1   | The rebel in all of us + The Psychology of Revolution |
Student protests, rioting, Psychology of Revolution, Twitter revolutions. . . Rebellion is alive and kicking. But why do only some of us choose to take a stand? So why do some of us choose to rebel? It’s a question we haven’t had many answers to. Milgram‘s experiments are a classic example of how researchers have concentrated their attention on those who con form — in a documentary...
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1 | Superstring theorist Brian Greene and his idea of an infinite number of universes + Interview |
Extra dimensions are old news. The newest mind-bending descriptions of reality dreamed up by the world’s smartest physicists, and explained by superstar superstring theorist Brian Greene in his latest book The Hidden Reality, include untold numbers of extra universes. A million universes isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Ten to the 500th power universes. Greene likes to drop you into the mid...
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1 | Electricity Generating Dance Floors and Piezoelectric Roadways |
Even if the planet doubled the amount of solar and wind power available tomorrow, there would still be a shortage of clean electricity. We need to grab energy from wherever we can find it, which is why piezoelectricity—the charge that gathers in solid materials like crystal and ceramic in response to strain—has recently begun to pique the interest of entrepreneurs and scientists alike. A numbe...
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1 | Mysterious dark matter may be near Earth |
Mysterious “dark matter” could lurk near Earth, according to a new theory to explain a puzzle that has baffled space flight engineers. The suggestion that clumps of the enigmatic matter lie in our cosmic back yard, between the Earth and the Moon, has been put forward to explain a strange phenomenon called the “fly-by anomaly.” Almost every spacecraft that has swung around ...
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1 | Microbial communities in fluid inclusions and long-term survival in halite + The 11th Hour - documen |
Fluid inclusions in modern and ancient buried halite from Death Valley and Saline Valley, California, USA, contain an ecosystem of “salt-loving” (halophilic) prokaryotes and eukaryotes, some of which are alive. Prokaryotes may survive inside fluid inclusions for tens of thousands of years using carbon and other metabolites supplied by the trapped microbial community, most notably the single-ce...
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1 | Where is Everybody? - How many technically advanced civilizations exist in our galaxy? |
Essay by Steven Soter, Scientist-in-Residence in the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University. Gedanken experiments, which have been used for hundreds of years by scientists and philosophers to ponder thorny problems, rely on the power of one’s imagination to project these scenarios to logical conclusions. They do not involve lab equipment or, often, even experimental data. They can...
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1 | Astronomers had found evidence of something that occurred before the (conventional) Big Bang. |
Our cosmos was “bruised” in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background. There’s something exciting afoot in the world of cosmology. Last month, Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and Vahe Gurzadyan at Yerevan State University in Armenia announced that they had found patterns of concentr...
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1 | Turritopsis nutricula - study of biologically immortal species of jellyfish |
Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan that can revert to the sexually immature (polyp stage) after becoming sexually mature. It is the only known metazoan capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage. It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation. This cycle can repeat indefinitely tha off...
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1 | Expedition 25 NASA astronaut Wheelock tweeted pics from International Space Station + Interview |
On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew. He is also known as @Astro_Wheels on twitter, where he has been tweeting pictures to his followers since he arrived at the space station. The images bring breathtaking views from our only off planet Vista point. The caption...
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1 | Psychopaths among us + 3 full documentarys |
According to popular wisdom, psychopaths are crazed and bloodthirsty serial killers. The reality is not so simple. While many psychopaths do commit violent crimes, not all psychopaths are criminals and not all criminals are psychopathic. Psychopaths are found in many walks of life and are often successful in competitive professions. However they are also ruthless, manipulative and destructive. Equ...
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