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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015

Monday, January 21, 2013

Nanoparticle shows promise in treatment of multiple sclerosis


http://www.gizmag.com/multiple-sclerosis-nanoparticles/25092/

Science’s Looming ‘Tipping Point’


http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/11/19/sciences-looming-tipping-point/

Prozac in Poultry Is Better Than Penicillin


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-greger-md/antibiotics-chicken_b_1470098.html

China to build world's tallest building - in just 90 days


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-to-build-worlds-tallest-building--injust-90-days-8340870.html#

Grapefruit and pills mix warning


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20497086

Serious Issues with Plate Tectonics


http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/11/27/serious-issues-with-plate-tectonics-2/

25 Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Replaced By Geothermal In Japan

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/22/25-nuclear-power-plants-could-be-replaced-by-geothermal-in-japan/

Swarming a Book Online

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/business/a-casualty-on-the-battlefield-of-amazons-partisan-book-reviews.html

Mixed Response to Comcast in Expanding Net Access

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/business/media/comcast-internet-essentials-brings-access-to-low-income-homes.html

How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/technology/how-mit-ensnared-a-hacker-bucking-a-freewheeling-culture.html

Study Finds How Genes That Cause Illness Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/health/study-pinpoints-what-activates-disease-causing-genes.html

US Scientists Find That Chemotherapy Boosts Cancer Growth

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/01/21/us-scientists-find-that-chemotherapy-boosts-cancer-growth/

Tension in Nuclear Powers of South Asia

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/01/21/do-we-have-a-magnetic-sixth-sense/

How to Turn a Worthless Business Idea into a Million-Dollar Startup

http://xcluesiv.com/blog/2013/01/08/how-to-turn-a-worthless-business-idea-into-a-million-dollar-startup/

There is Music in the Cloud – About SoundCloud and Other Cloud Music Services

http://xcluesiv.com/blog/2013/01/08/there-is-music-in-the-cloud-about-soundcloud-and-other-cloud-music-services/

NVIDIA details the Grid, a card built for powering cloud computing

http://xcluesiv.com/blog/2013/01/08/nvidia-details-the-grid-a-card-built-for-powering-cloud-computing/

300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_01_19/300-million-year-old-UFO-tooth-wheel-found-in-Russian-city-of-Vladivostok/

Rock solid proof of alien life? Scientists claim fossilized algae inside meteorite

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-life-report-mars-310/

How Cloud Computing Will Affect Healthcare in 2013

http://xcluesiv.com/blog/2013/01/15/how-cloud-computing-will-affect-healthcare-in-2013/

Microsoft to offer its ‘Drawbridge’ virtualization technology on top of its Windows Azure cloud

http://xcluesiv.com/blog/2013/01/15/microsoft-to-offer-its-drawbridge-virtualization-technology-on-top-of-its-windows-azure-cloud/

We Discovered The Clitoris In 2009? Heyyy, Wait A Minute…

http://www.themarysue.com/clitoris-discovery-2009/http://www.themarysue.com/clitoris-discovery-2009/

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Why Lasting Love is Such Hard Work

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/why-lasting-love-is-such-hard-work

Happiness is in the Wanting, Not the Getting, Says New Study

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/happiness-is-in-the-wanting-not-the-getting-says-new-study

Self-Help Books Treat Depression, Says Year-Long Study

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/self-help-books-treat-depression-says-year-long-study

Like Stress, Loneliness Harms the Body's Immune System

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/like-stress-loneliness-harms-the-bodys-immune-system

The Promise and Perils of Oxytocin

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/267.full

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?

http://bigthink.com/think-tank/neil-degrasse-tyson-atheist-or-agnostic

This Super Camera Captures What's Beyond Human Comprehension

http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/this-super-camera-captures-whats-beyond-human-comprehension

Masturbation: "An Evolutionary Magic Trick"

http://bigthink.com/think-tank/hour-our-brains-evolved-to-make-us-master-pornographers

Why You Shouldn't Have Sex for Your Health

http://bigthink.com/postcards-from-zizek/why-you-shouldnt-have-sex-for-your-health-2

Engineer Petitions White House for Real-Life Starship Enterprise

http://www.livescience.com/25989-starship-enterprise-white-house-petition.html

What is love? Five theories on the greatest emotion of all

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/13/what-is-love-five-theories

Andy Kessler: In the Privacy Wars, It's iSpy vs. gSpy Big Brother is watching us. But we are watching back.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323984704578206063994711952-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html

