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[edit] April 2015
|Paper about plagiarism detection redacted for... plagiarism.
|Want a tricorder? Using rapid filter changes on a smartphone camera to do spectral analysis, and identify composition of substances at a distance.
[edit] March 2015
|In what can only be described as a backhand by the invisible hand, a labor union becomes first to pull conference from Indy
|Enoch "Rivers of Blood" Powell now being investigated as part of the historic Westminster paedophile ring. Rumours of him being part of a satanic ritual abuse ring may still be bullshit.
|One dead, two injured after vehicle attempted to ram the entry gates of the NSA campus in Ft. Meade, MD.
|Anything Indiana can do, Florida can do worse. Way, way worse.
|Noah way!! Guess who's replacing Jon Stewart...
|"Yes, we took her and we raped her. So what?" – At least 54 Colombian girls sexually abused by immune US military
|Remember how Boehner invited Bibi to Congress and to mess with the nuclear negotiations? Totally Obama's fault.
|Ted Cruz grew up listening to classic rock. 9/11 changed everything. He either likes country music, or country music makes him feel like a glass being yelled at by Ella Fitzgerald
|Christianity, pederasty and obesity
|For once, health professionals get the credit they deserve, as British medic cured of Ebola.
|Indiana Republican governor Mike Pence signs Religious Freedom Bill into law.
|Bowe Bergdahl charged with desertion; the army's (unreleased) interview purportedly clears him of attempting to aid the Taliban, of the claim that soldiers had died while searching for him, and of his seeking to desert indefinitely.
|U.S. Army apologizes for (lack of) treatment of their members who became victims of chemical weapons in Iraq.
|Airlines change cockpit rules after co-pilot blamed for Germanwings crash
|Apparently, Obama was really pissed at Netanyahu, as he has declassified a formerly top-secret, detailed document (from 1987) on Israel's neither confirmed nor denied nuclear weapons program, thereby allowing it to become public through a FOIA request. That happened just before this dude spoke to congress (before the Israeli election). (Full PDF)
|How long will life survive on Earth?
|Ted Cruz: 'Global Warming alarmists are the equivalent of the Flat-Earthers'.
|Turns out Jeremy Clarkson is an asshole
|The Empire has captured Tataouine.
|A headline only America could generate: End-times-themed Christian band arrested, after fatal shoot-out with cops, outside Walmart.
|It seems Benny Hinn can't heal himself.
|You need to pay a fine to exercise your liberty of not
|Indiana could lose massive gamer convention as protest against anti-gay bill, cost state approximately $50 million. UPDATE: The bill is in, the con will stay as long as contracts require, with an implication of relocation in 2020.
|Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has come under fire for making very offensive comme-- Wait, isn't this an old news story? Oh, no, it's happened again, this time towards atheists. Oh dear.
|Germanwings flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in the French Alps. Unfortunately, no reported survivors.
|Scientific knowledge continues to evolve: "Earth Has A Layer No One Knew About"
|Ted Cruz shows off his fantastic political integrity by opting to sign up for Obamacare, saying "we should follow the text of the law".
|Riposte to California's "Kill the Gays" act: The Intolerant Jackass Act
|Inexplicable WTF of Americans, part umpteen: Ejaculating into coworker's coffee is not a sex crime in Minnesota.
|The World still has a long way to go: The Japanese contestant for "Miss Universe" is being criticized for not being Japanese enough.
|The biggest obstacle to acceptance of nuclear power is the lies the industry tells. Fukushima DID melt down.
|Cameron says he won't run for a third time if he wins a second term in May.
|Getting gold from shit. A new take on "Where there's muck there's brass!"
|The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will deny funds to states whose governors refuse to acknowledge climate change.
|The Clown Car of Candidates, 2016 edition, is underway, as Ted Cruz officially throws his hat into the ring.
|Lee Kuan Yew, the autocratic founder and architect of modern Singapore, has passed away.
