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Fighter jets fly with 3D printed parts.

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British fighter jets have flown for the first time with parts made using 3D printing technology.
BAE Systems said the metal components were successfully used on board Tornado aircraft which flew from the defence firm's airfield at Warton, Lancashire late last month.
The company said its engineers were using 3D technology to design and produce parts which could cut the Royal Air Force's maintenance and service bill by over 1.2 million pounds ($2.23 million) over the next four years."....








http://www.smh.com.a...0106-hv7js.html

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Dr Gemma Kelly at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute:"If we disable this protein called MCL-1 then the cancer cells die." Photo: Angela Wylie
Researchers have discovered that by disabling a protein found in lymphoma cells they can limit the cancer's growth and ultimately make it disappear.
The finding has implications for the development of new drugs to treat not only lymphoma but also other types of blood cancers such as leukaemias and hard tumour cancers, including some lung cancers."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.a...l#ixzz2pksaWEI6

CANCER BREAKTHROUGH

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QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

How Science is trying to resurrect the dead.





"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw

• Micro Map of the past being created.
• Quantum computers and new maths to calculate detailed histories and memories of everyone dead.
• Face and body reconstructions a million years old already achieved: mind reconstructions coming.
• 106 billion people to be resurrected within 40 years.

• A Child's Guide to Quantum Archaeology (300 words) <~ start here!!!
• Short version (3,000 words)

• The Quantum Archaeology Grid

• Recursive Civilization

• XYLEM

• Turing Church Workshop Paper

• The Lazarus Long Delusion

MAIN ARTICLE:~~>http://web.archive.o...rchaeologyfile/





INTEL BUILDING HUMAN SENSES INTO COMPUTERS





http://www.oregonliv...omputers_h.html

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DINASAUR BONES DISCOVERED SAUDI ARABIA for 1st time

The large scale map of the past is being pateintly assembled.

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A team of international researchers has uncovered dinosaur bones for the first time in Saudi Arabia.
A string of vertebrae from a huge “Brontosaurus-like” dinosaur and some teeth from a carnivorous dinosaur were discovered in dry desert, along the coast of the Red Sea.
The teeth are about 72 million years old, researchers said.
Dinosaur bones are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula, said Benjamin Kear, a researcher based at Uppsala University in Sweden. He said before this discovery, only a handful of highly fragmented fossils had been found in the region. Kear said none of those fossils were recognizable as belonging to dinosaurs....more"



http://www.cbc.ca/ne...-time-1.2487649


Archaeolgists emploted by US Federal Government

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"Tell me why you think I'm the greatest archaeologist
since Darwin. You have 2 minutes."

The University of Cologne is looking for a candidate for a professorship in computational archaeology/ archaeoinformatics. Applications are closed and the starting date for the position is October 1st 2014.
information.

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ManThe computer had its funding stopped by the Government 100 years before It was finally discoverd again. No-one but the inventor, Babbage, thought it would be useful.
Archaeology is the coming sceince allowing Man to describe then rescue his past.

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AN OBJECTION TO QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

Maxwell's Objection:


"The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.

• in a letter to Lord Rayleigh, as quoted in John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1924), p. 47." wiki

Entropy says the universe is not reversible therefore no local part of the universe is reversible. When brains decay, part of their descriptions are lost as thermodynamic heat and there is no known way of retracing it.>>>

defeat:

"Information is incapable of being destroyed." Leonard Susskind

M Theory implies other universes: energy for reversal can be created or siphoned from them; local parts may therefore be reconfigurable because there will be enough energy to do it. Only isolated systems are said to reach equilibrium and physical homogeneity. The earth, in the last billion years, has never been an isolated system.

The entire universe is well-debated in the Simulation Hypothesis. If true, the universe is logically reversible, and the burgeoning numbers of events in the present all trace to similar histories in the past. They are like branches of trees tracing to common trunks, not unit events but classes, with reversible laws that have limits and therefore descriptions.

Further, QA isn't relying on total information from surviving fragments but the construction of The Quantum Archaeology Grid, which sources events before, after and adjacent to a timeline. It works by logical reconfigurating, using causality and probability. It isn't seeking the actual particle that made the deceased's brain, but multi-time pathways that made those particular brains inevitable; a lawful description of the past that agrees with all others calculated in vast simultaneous equations.

