A vegetable garden that doesn't require sunshine or rain? Definitely a gardening gadget straight from The Jetsons.
See more:
http://www.brit.co/living/the-nano-garden-lets-you-grow-veggies-right-in-your-kitchen/
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There was Nuclear Warfare in the past, now the future is going to be all Technological Warfare. Interesting world we live in, Governments creating deadly computer viruses while we the citizens are being the drones that are fueling it.
Other countries will now think this is an act of war, this is terrifying :( Perhaps I am watching too much Fringe ...
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If you have kids or kids in your extended family this is a great program to show parents and teachers how to make use of all the online safety tools
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Support this initiative to save water in SA..
Only 300 shares needed until the tap is completely closed! Come on guys. Help #closethetap on http://closethetap.com/
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Communicate with coffee! The Textspresso prints any SMS you like directly from an Android phone.
More quirky finds from this week's BritList:
http://www.brit.co/living/the-britlist-an-8-bit-fireplace-dish-racks-that-water-plants-more/
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COLUMN by City Press editor Ferial Haffajee
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We are expecting some kind of announcement from the SKA Organisation tomorrow at ±13h00 RSA time. A press statement will be released on http://www.skatelescope.org/
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The combined Sowertech / +Enerweb team with +Nathi Tshabalala, +Marius Kruger and Lawrence Matjeni won the House4Hack organised African Utility Week Water Hackathon. +Nathi Tshabalala won the Galaxy Note sponsored by MTN (thanks +Yusuf Kaka). Well done guys!
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Wow... that is amazing!
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A former agent of the CIA has revealed that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has died of natural causes five years before the US announced his death.
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Surprising news. At first I thought it is a hoax.
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Thanks to +Toby Kurien for reminding me of this great initiative, which needs more support in SA. Tell your friends.
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The illusion of choice
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Good news for my Male friends!! Thought you should know that the book,
"Understanding Women" is now out in paperback.
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Left Brain vs Right Brain
» Left Brain:
I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A masters of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.
» Right Brain:
I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.
Do you have a dominant side to your brain or do you have a good mix of both? I feel there is always one side which stands out for everyone.
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A really interesting overview of the various religious beliefs, their sizes and relationships with each other. Some surprises in here. Some are a lot smaller than I thought.
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Tsunami warning and travel path from earthquake that happened in the Indian Ocean this morning.
Below is also a satellite image a couple hours before Indonesian earthquake.
South-Africa, Durban arrival is around 6-7pm tonight. Note: Epicenter is over 7,000kms away so effects should be small.
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#lol #projectglass
Google Glasses - How it could go wrong
This hilarious video does actually raise a good point against Google Glasses and it would be interesting to know how such technology will not lead to accidents like these? Any opinions on this from +Project Glass are most welcome.
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We think technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.
A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.
Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?
+Babak Parviz +Steve Lee +Sebastian Thrun
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(Thu09) My TED talk about the lessons I learned from Steve Jobs.
TEDxHarkerSchool - Guy Kawasaki - The 12 Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs
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I'll post the answer in the comments within a few days. Don't spoil it for everyone else!
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I'm amazed at the production value on this parody ad!
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"The US government shut down a series of court cases arising from a multimillion pound business dispute in order to conceal evidence of a damning intelligence failure shortly before the 9/11 attacks, MPs were told.
Moreover, the UK government is now seeking similar powers that could be used to prevent evidence of illegal acts and embarrassing failures from emerging in court, David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, told the Commons."
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"A mechanism for memory encoding has now been found."
Research team posits theory that memory could be encoded in the 3 dimensional structure of the neuron cell.
"Memory is attributed to strengthened synaptic connections among particular brain neurons, yet synaptic membrane components are transient, whereas memories can endure. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and ‘hard-wired’ elsewhere, e.g. at molecular levels within the post-synaptic neuron."
"The team looked into structures at the cytoskeletal level of brain structure. They found components that fit together and were capable of creating the information processing and storage capacity that the brain needs to form and retain memory."
Microtubules fill the interiors of our brain's neurons, especially in axons and dendrites where most of the activity takes place. We undertook to find out if this similarity is accidental or not. This led to the generation of a very accurate computational model of the interaction between CaMKII and microtubules. It looks to us that a mechanism for memory encoding has now been found.
The cytoskeleton (also CSK) is a cellular "scaffolding" or "skeleton" contained within a cell's cytoplasm and is made out of protein. The cytoskeleton is present in all cells; it was once thought to be unique to eukaryotes, but recent research has identified the prokaryotic cytoskeleton.
Cytoskeleton Microtubules
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Btub.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoskeleton#Microtubules
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-memories-encoded-brains.html
Figures from their paper:
https://plus.google.com/109667384864782087641/posts/BSgTpqrFeoa
Their paper:
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002421
The team:
Stuart Hameroff
Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Travis J. A. Craddock
Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Jack A. Tuszynski
Department of Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Canada
This may also eventually lead to a better understanding of the mechanism behind Alzheimer's disease and it's progression:
"Another paper has been just accepted for publication, based on our collaboration with University of Arizona, Harvard and Boston University, where we propose a molecular mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease progression."
And finally there's another paper related to anesthetic molecules blocking the brian's microtubules:
"A third paper in this series stemming from Travis Craddock’s PhD thesis discusses the effects of anesthetic molecules on memory blockage in brain’s microtubules."
This is another paper I found from 2010 or so from the same group:
“MEMORY BYTES” — MOLECULAR MATCH FOR CaMKII PHOSPHORYLATION ENCODING OF MICROTUBULE LATTICES
http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/documents/membytespublished.pdf
All about microtubules:
https://plus.google.com/109667384864782087641/posts/ASco6RXSCjU
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This'll be a motivational poster soon...