|Senate hearing has a little fun with a Florida official who, by decree, can't say 'Climate Change'
|Useful context on the Iran nuclear deal: Analysts worry whether it could impede (US) weapon sales. But stay relaxed: "According to Hewson [Lockheed CEO], 'A lot of volatility, a lot of instability, a lot of things that are happening' in both the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region means both are 'growth areas' for Lockheed Martin."
|California's ballot initiative process at its very finest
|Mississippi passes the "Jesus Take The Wheel" bill, in an apparent attempt to kill off church congregations by letting them use actually-unqualified bus drivers. 'Cos not knowing how to drive a several-ton misguided missile is just fine if God is on your side!
|Attempts in explaining the WTF of Americans, part umpteen: There are as many people who believe judgement day will be the cause of apocalypse as people who think climate change will cause said apocalypse.
|Hypoallergenic products ain't necessarily so.
|Validation of Skarka's Law by frat members, part 2: Defending taking naked pictures of passed-out women without their consent.
|What products are we making in this plant again? Oh right... fire extinguishers.
|Daesh shows its disapproval of the Shi'ite Houthi militia by killing 126 people in Mosque bombings in Yemen.
|Health Canada approves fake natural remedy, cooked up by a TV crew.
|Hanging death of Mississippi black man being investigated by FBI and DoJ Civil Rights division.
|Rev. Creflo Dollar asks for upwards of 60 million dollars in donations for a new "Church" jet.
|The Hartford minor league baseball team will be named the Yard Goats.
|Sociology professor smoking on a plane probably is a gesture of revolutionary solidarity, in these times.
|Maybe, just maybe, if you don't use the N-word when you say "some of my best friends have been niggers." people won't pay as much attention to whatever you have been plotting.
|An amazing story of determination versus cancer turns out to be less than advertised. Turns out making a profit from fakery can extend to App Stores.
|Your hate speech has a messaging problem if you have trouble identifying who you hate. And the Swastika is not helping.
|Despite trailing in the polls on the days up to the election, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party wins 30 seats in Israeli elections, likely securing him the position of Prime Minster. What this means for international relations is not clear.
|"Brexit would make 2m Britons abroad illegal immigrants overnight"
|In shocking conformity with the fates of most darknet markets, Evolution Marketplace, another Silk Road successor, has vanished and its owners fled with $12 million worth of Bitcoins.
|Jeb Bush calls for the elimination of the federal minimum wage.
|Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises no Palestinian state if he is re-elected.
|The scientific evidence is starting to come in, and substandard vaccination rates are almost certainly to blame for the recent measles outbreak.
|UKIP leader Nigel Farage's election bid is to force the children of migrants out of free education for five years in order to help fund
|Ted Cruz vows to repeal the non-existent federal legislation establishing Common Core.
|We need moar good clothing items with guns to stop bad clothing with guns.
|As the Syrian civil war enters its fifth year, Kerry says that the US will have to negotiate with Bashar al-Assad.
|Two French sociologists "Sokal" the Maffesolian band of sociology.
|Coming soon: Magnetically triggered
|"Skeptic" offers 100,000 Euro reward to prove Measles is a virus (rather than psychosomatic), is ordered to pay up.
|Listening to music affects the expression of genes in the brain. Epigenetics: Because regular genetics isn't complicated enough.
|Kent Hovind has been found guilty of contempt, faces sentencing on June 12th. Jury not convinced of fraudulent intent.
|Oklahoma House passes bill to prevent any non-clergy from providing marriage licenses.
|Skarka's Law strikes again. This time defending the Oklahoma frat house racist chants.
|Can we now please phase out incandescent bulbs[wp] when we have LED bulbs that looks almost the same in almost every way?
|At last, Sir Terry, we must walk together. Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End.
|China tells the Dalai Lama that he will reincarnate, and on their terms too.
|"As a matter of long-standing policy, the US does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means. Political transitions must be democratic, constitutional, peaceful and legal."
