All in the mind: The 'telepathy' chip that lets you turn on the TV using the power of thought

By David Derbyshire

Last updated at 8:54 AM on 03rd September 2009

A ‘telepathy’ chip that allows people to control computers, televisions and light switches by the power of thought is being developed by British scientists.

The tiny sensor would sit on the surface of the brain, picking up the electrical activity of nerve cells and passing the signal wirelessly to a receiver on the skull.

The signal would then be used to control a cursor on a computer screen, operate electronic gadgets or steer an electric wheelchair.

Think about it: Dr Jon Spratley's chip allows people to control computers, televisions and light switches by the power of thought

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BODY BAGS

The Mask Slips, for Those with Eyes to See: Preparing for the Real Pandemic

September 19, 2009

by Kevin D. Annett, M.A., M.Div.

Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading.

In the same week, body bags were sent to similarly remote native reserves in northern Manitoba that have also received the tamiflu vaccine.

On the face of things, it appears that flu vaccinations are causing a sickness that is being deliberately aimed at aboriginal people across Canada, and this sickness will be fatal: a fact acknowledged by the Canadian government by their “routine” sending of body bags to these Indian villages.

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Ancient skeletons discovered in Georgia threaten to overturn the theory of human evolution

Astonishing discovery: Archaeologists have unearthed six ancient skeletons dating back 1.8 million years in the hills of Georgia

By David Derbyshire

9th September 2009

For generations, scientists have believed Africa was the cradle of mankind.

Now a stunning archaeological discovery suggests our primitive ancestors left Africa to explore the world around 800,000 years earlier than was previously thought before returning to their home continent.

It was there - hundreds of thousands of years later - that they evolved into modern humans and embarked on a second mass migration, researchers say.

The Georgian bones - which include incredibly well preserved skulls and teeth - are the earliest humans ever found outside Africa. The remains belong to a race of short early humans with small primitive brains who walked and ran like modern people. They were found alongside stone tools, animal remains and plants - suggesting that they hunted and butchered meat. Archaeologists now believe that our ancestors left for Europe at least 1.8million years ago, before returning to Africa and developing into Homo Sapiens

Prof David Lordkipanidze, the direct of the Georgian National Museum, said: 'Before our findings, the prevailing view was that humans came out of Africa almost 1million years ago, that they already had sophisticated stone tools, and that their body anatomy was quite advanced in terms of brain capacity and limb proportions. But what we are finding is quite different' He said Africa was still the unchallenged cradle of mankind. But he added: 'Georgia may have been the cradle of the first Europeans.'

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ELECTRIC SHEEP

The name Electric Sheep comes from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the Internet. Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms. The project is an attention vortex. It illustrates the process by which the longer and closer one studies something, themore detail and structure appears.

Each variation, called a “Sheep,” is created by the combination of 150 different variables, so the permutations are many. Using a central server, each instance of the software submits its own sheep to a pool where it recombines with other sheep, in a process not unlike sexual reproduction.

The most successful sheep (determined by humans who press the up arrows to vote for their favorite sheep) are more likely to reproduce, so over time the pool of sheep has become quite wonderful and beautiful.

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iCub, the Toddler Robot

September 9th, 2009 by Lin Edwards

(PhysOrg.com) -- A little humanoid robot called iCub is learning how to think for itself, bringing the world of science fiction to reality. The major goal of the "RobotCub" project is to study how humans learn and think, using a robot with the size and brain of a toddler, but the study is also expected to have practical applications in the near future.

SOURCE: www.physorg.com

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Republic Magazine 13

Republic Magazine 13

A republic is only as healthy as its people. When the people are weak, they become susceptible to foreign attack or domestic subversion. Over the past 100 years, methods to increase the shelf life of the American food supply to feed a massively growing population, while beefing up the profits of giant food corporations have caused the introduction of preservatives, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, hormones and even genetic engineering to alter and infect our diet. When these tainted foods become the staple of our everyday diet, side effects of exposure cause us to turn to pharmaceutical companies and modern medicine. In the past few years, a growing trend has raised the awareness for the dangerous practices of the last 100 years and the American people are firmly deciding that they want no part of this corrupt diet and medical cycle. In the battle for The Republic, we must remain sharp and our senses acute to quickly react to the daily assaults from corporate propaganda, media manipulation and our legislator’s unconstitutional bills. We must take back our minds, our bodies, and our souls from those who would lead us into the pen at the sound of the slaughterhouse bell. In this issue, we examine the core concerns that affect each of us physically and mentally. Healing The Republic begins with healing the people. And it starts right here in our 13th issue of Republic Magazine.

Surfing the Cosmos

WORLD WIDE TELESCOPE

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.

WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.

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