https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qZk2OMuaeg Does Earth have a dust build-up problem? Estimates vary of how much cosmic dust and meteorites enter Earth’s atmosphere each day, but range anywhere from 5 to 300 metric tons, with estimates made from satellite data and extrapolations of meteorite falls. Thing is, no one really knows for sure and so far there hasn’t... Continue Reading →
Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RAPGtzn_V8 The research also heralds a possible new way of treating a range of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, and psychiatric conditions such as depression through this novel way of delivering gene therapy. The research is published Thursday 24 of April in the journal Science Translational Medicine. "People with cochlear implants do well with understanding... Continue Reading →
IRS Employees Act Up, Don’t Pay Taxes But Still Get Bonuses—IRS Gone Wild?
http://youtu.be/I_j9he_phhY A new report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is unlikely to improve the picture. This latest watchdog report covers the payment of performance bonuses to IRS employees as well as various other incentives and award payments. That may sound like a yawn except for a key fact that is likely to... Continue Reading →
Noam Chomsky helps explain the ‘Fox Effect’ in upcoming film ‘Brainwashing of my Dad’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3TeTxgNVo Writer and documentarian Jen Senko has released a trailer for the film “The Brainwashing of my Dad,” in which she explores her father’s political conversion from lifelong Democrat into angry, ultra-conservative talk radio listener. Talking Points Memo reported that Senko raised funds for the project via Kickstarter. The donor page explained, “As filmmaker, Jen... Continue Reading →
Imagine a World Without Hate
http://youtu.be/3KyvlMJefR4 Imagine What The World Would've Looked Like If These Amazing People Had Not Been Assassinated.
AS ROBOTS EVOLVE THE WORKFORCE, WILL LABOR LAWS KEEP PACE?
http://youtu.be/dMZDgvLRObE Every day, robots pop up in more workplaces. Employers in industries from health care to food service are drawn to automation technology by the promise of greater productivity and lower costs. Up to half of the jobs in the United States could be rendered moot in coming years by quickly improving robotics technology, according... Continue Reading →
7 things we’ve learned about Earth since the last Earth Day
http://youtu.be/vNaXxXNFOjM Earth Day was started in 1970 in order to get people thinking about the environment and the urgent need to protect it. That hasn't gone so well. We've since emitted more carbon dioxide than we previously had in all of human history, likely dooming our planet to a potentially catastrophic amount of warming in... Continue Reading →
Hitachi Invents Waterproof Glass ‘Disk’ That Can Store Data Forever
http://youtu.be/C-5ndhmec7k A simple square of glass may hold the key to the vexing problem of storing data indefinitely. Developed by Hitachi, the technology prints a binary series of dots upon a sliver of quartz glass which can then be easily read with a common microscope. It sounds simple enough, and that is exactly the point... Continue Reading →
NASA’s Spitzer Telescope Brings 360˚ View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips
http://youtu.be/zAtnBzDZvsk Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The star-studded panorama of our galaxy is constructed from more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.... Continue Reading →
Augmented Reality Gaming : Sulon’s GVX console to project ‘Xtreme Reality’ game environments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNYNHc_m1o&feature=youtu.be Sulon Technologies is working on an ambitious Android-based HMD console for virtual reality and augmented reality gaming. The company is creating a platform capable of generating dynamic game environments based on the player’s physical environment. The video above is of course just a concept video, but it shows what Sulon is aiming for with... Continue Reading →
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