The issue is maping the past by calculation. Computers were ot available in Maxwell age, and the only mathetician capable of explaining infinite calulations, Cantor in assylum.


Matheatical method:
"

• Identifying the problem (includes preparation, collecting information, identifying challenges and risks) .
  
• Attacking the problem (use existing tools, techniques to derive new method). Get vigorous, consciously.
  
• The problem attacking becomes an unconscious activity from a conscious one, then the problem starts attacking you.
  
• Either problem is consumed or the attacker is consumed by problem."

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Hubble's first frontier field finds thousands of unseen, faraway galaxies



http://hubblesite.org/gallery/







"(Phys.org) —The first of a set of unprecedented, super-deep views of the universe from an ambitious collaborative program called The Frontier Fields is being released today at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news...nds-unseen.html

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Science Makes a Circuit So Thin, It Can Sit On a Contact Lens

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http://www.futurists...ter-revolution/

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But what if we could take all of those bruised and damaged apples and turn them all into “perfect apples” – perfect size, perfect color, perfect crunch when we bite into them, and the perfect sweet juicy flavor and aroma that makes our mouth water every time we think about them.
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper, to 3D printing of parts and objects, to next generation food printers.
These aren’t the artificial food devices that science fiction movies have been promising. Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples. But this is only scratching the surface."

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Robotics Expert Warns

http://blogs.wsj.com...-than-we-think/

"Automation is moving deeper into the mainstream, as a quick review of product announcements coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show demonstrates. The WSJ’s Neal E. Boudette reports that cars that park themselves and otherwise “take the drudgery out of driving” are an incremental step toward vehicles that operate with a much fuller degree of autonomy."

age of robots shoud hit during 2015. I dont see any reason to change that conclusion studying robot from inside robot labs and out.

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Smartphone Robots Could Be About to Invade Our Homes


http://online.wsj.co...306780813680134

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LAS VEGAS—A new breed of robots is invading the home, built for fun and controlled by the smartphone.
An array of companies exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show are demonstrating that everything from toy cars to flying drones can be controlled with the flick of a finger on a mobile device. And the gadgets are getting smaller and smarter."


The robots are coming


"seriously, though, can you love a machine? The emerging field of Human-Robot Interaction seeks to find that out. Ultimately it seeks to help robots work well with humans and influence how humans view their robotic counterparts. The New York Times predicts that “Robosimian will be more than just a tool, but not quite a colleague.”"

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Shadow Robots Company



http://www.shadowrobot.com/

Materials, mobility, dexterity and intelligence are all being conquered.
Sometime in the next 24 months, the age of robots will dawn , similar to the age of 3D printers which dawned 2013.

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We Do Not Need Flying Delivery Drones, Just Smarter Ground Robots

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Robots inch into daily life



http://www.stuff.co....into-daily-life
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Japanese scientists were already designing robots to offer information in public places, look after children and assist elderly people living alone. It was likely New Zealand would have a need for them too because of its ageing population.
"Technology is changing fast now and it's quite hard to predict what is the next step."
The robots could clean the house, help with administration tasks and check and respond to emails following its operator's voice commands.
Current technology meant robots could fetch a beer from the fridge, but more work was needed to make the task quicker and less arduous, Sandoval said.
The life-like size of the robot was important in researching their interaction with humans, since the smaller robots more frequently on the market were treated more like "cute babies" or pets." more

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CES 2014: NVIDIA Slides Supercomputing Technology into the Car


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LAS VEGAS, NV - CES – NVIDIA’s new Tegra® K1 mobile processor will help self-driving cars advance from the realm of research into the mass market with its automotive-grade version of the same GPU that powers the world’s 10 most energy-efficient supercomputers.
The first mobile processor to bring advanced computational capabilities to the car, the NVIDIA® Tegra K1 runs a variety of auto applications that had previously not been possible with such low power consumption.
Tegra K1 features a quad-core CPU and a 192-core GPU using the NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture, the basis for NVIDIA’s range of powerful GPUs — including the processors that are used in the top 10 systems featured in the latest Green500 list of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers.
Tegra K1 will drive camera-based, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) — such as pedestrian detection, blind-spot monitoring, lane-departure warning and street sign recognition — and can also monitor driver alertness via a dashboard-mounted camera."



