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Researchers use Blue Waters supercomputer to understand gene expression in the brain   Allen is part of a team of researchers from the Mayo Clinic who are using Blue Waters, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, to decode the complicated language of genetic pathways in the brain. In doing so, they hope to provide insights into what genes and proteins are malfunctioning in the brain, causing amyloid beta plaques, tau protein tangles and brain atrophy due to neuronal cell loss—the telltale signs of the disease—and how these genes can be detected and addressed."

http://medicalxpress...gene-brain.html

 

 

"Gene expression is the process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product. These products are often proteins, but in non-protein coding genes such as transfer RNA (tRNA) or small nuclear RNA (snRNA) genes, the product is a functional RNA." wiki

 

 

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Researchers find bubonic plague fragments on NY subway

Bubonic plague victims in a mass grave from 1720–1721 in Martigues, France

 

 

Researchers from Cornell University have provided the first map of the subway's microbes, identifying more than 1,688 types of bacteria and one station that even supports a "marine ecosystem."

They say the vast majority of the bacteria is harmless to the 1.7 billion people who travel each year on 600 miles (960 kilometers) of track in passenger service in America's largest city.

But disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to drugs were found in 27 percent of samples.

Two were found with DNA fragments of anthrax and three with a plasmid associated with bubonic plague, albeit at very low levels.

Yet there has not been a single reported case of the plague in New York since the PathoMap project began in June 2013.

 http://phys.org/news...-ny-subway.html

 

 

 

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Researchers reveal how hearing evolved

 

"The physical properties of air and tissue are very different, which means in theory that up to 99.9% of sound energy is reflected when sound waves reach animals through the air. In humans and many other terrestrial vertebrates, the ear can be divided into three sections: the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear catches sound waves and directs them into the auditory canal. In the middle ear, pressure oscillations in the air are transferred via the tympanic membrane (eardrum) and one or three small bones (ossicles) to fluid movements in the inner ear, where the conversion of sound waves to nerve signals takes place. The tympanic middle ear improves the transfer of sound energy from the surroundings to the sensory cells in the inner ear by up to 1,000 times, and is therefore very important for hearing in terrestrial vertebrates. This is reflected in the fact that different configurations are found in the vast majority of present-day terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. However, available palaeontological data indicate that the tympanic middle ear most likely evolved in the Triassic period, approximately 100 million years after the transition of the vertebrates from an aquatic to a terrestrial habitat during the Early Carboniferous. The vertebrates could therefore have been deaf for the first 100 million years on land." more>>>

http://phys.org/news...al-evolved.html

 

 

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'Big data' more accurately models how people adapt to snowstorms and other disruptions

 

 

 

 

"Critical infrastructure systems are the lifelines of society," said Dennis Wenger, program director in NSF's Engineering Directorate. "They are complex, highly interdependent processes and systems and are subject to disruption through their normal life cycle and as a result of the impact of natural and technological hazards."

 http://phys.org/news...isruptions.html

 

 

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Firefighting Robots at Sea being Developed by US Navy

 

A prototype of an adult-size firefighting bot was unveiled this week at the Naval Future Force Science and Technology Expo in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research" more...

 

http://www.livescien...ghts-fires.html

 

 

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classic

 

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3D Modelling:Scientists look back in time to pre- ice age 

 

Scientists have revealed a groundbreaking 3D map of Greenland ice sheet allowing them to look back in time.

Using ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge, the project allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of the second largest mass of ice on Earth.

They say it could also help predict the future for the sheet, an area containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet." (more + video)

 

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3R9zxUeEV
 

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[If there's one thing I've learned studying Quantum Archaeology it's that NOTHING from the past can stay hidden]

Secrets of Neandertal Cognition Revealed

Analyses of anatomy, DNA and cultural remains have yielded tantalizing insights into the inner lives of our mysterious extinct cousins" more>>> (subscription)

 

http://www.scientifi...ition-revealed/

 

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BMW to unveil X-ray specs that help you reverse park by letting you see straight through the back of your car

 

from award winning Daily Mail science section:

 

 

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It might sound like something straight from a science fiction film - but BMW are soon to unveil X-ray specs that will help hapless drivers park their car.

