Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer

Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer: "OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 29, 2012 — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers."

Most U.S. Drones Openly Broadcast Secret Video Feeds

Most U.S. Drones Openly Broadcast Secret Video Feeds | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn’t secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, Danger Room has learned. The majority of the aircraft still broadcast their classified video streams “in the clear” — without encryption. With a minimal amount of equipment and know-how, militants can see what America’s drones see."

Huge Saturn storm keeps surprising scientists

Huge Saturn storm keeps surprising scientists: "A massive storm that encircled Saturn nearly two years ago was even more powerful than scientists had thought, new research reveals."

Could Clones of 'Cloud Atlas' Be in Our Future?

Could Clones of 'Cloud Atlas' Be in Our Future? : Discovery News: "The technology’s possible benefits for humanity will likely prevent countries from banning it."

Return of the Dragon: SpaceX Mission a Success

Return of the Dragon: SpaceX Mission a Success : Discovery News: "The private spaceflight company has completed its first supply trip to the space station, splashing down off Baja California."

Cylindrical UFO Videotaped By Kentucky Amateur Astronomer

Cylindrical UFO Videotaped By Kentucky Amateur Astronomer Allen Epling (VIDEO): "Cylindrical UFO Videotaped By Kentucky Amateur Astronomer"

Hezbollah threatens Galilee if war comes

Hezbollah threatens Galilee if war comes: "Analyst says stakes high, conflict would be 'decisive'"

Al-Qaeda leader calls on Muslims to kidnap Westerners

Al-Qaeda leader calls on Muslims to kidnap Westerners - FRANCE 24: "AFP - Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Egyptians to restart their revolution to press for Islamic law and called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, the SITE Intelligence Group said Friday."

Watch: Humanlike DARPA Robot Climbs and Leaps from Obstacles with Mad Skills

Watch: Humanlike DARPA Robot Climbs and Leaps from Obstacles with Mad Skills | TIME.com: "Picture an eerily human-like tangle of metal, wiring and lights, cables dangling from somewhere above like puppet strings. Imagine it springing to life, lifting a long, lanky leg that bends 180 degrees at the hips like the eerie biomechanical Gekko in Metal Gear Solid 4, then placing one foot on a high bench and flexing its ankle, probing, testing, as it leans its thick cage of a torso forward, its arms splayed against plastic and wood walls on either side."

Could neuro-feedback and brain implants cause a technological singularity?

Could neuro-feedback and brain implants cause a technological singularity?: "There are multiple potential paths to a technological singularity. Although many people think a singularity would result if computers acquired sentience and general intelligence, a singularity might also happen if methods were found to increase the IQ of individuals and populations. In Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World , the economist James Miller argues that a technological singularity is highly probable in the 21st century."

Trick or threat? National security to be tested on Halloween in simulation using zombies

Trick or threat? National security to be tested on Halloween in simulation using zombies | StarTribune.com: "SAN DIEGO - Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors: An untold number of so-called zombies are coming to a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special ops, soldiers, police, firefighters and others to prepare them for their worst nightmares."

Mind Over Machine: Use Your Brain Waves to Control Your Computer

Mind Over Machine: Use Your Brain Waves to Control Your Computer - Businessweek: "When it comes to controlling our computers, the last five years has seen incredible improvements in user interfaces including amazing touchscreens and much more natural vocal recognition. Now a Toronto company wants to take the UI to the next level—by going directly to the brain. You think it, and the Muse headband will make it happen under very limited circumstances."

The Consequences of Machine Intelligence

The Consequences of Machine Intelligence - Moshe Y. Vardi - The Atlantic: "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?"

Design Evolution

Design Evolution | Oscillator, Scientific American Blog Network: "Using the words evolution and design in the same paragraph, let alone together in the title of a blog post, can make biologists very uncomfortable. Design is something that humans do on purpose, and natural selection doesn’t “do” anything on purpose. Anthropomorphizing and giving intention to evolution is a big time no-no.



Synthetic biologists, however, talk about design all the time. We design genetic networks and metabolic pathways and we try to understand the logic of how cells have evolved to develop better “design principles.” We use evolution to help us optimize enzymes and pathways, designing schemes and selections for directed evolution, and we worry about what will happen to the products and technologies built with synthetic biology if they continue to evolve."

Human genetic modification experiment in Oregon shows promise, risks, experts say

Human genetic modification experiment in Oregon shows promise, risks, experts say | OregonLive.com: "Future generations could be stripped of mutations like hereditary blindness or maternal diabetes, after a breakthrough study at Oregon Health & Science University. But the new technique is also one short step from genetic design of future generations, says Marcy Darnovksy of the California-based Center for Genetics and Society. "These powerful new technologies have a whole bunch of wonderful and appropriate uses – and a number of ways they can be misused." "

Hacking the President’s DNA - The Atlantic

Hacking the President’s DNA - Andrew Hessel, Marc Goodman and Steven Kotler - The Atlantic: "The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for the creation of personalized bioweapons that could take down a president and leave no trace."

Why werewolves give us the willies

Why werewolves give us the willies - Cosmic Log: "Linda Godfrey is so sure about the existence of weird walking wolves that she's written a book titled "Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America." In more than 300 pages, she lays out dozens of stories about sightings of nasty-looking beasts running around on their hairy hind legs. Scientists are unconvinced — but they do admit that humans are virtually hard-wired to watch out for wolves on the darkness."

U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War

U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War | Danger Room | Wired.com: "The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror havens of Yemen and Somalia."

A massive and illegal geoengineering project has been detected off Canada's west coast

A massive and illegal geoengineering project has been detected off Canada's west coast: "A private company backed by a controversial U.S. businessman has unilaterally conducted the world's most significant geoengineering project to date. Russ George, in conjunction with a First Nations village on Haida Gwaii, has dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean in a technique known as ocean fertilization. The experiment, which is in violation of two United Nations moratoria, has outraged environmental, legal, and civic groups."

Declassified: Predator Drone Turns Itself On At Military Base

Declassified: Predator Drone Turns Itself On At Military Base - BlackListedNews.com: "Recently, The Washington Post has been running an investigative report on the U.S. military’s shadow wars throughout the Horn of Africa.  This report includes an article series on drones, and the most recent installment of this series reveals various declassified incident reports in which drones have went haywire, crashing, misfiring, and in one case a drone even turned itself on."

Mass UFO sighting in southern Illinois

Mass UFO sighting in southern Illinois: "Several witnesses observed an unidentified aerial object in the skies over southwestern Illinois on the night of Tuesday, October 23."