|Enceladus, Saturn's 6th largest moon, has a warm ocean with hydrothermal vents. This is the first ever discovered outside of Earth, and makes for the most habitable off-world environment ever found.
|A scientific analysis of conspiracy news consumers. Highlights: Both "pro-science polarized" people and "conspiracy anti-science polarized" people form self-selecting groups, conspiracy nuts outnumber us, conspiracy nuts are far more likely to reshare conspiracy articles, pro-science people are more likely to engage contrary articles in comments or conversations.
|Charlie Hebdo staff posthumously named 2015 International Islamophobes of the Year by the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC)
|Texan Teabagger newbie representative Molly White offers a bill that states that even if the SCOTUS declares gay marriage legal in Texas, Texas can ignore them.
|Rationality isn't determined by single factor. That is to say, while individual kinds of biases and fallacies crop up recurringly for individuals, different kinds of biases have weak relationships with each other and intelligence.
|Just how much more fucked up can a story get? Justin Harris (R-AR) and his wife first adopt two little girls, then rehomed them a year later (after first trying to return them to the Dept. of Human Services) in a house, where the older girl (6) was raped by her foster father. Now it turns out Harris performed exorcisms on the elder girl who "needed specialized care."
|Huge meta-study by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council finds homeopathy no better than placebos.
|South Africa, where being on live TV doesn't stop you getting mugged.
|After 47 GOP Senators breach federal law by writing to Iran, telling them that any nuclear deal made with Obama could be repealed by the next President, it turns out an Iranian minister knows more about international law and the US Constitution than these 47 fuckwits.
|Fastest Star Ever Seen In The Milky Way Is Headed Out Of Our Galaxy
|Lebanese female TV presenter tells Islamic scholar where to put it.
|Fanta has a funny definition of the "Good Old Times."
|First rule of Florida Department of Environmental Protection is you don't talk about whether you have a policy of not using the phrase "climate change" or "global warming" in official communication. Second rule of the Florida DEP is you don't use the phrases "climate change" or "global warming".
|Fitness gym sides with transgender customer after a complaint is lodged against the use of her preferred washroom.
|Great-grandaddy galaxies rediscovered.
|Notorious British DAESH member Mohammed Emwazi (Jihadi John) reported to have been held in Tanzania for drunkenness in 2009 while trying to join al-Shabaab. Not very Muslim.
|Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Daesh.
|Blaming "teenage risk taking" for crime rates among youth don't make quite as much sense when poverty rates are factored in
|Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney won the 2007 Oscar for his film about how America became very un-American after 9/11. But the obstacles he faced making that film in the waning years of Bush-Cheney were nothing compared to what he dealt with while making his new Scientology doc, Going Clear. Every single TV news network he contacted (and offered to pay) for news footage about Scientology refused to provide any, fearing endless litigation.
|Of course all those lefties in the UK in the '80s who spoke of Thatcher and the Tories like they were barely-human in their evil were just exaggerating. Conservatives: The Party Of Fucking Children and Coverups Of Fucking Children.
|Homeless people a problem? Let loose the wolves!
|This is your brain on drugs.
|Dawn is in orbit around Ceres, the first dwarf planet to receive a visitation from Earth.
|In order to destroy any cultural distinction in the Arab states, Daesh bulldozes the ancient city of Nimrud. Hatra also.
|As more GOP-led states try to implement religion-based discriminatory laws, we get this gem from Oklahoma State Senator Joseph Silk, "The L.G.B.T. movement is the main thing, the primary thing that's going to be challenging religious liberties and the freedom to live out religious convictions. And I say that sensitively, because I have homosexual friends."
|In a story just now getting national attention, the Arkansas House of Representatives (controlled by small government-loving Republicans) voted on February 23 to require people employed to work with children to "friend" their bosses on social media so that their activities can be more easily tracked.
|Bill Nye fixes his inverse stopped clock, renouncing his anti-GMO views.