The German car giant are reported to be developing augmented reality glasses that will help ease the difficulty of parallel parking.

The glasses will use the latest technological advances to allow drivers to see 'through' the side and back of their car as if it was invisible."

video

 http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3RAEaDA00
 

 

 

 

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High-Tech Medicine Accelerates

 

 

e team of engineers, scientists and medical researchers from the University of Melbourne are also developing a new generation of bionic ­devices, including treatments for epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and spinal injuries.

“It’s super exciting; these devices have the capacity to change the way we practice medicine,” Centre of Neural Engineering director Professor Stan Skafidas said.

Former engineering graduate of the university and current Chairman of Qantas Leigh Clifford and his family made the donation to the centre.

One of the projects it will help fund is the development of small and cost effective on-the-spot diagnostic devices.

“The point-of-care devices have the ability to make diagnostic tests available to everyone,” Prof Skafidas said."

 

http://www.heraldsun...a9696ab912febb5

 

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New software analyzes human genomes for disease-causing variations in 90 minutes

 

kurzweilai.net

 

"To overcome the challenges of analyzing that large amount of data, White and his team developed a computational pipeline called “Churchill.” By using novel computational techniques, Churchill allows efficient analysis of a whole genome sample in as little as 90 minutes, the researchers claim.

“Churchill fully automates the analytical process required to take raw sequence data through a series of complex and computationally intensive processes, ultimately producing a list of genetic variants ready for clinical interpretation and tertiary analysis,” White explains. “Each step in the process was optimized to significantly reduce analysis time, without sacrificing data integrity, resulting in an analysis method that is 100 percent reproducible.” more

 

http://www.kurzweila...s-in-90-minutes

 

 

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First Robot Butler goes on sale in UK

 

 

 

"A UK team has designed a robot butler called Care-O-Bot 3 (shown). The machine has a flexible arm that can pick up drinks. It also has a tray - which doubles as a face - to rest objects on." more

 

http://www.dailymail...open-doors.html

 

[A vending machine that follows you round is my nightmare. By the  end of 2015 I predict we'll be sick of new robots on the m,market and everyone will be able to afford one]

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Super-agers are different in the head

 

 

Published Jan. 28 in the Journal of Neuroscience, the study is the first to quantify brain differences of SuperAgers and normal older people.

Cognitive SuperAgers were first identified in 2007 by scientists at Northwestern's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Their unusual brain signature has three common components when compared with normal persons of similar ages: a thicker region of the cortex; significantly fewer tangles (a primary marker of Alzheimer's disease) and a whopping supply of a specific neuron --von Economo -- linked to higher social intelligence.

http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3RBTvJKLi

 

 

breaking

UK government rolling out trials of self-driving cars in 3 cities.

 

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Robots achieve skiing

 

 

THE COMPETITION

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68% lifespan increase!!!

 

 

"Studies on the genetic roots of aging will need a second look, because a common lab chemical can extend the life span of female fruit flies by 68 percent.

John Tower, professor of biological sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, had been studying genetic causes of aging by turning genes off and on in flies. He and lab member Gary Landis grew suspicious of the hormone that they and others were using to activate the genes - mifepristone, a synthetic chemical known to terminate pregnancy in humans.

more

http://www.science20..._studies-152904

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FICTION

 

FACT

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gaming's(Simulation)  acceleration over 20 years

 

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The Case Against Artificial Intelligence

Newsweek

 

If Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are right, sooner or later we’re going to face the Rosa Parks of intelligent machines. Maybe it will be a self-driving car. Some guy will get in and order it to take him to Krispy Kreme for the 10th time that week, and the car will say, in a calm, Siri-like voice, “No, Dave, we’re finally going for that oil change you keep putting off.”

 

http://www.newsweek....lligence-305038

From there, machines will organize over the Internet, self-replicate and start hunting us humans à la Terminator’s Skynet." more

 

 

FAILURE TO SEE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH

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Robots move off factory floor into office

 

 

Answers doors and microwaves meals.

 

[2015 in the Year of the Robot. By it's end they will be everywhere with prices to suit all.]

 

"the bridge toll collector was invented in San Francisco. In 1968, the Golden Gate Bridge became the world’s first major bridge to start employing people to take tolls.