Huge 'Zombie' Alien Planet Rises from the Dead

Huge 'Zombie' Alien Planet Rises from the Dead | Space.com: "An enormous alien planet that some astronomers thought was dead and buried has come back to life, a new study suggests."

Central Banks Game Plan: One World Currency

Central Banks Game Plan: One World Currency: "Only those in total denial would claim that the world economies could grow their way out of the debt bubble. Mathematically, the rules of compound interest always destroy the purchasing value of fiat currencies. The era of zero interest rates will end. When the cost to finance debts reverts to normal levels, the bleeding will become a gusher. The world reserve currency status of Federal Reserve Notes will come under enormous pressure. As the central banks consolidate their control over international commerce and the economies of individual countries, the coin of the new realm will shift to a replacement for the U.S. Dollar"

Secret Spying and a Contactee

Secret Spying and a Contactee | Mysterious Universe: "In the early to mid 1950s, numerous people, all across the planet, claimed contact with human-looking ETs from far-away worlds. The aliens in question were usually seen attired in one-piece-outfits, while sporting heads of long blond hair. Not only that: the cosmic visitors assured those of us who they deemed worthy of contact that they were deeply concerned by our warlike ways. They wished us to disarm our nuclear arsenals, live in peace and harmony with one another, and elevate ourselves to whole new spiritual levels. The aliens in question became known as the Space Brothers; while those whose lives were forever changed by their encounters with such alleged extra-terrestrial entities were an elite body of people known as the Contactees."

15 Signs The U.S. Economy Is Falling Apart

15 Signs The U.S. Economy Is Falling Apart - BlackListedNews.com: "If you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the United States is about to start getting worse again."

Texas doomsday exhibit to demystify Maya calenda

Texas doomsday exhibit to demystify Maya calenda | Fox News: "HOUSTON –  Some might prepare for the end of the world by checking off items on their bucket list. But at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, curators are launching an exhibit designed to demystify the Maya and debunk the myth that the ancient culture predicted doomsday on Dec. 21, 2012."

Eco-grenades to drones: World offers high-tech military gear to US Army

Eco-grenades to drones: World offers high-tech military gear to US Army: "From eco-friendly hand grenades to next-generation aircraft for special forces, defense vendors from around the world brought their best to catch the eye of the U.S. Army this week."

'Black Widow' Pulsar Is Fastest Star Killer

'Black Widow' Pulsar Is Fastest Star Killer : Discovery News: "An astronomical fishing expedition using data from NASA's Fermi gamma ray space telescope has landed scientists a big and unprecedented catch -- a neutron star spinning 390 times per second.



The pulsing neutron star, or pulsar, is not alone. Its companion is a very dense star at least eight times more massive than Jupiter but with only 60 percent of its girth. Astronomers believe the companion, which is 30 times as dense as the sun, is most likely the compacted remains of a star that has been orbiting the pulsar for eons."

Fish Caught in Fukushima as Tainted as a Year Ago, Study Says

Fish Caught in Fukushima as Tainted as a Year Ago, Study Says - Bloomberg: "Fish caught in waters off the coast of northern Japan, where an earthquake triggered a radiation leak at the Fukushima power plant, are still as contaminated today as a year ago, a study found."

Boeing Successfully Tests Microwave Missile That Takes Out Electronic Targets

Boeing Successfully Tests Microwave Missile That Takes Out Electronic Targets « CBS St. Louis: "HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (CBS St. Louis) — Boeing successfully tests a new missile that can take out electronic targets with little collateral damage."

The Merry Monk - Transhumanism – Are You Ready?

The Merry Monk - Transhumanism – Are You Ready?: "Transhumanism is coming. From the computer in my father-in-law’s chest to the early adoption of RFID chips in humans to our growing dependence on Mother Internet to advances in genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces, all signs point to the approaching wave of the future–a time when humanity merges with its technology.



There are high hopes that this wave will carry “humanity plus” to omniscience, omnipotence and even immortality."

WIRED UK Transhuman Week

WIRED UK Transhuman Week: "In what certainly will become a landmark in the history of transhumanism and writing about transhumanism, the United Kingdom version of technology magazine WIRED recently ran a full week focus on the subject of transhumanism dubbed Transhuman Week. Inspired at least in part by the occasion of the 2012 Paralympics Games, the series includes roughly 20 quite interesting articles on a variety of transhumanist topics."

Could injecting yourself with blood of the young reverse the aging process?

Could injecting yourself with blood of the young reverse the aging process?: "It would appear that the Slovak-Hungarian "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory may have been on to something: Researchers have shown that it is possible to reverse cognitive decline in old mice by injecting them with blood from the young. Elderly mice who were given transfusions of young blood were shown to exhibit improved learning skills and memory — and at a level comparable to much younger mice. Should the same effect apply to humans, it could represent a novel way to treat neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's."

Is this blob dinosaur DNA?

Is this blob dinosaur DNA? | TG Daily: "A US researcher is claiming to have found further evidence that ancient dinosaur proteins - and even DNA - may have been preserved until the present day."

Gene Genesis: Scientists Observe New Genes Evolving from Mutated Copies

Gene Genesis: Scientists Observe New Genes Evolving from Mutated Copies: Scientific American: "Researchers have observed in an experiment the exact steps bacterial genes take to evolve a new ability, unexpectedly adding a new twist on an old model"

Real life Star Trek tractor beam developed - but it won't be dragging space ships any time soon

Real life Star Trek tractor beam developed - but it won't be dragging space ships any time soon | Mail Online: "Star Date 24102012: We have detected evidence of a working tractor beam.



Two physicists working at New York university have developed a technique for using beams of light to draw a particle toward a source and claim to have demonstrated it experimentally.

Professor David Grier and David Ruffner, a graduate student, working at the Department of Physics and Centre for Soft Matter Research say they have realised the Star Trek-style technology - only on a miniscule scale."

The Milky Way as you've never seen it before: New pictures from nine GIGAPIXEL camera reveal our galaxy in unprecedented detail

The Milky Way as you've never seen it before: New pictures from nine GIGAPIXEL camera reveal our galaxy in unprecedented detail | Mail Online: "A new striking nine-gigapixel image has captured a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way - ten times more than previously observed."

