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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Reversing Aging
a Howard Hughes Medical Institute team has found that through exposure to “young” blood cells, bone marrow stem cells start to act young again as well. “The researchers have not yet isolated the blood-borne factors that can switch old stem cells back to a more youthful state, but their results are consistent with other recent [...]
X-Prize: Osama Bin Laden
In 2004 aerospace designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen led the first private team to build and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometers above the Earth twice within two weeks. They were racing against 26 other teams to win the $10 million X-Prize and to achieve international fame and [...]
Spam Will Herald In A New Age
According to New Scientist, A team of computer scientists from the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA are claiming to have found an “effectively perfect” method for blocking spam. “The system… works by exploiting a trick that spammers use to defeat email filters. As spam is churned out, subtle changes are typically incorporated into the [...]
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Typical Ursula.
Miracle Jones blogs about the petition against the Google Book Settlement created by science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin, winner of five Hugo awards and six Nebulas. Leguin is urging professional writers who are opposed to the terms of the settlement to sign her online petition before the January 28th deadline. From the petition: “The [...]
Literature Publishing of the Future
I forsee the publishing house of the future offering, for instance, a poet’s latest work in multiple formats simultaneously, each at a different price: an e-text version with links to all current reviews, related scholarly and popular comment, and bundled with its own discussion forum that links owners of each of the books; a hard-copy [...]
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The Ultimate Prank: TSA Voyerism
Who are we pranking today? Just the entire US Federal Government and all American citizens! CNN is reporting on findings from a Freedom of Information request initiated by the Electronic Privacy Information Center that has revealed that, contrary to public statements by the Transportation Security Agency, full-body scanners can store and transmit images. The scanners [...]
Mann Crosses the Line
Roger Weiner was arrested at a Mississippi gas station for violating the Mann Act, an arcane law prohibiting transport of women across state lines for “immoral purposes.” This is stupid. It should be repealed. “Immoral purposes?” Who decides what is immoral? If you think rape, murder, and slavery are immoral, then we’ve already got laws [...]
Incinerate Rabbits for Fuel
The city of Stockholm enlists fluffle1 cullers and carrion contractors to warm the homes of its citizens. “[Rabbits] are a very big problem,” said Tuvunger. The rabbits are eating their way through the city’s central parks. “Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough; a contractor comes and takes them away.”2 It’s normal in [...]
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Urban Vertical Farming
Dickson Dispommier, a Columbia University professor and visionary champion of vertical farming, claims that a 30-story glass skyscraper using nonsoil farming could produce enough food on a single city block to feed 50,000 people. But his farm would cost $200 million to build. Other seers are promoting more modest vertical schemes, such as Sky Vegetables, [...]
Stop Working in the Private Sector
From a new Cato Institute report on “Employee Compensation in State and Local Governments“: The study’s author, Chris Edwards, found that the wage premium for public sector employees was about 34 percent and for benefits about 70 percent. Lineage: Reason <- Cato
Kalashnikovs
Ever since the Kalashnikov’s introduction in the Soviet Union in 1947 it has been a favorite due to its simple design. Of between 90 and 122 million assault rifles estimated to have been produced since World War II, between 70 and 100 million were Kalashnikovs. Together, these small arms have been responsible for more civilian deaths than [...]
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Bring Back Slavery: Save Homeless People
Washington DC has passed a 5 cent tax on all plastic bags. This is stupid. Instead of bags, Americans should employ homeless people to carry about their things. Such homeless people could be bought and sold like a commodity, provided that they who so use the homeless provide food and shelter. In this way, the [...]
Osama bin Laden Not Involved in 9/11 Attacks
Is it possible that Osama bin Laden was not involved in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center? It is curious that Osama bin Laden initially denied involvement. From CNN, dated September 17, 2001: In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, bin Laden said, “The U.S. government [...]
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The Dangerous Kit
“The Dangerous Kit” teaches kids at a young age not to be afraid of the world around them and to be critical thinkers by providing hands-on experience with items at different times in culture have been seen as shockingly dangerous when the true scale of their deleterious effects is between zilch and inane. A booklet [...]
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Thorium, Blood of Civilization
When the choices for developing nuclear energy were being made, uranium was chosen because it had the byproduct of producing plutonium that could be weaponized. But thorium is safer, easier to work with, and gads more efficient. The plants are smaller, use a hundred times less fuel by mass, and the operating costs are much [...]
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The Perfect Crime
Purchase and intentionally age soft drinks before giving them to someone. The drinks will retain their bubble and taste, all the while becoming cerebrally carcinogenic dietary saboteurs. According to Wikipedia, “[R]esearchers found that 6 months after aspartame was put into carbonated beverages, 25% of the aspartame had been converted to DKP.”1 If this is true, [...]
End Airborne Terrorism
When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate plastic explosives concealed in his underwear on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, I saw public outcry for greater airport security. People saw yet another terrorist show airport security ineffective. They asked, “How could this have happened?” People paid to make solutions came up with ideas like ramping up airport security, and [...]
Possible Location for Moonbase Found
Using images from the SELENE craft, Moon researchers have found a giant hole (hundreds of feet wide and hundreds of feet deep) in what they think is a lava tube. The lava tube provides protection from meteorite strikes, cosmic rays, UV radiation, and harsh temperature variations, so it is an excellent candidate for further exploration [...]
Institutionalized Conspiracy
In most of its operations, the CIA is by definition a conspiracy, using covert actions and secret plans, many of which are of the most unsavory kind. What are covert operations if not conspiracies? At the same time, the CIA is an institution, a structural part of the national security state. In sum, the agency is an institutionalized conspiracy.
Artificial Virginity Kit