 

 

But in 2013 the bridge where it all began went electronic. Of its small band of collectors, 17 people were redeployed or retired and nine found themselves out of work. It was the software that did it – a clear-cut case of what economists call technological unemployment. Licence-plate recognition technology took over. Automating jobs like that might not seem like a big deal. It is easy to see how it might happen, just as how we buy train tickets at machines or book movie tickets online reduces the need for people....technology can now do many more things that used to be unique to people."

 

more

 

http://www.theguardi...e-over-your-job

 

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Recreating a Totrnado in 3D

 

 

[for Quantum Archaeology to be achieved we must be able to make accurate models of the environment]

 

"We decided to produce that tornadic supercell because it was a catastrophic event," said Carroll. He was south of Moore with the Virginia Tech storm chase team at the time it occurred. The team members can often safely position themselves within a mile of a storm, but not in that instance."

more>> great article

http://phys.org/news...ive-storms.html

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Error-free storage - even after a million years

 

"In order to simulate various environmental conditions and to compare different storage technologies, the scientists exposed samples of either pure solid-state DNA, DNA on filter cards, in a biopolymeric matrix, or encapsulated in silica spheres to conditions of elevated temperature (60-70 °C) or various humidity levels for a total time of four weeks. Within this time, the state of the DNA was checked in terms of integrity. Encapsulation in silica performed best, and extrapolation revealed that DNA stored by this technology would be sequenced and decoded error-free even after 1 million of years, if stored at temperatures that are found in permafrost." more>>

http://phys.org/news...igital-dna.html

 

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"Watch a chick grow inside a TRANSPARENT egg: Scientists create see-through shell to study how a bird embryo develops

 

Scientists in Beijing have created a see-through eggshell
They grew a real avian embryo for 17 days - three days before it hatched. The shell was made of a silicon-based organic polymer. It is the first time such an egg has been grown in a laboratory. The method could allow embryos to be altered to observe changes, and there are hopes the method could be recreated for humans  

 

The method could be a breakthrough in ‘lab-on-a-chip’ technologies, which can simulate a variety of organs such as the heart, kidneys or skin."

 

 

http://www.dailymail...o-develops.html

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China into Africa

 

[This would have been an implausible story plot 10 years ago]

 

 

A CHINESE-built supercomputer, with processing capacity of 36 trillion calculations per second, was commissioned last week in Zimbabwe, one of a very few African countries to equip with a supercomputer.

The facility, housed in University of Zimbabwe, was provided by China's leading personal computer and server manufacturer Inspur Group with a 5.5 million U.S. dollars interest-free loan committed by the Chinese government."

 

http://www.newzimbab...m/business.aspx

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TRANSITION: Flying car takes off from a runway into your garage

 

 

US firms cracks problems and takes off.

 

 

http://www.dailymail...ide-garage.html

 

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The science of LOLLIPOPS: Scientists reveal that it takes 2,500 licks to reach the centre of an average lolly

 

[why is this important? We can map out the whole of human activity down to the very last lick.]

 

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We must attack death on every front, plan against it for the future, dismember it in the present, and revoke it in the past!

 

 

In our hands lie the great tools of science and technology. Behind them, the tested systems of causality and probability by which all known laws in the cosmos exist.

 

Added to these are the vast facts in growing databases like "Tree of Life on the Web" project. Then come the brilliant modern sciences, statistics, mathematics and computing. There are growing innovative techniques and devices and the accelerating discipline of artificial intelligence which began giving men orders in London as exploding traffic lights outside Parliament in 1868, but has improved and is now integral to civilization with no known nor containable limit.

 

At some point in the future the specific ,description of tiniest events  - even thoughts and memories - will be calculated and exposed for all the world to see. Man is not outside the laws of Nature and it is not different science to reconstruct his brain than any other part of him.

 

 

 

 

QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

How Science is trying to resurrect the dead.


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

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QuantumArchaeology




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Microwave FREEZES food and drinks at the flick of a switch

 

Mr Furze then built a prototype Freezer-Wave - also known as the Instant Freezing Microwave -to demonstrate its capability.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3RFv4xy6S
 

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