Did Easter Island's statues 'walk' into place? Controversial theory suggests the megaliths were moved as one would position a fridge

Did Easter Island's statues 'walk' into place? Controversial theory suggests the megaliths were moved as one would position a fridge | Mail Online: "Easter Island's massive stone statues once walked, claims a controversial new theory that explains how the megaliths were put into place. Nearly 1,000 statues stand on the remote Polynesian island's 63 square miles, but much about their origin and the people who built them remains a mystery."

Incredible robots: The military's marvelous unmanned machines

Incredible robots: The military's marvelous unmanned machines | Fox News: "Our military's robot reinforcements come in all shapes and sizes: robots that scout the enemy, defuse bombs, and lead the frontline. From killer drones to cockroach spies, the future of our military might lies in the metal hands of the machines."

Swarm Bots and Drones Team Up

Swarm Bots and Drones Team Up : Discovery News: "An army of self-assembling swarm bots can get together and do certain jobs. But because each of them has a unique and limited perspective of the world, they could always use a little help. Enter the overhead quadrotor drone. This guy has the advantage of a bird's eye view of the area and can coordinate the team to work together more efficiently to overcome obstacles or perform tasks."

Earth's Magnetic Field Made Quick Flip-Flop

Earth's Magnetic Field Made Quick Flip-Flop : Discovery News: "Earth's magnetic field reversed extremely rapidly soon after modern humans first arrived in Europe, completely flip-flopping in less than a thousand years."

Hyperfast Stars Point to Black Hole Slingshot

Hyperfast Stars Point to Black Hole Slingshot : Discovery News: "The black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is by far the nearest such supermassive gravitational monster to our sun, yet observing this space-time maelstrom is a challenge because it is 27,000 light-years away and obscured in visible light by intervening star clouds and dust lanes in the galactic plane."

Military's New Radio: Laser Beams

Military's New Radio: Laser Beams : Discovery News: "Infrared laser light carries much more information than Wi-Fi and is more secure."

NATO Using Al Qaeda Rat Lines to Flood Syria With Foreign Terrorists

NATO Using Al Qaeda Rat Lines to Flood Syria With Foreign Terrorists - BlackListedNews.com: "The discredited and now obscure, defected Syrian ambassador Nawaf Fares, had claimed mid-summer of 2012 that the Syrian government had been behind the influx of foreign terrorists that entered Iraq during the later phases of the US-British occupation of Iraq. These terrorists took part in campaigns of sectarian-driven violence that divided and destroyed an already devastated Iraq. Fares spectacularly claimed that he himself was involved in organizing terrorist death squads in a hamhanded attempt to implicate the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."

5 Reasons to End Our War on Germs Before it Kills Us All

5 Reasons to End Our War on Germs Before it Kills Us All | Alternet: "Our war against germs is doing more harm than good."

Mystery as Scots couple capture spooky green figure on camera

Mystery as Scots couple capture spooky green figure on camera - Daily Record: "A STUNNED couple yesterday told how they captured a spooky green man on camera at their home.



Gary and Amanda Linney said the strange figure was spotted running away from their cottage as they experimented with a new camera. The bizarre snaps emerged just days after another family claimed to have filmed a UFO floating above their house about 25 miles away."

A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House

A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism: "A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials."

Big Bang and religion mixed in Cern debate

BBC News - Big Bang and religion mixed in Cern debate: "Some of Europe's most prominent scientists have opened a debate with philosophers and theologians over the origins of everything."

Navy's Top Geek Says Laser Arsenal Is Just Two Years Away

Navy's Top Geek Says Laser Arsenal Is Just Two Years Away | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Never mind looming defense cuts or residual technical challenges. The Navy’s chief futurist is pushing up the anticipated date for when sailors can expect to use laser weapons on the decks of their ships, and raising expectations for robotic submarines."

Memoto: The camera that takes pictures of your whole life - then puts them online

Memoto: The camera that takes pictures of your whole life - then puts them online | Mail Online: "Life is full of scenes that you wish you could remember forever. Invariably though, even with the fastest responding digital cameras, cherished moments often pass before they can be pictured.



That said, it is questionable whether you would want a camera attached to you snapping virtually every moment of your life and transmitting the pictures to the internet where they will be stored forever. In case you do, however, a Swedish tech startup has developed just such a device, and the service to go with it."

A Household of Wi-Fi Bulbs Controlled By Remote

A Household of Wi-Fi Bulbs Controlled By Remote : Discovery News: "In one of the older "Treehouse of Horror" episodes from The Simpsons, Pierce Brosnan voiced a murderous home automation system. Back then, the idea of home automation was practically a dream (or a nightmare) to average folks, but now it's becoming an attainable reality. This set of Wi-Fi-controlled lightbulbs from Greenwave Reality will give homeowners control over their home's entire lighting system with a remote control."

37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has Been To Millions Of Desperate American Families

37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has Been To Millions Of Desperate American Families: "Over the past decade, things have steadily gotten worse for American families no matter what our politicians have tried.  Poverty and government dependence continue to rise.  The cost of living continues to go up and incomes continue to go down.  It is truly frightening to think about what this country is going to look like if current trends continue. The following are 37 facts that show how cruel this economy has been to millions of desperate American families..."

U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance

U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance | Politics and Law - CNET News: "United Nations report calls for Internet surveillance, saying lack of "internationally agreed framework for retention of data" is a problem, as are open Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes, and libraries."

Patents for genetically engineered chimps 'perverse'

Patents for genetically engineered chimps 'perverse' - Public Service Europe: "The recent granting of three patents for genetically engineered chimpanzees to be used for pharmaceutical research has been branded as "perverse" by a coalition of campaign groups, which claims that the organisations involved have "lost any respect for animals"."

The Coming Global Disorder

« The Coming Global Disorder Commentary Magazine: "How does global order come undone? How do the arrangements and understandings through which war is generally avoided, commerce generally protected, and the cause of civilization generally advanced, cease to function?"

Rapture of the nerds: will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race?

Rapture of the nerds: will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race? | The Verge: "A gathering of experts on artificial intelligence becomes a search for deeper meaning"

University bans Christian group

University bans Christian group: "Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) has lost its official recognition as a Tufts Community Union (TCU) student group over alleged discriminatory clauses in the group’s constitutional requirements for its leaders."

Google reveals how Star Trek inspired its vision for the future of computing

Google reveals how Star Trek inspired its vision for the future of computing | Mail Online: "A 'Star Trek' assistant that can translate any language, answer any question, and never needs to be taken out of your pocket has been hailed as Google's future by one of its leading engineers.