|An appeals court rules that Applebee's is not liable for a N.J. man's burning his face while praying over a fajita skillet.
|Count down to the religious right doing their nut in 3... 2...
|Ben Carson throws his hat into the ring. Update: Only makes it a few hours before his first gaffe apology after saying prisons prove homosexuality is a choice. "Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay," says Carson.
|Here's a jawbone that God put in the ground to test our faith.
|Alabama Supreme Court tries to drag state back out of 21st century, orders probate judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Let's see how long before they get overruled.
|Way to go, Bibi.
|Yucky eunuch-y business: It has come to light that Indian celebrity religious guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh convinced 400 people to castrate themselves to bring themselves closer to God in 2000.
|The transitional animal the flying
|That feeling that your opposition to the death penalty is wavering. That. Delhi rapist says victim shouldn't have fought back
|In a surprise to pretty much everybody living here, Nebraska's Gay Marriage ban is ruled unconstitutional.
|Meet Skeletorus and Sparklemuffin.
|Using sales taxes (which hurt the poor) instead of property taxes (which hit the rich) to pay for education has left South Carolina with an $866 million shortfall. Everyone seems to act like fixing the problem would only make it worse.
|Facts go in, lies come out. You can't explain that.
|How are some relatives of Coptic Christians (with the concurrence of Franklin Graham) reacting to the recent mass beheadings by ISIS? By thanking them for starting the Apocalypse.
[edit] February 2015
|Because "sex is priceless" and therefore has no monetary value, North Carolina's Ethics Commission has declared that sex between politicians and other people (as long as they aren't registered as a lobbyist, but can be paid for by a third party) is "not reportable as gifts or 'reportable expenditures made for lobbying' for purposes of the lobbying law's expenditure reporting provisions."
|So the Siberian permafrost is melting at an accelerating rate, releasing methane, which causes more warming. But don't worry, Jim Inhofe—who is the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee—has scientifically proven that global warming doesn't exist because it snowed somewhere.
|How hypothetical life without liquid water might work
|Bridge? Spock here. Beam me up. UPDATE: There's Klingons off the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow...
|Songs like "Do You Wanna Touch Me" and "I Love You Love Me Love" take on a whole new, creepy meaning as Gary Glitter gets 16 years for sexually assaulting young girls.
|"If I can take on 100,000 protestors, I can do the same across the globe." The Web mocks Scott Walker's insanely dumb comment.
|Another day, another shooting spree in US-America. Sometimes it hardly feels newsworthy anymore, especially in a state where gun deaths outnumber deaths from auto accidents.
|"But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a communist to make one. There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and NOT having a gun and NOT shooting someone."
|Rest in peace, Ahmed Rajib Haider. An American atheist blogger has been murdered in Bangladesh, after a long series of threatening messages.
|In Indiana (and many other US states), you don't need to kill to be a murderer. A then-16 year old could be imprisoned for 55 years, because his friend got killed by the owner of a house they broke into, presuming no-one was there.
|Score a win for net neutrality Update: That didn't take long Update: Now verizon starts trolling.
|The leader of UKIP's LGBT group has quit "due to disillusionment of policy direction and dissatisfaction at the failure of the leadership to set a gay-friendly tone".
|South Korea decriminalises adultery. Condoms rise.
|The Israel Experience With Mike Huckabee: come for the country-western star with the "Texas: We Don't Call 911" cap, stay for the proclamation that "If you're an enemy [of Israel], you're in real trouble. God doesn't change his mind about this stuff. It's an eternal book."
|Andrew Wakefield continues to make a career out of martyrdom and quackery, this time as an "expert witness" to the Oregon legislature.
|Bill O'Reilly faces another ethics question after he states in Killing Kennedy he was outside the home of George de Mohrenschildt as he committed suicide in Florida (he related hearing the shotgun blast)...even though he was
|More Republican medical "knowledge:" Cancer is a fungus and can be flushed from the body using salt water. This from a proposed bill, offering cancer sufferers "more options." The bill's proposer is CEO of a dubious healthcare company. (The bill is a "right to try" bill being pushed in several states by the Koch-Libertarian Goldwater Institute.)
