Wednesday, September 24, 2003
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Thursday, September 18, 2003
PLASMA BLOBS HINT AT NEW FORM OF LIFE
"Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new explanation for how life began."
New Scientist
New Scientist
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
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Friday, September 12, 2003
Growing Microchips Using Proteins From Living Cells
"Researchers at the University of Arizona are exploring ways to "grow" microchips using proteins from living cells."
"Microchips -- those magic devices found in everything from cell phones to automobiles, from computers to clothes dryers -- currently are made by lithography, etching and soldering."
The new biological interconnects would bypass these processes with long strings of proteins called microtubules (MT). They'll connect transistors and other devices in microchips by growing between the device junctions. They're solder-free, don't involve lithography or etching, and are highly uniform. Once the proteins connect devices, they will be coated with metal and turned into microscopic wires."
"Proteins have been programmed over millions of years to do very specific tasks, he says. Engineers hope to exploit these million-year-old designs and apply them to devices, systems and structures. But they're not limited only to those proteins found in nature. "We could work with biochemists to design proteins for specific tasks," Deymier says. "I can imagine a complete science of protein design for specific non-biological applications."
DAILY UNIVERSITY SCIENCE NEWS
"Microchips -- those magic devices found in everything from cell phones to automobiles, from computers to clothes dryers -- currently are made by lithography, etching and soldering."
The new biological interconnects would bypass these processes with long strings of proteins called microtubules (MT). They'll connect transistors and other devices in microchips by growing between the device junctions. They're solder-free, don't involve lithography or etching, and are highly uniform. Once the proteins connect devices, they will be coated with metal and turned into microscopic wires."
"Proteins have been programmed over millions of years to do very specific tasks, he says. Engineers hope to exploit these million-year-old designs and apply them to devices, systems and structures. But they're not limited only to those proteins found in nature. "We could work with biochemists to design proteins for specific tasks," Deymier says. "I can imagine a complete science of protein design for specific non-biological applications."
DAILY UNIVERSITY SCIENCE NEWS
Thursday, September 11, 2003
SOS: Students for an Orwellian Society
Doonesbury Smart Blob?
Scientists develop microchip for brain
"Scientists have developed the first artificial region of the brain -- a silicon chip that mimics an area that controls memory, mood and awareness."
"Chip copies brain section responsible for memory, mood"
CNN.com
"Chip copies brain section responsible for memory, mood"
CNN.com
DNA: computer revolution?
"A growing amount of research supports the idea that DNA, the basic building block of life, could also be the basis of a staggeringly powerful new generation of computers."
"Computers store data in strings made up of the numbers 0 and 1. Living things store information with molecules represented the letters A,T,C and G."
"They call their creations “machines” and “devices.” Really, they are nothing more than test tubes of DNA-laden water, and yet this liquid has been coaxed to crunch algorithms and spit out data.
The problems solved by DNA computers to date are rudimentary. Children could come up with the answers more quickly with a pencil and paper.
But the researchers hope to someday inject tiny computers into humans to zap viruses, fix good cells gone bad and otherwise keep us healthy.
They’re also pursuing the idea that genetic material can self-replicate and grow into processors so powerful that they can handle problems too complex for silicon-based computers to solve."
-MSNBC
"Computers store data in strings made up of the numbers 0 and 1. Living things store information with molecules represented the letters A,T,C and G."
"They call their creations “machines” and “devices.” Really, they are nothing more than test tubes of DNA-laden water, and yet this liquid has been coaxed to crunch algorithms and spit out data.
The problems solved by DNA computers to date are rudimentary. Children could come up with the answers more quickly with a pencil and paper.
But the researchers hope to someday inject tiny computers into humans to zap viruses, fix good cells gone bad and otherwise keep us healthy.
They’re also pursuing the idea that genetic material can self-replicate and grow into processors so powerful that they can handle problems too complex for silicon-based computers to solve."
-MSNBC
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
BLACKOUT: HAARP military experiment?

"HAARP(High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is a phased-array ionospheric heater that is capable of focusing large quantities of electromagnetic energy into very localized regions that are very far away from the source. It is entirely possible that the HAARP heaters were directed at the power grid's bottleneck while the grid was operating near peak capacity. The sudden presence of electromagnetic energy could easily force an unexpected increase in the power flow which could in-turn cause a critical failure such as the one seen on august 14, 2003."
"HAARP was turned on at or just after 4:00 pm EST; it would take a few minutes for the target area to respond (say around 4:05 pm) which would allow a nine minute event to knock the power out at 4:14 pm EST."
"So why would the government do this to us? Well, first of. all, HAARP is sponsored primarily by the Air Force Weather Agency and 'other agencies', and is known to be used as an ionospheric warfare tool. This would be an ideal way to test possible military applications of the instrument. It would be of great military value if :we could cause an entire region to lose electricity almost instantly without dropping a single bomb. Of course, this would need to be tested in a controlled environment where the effects could be thoroughly analyzed (such as on our own soil). It would be done in an area that could most easily handle such a large-scale power outage (such as the northeast US). Also, being in a new age of terrorism, this was an excellent homeland security response test. By having a blackout that covered one quarter of the country we can now see how people would respond, what the strengths and weaknesses of our emergency response systems are, and how quickly we could restore our systems to operating capacity. If this was a military experiment it would certainly have served multiple purposes. I also believe it would have been a strong temptation for anyone with the power to conduct such an experiment to do so." -Anonymous Research Scientist
blackout haarp military experiment
HAARP HOMEPAGE
Monday, September 08, 2003
Japan, China and South Korea to develop an alternative operating system
"Japan, the world's second-largest economy, made a proposal at an Asian economic summit this week to build an inexpensive and trustworthy open-source operating system that would be based on a system such as Linux, which can be copied and modified freely."