Amit Singhal, Google vice-president and senior search engineer, and the man who wrote the firm's search algorithm, said that the company has been inspired by sci-fi series Star Trek to develop the 'ubiquitous computing' concept, where gadgets woven into users' daily lives seamlessly respond to questions.



'Why should someone stop their conversation because they're missing a tiny piece of information that you need to take that conversation further?' said Mr Singhal."

Humanoid robots that may one day become our friends, perform surgery and even beat humans at football

Humanoid robots that may one day become our friends, perform surgery and even beat humans at football | Mail Online: "New generation of humanoids being developed in Bristol and Essex labs - Some can dance, speak 20 languages and react with life-like expressions - One could be controlled to carry out operations anywhere in the world - Others could locate people trapped in caves or clean our sewage systems"

No planet-eating black hole from atom smasher, court says

No planet-eating black hole from atom smasher, court says: "A woman concerned that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will create black holes and destroy the Earth lost a court appeal to shut the atom smasher down last week."

3-D Printing Changes Everything

3-D Printing Changes Everything: Gotta-See Video : Discovery News: "Here, the BBC explores how industrial 3-D printers can go from a nylon plastic powder to any conceivable shape. 3-D printing could revolutionize almost any industry. If the technology is taken to a ridiculously science fiction-like conclusion, you could print everything from a pizza to a new car. And there are people working on both."

Drone War Creating More Enemies Than it Destroys

Drone War Creating More Enemies Than it Destroys: "In the pre-dawn hours Thursday Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. drone turned a farmhouse in rural Yemen into a smoldering heap of charred wood that served as a bier for at least eight of those “suspected militants.”"

CHARLI Robot Gangnam Style

The CHARLI series humanoid robot is developed as a research platform to study bipedal walking and autonomous behaviors for humanoid robots.

Mystery in Gulf of Mexico: Why is oil leaking from Deepwater disaster site?

Mystery in Gulf of Mexico: Why is oil leaking from Deepwater disaster site? - CSMonitor.com: "Oil identified as coming from the Macondo well, site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 100 gallons per day. The Coast Guard is investigating."

Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism

Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism | Lincoln Cannon: "If you're a Mormon, you should be a Transhumanist. That's my contention. I've suggested before that "Mormon Transhumanist" is not redundant, but "Transhumanist Mormon" is redundant because Mormonism mandates Transhumanism. In other words, you can be a Transhumanist without being a Mormon, but you can't be a Mormon without being a Transhumanist, at least implicitly. Of course, this is a controversial claim, but here's the basic argument, reflecting Mormon scripture:"

Is a cocktail of pesticides wiping out our bees? Insects are being left confused by chemicals

Is a cocktail of pesticides wiping out our bees? Insects are being left confused by chemicals | Mail Online: "Widely-used pesticides are confusing bees and killing colonies, research suggests.

Bumblebees exposed to the crop chemicals gathered less pollen, were more likely to get lost and their young were more likely to perish, the British study found.

Although pesticides have been blamed for the decline of bees before, the study is the first to look at the effect of a combination of chemicals and at the sort of levels typically seen in the countryside."

Geoengineering Schemes Split Scientists

Geoengineering Schemes Split Scientists : Discovery News: "A do-it-yourself ocean-seeding plan landed one man in hot water, but credible geoengineering plans are getting a closer look."

Two Months Until the Mayan Doomsday Nonevent

Two Months Until the Mayan Doomsday Nonevent : Discovery News: "For some reason, people really want to remind the world that today (Oct. 21) marks two months before the biggest nonevent in recent history. Even more perplexing is the fact that others seem to really want the world to end in 61 days time."

Britain on mission to tap Moon water

Britain on mission to tap Moon water - Telegraph: "A mission to land Europe’s first spacecraft on the Moon is to search for water that could be used to help astronauts survive during future manned visits to the lunar surface."

Government wakes up to EMP threat

Government wakes up to EMP threat: "After several delays and repeatedly ignored warnings, the federal government is starting to recognize the threat posed to national security by an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, event."

Fish break law of physics, become invisible

Fish break law of physics, become invisible -- Science & Technology -- Sott.net: "Silver-colored fish, such as herrings, sardines and sprat, are breaking a basic law of physics, according to a new study published in Nature Photonics. The ability allows the fish to become invisible to predators. "

Synthetic biology raises playing God fears

Synthetic biology raises playing God fears - Times Of India: "HYDERABAD: Is it safe to let humans play God and create new organisms - animals and plants - that have never existed in Mother Nature? The ongoing UN Convention on Biodiversity here is going to address this question on Friday evening, when it decides if countries need to put their heads together to study the new field of synthetic biology."

Cyber experts engage on DARPA's Plan X

Cyber experts engage on DARPA's Plan X: "When the team behind DARPA's Plan X mapped out where it wanted to go with research in the development of cyber capabilities and platforms, it knew the DARPA approach to problem solving included soliciting input from the leading experts in the field. On October 15 and 16, DARPA outlined its plans for Plan X to a packed house of potential developers and performers and solicited their feedback."

Is this the Armageddon virus?

Is this the Armageddon virus? - IOL SciTech | IOL.co.za: "London - The symptoms appear suddenly with a headache, high fever, abdominal and joint pain, and vomiting. As the illness progresses, patients can develop large areas of bruising and uncontrolled bleeding. In at least 30 percent of cases, Crimean-Congo viral haemorrhagic fever is fatal."

"The Mars' Strain" --Searching for Martian DNA

"The Mars' Strain" --Searching for Martian DNA: "MIT's Technology Review reports that two renowned entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in an effort to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. In a first-ever search for for the first extraterrestrial genome, Human genome-pioneer J. Craig Venter and Jonathan Rothberg, founder of Ion Torrent, a DNA sequencing company have announced seperately that they are developing machines capable of sequencing and beaming back DNA data from Mars."

Search for alien life about to step up a gear

Search for alien life about to step up a gear | Reuters: "(Reuters) - It remains in the realm of science fiction for now but the discovery of a new planet just four light years away will reignite a race to find a twin of planet Earth that may host extraterrestrial life."

More Believe In Space Aliens Than In God According To U.K. Survey

More Believe In Space Aliens Than In God According To U.K. Survey: "More than 33 million U.K. citizens believe in extraterrestrial life, compared to just over 27 million -- less than half the country -- who believe in God.



That's the result of an online survey of 1,359 adults who were asked a variety of questions ranging from belief in alien visits to Earth, suspicions of UFO cover-ups, belief in extraterrestrials vs. belief in God, and whether or not men actually landed on the moon."