|David Tredinnick, MP: If you don't think the NHS should use astrology for diagnosis, you're a RACIST!!
|Ron Paul: "Black Caucus only against war because they want that money for food stamps."
|Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says that civil liberties must be sacrificed in order to protect Australians from attacks.
|Bill O'Reilly
|Well, he had a fancy flip chart, so there must have been truth in it when back in 2012 Netanyahu told the UN there was an imminent nuclear threat by Iran despite his own intelligence agency having told him something different.
|(German) As measles break out in Berlin, too, the German consumer's magazine 'Stiftung Warentest' warns of measles and calls for immunization. What follows is a bullshit storm by anti-vaxxers. The magazine reacts by refuting every factual claim with science and by debunking any imputation in a most enjoyable way.
|It simply has no end. We now have drug-resistant malaria as well. (Lancet paper, Lancet editorial.)
|Kirk Cameron cleans up at the Razzies.
|As well as energy companies, guess who's been funding climate-change denier Willie Soon? That's right. And, he's been carelessly forgetting to mention the conflict of interest in his papers. $oon, however, says that he's been smeared.
|Ethics in journalism strikes again, where you'd least expect it. Mass resignations at the Tea Party News Network over its descent from ideology into clickbait.
|American and British intelligence agencies broke into the networks of the primary manufacturer of cell phone SIM cards to obtain the cards' encryption keys. They also appear to have gained access to some phone companies' systems.
|Definitely the worst thing you will read today: Parents try to reverse kids' autism by 'flushing out' vaccines with Miracle Mineral Supplement bleach enemas.
|After a report at Mother Jones questions Bill O'Reilly's statements about his "war correspondent" credentials, Bill states the writer will be "in the Kill Zone" once the truth comes out.
|Trans? Genderqueer? Pope Francis has an opinion about you.
|Judges and court officials in Oklahoma could be fired for performing same-sex marriages, thanks to a bill that's passed committee and moved to the full State House.
|Schadenfreude department: Fresh after tearing Brian Williams a new one, including invoking the Founding Fathers and insisting "the press must be honest," Bill O'Reilly's been caught lying about his own "war correspondent" credentials.
|Faced with the highest poverty rate, 2nd highest school drop-out and teen pregnancy rates, Mississippi lawmakers spring into action... and declare churches exempt from commercial driving licence requirements.
|In all fairness, Rudy, I sincerely doubt your own mother loves you, you really can't expect Obama to. Update: The New York Daily News (by no means a liberal bastion) rips him a new one.
|Scientists use human DNA to enlarge mouse brains. What could possibly go wrong?
|Hope you aren't too attached to eating bread
|Deadly antibiotics-resistant CRE invades Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, kills 2 and leaves more than 160 others exposed.
|Oops, that was definitely not what we meant with the acronym "KKK".
|"We're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it"
|GOP district delegate fatally shoots herself in the eye adjusting her bra holster. (Only good lingerie with a gun can stop bad lingerie with a gun.)
| Chicago cop Richard Zuley, renowned for his
|Unless you're getting your vaccines prenatally, they're not causing autism.
|Firm gender binaries are pretty much pseudoscience now. It's really quite a lot more complicated than that.
|Rand Paul's attempt to troll his way into the White House hits a snag.
|All-white Faux News team freak out over professor's "whiteness" course. Now Stormfront et al are issuing death threats to said professor.
|Oklahoma GOP lawmakers protecting your precious kids from that there book larnin': they have literally passed emergency legislation to ban AP US History classes, partially on the grounds that it's not nothing but pro-US propaganda. Some want to ban all AP classes. UPDATE: Instead, students would have to study the 10 Commandments and speeches by Saint Ronnie.