Humanoid robots are also geting the external matrerials developed fast.

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Rapidly improving animated gifs


The Philosopher

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Fossil dung study indicates: Ancients in Negev had advanced economy



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The Negev has been inhabited for thousands of years, sometimes quite thickly. Archaeological evidence has shown there were sudden population explosions in the desert highlands. Some lasted longer than others, but all receded back into the desert sand – but just how did any of them survive in the deep desert?
Archaeologists had assumed they farmed. Now new evidence suggests they did not, instead having a much more advanced economy than had been suspected. And what is this evidence? Fossil feces - and its absence.
The conclusion is the fruit of an ongoing collaboration by archaeologists with scientists in studying the 5,000 year old site of Mashabei Sade. ...." more

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Searching for the Amazon's Hidden Civilizations




7 January 2014



Crystal McMichael
Big picture. A new model of the Amazon predicts that terra preta is more likely to be found along rivers in the eastern part of the rainforest. The letters indicate known archaeological sites.
Look around the Amazon rainforest today and it’s hard to imagine it filled with people. But in recent decades, archaeologists have started to find evidence that before Columbus’s arrival, the region was dotted with towns and perhaps even cities. The extent of human settlement in the Amazon remains hotly debated, partly because huge swaths of the 6-million-square-kilometer rainforest remain unstudied by archaeologists. Now, researchers have built a model predicting where signs of pre-Columbian agriculture are most likely to be found, a tool they hope will help guide future archaeological work in the region.
In many ways, archaeology in the Amazon is still in its infancy. Not only is it difficult to mount large-scale excavations in the middle of a tropical rainforest, but until recently, archaeologists assumed there wasn’t much to find. Amazonian soil is notoriously poor quality—all the nutrients are immediately sucked up by the rainforest’s astounding biodiversity—so for many years, scientists believed that the kind of large-scale farming needed to support cities was impossible in the region. Discoveries of gigantic earthworks and ancient roads, however, hint that densely populated and long-lasting population hubs once existed in the Amazon. Their agricultural secret? Pre-Columbian Amazonians enriched the soil themselves, creating what archaeologists call terra preta...." more

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NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY






10 Best New York City Museums

http://gonyc.about.c...ork-Museums.htm


1. American Museum of Natural History



Since opening to the public in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History has evolved and grown. In addition to the Rose Center planetarium and regular exhibits, the museum hosts a revolving series of exhibits, so there is always something new to see. AMNH is a wonderful destination for visitors of all ages, with wonderfully engaging experiences for just about everyone.


2. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
This is the only US museum exclusively dedicated to historic and contemporary design. The exhibits at the Cooper-Hewitt offer visitors a chance to explore the nature and impact of design on their lives.

3. Ellis Island Immigration Museum



Temporarily closed due to damage from Hurricane Sandy. Located in the New York Harbor, approximately 12 million steerage and third class steamship passengers were processed on Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. Immigrants who entered the United States through the port of New York were legally and medically inspected there. In 1990 Ellis Island was renovated and transformed into a museum dedicated to educating visitors about the immigrant experience.

4. Guggenheim Museum

Photograph by David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
The Guggenheim Museum, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is best known for its spiral structure and unique museum layout. The permanent collection and temporary exhibitions at the Guggenheim highlight modern paintings, sculpture and film.

5. Lower East Side Tenement Museum



Accessible only by guided tour, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum offers visitors the opportunity to see into the immigrant past of the Lower East Side while visiting the actual apartments where immigrants lived and hearing stories about their lives. They also offer tours in Spanish and American Sign Language.

6. Metropolitan Museum of Art


Over 2 million works of art from around the world and throughout history are housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You could easily spend years exploring the Met's extensive collections, but even if you only have an afternoon to visit, you'll be impressed by the vast array of art on display.

7. Museum of Modern Art

Timothy Hursley ©2006

Founded in 1929 as the first museum dedicated entirely to contemporary art, MoMA is host to an impressive collection of modern artistic efforts in a variety of media, including paintings, sculpture, design and even film. They even offer special events and activities for families with children as young as four, making it a very family-friendly choice as well!