New FJP leader in Egypt calls for Sharia Law

New FJP leader in Egypt calls for Sharia l... JPost - Middle East: "According to AFP, in his weekly message to supporters, Badie asserted that “The jihad for the recovery of Jerusalem is a duty for all Muslims,” stressing that the city’s conquest “will not be done through negotiations or at the United Nations.”"

UFO Sightings Pose Danger to Aviation

UFO Sightings Pose Danger to Aviation - US News and World Report: "Flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects can distract pilots and cause accidents"

Transhumanism Agenda Is Satan’s Counterfeit Ye Shall Be As Gods

Transhumanism Agenda Is Satan’s Counterfeit Ye Shall Be As Gods | johnthewitness: "In this article, we will discuss Transhumanism in relation to Satan’s great plan. Transhumanism is an Illuminati inspired movement based upon the re-engineering of mankind using advanced technology. It seeks to improve the human body beyond its natural capabilities. It seeks to improve human intelligence using biochips along with the merging of mind with machine. Transhumanism desires a technologically advanced human species with the end goal of eliminating aging, so humans will be immortal."

Sun unleashes huge solar plasma wave

Sun unleashes huge solar plasma wave - Technology & science - Space - Space.com | NBC News: "A giant wave of super-hot solar plasma larger than the Earth erupted from the sun on Friday in a spectacular display captured by a NASA spacecraft."

Replicators on the Horizon: The astonishing 'flowering 'micromachines that can build themselves

The astonishing 'flowering 'micromachines that can build themselves | Mail Online: "Tiny machines that could do everything from carry drugs through the body to keep our clothes clean have been a staple of science fiction for decades.



However, researchers have now made a major breakthrough in mass producing them - by creating tiny 3D structures that 'bloom' like a flower, bending themselves into shape.

Researchers say the technique could now be used to mass produce tiny self-assembling nanomachines."

The incredible Japanese 'wolverine frog' with spikes that shoot out of its false thumb

The incredible Japanese 'wolverine frog' with spikes that shoot out of its false thumb | Mail Online: "Combat-ready spikes which shoot from fingers are a key weapon for Wolverine, one of the X-Men comic book heroes.



However, Japanese researchers have found an unlikely animal with similar capabilities - a rare frog.

The researchers found the Otton frog uses spikes which protrude from a false thumb for both combat and mating."

New generation of poison-resistant mutant rats on the rise in Britain 'due to cuts in council pest control'

New generation of poison-resistant mutant rats on the rise in Britain 'due to cuts in council pest control' | Mail Online: "A new generation of mutant rats is on the rise in Britain that is immune to commonly sold poisons, scientists have warned."

Your move, creep: Researchers building RoboCop policeman

Your move, creep: Researchers building RoboCop policeman | Crave - CNET: "Researchers at Florida International University's Discovery Lab are working with a member of the U.S. Navy Reserves to build telepresence robots that could patrol while being controlled by disabled police officers and military vets. In a sense, they would be hybrid man-machine cops, like RoboCop."

New World Order Education: Useful Engines in the “One World Schoolhouse”

New World Order Education: Useful Engines in the “One World Schoolhouse”: "As an institutional process definitively influenced over the past century by the world’s most wealthy and influential figures, public schools equip individuals with a performativity code that functions along the lines of how Thomas behaves for his overseer, with the implicit knowledge that life has largely been planned; his intellectual and creative faculties reduced to an instrumental motivation to merely stay “on track.”"

New HAL Exoskeleton: Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit to Be Used In Fukushima Cleanup

New HAL Exoskeleton: Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit to Be Used In Fukushima Cleanup: "The latest version of HAL has remained brain-controlled but evolved to a full body robot suit that protects against heavy radiation without feeling the weight of the suit. Eventually it could be used by workers dismantling the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant."

UFO seen hovering in night sky spooks Aberdeenshire family [VIDEO]

UFO seen hovering in night sky spooks Aberdeenshire family [VIDEO] | Scotland | News | STV: "An Aberdeenshire family were left terrified after a UFO invaded the skies above their home for nearly five hours."

Alien Soldiers exist says Gary McKinnon

Presidential Election: Alien Soldiers exist says Gary McKinnon : The Canadian National Newspaper: "As U.S. Presidential candidates debated, UFO Sightings Daily reported that Gary McKinnon “discovered files about twenty to thirty non-terrestrial officers (off world).” Mr. Waring elaborates on 16 October 2012 that Mr. McKinnon “saw their ranks, and ship to ship transfers off world.”"

Stem Cell Discovery will allow Gay Men to create their own eggs for surrogate birth

Stem Cell Discovery will allow Gay Men to create their own eggs for surrogate birth | The Guardian Express: "This discovery will allow gay men to create an egg of their own, not having to use a donated egg from a female donor, thereby allowing creation of a child born with both parents DNA, not just the DNA of one of the men and the DNA from the egg donor, as is currently the case. This finding has the potential to invigorate the LGBT community, and whispers of it’s use in this manner are already beginning."

The Military Just Put Out A Research Request For What Amounts To Cybernetic Organisms

The Military Just Put Out A Research Request For What Amounts To Cybernetic Organisms - Business Insider: "Interpretation: We're looking to connect organic matter, be it single celled or multi-celled, to inorganic, possibly synthetic, circuits."

Here's Why Google Could Disappear in Five Years

Here's Why Google Could Disappear in Five Years: Pro - US Business News - CNBC: "Google may be on its way out as the dominant player in search, according to one analyst — and could even "disappear" in as little as five to eight years if the competitive pressures that ultimately claimed other search giants start to take root."

Teacher forces student to do ‘Islamic hand sign’

Teacher forces student to do ‘Islamic hand sign’: "A Chesapeake, Va., teacher is facing a charge of assault for allegedly forcing a student to do an “Islamic hand sign,” leaving the young girl “dripping with blood”"

The Strange Saga of the Vanishing Cars

The Strange Saga of the Vanishing Cars | Mysterious Universe: "For years – or perhaps even for centuries – the Men in Black have been elusive, predatory, fear-inducing figures, hovering with disturbing regularity upon the enigmatic fringes of the UFO subject, nurturing and weaving their very own unique brand of terror and intimidation. Like true specters from the outer edge, the MIB appear from the murky darkness, and roam the countryside provoking carnage, chaos, paranoia and fear in their notorious wake, before returning to that same shrouded realm from which they originally oozed."

