cloud colours are produced when fading light at sunset passes through water-ice crystals blown along a strong jet of stratospheric air more than 10 kilometres above the ground....

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/extreme-weather-makes-rare-cloud/2006/08/01/1154198117951.html

Superb Lyrebird

David Attenborough presents the amazing lyre bird, which mimics the calls of other birds - and chainsaws and camera shutters - in this video clip from The Life of Birds. This clever creature is one of the most impressive and funny in nature, with unbelievable sounds to match the beautiful pictures. From the BBC.

Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness

(Reuters) - Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study.

With only about a third of cases receiving the therapy or medication needed, mental illnesses cause a huge economic and social burden -- measured in the hundreds of billions of euros -- as sufferers become too unwell to work and personal relationships break down.

"Mental disorders have become Europe's largest health challenge of the 21st century," the study's authors said...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/04/us-europe-mental-illness-idUSTRE7832JJ20110904

Wild fire + Wind

60 Million Dollar Views: Space hotel makes E.T. tourism reality

Meanwhile In New Zealand... Flash mob

Wingsuitman

Insane @ 1:15

Hail storm

100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON

'The Employment' by Santiago Grasso

Everything we use was created by another human being. It's somebody's job to make the lamp that we don't even notice. It's somebody's job to make or drive taxis. Everything we deal with is some other person's life.

Man in Virginia uses cable to decapitate self after argument with ex-wife

They were talking with the ex-wife when a deputy saw a white Ford Explorer towing a utility trailer. The trailer was on fire, and a man identified as her ex-husband was behind the wheel.

Firefighters arrived, and authorities attempted to get the man to exit the SUV. That's when they noticed a cable tied to a nearby tree was wrapped around his neck.

Officers pleaded with the man to surrender, but instead he hit the gas. He was pulled from the vehicle, and his head was yanked clean off his body. The vehicle continued moving for about 150 yards.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/08/31/2011-08-31_man_in_virginia_uses_cable_to_decapitate_self_after_argument_with_exwife_cops.html#ixzz1WdMVEs7t

Self-Replicating Repairing Robots

AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other

How It Works:

The system depicted was created by combining three components: a chatbot, a text-to-speech synthesizer, and an avatar renderer.

Chatbots are machines designed to emulate the conversational abilities of humans, conversing with a human user and generally attempting to convince the user into thinking that the machine is human. In such a scenario, if a sufficiently adept human on one end is fooled into thinking the machine is another human, the machine would be credited as passing the famous Turing Test for intelligence. Over 60 years after its proposal by Alan Turing, there are arguably still no machines capable of passing this test. The chatbot we initially used was Eliza, a prominent early milestone from AI’s infancy in the 1960’s. This tended to produce fairly boring conversations, so we switched to a much smarter, more modern chatbot: Cleverbot. Publicly available on Cleverbot.com, this state of the art chat engine was created by AI researcher Rollo Carpenter, who can be contacted via his company, Existor.

http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=16641

Another human foot washes ashore in B.C. 12th foot this year.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, say a human foot inside a running shoe has washed ashore, the latest in roughly a dozen such cases since 2007.

Police say the foot and leg bone were seen late Tuesday afternoon floating along the shore of Vancouver's False Creek.

Police so far have no theories about how the foot ended up in the water.

In the past four years, about a dozen feet encased in shoes have washed up on beaches near Vancouver, along the southern Georgia Strait and off Washington state.

Most of the remains are unidentified, although investigators said at least two of the feet belong to men who were reported missing.

In previous cases, police said it appeared the feet separated from bodies naturally in the water and foul play wasn't suspected.

http://news.yahoo.com/another-human-foot-washes-ashore-b-c-072344119.html

The McGurk Effect

Life In Space: Living On The ISS

ESA astronaut Frank De Winne shows how the astronauts living on the International Space Station start their day in space, how and what they eat and drink in space, and how the astronauts exercise in space.

The Astronaut's Guide To Life In Space

NPR requested from NASA this 1980s-era video with commentary by astronauts of various missions. The footage, which we edited, arrived on VHS. We don't know much about it, except that it's playful in tone, so we decided to have some fun with it, too. Here's an "instructional video" on survival in space, in case we ever decide to resurrect the program.

Robot Mimic Gives A Speech

Robot Mimic Gives A Speech

Robotics engineers at the University of Bristol, UK, have been grimacing a lot recently, thanks to their copycat robotic head, Jules, which can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of a human being.Jules is an animatronic head produced by US roboticist David Hanson, who builds uniquely expressive, disembodied heads with flexible rubber skin that is moved by 34 servo motors.Human face movements are picked up by a video camera and mapped onto the tiny electronic motors in Jules' skin.The Bristol team developed its own software to transfer expressions recorded by the video camera into commands to make those servos produce similarly realistic facial movements.However, because the robot's motors are not identical to human facial muscles, some artistic licence was required. After filming an actor making a variety of expressions indicating, say, "happiness", an expert animator selected 10 frames showing different variations of the expression and manually set the servos in Jules's face to match.

MYSTERIOUS BIRDS PLAGUE TOWN

Scared Mexicans try under-the-skin tracking devices

QUERETARO, Mexico — Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as “Boss Diego,” perhaps nothing was weirder than the mysterious tracking chip that the kidnappers allegedly cut from his body.