8. Museum of the Moving Image

Photo by Heather Cross, licensed to About.com

The Museum of the Moving Image focuses on film, television and digital media, and its impact on culture and society. Located in Astoria, Queens, the museum is easily accessible by subway, just a short ride from Manhattan, and is a great destination for film-buffs and families alike.

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9. New York Historical Society

Photo © New-York Historical Society / Glenn Castellano

On West 77th Street at Central Park West, the New York Historical Society offers visitors an opportunity to see a collection that reveals much of New York's history. The collection includes Tiffany lamps, decorative objects, paintings, and furniture, and there are frequent special exhibits as well as the Dimenna Children's History Museum.
10. Whitney Museum of American Art

Photo by Ed Lederman, used with permission.

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British Archaeology thru 1,000,000 years




"Britain has one of the richest yet underappreciated records of early human history in the world. While human fossils are rare, ancient Britons left behind tools and animal bones in river deposits and caves that reveal tantalising details of their behaviour and way of life. By analysing this trail of evidence, a 50-strong team of archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists from more than 20 research institutions have collaborated to unlock the secrets of our ancient past." more

http://www.heritaged...an-story/100716





sutton Hoo Britain.
link below:

Treasures excavated from the burial mound, (on display) in the British museum:
https://www.google.c...asures&tbm=isch

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SELF-DROVING CARS REACH RACE SPEEDS
BBC today
"The driver isn't touching the pedals or steering wheel as BMW's self-driving car controls a power slide at race speeds"

http://www.bbc.co.uk...nology-25653253

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CES 2014 Tablets and Hybrids.
http://ces.cnet.com/...ts-of-ces-2014/

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WEIRD GADGETS at CES

http://www.theguardi...-tech-offerings


OK article

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Cloning quantum information from the past.

January 8, 2014





http://www.kurzweila...n-from-the-past

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It is theoretically possible for time travellers to copy quantum data from the past, according to three scientists in a recent paper in Physical Review Letters.
It all started when David Deutsch, a pioneer of quantum computing and a physicist at Oxford, came up with a simplified model of time travel to deal with the Grandfather paradox*. He solved the paradox originally using a slight change to quantum theory, proposing that you could change the past as long as you did so in a self-consistent manner...." more

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Jan 6th
The brain in great detail

Play video:

http://www.nytimes.c...etail.html?_r=0

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see-through electronics being 3D printed




"Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television screens and similar electronic devices."

http://phys.org/news...ee-through.html
Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television screens and similar electronic devices.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news...hrough.html#jCp"

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B..O.S.S. maps universe to 99% accuracy.

"Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent. This and future measures at this precision are the key to determining the nature of dark energy.


"One-percent accuracy in the scale of the universe is the most precise such measurement ever made," says BOSS's principal investigator, David Schlegel, a member of the Physics Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). "Twenty years ago astronomers were arguing about estimates that differed by up to fifty percent. Five years ago, we'd refined that uncertainty to five percent; a year ago it was two percent..." more>>>


http://phys.org/news...y-universe.html

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Nutcracker man discovered by Oxford




not sure this is a news item archaeological, technical maths nor data, which all relate to Quantum Archaeology's push, but a fun offering fro Physorg

"An Oxford University study has concluded that our ancient ancestors who lived in East Africa between 2.4 million-1.4 million years ago survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts. Tiger nuts are edible grass bulbs still eaten in parts of the world today. The study published in the journal, PLOS ONE, also suggests that these early hominins may have sought additional nourishment from fruits and invertebrates, like worms and grasshoppers."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news...nutcracker.html

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Chinese archaeologists discover country's most ancient mathematics document

Beijing: 8th Jan 2014
"Chinese archaeologists claimed to have discovered the country's most ancient mathematics document dating back over 2,200 years. The announcement was made on Tuesday.

The document consists of of inscriptions on bamboo sheets from the Warring States period between 475-221 B.C., which explains methods of multiplying number lower than 100.



The document also talks about certain fractions, Li Xueqin, a specialist in ancient documents at Beijing's Tsinghua University, told Xinhua.

According to the director of the Chinese Society of the History of Mathematics, Guo Shuchun, the document is the only one that has been found with studies of exact sciences before China's first historical dynasty, the Qin between 221-206 B.C."



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