Who controls the internet?

Who controls the internet? | Jemima Kiss | Technology | guardian.co.uk: "Ahead of a Google+ Hangout on the battle for the internet, Jemima Kiss looks at how tech giants are fighting for supremacy"

Scientists unveil 3-D structure of 'molecular machine' that initiates DNA transcription after 3 decades of searching

Scientists unveil 3-D structure of 'molecular machine' that initiates DNA transcription after 3 decades of searching: "An team of Rutgers University scientists led by Richard H. Ebright and Eddy Arnold has determined the three-dimensional structure of the transcription initiation complex, the key intermediate in the process by which cells read out genetic information in DNA."

An exo-tourist's guide to our closest alien planet

An exo-tourist's guide to our closest alien planet - New Scientist: "Now that we know our nearest neighbouring star system, Alpha Centauri, contains at least one planet, it's time to go exo-tourist and plan a trip. But be sure to read our travel guide first."

From Tesla to Asahara: One Japanese Death Cult's Insane Attempt to Split the World in Two

From Tesla to Asahara: One Japanese Death Cult's Insane Attempt to Split the World in Two | Motherboard: "On May 28, 1993, a remote and dusty thicket of the Australian outback shook for hundreds of miles around. Deep reverberating explosions could be heard far and wide, the night sky illuminated by sporadic flashes of unexplained light—all this allegedly witnessed by heavy goods drivers, gold prospectors and nomads traipsing the bush."

8 Absurd Predictions About The Future That Sorta Came True

Vintage PopSci: 8 Absurd Predictions About The Future That Sorta Came True | Popular Science: "Writing in 1925, British scientist A.M. Low predicted that we'd eat breakfast via feeding tubes and bald would be beautiful. This guy totally augured Go-Gurt and Vin Diesel."

Mars Rover Curiosity Digs Up Shiny Particles on Red Planet

Mars Rover Curiosity Digs Up Shiny Particles on Red Planet | Space.com: "NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found some more bright stuff on the Red Planet, scientists say."

Feds say trust us with your DNA

Feds say trust us with your DNA: "Report urges programs to develop consumer confidence in government research"

Rise of the Machines

The Hidden History of Artificial Intelligence – Transhumanism and Alchemical Agendas

The Hidden History of Artificial Intelligence – Transhumanism and Alchemical Agendas | Disinformation: "A potent underground idea is usually scheduled for retirement once it makes it onto the History Channel . The Ancient Alien theory was kept alive in pulpish propagation by Erich Von Daniken and Zecharia Stichen for well on four decades (not including the seeds it sprouted from, which were planted much earlier.) "

Buffoonish Would-Be Jihadist Sought to Blow Up the New York Fed

Buffoonish Would-Be Jihadist Sought to Blow Up the New York Fed Today | Danger Room | Wired.com: "He tried to detonate the Federal Reserve in lower Manhattan, only his bomb was a dud. He asked a contact over Facebook — who was a secret FBI informant — if it was permissible to blow up a country that granted him a student visa. And he cackled in a park about wanting to pull off a terrorist attack so big it would bring Muslims closer to the day they would “run the world.”"

Has the Lunar mystery been solved? Analysis of Apollo rocks finds telltale signs of massive impact when a body the size of Mars hit Earth

Has the Lunar mystery been solved? Analysis of Apollo rocks finds telltale signs of massive impact when a body the size of Mars hit Earth | Mail Online: "Researchers claim to have found fresh physical evidence the Moon was created when a body the size of Mars smashed into the early Earth in a cataclysmic collision.



Analysis of lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions shows they have heavier forms of zinc - a telltale sign of the impact billions of years ago."

Parasite Eats From Inside, Out

Parasite Eats From Inside, Out: Gotta-See Video : Discovery News: "When a patient who recently visited South America enters the hospital with a lesion on his cheek, the doctor thinks he knows that the problem is... he's being eaten by a parasite from the inside-out."

The Sailing Stones of Egypt

The Sailing Stones of Egypt | Mysterious Universe: "Beyond any shadow of doubt, of the many and varied architectural achievements of the Human Race, the pyramids of Egypt must surely top the list in terms of provoking deep awe and amazement. And a great deal of unbridled controversy and debate, too. Conventional Egyptology suggests that the pyramids were built during what are today termed the Old and Middle Kingdoms of Egypt. That’s to say from around the third millennium BC to roughly 1650 BC. The reason for their construction: Almost certainly to act as tombs for the pharaohs, so convention tells us. Convention also tells us the pyramids were built by sheer brute-force, man-power and technology of a very down to earth nature. But is that really the case?"

GMO madness: Frankenscientists develop genetically-modified chickens they claim will halt avian flu transmission

GMO madness: Frankenscientists develop genetically-modified chickens they claim will halt avian flu transmission: "The H5N1 avian flu virus, which ministers of health propaganda around the world have been using for years to generate overblown panic and fear, is the subject of a new biotechnology project involving genetically-modified (GM) chickens. According to the U.K.'s Guardian, genetic manipulators have developed a transgenic variety of chicken that they claim is unable to transmit avian flu to other birds, even after contracting it themselves."

Complex Body Parts Could Soon Be Lab-Grown

Complex Body Parts Could Soon Be Lab-Grown : Discovery News: "Within a generation, there may be no limit to the kinds of organs and body parts that can be created from scratch."

“Warning! Armageddon is coming!”

“Warning! Armageddon is coming!” | Mysterious Universe: "In the early 1980s, Sagan became the subject of a secret, 33-page FBI file, and related investigation, after he became involved in a very strange affair, part of which was focused upon NASA’s ultimately ill fated Columbia Space Shuttle. On November 16, 1983, the FBI’s Special Agent in Charge at Cleveland, Ohio contacted the Washington, D.C. offices to report a very odd and sinister development in the life and career of Carl Sagan. The Cleveland Office ultimately recorded the following in a short memorandum to the Director of the FBI:"

6 Extreme Body Enhancements to Expect in the Next 10 Years

Anthony Youn, M.D., FACS: 6 Extreme Body Enhancements to Expect in the Next 10 Years: "In the next 10 years, I suspect that today's 'extreme plastic surgery' treatments will seem like run-of-the-mill procedures. The future is likely to bring us astonishingly advanced, and increasingly unusual ways to enhance our bodies."

Land Destroyer: Orwellian Nightmare or Technological Utopia?