Lurid Mexican media accounts reported that an armed gang invaded Fernandez’s home, sliced open his arm with a pair of scissors and extracted a satellite-enabled tracking device, leaving the chip and a streak of blood behind.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/scared-mexicans-try-under-the-skin-tracking-devices/2011/08/14/gIQAtReNUJ_story.html?hpid=z3

Basijis: Iran’s Culture Cops

Domesticated Fox

New Jersey National Guard

Bionic Man? (Almost)

The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)

lol

5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Hits East Coast, Virginia

This afternoon, an earthquake hit Virginia between Charlottesville and Richmond. It measured 5.9 on the Richter scale. For an earthquake, that's in the "moderate" range but for an East Coast earthquake, it's quite unusual. A look at the historical data for the eastern US states shows that this is the biggest quake to hit this coast since 1897 (a 5.9 in VA) and the second biggest of all time (well, since they started recording such things) after a 7.3 that hit South Carolina in 1886.

http://kottke.org/11/08/2011-virginia-earthquake

Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary

Child of Rage

Defense Against the Psychopath

Quote of the day

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russel

SAIF AL-ISLAM INTERVIEW

"They blocked communication, sent text messages to the people, stopped the tv and smuggled saboteurgangs..."

Solving the Mystery of WTC 7

Woman Swears Off Mirrors for a Year

Most brides obsess over every last detail of the big day and scour racks for the dream dress, but Ph.D. candidate Kjerstin Gruys has taken on a prenuptial challenge of more unique proportions. The teaching fellow at the UCLA Department of Sociology has sworn off looking in a mirror for an entire year—six months of which will lead up to her wedding.

The daring idea took root when Gruys read a passage out of Sarah Dunant’s "The Birth of Venus," where an order of nuns swears off the sight of human flesh—including even looking at their own bodies. Feeling the already constant pressure to look perfect intensified by wedding planning, Gruys’ self-described “struggle with poor body image” made her wonder if a year without mirrors could lead to greater self-acceptance and appreciation for her body.

“I picked out my wedding gown before the project started. Looking in the mirror for hours and feeling critical of myself was one of the main motivators [for the project],” Gruys tells YouBeauty. “I want my wedding to be about my partner, Michael, and me, and about our loved ones—not about whether or not I dropped 10 pounds to squeeze into my dress.”

...

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/could-you-live-without-looking-at-yourself-one-woman-swears-off-mirrors-for-a-year-2528935/

Concrete Circus Freerun Film

Indiana Stage Collapse (Compiled Footage)

Truth in Advertising - What people think and say.

Transformers :)

UnaBomber Secret Code Cracked after 10 years.

It's not called cracking a code when you find an explicit key. Also it's curious how tv presenters don't hasitate to call someone "mad" although he never had been pronounced clinically insane, on the contrary, he has an IQ of nearly 170. So, I guess he must think most of US must be crazy.

Ship with 35 Tons of Cocaine

35tons = 35.000.000 gramm.
Average of at least 50€ for one gramm.
35.000.000* 50€ = 1.750.000.000€ = 1,7 Milliard

Mexican Drug bust. 207 M in Cash

New footage: Tsunami Destroys Soma City

Curious Chimps

Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses

Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses

University of Illinois shows an epidermal electronic system created by an international team of engineers and scientists. A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday.

Plan B

Plan B is the 'find my phone' app that you download AFTER you lose your phone.

Plan B is your last resort to find your missing phone.

This is the first and only 'find my phone' app that you download AFTER you've already lost your phone. Having Lookout on your phone is the best way to protect your phone and find it fast, but use Plan B if you have already lost your phone and didn't have Lookout installed.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb

Camping...

Aftermath: Population Zero

Imagine if one minute from now, every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us. What would happen to the world without humans? How long would it be before our nuclear power plants erupted, skyscrapers crumbled and satellites dropped from the sky? What would become of the household pets and farm animals? And could an ecosystem plagued with years of pollution ever recover?

UK Riots...

Forced to strip naked in the street: Shocking scenes as rioters steal clothes and rifle through bags as people make their way home


This is the shocking moment a young man is apparently forced to hand over all of his clothes after appearing to be stripped naked during lawless riots overnight.

Internet rumours last night claimed that on top of the widespread destruction across London and Birmingham, people were having their clothes removed by looters as police attempted to contain the criminality.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024001/UK-riots-2011-London-Birmingham-people-forced-strip-naked-street.html#ixzz1UYAzabVw

Two Young Kids Beat Up Mom's Boyfriend

Bosnian Pyramid

Tasting the rainbow: The ants whose multi-coloured abdomens show exactly what they've been eating

The saying 'you are what you eat' is true for these insects as stunning pictures show their abdomens changing colour as they sip on sugar drops.

Father of three Mohamed Babu set up the photographs after his wife, Shameem, showed him some ants had turned white after drinking spilt milk.

He gave the creatures the brightly coloured sugar drops and watched as their transparent stomachs matched the food they were eating.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022765/The-ants-multi-coloured-abdomens-exactly-theyve-eating.html#ixzz1USgd2M7J

Commercial on the National Debt

Camouflage abilities of cephalopod

How Shopping Malls Make You Buy

Catching a plane in flight

A real person, a lot like you

Proboscis Monkeys

Chameleon Caterpillar

FDA And Of Meat from Cloned Animals

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

17 Gigapixel Photograph

First Demonstration of Time Cloaking

Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists' newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme ways. The idea is steer light around a volume of space so that anything inside this region is essentially invisible.

The effect has generated huge interest. The first invisibility cloaks worked only at microwave frequencies but in only a few years, physicists have found ways to create cloaks that work for visible light, for sound and for ocean waves. They've even designed illusion cloaks that can make one object look like another.

Today, Moti Fridman and buddies, at Cornell University in Ithaca, go a step further. These guys have designed and built a cloak that hides events in time.

Time cloaking is possible because of a kind of duality between space and time in electromagnetic theory. In particular, the diffraction of a beam of light in space is mathematically equivalent to the temporal propagation of light through a dispersive medium. In other words, diffraction and dispersion are symmetric in spacetime.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/