From Hirose Fukushima Robotics Lab:
“Why can snakes move ahead on without legs?” From this problem, we started research of snake biomechanisms, which resulted in the development of “Snake Robots”. Snake Robots have many possible applications, even though the structures are simple.
Wow that this is pretty scary, it reminds me of the sentinels in Matrix.
WOG out.
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The article:
CANBERRA: Scientists have warned that the world might once again be heading towards an Ice Age, with global warming approaching a possible end.
Evidence in support of this theory has come from pictures obtained from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, which showed no spots on the sun, thus determining that sunspot activity has not resumed after hitting an 11-year low in March last year.
A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.
Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak – during low sunspot activity – the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.
According to Australian astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, this might have caused the world to cool quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” said Dr Chapman.
“If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over,” he added.
Dr Chapman has proposed preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective.
“My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades,” he said
These articles have been popping up all over the internet but not alot of people have seen them and I think that you have to see all sides of a problem to fully grasp it and a new ice age is much worse then global warming so maybe you are afraid of the wrong thing? And you should know that cold is much deadlier the heat.
WOG out.
From the article:
Drugs that encourage the growth of new neurons in the brain are now headed for clinical trials. The drugs, which have already shown success in alleviating symptoms of depression and boosting memory in animal models, are being developed by BrainCells, a San Diego-based start-up that screens drugs for their brain-growing power. The company hopes the compounds will provide an alternative to existing antidepressants and says they may also prove effective in treating cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s.
This is very interesting and will probably help alot of people and make some so much smarter but let´s put it this way I´m not going to sign up for beta testing…..
WOG out.
About:
Permaculture in Action – Greening the Desert – Geoff Lawton’s Ground Breaking implementation of Permaculture in The Dead Sea Valley. This video illustrates how Permaculture design techniques can restore a Salt Ridden Degraded Landscape to a flourishing and diverse Oasis. For more information about Geoff and his Permaculture work please visit: http://www.permaculture.org.au
This is what we need to do and we have to do it now, it´s not much time left…
WOG out.
I know I´m a little late with this story but what the hell….
From the article:
Rarely though would you expect to find a medical miracle working behind the counter of the mall’s hobby shop.
That however is what Lee Spievak considers himself to be.
“I put my finger in,” Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model aeroplane, “and that’s when I sliced my finger off.”
It took the end right off, down to the bone, about half an inch.
“We don’t know where the piece went.”
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he’d lost it for good.
Today though, you wouldn’t know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it’s all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.
And how did he get his finger back?
Well that’s the truly remarkable part. It wasn’t a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder – or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.
Mr Speivak’s brother Alan – who was working in the field of regenerative medicine – sent him the powder.
For ten days Mr Spievak put a little on his finger.
“The second time I put it on I already could see growth. Each day it was up further. Finally it closed up and was a finger.
“It took about four weeks before it was sealed.”
Now he says he has “complete feeling, complete movement.”
Thats really cool and I want to see that in a few years, maybe they be able to re-grow lost limbs or organs?
If you read here they are trying it on war vets to help them re-grow fingers.
Original site.
WOG out.
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