Land Destroyer: Orwellian Nightmare or Technological Utopia?: "Wired Magazine has conducted a "Living by Numbers" health conference in New York City, drawing together experts and leaders involved in medicine, science, technology, and business to share their perspective on the progress and future of healthcare. The underlying theme of the "Living by Numbers" conference was the gathering and applying of information regarding our health to improve the prevention and treatment of injuries and sickness."

Transhumanism the Theologians ( really?) — Logos Apologia

Transhumanism the Theologians ( really?) — Logos Apologia: "Tom Horn alerted me that the bioethics news site Bio Edge ran an essay “Transhumanism: the theologians” posing some interesting but troubling issues. The article presents an ethical dilemma: should mankind use biotechnology to create superior beings i.e. posthumans."

The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme Social Decay

The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme Social Decay: "Are we on the verge of societal collapse?  Many of the greatest empires throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces.  Rather, they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in."

Trailer: The Killshot

Videos - Coast to Coast AM: "Check out a trailer for "The Killshot," a DVD featuring Major Ed Dames' remote viewed solar flare prediction."

Transhumanism: Is it right to hack our bodies?

Transhumanism: Is it right to hack our bodies?: "For centuries people have searched for the elixir of life and while we now realise there is no magic potion that can make us immortal or improve our bodies, today’s technological advances are radically altering the human condition. Transhumanism is a field of study that looks at how we can advance our bodies by altering them with technology."

Human Immortality: Singularity Summit Looks Forward to the Day That Humans Can Live Forever

Human Immortality: Singularity Summit Looks Forward to the Day That Humans Can Live Forever: "SAN FRANCISCO – “We don’t die because the laws of physics require us to die – we die because we’re not currently smart enough not to die ... Why settle for predicting human behavior when we can re-engineer the human genome?"

Pentagon Fears Syrian Rebel Weapons Pose Proliferation Risk

Pentagon Fears Syrian Rebel Weapons Pose Proliferation Risk | Danger Room | Wired.com: "The Pentagon insists that it’s not arming the Syrian rebels, merely helping out with the U.S. policy of providing humanitarian aid. But the weapons pipeline that Persian Gulf states have opened to the rebels, with U.S. assistance, could end up flooding the volatile Mideast with small arms, the Pentagon fears."

'Star Wars' planet discovered that is both orbiting two suns and being orbited by two suns

'Star Wars' planet discovered that is both orbiting two suns and being orbited by two suns | Mail Online: "Amateur astronomers have discovered a new planet that not only orbits two suns but is simultaneously being orbited by two other suns. 



The incredible four sun solar system, the first of its kind ever discovered, was found as part of the Planet Hunters project led by a team from Yale University."

On The Brink: Turkey tanks and warships on yellow alert over Syria threat

On The Brink: Turkey tanks and warships on yellow alert over Syria threat | StratRisks: "War edged closer last night as Turkey lined up warships and tanks against neighbouring Syria. Turkish forces were on yellow alert, one step away from military engagement, as naval destroyers moved in to protect their Mediterranean coast and a brigade of tanks rolled up to the 560-mile Syrian border."

Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech - The Washington Post: "Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow but rather from thousands of paper cuts of well-intentioned exception social harmony."

Primed to explode: China and Japan step up military posturing as dispute over islands linger

Primed to explode: China and Japan step up military posturing as dispute over islands linger | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond: "October 15, 2012 – JAPAN – Sunday saw the Japanese Navy celebrate its 60th anniversary with the equivalent of an ocean-based military parade featuring around 40 of the country’s ships. The exercise, held in waters south of Tokyo, was clearly intended to be a display of maritime strength as the dispute with China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, while calmer, still continues."

How ‘scientific poisoners’ threaten the future of life on planet Earth

» How ‘scientific poisoners’ threaten the future of life on planet Earth Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!: "There is a battle being waged for your mind. To the victor comes influence over your beliefs, you purchase decisions, and even your values. On one side of the battlefield are the so-called ‘scientific’ poisoners, who are really just proxy scientists and propagandists promoting corporate interests. These ‘scientists’ want to convince you that there’s no such thing as a dangerous pesticide. That GMOs are harmless, in fact healthful. That autism isn’t caused by any possibly related to chemical exposure, and that vaccines are a scientific gift to humanity, without which we would have all died from infectious disease."

A storm of massive proportions is brewing in the Middle East

The Commentator - A storm of massive proportions is brewing in the MidEast: "The region is splitting apart and ready to explode out of its largely artificial boundaries along two major fault lines, ethnic and religious"

Britain Has Alien-War Weapons

Britain Has Alien-War Weapons, Says Former Government Adviser ~ UFOs 2012|UFO Sightings|Alien UFO Pictures|What Are UFOs|2012 Solar Strom|Mexico UFO: "Britain has a stockpile of aircraft, drones and weapons that could be used to fight aliens in the event of an invasion from space, according to the government's former UFO adviser."

Scientists Uncover Diversion of Gulf Stream Path in Late 2011

Scientists Uncover Diversion of Gulf Stream Path in Late 2011: "The result of his investigation was a discovery that the Gulf Stream diverged well to the north of its normal path beginning in late October 2011, causing the warmer-than-usual ocean temperatures along the New England continental shelf."

UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013

UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013: "SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) — World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned."

A Major “Derivatives Crisis” Is Coming, The Whole World Would Be Thrown Into A State of Chaos

A Major “Derivatives Crisis” Is Coming, The Whole World Would Be Thrown Into A State of Chaos | InvestmentWatch: "Most Americans do not understand what “derivatives” are, so they kind of tune out when people start talking about them. But they are very important to understand. Essentially, derivatives are “side bets”.  When you buy a derivative, you are not investing in anything.  You are just gambling that something will or will not happen."

The Armageddon virus: Why experts fear a disease that leaps from animals to humans could devastate mankind in the next five years

The Armageddon virus: Why experts fear a disease that leaps from animals to humans could devastate mankind in the next five years | Mail Online: "It is a disease widespread in domestic and wild animals in Africa and Asia — and one that has jumped the species barrier to infect humans with deadly effect."

The sun supplies the moon with 'water' and there is potentially enough there for a base to tap into to maintain life, study suggests

The sun supplies the moon with 'water' and there is potentially enough there for a base to tap into to maintain life, study suggests | Mail Online: "It may come as a surprise, but researchers know that the surface of the moon is covered with grassy grains of soil which contain water."

