Sunday, August 25, 2013

Awesome Spiders



http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f45_1363458207



The Innovation of Loneliness


98 million Americans were given polio vaccine contaminated with cancer-causing virus, admits CDC

The information was posted on an official CDC fact sheet entitled Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine, which has since been removed from the CDC's website. Fortunately, RealFarmacy.com was able to archive the damning page before the CDC ultimately removed it, presumably because SV40 has been receiving considerable attention lately due to its connection to causing cancer.

You can view the link to the original CDC page on SV40 and polio vaccines, which is no longer active, here:
http://www.cdc.gov

You can view the full archived CDC page here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/041345_CDC_polio_vaccine_SV40.html

Man reunites with Gorilla he raised as his son


Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique



http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/13/wireless-devices-go-battery-free-with-new-communication-technique/

Scientists give mice false memories


Scientists say they have, for the first time, generated a false memory in an animal by manipulating brain cells that encode that information. They published their findings this week in the journal Science.
What's more, the researchers say, the cellular events involved in the formation of a false memory resemble what takes place in forming a real memory. This jibes with the fact that humans who have false memories of events that didn't happen firmly believe that those memories are real.
"We should continue to remind society that memory can be very unreliable," said the study's senior author, Susumu Tonegawa, director of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, a collaboration between institutions in Saitama, Japan, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.





This illustration shows how researchers gave mice a false memory of being shocked in a particular environment.

Florida sinkhole swallows parts of resort near Disney World


User Passwords Visible On Chrome

If your default browser is Chrome and you save passwords try this little trick…
Enter “chrome://settings/passwords”
You’ll get this:
passwords hidden
Now click that little blue button that says “Show”…SURPRISE! There’s your password in plain text for anyone to read.
Yup, if you leave your computer unguarded anyone can come along and get all the user names and passwords to your favorite websites.

Cymothoa Exigua

Also called the "tongue-eating louse," this parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae enters fish through the gills, then attaches itself at the base of the fish's tongue. Once there, it extracts blood through its front claws, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood, then it replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles at the tongue's stub. They are supposedly not harmful to humans unless picked up alive, in which case they can bite.






Robot Programmed to Fall in Love with a Girl Goes too Far

What they didn’t count on were the effects of several months of self-iteration within the complex machine-learning code which gave Kenji his first tenderness. As of last week, Kenji’s love for the doll, and indeed anybody he sets his ‘eyes’ on, is so intense that Dr. Takahashi and his team now fear to show him to outsiders.
The trouble all started when a young female intern began to spend several hours each day with Kenji, testing his systems and loading new software routines. When it came time to leave one evening, however, Kenji refused to let her out of his lab enclosure and used his bulky mechanical body to block her exit and hug her repeatedly. The intern was only able to escape after she had frantically phoned two senior staff members to come and temporarily de-activate Kenji.

http://techandfacts.com/robot-programmed-to-fall-in-love-with-a-girl-goes-too-far/

Grandma's Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes

Darwin and Freud walk into a bar. Two alcoholic mice — a mother and her son — sit on two bar stools, lapping gin from two thimbles.
The mother mouse looks up and says, “Hey, geniuses, tell me how my son got into this sorry state.”
“Bad inheritance,” says Darwin.
“Bad mothering,” says Freud.
For over a hundred years, those two views — nature or nurture, biology or psychology — offered opposing explanations for how behaviors develop and persist, not only within a single individual but across generations.
And then, in 1992, two young scientists following in Freud’s and Darwin’s footsteps actually did walk into a bar. And by the time they walked out, a few beers later, they had begun to forge a revolutionary new synthesis of how life experiences could directly affect your genes — and not only your own life experiences, but those of your mother’s, grandmother’s and beyond...

Giant Pyrosome and Salps - pelagic sea squirts


Technology Preventing Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault

DrinkSavvy successfully raises $52,089 in less than 45 days at www.IndieGoGo.com/DrinkSavvy from 2582 individual contributors to help us perfect our prototype! Thank you to all who contributed and believe in our goal to prevent drug-facilitated sexual assault. You will forever be a part of what makes DrinkSavvy a success and should be proud!

We estimate DrinkSavvy cups/straws to be ready by around September 2013 to our generous contributors, and available to the public by around early to mid 2014. DrinkSavvy glassware to be available soon thereafter.

http://drinksavvyinc.com/

Sinkhole gets a few veggies and some fiber in its diet


40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/



Stroke patient who can’t feel sad: Condition leaves man permanently happy

Malcolm Myatt always looked on the bright side of life. But the grandfather is now in a permanent state of happiness – after a stroke left him unable to feel sadness.

The stroke interfered with the part of Mr Myatt’s brain that regulates emotional responses, leaving him liable to erupt in a fit of giggles at the most inappropriate of times.

He has sat through funerals smiling broadly or cracking jokes, and during meals out with wife his Kath, 63, he regularly attracts puzzled looks from fellow diners.


http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=26512 

Invisiblity Cloaking Tech


Nokia Technology of 2013


BBC 'to hand 120 Jimmy Savile victims £33,000 compensation'

A compensation package worth £33,000 could be handed to 120 victims of disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile, it has been reported.
The exact amount is expected to be finalised when high court judge Dame Janet Smith publishes the results of her inquiry, which is looking into the culture and practices at the BBC during the years of Savile’s abuse, later in the year.
It is believed the amount will be less than the £4.1million the corporation paid to its senior managers, swollen by controversial ‘golden goodbyes’ for bosses forced out over the handling of the Savile affair.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398628/BBC-pay-4m-120-victims-Jimmy-Savile.html 

America's Mysterious Stone Chambers