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wow!!
A small company called ChamTech Operations based in Utah has developed a nanoparticle mix that can be sprayed on any vertical object—like a tree—and make that object act as a high-powered antenna.
Video in link:
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This Mindblowing Photo of a World Map In a Water Drop Is Real
(photo réalisée sans trucages !)
You may think that this image recently posted on Reddit is a 3D rendering or some Photoshop trickery, but it's a real photo. A refraction of a world map through a water drop.
It was taken by Markus Reugels, who is an expert on capturing liquids in an awesome way, using a special rig created by himself. He spends weeks in creating images like these, taking about five hundred pictures before obtaining a couple of perfect images. [Flickr, Edemiya and Daily Mail via Reddit]
Source : http://gizmodo.com/5872456/this-mindblowing-photo-of-a-world-map-in-a-water-drop-is-real
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1,000 Education Apps Organized By Subject & Price
Sure, there are plenty of apps you can use in education. Apple has a whole category dedicated to education in the App store. But how do you really know which ones are worth downloading, or possibly even paying for?
TCEA (Texas Computer Education Association) regularly tests available apps and recommends apps that teachers may be using.The list is organized in Google Docs by subject area and free apps are color coded in white.
To View The TCEA-Recommended iPad Apps ► goo.gl/tdsKj
The List for just Interactive Books ► goo.gl/J2vQ7
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Awesome video! Really worth watching!! Last Monday, 30 Dolphins stranded at Arraial do Cabo, Brazil and were quickly saved by local people at the beach.
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Scientists to Build a Virtual Brain Henry Markram
A team of Swiss researchers believe they can build a virtual human brain using advances made by neuroscience over the last decade, from modelling the structures of ion channels to the mechanisms of conscious decision-making. "First the scientists must decide on the volume of brain tissue to construct, and, second, they must distribute mathematical models of neurons throughout this volume in a manner consistent with experimental data from real human brains." The project is currently awaiting $1.3 billion from a European science fund.
The plan is controversial, some scientists do not think the plan will work. Others believe that dealing with a virtual brain will prove just as complex and mysterious as working with a real one. Still, the Swiss team envisions a computer that will learn and gradually develop more complex cognitive abilities just like a human brain. If the project gets the go-ahead, researchers have promised to publish the code used to program the brain, meaning limitless experiments could be run on the software, testing virtual drugs against the debilitating diseases that affect the mind.
Article Live Science: http://goo.gl/5F1ua
Below from a TEDTalk from 2009 Henry Markram speaks to the basics of the plans for a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses. (16:49)
#ScienceSunday +Allison Sekuler and +Robby Bowles
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Science Circles and Helpful Google+ Links: http://goo.gl/i604C via +Chris Robinson
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Admit it, you're singing it right? :D
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Seriously what the hell is wrong with Merikans sticking their fucking noses in someone elses business because of their own political shit-holes they find themselves in.
It is business. Finish and klaar. Plus this pull out will mean a huge financial loss for a shit-load of poor black people in this country whose life savings are plowed into a special purpose investment vehicle in MTN.
So dear Mark Wallace this is not the US, and neither is Iran: Go fuck yourself or pay in the cash you half-witted troglodyte activist. Maybe all companies should pull out of the US seeing that US spies on its own citizens etc as well, pisses on human rights and invaded enough countries to make Iran look like a bunch of peace loving tree huggers.
No "your freedom is not hated" , it is your bullshit attitude and self-centred bullying.
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TED 2012 Favorites: Robots that fly...and cooperate
I found this TED talk to be impressive not only in terms of the technology being demonstrated (amazing "news from the future") but also as a masterpiece of teaching. Vijay Kumar doesn't just give a stunning demo of his cooperative flying robots, but also explains how they work. It's a masterpiece of teaching. This is a model TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
As more of the videos from this year's TED go up, I will share the talks that I found most compelling.
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Crazy concept of what an iPad could become one day...
iPad 3 Concept Features
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Venting.
I don't think I can talk about "security" people without cursing, so you might want to avert your eyes now.
I gave OpenSUSE a try, because it worked so well at install-time on the Macbook Air, but I have to say, I've had enough. There is no way in hell I can honestly suggest that to anybody else any more.
I first spent weeks arguing on a bugzilla that the security policy of requiring the root password for changing the timezone and adding a new wireless network was moronic and wrong.
I think the wireless network thing finally did get fixed, but the timezone never did - it still asks for the admin password.
And today Daniela calls me from school, because she can't add the school printer without the admin password.
Whoever moron thought that it's "good security" to require the root password for everyday things like this is mentally diseased.
So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place.
.. and now I need to find a new distro that actually works on the Macbook Air.
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Kids, this is why you should take science classes. Science is cool, period :-)
PS: This device doesn't float any object. You have to place the special magnetic disc that comes with the unit, inside of the objects you want to float.
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Apple just sent out invitations to an event next Wednesday to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Besides the time and location information, the invite only says “We have something you really need to see. And touch.” The words are superimposed on what is almost certainly an iPad.
It’s all but a done deal now: Apple will unveil the iPad 3 on March 7. The event is due to begin at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (1 p.m. ET)
More Information: http://on.mash.to/y8ekNG
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Google is searching for designer and engineer responsible for augmented-reality mapping. HUD glasses are bit nearer...
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Introducing the GALAXY Beam, an ultra-bright 15 lumens projector smartphone that offers an unforgettable shared experience for playing multimedia content anytime, anywhere.
In album Samsung GALAXY Beam (10 photos)
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