U.S. Navy builds robot modelled on Star Wars character C-3PO to fight fires on board warships

U.S. Navy builds robot modelled on Star Wars character C-3PO to fight fires on board warships | Mail Online: "A robot with the ability to fight fires on board warships has been developed by military scientists based on the popular Star Wars character C-3PO."

Woodland of Strangeness

Woodland of Strangeness | Mysterious Universe: "In 1991, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer named Leonard H. Stringfield revealed his knowledge of the crash of a UFO – nothing less than a definitive alien spacecraft, complete with a small crew of extraterrestrial entities – on the fringes of the Cannock Chase in early 1964, and which became the subject of a major cover-up on the part of British and NATO forces."

Social media surveillance helps the government read your mind

Privacy and Security Fanatic: Social media surveillance helps the government read your mind: "Big Brother has more collected more info on the average American than the Stasi did on East Germans. In fact, the more you use social media, the more you give government to collect about you. The Army even considers the use social networks to be a sign that you might be a potential terrorist. NSA expert James Bamford said the more the government eavesdrops and collects Americans' electronic communications, the better the NSA knows what you're doing every minute of the day. It's like being able to read your mind."

A truly mind-bending novel about the future of genetically-modified humans

A truly mind-bending novel about the future of genetically-modified humans: "Ken MacLeod's novel Intrusion, which has been a hit in the UK since it was released earlier this year, tackles a familiar issue in a completely unexpected way. Hope is a mother-to-be in a near-future London, where pregnant women are under tremendous pressure to take "Fix," a pill that corrects most known genetic defects in their fetuses. Though not mandated by law, it's likely that it will be soon — the UK has become an authoritarian medical surveillance state, where everybody's blood chemistry is monitored via bracelets whose data is transmitted to health departments."

Mali Islamists tell France they will open doors of hell

Mali Islamists tell France they will open doors of hell | Reuters: "(Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali threatened on Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens if France kept pushing for armed intervention to retake the rebel-held north."

Let the AIs, not us, formulate a billion-year plan!

Let the AIs, not us, formulate a billion-year plan! | KurzweilAI: "Long-term, humanity will be 'left in the dust by the machines,' who will be deciding our next billion years"

Iran mass producing over 35 nano-tech laboratory equipments

Iran mass producing over 35 nano-tech laboratory equipments: "According to The Secretary of Iran's Nanotechnology Initiative Council, Saeed Sarkar, Iran has been mass producing more than 35 types of nanotechnology laboratory equipments designed and made by Iranian researchers."

BioEdge: Transhumanism: the theologians

BioEdge: Transhumanism: the theologians: "Launching the debate was Nicholas Agar, of Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. He contended that “post-persons”  -- beings with a higher moral status than us (ie, homo sapiens) – is possible. With genetic engineering, drugs, and other forms of cognitive enhancement, it is possible for us to create beings with intellects so advanced that to us they are literally unimaginable."

Forget face time, it's all about Facebook time: Two-thirds of interactions among friends are carried electronically

Forget face time, it's all about Facebook time: Two-thirds of interactions among friends are carried electronically | Mail Online: "Forget face time - these days it's more likely to be Facebook time. Two-thirds of all interaction between friends now takes place electronically, a study has revealed."

The Giant Worms of Japan

Cryptomundo » The Giant Worms of Japan: "There aren’t too many creatures that give people the willies more than worms do. Charles Darwin called these organisms the “ploughs of the earth,” and at any given time there are up to over a million earthworms in a single acre of land. These slimy, wriggling staples of fishermen everywhere inspire revulsion and loathing to many, and although they are crucial to our ecology, they have mostly remained hated and underappreciated."

Genetics – The Ultimate Alien Invasion

Genetics – The Ultimate Alien Invasion « Just Wondering – Alternative News and Opinions: "We’re in the midst of a parasitic attack on our entire planet to literally change our fundamental operating system. Genetics and other concurrent chemical, biological and electromagnetic alterations to our selves and habitat are the weapons of choice. Amazingly enough, parts of humanity are being induced to not only do this to itself for whatever reward or reason, but the rest are entrained to readily accept it as scientific “advancement”."

Chinese ‘Starchild’ Alleged To Have X-Men-Like Cat Vision

Chinese ‘Starchild’ Alleged To Have X-Men-Like Cat Vision | Singularity Hub: "Although the notion is revolting to many, at some point in the future we’ll have the know-how and the tools to genetically modify our bodies to make us stronger, better looking, more intelligent. In Dahua, in south China, the strange properties of one boy’s eyes has made him an Internet sensation. Headlines abound label him a one-of-a-kind, real life X-Man, miraculously given the gift of cat-like vision through genetic mutation."

Mysterious elk-shaped structure discovered in Russia

Mysterious elk-shaped structure discovered in Russia - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience | NBC News: "A huge geoglyph in the shape of an elk or deer discovered in Russia may predate Peru's famous Nazca Lines by thousands of years."

The Singularity: Science's Quest For Immortality And Satan's Deception

The Singularity: Science's Quest For Immortality And Satan's Deception | Beginning And End: "In Russia in March of 2012, the Global Future: 2045 Conference or  ‘GF2045′ held to focus on the Singularity – the moment when humanity will physically combine with machines to allow for humans to live outside of the physical body, with robot “avatar” bodies and overcome disease, pain and even death. While it sounds like the stuff of a science fiction movie, it is a very real movement and field of study for scientists who believe that humanity is on the cusp of its next stage of evolution. And it once again reveals an attempt to reach immortality without the God of the Bible."

An iPhone Inside Your Brain? The H+ Digital Film Series

An iPhone Inside Your Brain? The H+ Digital Film Series | Beginning And End: "In a chilling foreshadow of the coming Singularity, the moment that technology can fully interface with the human body, the H+ digital films, a series of internet short movies produced by acclaimed film director Bryan Singer, depicts a world in which wireless Smartphone technology is implanted directly into the brain via a microchip implant.  Beginning and End has detailed how the media and Hollywood can use film and television to plant or prepare society for a certain idea. In this series, the genocidal consequences of RFID microchip technology are portrayed as a third of the world population is killed through their microchip implants."

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Wants to Move Your Brain Into the Cloud

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Wants to Move Your Brain Into the Cloud: "Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and a pioneer of artificial intelligence software, has always been one of the most provocative thinkers on technology and its future. When he spoke at the Demo conference last week, it was no surprise that he covered everything from why computers will continue to get better at an exponential pace to how we will be able to expand our brains into the cloud with the help of biological devices in our bloodstream."