New Method for Collagen Scaffolds: Slice, Stack, Roll

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121227110724.htm

Nature | News Memory molecule dethroned Two studies refute an enzyme’s essential role in remembering and forgetting.

http://www.nature.com/news/memory-molecule-dethroned-1.12139?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20130108

Wasp larva disinfects its roach meal from within

http://www.nature.com/news/wasp-larva-disinfects-its-roach-meal-from-within-1.12154?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20130108

Kurzweil's "How to Create a Mind" is Severely Lacking

http://www.science20.com/eye_brainstorm/blog/kurzweils_how_create_mind_severely_lacking-97013

3-D sonar provides new view of Civil War shipwreck

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/19/3_d_sonar_provides_new_view_of_civil_war_shipwreck/

Lessons in Mindfulness from Sherlock Holmes

http://bigthink.com/book-of-the-month/lessons-in-mindfulness-from-sherlock-holmes-brain-addict

Is a Picture Still Worth a Thousand Words?

http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/is-a-picture-still-worth-a-thousand-words

Buying the N.Y.S.E., in One Shot

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/business/jeffrey-sprechers-improbable-path-to-buying-the-nyse.html

The First Rule of Brainstorming: Suspend Disbelief

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/business/kon-leong-of-zl-technologies-on-encouraging-creativity.html

Google’s Alternative to the Password

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/126762-2013-01-19-googles-alternative-to-the-password.htm

Ray Kurzweil Plans to Create a Mind at Google—and Have it Serve You

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/126761-2013-01-19-ray-kurzweil-plans-to-create-a-mind-at-googleand-have.htm

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Indicted tycoon Kim Dotcom launches new site Defiant German-born internet entrepreneur unveils "Mega" site on anniversary of his arrest on US racketeering charges.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/01/20131203823121181.html

'Rogue planet' spotted 100 light-years away

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20309762

Electron Microscopy: the Future of Sequencing?

http://www.biotechniques.com/news/biotechniquesNews/biotechniques-337235.html

Can meditation reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke?

http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/11/14/can-meditation-reduce-your-risk-having-heart-attack-stroke/Ou7y4lnxzpm5dBNpd8pyFK/story.html

Weed Warnings

http://www.genomeweb.com//node/1154351?hq_e=el&hq_m=1410950&hq_l=1&hq_v=203d2b54c8

Captive Animals Show Signs of Boredom

http://www.alnmag.com/news/captive-animals-show-signs-boredom

Gene Predicts Time of Death

http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/gene-predicts-time-of-death/81247651/

Artificial wombs: is a sexless reproduction society in our future?

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pelletier20121113

Does chocolate make you clever?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20356613

Can a Cardboard Bicycle Change The World?!

http://www.singularityweblog.com/cardboard-bicycle/

Innovative medical textiles eliminates bacteria

http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_11_12_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=28033

X Prize to Sequence Genomes of World’s Oldest People. Hopes To Unlock Secrets of Longevity

http://singularityhub.com/2012/11/19/x-prize-to-sequence-genomes-of-worlds-oldest-people-hopes-to-unlock-secrets-of-longevity/

Slow, Steady & Easy Breathing

http://blog.imva.info/medicine/slow-steady-easy-breathing/

Michio Kaku: Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia?

http://www.singularityweblog.com/michio-kaku-can-nanotechnology-create-utopia/

Google Takes You on a Mind-Boggling Trip to 100,000 Stars

http://mashable.com/2012/11/17/google-100000-stars/

Longevity Shocker! Exercise Increases Life Expectancy Regardless Of Your Weight

http://singularityhub.com/2012/11/20/longevity-shocker-exercise-increases-life-expectancy-regardless-of-your-weight/

Jellyfish Inspires Cancer Detector

http://www.technewsdaily.com/15583-jellyfish-inspires-cancer-detector.html

Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628925.100-brainlike-chip-outstrips-normal-computers.html

Extreme recycling turns poo into food

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628923.600-extreme-recycling-turns-poo-into-food.html

Huge Mars Colony Eyed by SpaceX Founder Elon Musk

http://www.space.com/18596-mars-colony-spacex-elon-musk.html

The emerging science of ‘collective intelligence’ — and the rise of the global brain

http://io9.com/5962914/the-emerging-science-of-collective-intelligence--and-the-rise-of-the-global-brain

"Gravity Doesn't Exist" Is this Fundamental Phenomenon of the Universe an Illusion?

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/11/gravity-doesnt-exist-is-gravity-an-illusion.html