Wired News: Microsoft to Asia: No Fair!
Wired News: Microsoft to Asia: No Fair!
Saturday, September 06, 2003
SMART LEARNING: MIT OpenCourseWare
"Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open source-style." -Wired Magazine article on MIT OpenCouseWare
Provides free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's course materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students, and individual learners around the world.
Creates an efficient, standards-based model that other universities may emulate to publish their own course materials
MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home
Provides free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's course materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students, and individual learners around the world.
Creates an efficient, standards-based model that other universities may emulate to publish their own course materials
MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home
Global democracy - Idea for a better use of human intelligence
Global democracy - Idea for a better use of human intelligence
Idea for a better use of human intelligence
or Friendly recommendation for a global system reboot
or How to get mankind under one hat
by Mattis Manzel
"Goal is to waken collective human intelligence and to create decentralised global democracy. Goal is peace on earth."
Idea for a better use of human intelligence
or Friendly recommendation for a global system reboot
or How to get mankind under one hat
by Mattis Manzel
"Goal is to waken collective human intelligence and to create decentralised global democracy. Goal is peace on earth."
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
High Zero 2003 Festival of Experimental Improvised Music
BALTIMORE
Thursday Sept. 4th-Sunday, Sept. 7th
The Theater Project 45 West Preston Street
"The HIGH ZERO festival is a startlingly unusual event, mixing sold-out and capacity crowds with fiercely challenging and engaging music. The festival would be unusual anywhere in the world, with its combination of visionary and uncompromising (not to mention grassroots) experimental music, an unusual format (only individuals are invited to perform in new collaborations, no groups), and its mixing of diverse musical subcultures (what might be called electronic music, free jazz, minimalism, instrument inventors, etc.). Each year, the most inspired musicians we know of are brought together with Baltimore's fertile experimental scene in a wide range of different kinds of musical situations to create very new music which has never been heard before."
!!! 5th Anniversary !!! High Zero 2003 Festival of Experimental Improvised Music:
Thursday Sept. 4th-Sunday, Sept. 7th
The Theater Project 45 West Preston Street
"The HIGH ZERO festival is a startlingly unusual event, mixing sold-out and capacity crowds with fiercely challenging and engaging music. The festival would be unusual anywhere in the world, with its combination of visionary and uncompromising (not to mention grassroots) experimental music, an unusual format (only individuals are invited to perform in new collaborations, no groups), and its mixing of diverse musical subcultures (what might be called electronic music, free jazz, minimalism, instrument inventors, etc.). Each year, the most inspired musicians we know of are brought together with Baltimore's fertile experimental scene in a wide range of different kinds of musical situations to create very new music which has never been heard before."
!!! 5th Anniversary !!! High Zero 2003 Festival of Experimental Improvised Music:
SMART BLOB: The International Mob Almanac
PARIS FLASHMOB
First Commercial Free Energy Machine
"The Lutec 1000 is the first free energy machine to be developed to commercial stage anywhere in the world.
The Lutec 1000 generator will produce up to 1000 watts of DC electricity twenty four hours a day, every day, which will be stored in a battery bank and then inverted to AC power and connected directly into the home or business. "
LUTEC AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
via STARE
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
NEW: (r)evolutionary solutions page @psychicrevolution.com
Psychic Revolution in Greensboro News & Record
Monday, September 01, 2003
Andrija Puharich: Water Fuel?
"Dr Andrija Puharich reportedly drove his motor home for hundreds of thousands of miles around North America in the 1970s using only water as fuel. At a mountain pass in Mexico, he collected snow for water."
"Visionary scientists tell us that the ideal fuel in the future will be as cheap as water, that it will be non toxic both in its short term, and in its long term, effects, that it will be renewable in that it can be used over and over again, that it will be safe to handle, and present minimal storage and transportation problems and costs. And finally that it will be universally available anywhere on earth.
What is this magical fuel, and why is it not being used? The fuel is water. It can be used in its fresh water form. It can be used in its salt water form. It can be used in its brackish form. It can be used in its snow and ice form. When such water is decomposed by electrolytic fission into hydrogen and oxygen gases, it becomes a high energy fuel with three times the energy output which is available from an equivalent weight of high grade gasoline."
Andrija Puharich: Water Decomposition by AC Elecrolysis >:
"Visionary scientists tell us that the ideal fuel in the future will be as cheap as water, that it will be non toxic both in its short term, and in its long term, effects, that it will be renewable in that it can be used over and over again, that it will be safe to handle, and present minimal storage and transportation problems and costs. And finally that it will be universally available anywhere on earth.
What is this magical fuel, and why is it not being used? The fuel is water. It can be used in its fresh water form. It can be used in its salt water form. It can be used in its brackish form. It can be used in its snow and ice form. When such water is decomposed by electrolytic fission into hydrogen and oxygen gases, it becomes a high energy fuel with three times the energy output which is available from an equivalent weight of high grade gasoline."
Andrija Puharich: Water Decomposition by AC Elecrolysis >:



