http://bigthink.com/news/elon-musks-boring-company-plans-to-sell-excavated-rock-in-lego-like-kits March 27, 2018 by STEPHEN JOHNSON The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s venture that aims to solve traffic congestion with underground tunnels that would transport cars on “electric skates” at high speeds, excavates tons of rock in the process of digging tunnels. What’s the company to do with all that rock? Musk wants to hollow it … Continue reading Elon Musk’s Boring Company wants to sell you its excavated rock in ‘LEGO-like’ kits
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ANTARTIC ICE SHEET MELTING FROM BELOW
Largest ice sheet melting from below By Chris Mooney The Washington Post Scientists at institutions in the United States and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica. And the result was a troubling confirmation of what … Continue reading ANTARTIC ICE SHEET MELTING FROM BELOW
DO WE SEE REALITY AS IT IS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1310&v=oYp5XuGYqqY SEE ALSO: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/ Look around you. What do you see? Other people going about their business? Rooms with tables and chairs? Nature with its sky, grass and trees? All that stuff, it's really there, right? Even if you were to disappear right now — poof! — the rest of the world would … Continue reading DO WE SEE REALITY AS IT IS?
Honeybees beat the heat
Insects fan wings to manage deadly temperatures By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Honeybees gather at the entrance of their new home after beekeepers transferred 25,000 honeybees to two hives installed on the lawn of the governor’s mansion in Olympia, Wash. Ted S. Warren, Associated Press Honeybees have developed a way to survive sharp climate … Continue reading Honeybees beat the heat
OUR STORY IN TWO MINUTES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrqqD_Tsy4Q drivinman687 Subscribe4,409 Add to Share More 19,969,041 58,461 6,019 Published on May 27, 2012 My final project for a video production class "Cutaway Productions" Music: “Mind Heist” by Zack Hemsey
Pentaquark Particle Spotted
Forsaken Pentaquark Particle Spotted at CERN Exotic subatomic particle confirmed at Large Hadron Collider after earlier false sightings By Matthew Chalmers, Nature magazine on July 14, 2015 CERN / LHCb Collaboration An exotic particle made up of five quarks has been discovered a decade after experiments seemed to rule out its existence. The short-lived ‘pentaquark’ was spotted by … Continue reading Pentaquark Particle Spotted
Astronomers Report Finding Earliest Stars That Enriched Cosmos
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/science/space/astronomers-report-finding-earliest-stars-that-enriched-cosmos.html?_r=0 By DENNIS OVERBYE, JUNE 17, 2015 Astronomers said Wednesday that they had discovered a lost generation of monster stars that ushered light into the universe after the Big Bang and jump-started the creation of the elements needed for planets and life before disappearing forever. Modern-day stars like our sun have a healthy mix of … Continue reading Astronomers Report Finding Earliest Stars That Enriched Cosmos
Teen Medical Cannabis Patient: “I’d Rather Be Illegally Alive than Legally Dead”
http://theantimedia.org/teen-medical-cannabis-patient-id-rather-be-illegally-alive-than-legally-dead/ by Carey Wedler June 16, 2015 CBS Channel 4 news report video link http://denver.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=11596300 (ANTIMEDIA) As the tide turns irreversibly toward cannabis legalization, a fifteen-year-old patient perfectly summarized the main argument for its use. At a symposium on medical marijuana research in Denver over the weekend, Coltyn Turner explained, “I’d rather be illegally alive … Continue reading Teen Medical Cannabis Patient: “I’d Rather Be Illegally Alive than Legally Dead”
Science Seeks to Unlock Marijuana’s Secrets
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/marijuana/sides-text Science Seeks to Unlock Marijuana’s Secrets As the once-vilified drug becomes more accepted, researchers around the world are trying to understand how it works and how it might fight disease. "There’s nothing new about cannabis, of course. It’s been around humankind pretty much forever. "In Siberia charred seeds have been found inside burial mounds … Continue reading Science Seeks to Unlock Marijuana’s Secrets
Worm Now Thrives in GMO Corn Designed to Kill It, Study Says
http://www.newsweek.com/worm-now-thrives-gmo-corn-designed-kill-it-study-says-232276 FILED UNDER: Tech & Science, Agriculture, GMO, Corn One of industrial agriculture’s biggest GMO crops may have just backfired. Scientists have confirmed that corn-destroying rootworms have evolved to be resistant to the Bt corn engineered to kill them.
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