Archive for April, 2009
Reverse Graffiti: Ossario-Alexandre Orion
• April, 2009Reverse Graffiti: Ossario-Alexandre Orion .::. <<video>> La cynic:: Rather than spraying paint all over the place, these arty pieces are produced by removing the dust and dirt that lingers around at places where heavy traffic n city pollution paints the places black with the filthiness that lurks in the shadows of our consumerist “welness”. more from this artist to be found here: The above video is one made about the origins of this brilliant play on the world’s mind. All credit goes out to the…
The Incredible HULC
• April, 2009New Exoskeleton Gives Soldiers Super Strength Eric Bland, Discovery News New Exoskeleton Gives Soldiers Super Strength Stronger, faster and harder is the promise of a new exoskeleton developed by Lockheed Martin for U.S. soldiers. Dubbed the Human Universal Load Carrier, or HULC, the device helps a soldier carry up to 200 pounds at a top speed of 10 mph.
Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists
• April, 2009Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists Exclusive by Mark Hughes Crime correspondent Saturday, 28 March 2009 Drastic new tactics to prevent school pupils as young as 13 falling into extremism Two hundred schoolchildren in Britain, some as young as 13, have been identified as potential terrorists by a police scheme that aims to spot youngsters who are “vulnerable” to Islamic radicalisation. The number was revealed to The Independent by Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire Police and Britain’s most senior officer…
Danny MacAskill April 2009
• April, 2009Danny MacAskill April 2009 .::. <<video>> Soundtrack by Band of Horses, “The Funeral” Filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh by Dave Sowerby, this video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill features probably the best collection of street/street trials riding ever seen. There’s some huge riding, but also some of the most technically difficult and imaginative lines you will ever see. Without a doubt, this video pushes the envelope of what is perceived as possible on a trials bike.…
Earth Critters Hitch Ride to Martian Moon and Back
• April, 2009Earth Critters Hitch Ride to Martian Moon and Back Irene Klotz No one knows if there is life on Mars, but if all goes well with a Russian science mission later this year, there will be life on the Martian moon Phobos — for a short time anyway. An assortment of critters and microbes are scheduled to make a round-trip journey to Phobos as passengers aboard a Russian spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October. The mission, called Phobos-Grunt, aims to return samples of the Martian…
Councils dumping more than 200,000 tonnes of recycling every year
• April, 2009Councils dumping more than 200,000 tonnes of recycling every year By Simon Neville and Christopher Hope Last Updated: 3:40PM GMT 22 Dec 2008 Household rubbish put out for recycling is being dumped in landfill sites or sent to incinerators by three out of four councils, a Daily Telegraph investigation has discovered. Up to 200,000 tonnes of recyclable waste was dumped last year with some councils failing to recycle over 10 per cent of glass, paper, plastic and other materials left out by conscientious homeowners. The…
Blind, Yet Seeing: The Brain’s Subconscious Visual Sense
• April, 2009Blind, Yet Seeing: The Brain’s Subconscious Visual Sense By BENEDICT CAREY Published: December 22, 2008 BLINDSIGHT A patient whose visual lobes in the brain were destroyed was able to navigate an obstacle course and recognize fearful faces subconsciously. The man, a doctor left blind by two successive strokes, refused to take part in the experiment. He could not see anything, he said, and had no interest in navigating an obstacle course — a cluttered hallway — for the benefit of science. Why bother? When he…
Researchers find safer way to make stem cells
• April, 2009Researchers find safer way to make stem cells By Ben Hirschler Sun Mar 1, 2009 Researchers said on Sunday they had found a safer way to transform ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells in a move that could eventually remove the need to use human embryos. It is the first time that scientists have turned skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells — which look and act like embryonic stem cells — without having to use viruses in the process. The…
Search for ‘Alien Life’ Could Start on Earth
• April, 2009Search for ‘Alien Life’ Could Start on Earth Irene Klotz, Discovery News Feb. 17, 2008 No need to leave the planet to look for alien life perhaps it’s here, in peaceful coexistence with or complete isolation from the standard variety that permeates Earth. “If life does form readily under Earth-like conditions, shouldn’t it have formed many times over, right here on our home planet?” said Paul Davies, a theoretical cosmologist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University. “There’s no planet more Earth-like than Earth itself.” The…
Here’s the “AIRpod” car on… Air
• April, 2009Here’s the “AIRpod” car on… Air La Cinyc AIRPod is the culmination of MDI studies on pollution and urban mobility. This concept will be the first to leave the production line in spring 2009. MDI will respond to an invitation to tender of the city of Paris, “Autolib’”, and is already the subject of applications for various municipalities. With small size, a tiny price, zero pollution, fun and futuristic design, AIRPod mark a turning point in the range of urban vehicles while renewing the idea…
Wheelchair Arm Controlled by Thought Alone
• April, 2009Wheelchair Arm Controlled by Thought Alone Eric Bland Feb. 27, 2009 A wheelchair-mounted robotic arm controlled by thought alone has been created by scientists at the University of South Florida. The device could give people with amytrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or full body paralysis the ability to perform simple day to day functions that would otherwise be impossible. “We aren’t reading people’s thoughts,” said Redwan Alqasemi, a scientist at the University of South Florida who, along with Rajiv Dubey and Emanuel Donchin of USF, helped…
Queens of the Stone Age – Song for the Dead
• April, 2009Queens of the Stone Age – Song for the Dead {BDO 2003} .::. <<video>> Lyrics: Its late enough to go drivin And see whats mine Thats a study of dying How to do it right Youre a holy roller Get your bed in the loose If youre hanging around Im holdin the noose Come a little bit closer And get on tight In a hurse rollin over Just a track in the line Fuck it Come on, lets go drivin Come on, lets take a…
The criminalization of everyday life
• April, 2009The criminalization of everyday life Robert Neuwirth I spent 24 hours in the slammer the other day. My crime? Well, the police couldn’t tell me when they locked me up. The prosecutor and judge couldn’t either, when I was arraigned the following day. I found out for myself when I researched the matter a few days after being released: I had been cited for walking my dog off the leash – once, six years ago. Welcome to the ugly underside of the zero-tolerance era, where…