|A critical mass of nutters? Nigel Farage to join Sarah Palin at CPAC conference for US conservatives. Well, apparently the CPAC'ers didn't give much of a fuck about Farage.
|Big fat gay Indian wedding. Couple marries with small group of supportive friends and family in traditional ceremony and then attends pride parade.
|GOP-Dominated Utah House Gives A Green Light To Bring Back Firing Squads
|Started a week ago, but in case you missed it: In what is called the biggest banking leak in history, over 50 media outlets around the world publish documents, showing that the Swiss arm of the HSBC bank actively helped their customers evade taxes in their home countries. Among them are high-value criminals and, on the
|Saturday afternoon, in Copenhagen, Denmark a terrorist shot one man dead and wounded three police officers during a debate on blasphemy and free speech involving a cartoonist who has caricatured Muhammad. During the night, the gunman went to Copenhagen's synagogue and, attempting to attack a bar mitzvah ceremony, killed a young Jewish guard and wounded two police officers. This was in apparent imitation of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. In the early hours of Sunday morning, the police spotted the suspected gunman. As the police called out to him, the gunman opened fire on the police; they returned fire, killing him.
|NY GOP State Senator Thomas Croci thinks a "terrorist registry", modelled on sex offender registries, will stop terrorism. "This legislation will send a clear message to all terrorists — Stay out of New York," he actually said.
|8chan discovers that doxing a federal judge attracts attention.
|The Arkansas state house and senate votes to enact a sharia-style law that would prohibit cities and counties from enacting local LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws. All in the name of pro-business uniformity, of course.
|Halifax dodges a bullet. Thank Goat.
|Irony alert: World's top celibate tells childfree couples that remaining childless makes them "selfish" and "greedy".
|Bob Nygaard, scourge of psychic fraud.
|Canada's long media nightmare ends with the quiet death of Fox News North
|Je suis en train d'intenter un procès. The City of Paris votes to sue Fox News over false reporting after the Charlie Hebdo killings.
|Prospective presidential candidate Ted Cruz introduces a bill to strip federal recognition of same-sex marriages. Meanwhile, in Florida, a lawmaker says people are not forced to use the bathroom and that trans people "choose to go to the restroom." What a time to be alive.
|Turkish children are increasingly destroying buildings with pickaxes and using the materials to make giant stone dicks. Apparently.
|Kansas governor Sam Brownback yanks protection for LGBT state workers.
|New Jersey Judge: Gay Conversion Therapy Claims Are Fraud
|Childhood exposure to smog can have 10 point effect on IQ.
|Islamophobic bus ads defaced with pictures of Muslim superhero.
|You know, just saying it was a poor choice of words would've gotten your point across just as well.
|Anti-theist is charged with a triple homicide against Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, allegedly over an ongoing parking dispute.
|The National Academy of Sciences floats a proposal to seed the atmosphere with sulfur pollution to mimic volcanic eruptions to slow global warming.
|A sad, sad day for satire and for journalism: after over fifteen years, Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show.
|Welp. Jeb Bush basically inadvertently doxxed a whole bunch of people. Whoops. (No actual personal information in article)
|Anti-vax book "Melanie's Marvelous Measles" gets 800 one-star reviews on Amazon.
|Anonymous reports its first successes in taking out Daesh Twitter accounts.
|If you're a microbiologist looking to identify some unknown DNA, you need look no further than the NYC subway system. "Almost half of the DNA found on the system's surfaces did not match any known organism and just 0.2 percent matched the human genome."
|There's an excellent reason why Charles Manson called off his impending wedding: she only wanted him for his body.
|SCOTUS refuses to extend stay of judicial ruling on same-sex marriages in Alabama, with only Tony and Tommy dissenting. Local politicians and judges all defer to the court's wisdom, and promise to read the Constitution and to abide by it in future (I made that last bit up).
|No big surprises here: e-cigarettes pose a substantial risk to human health. (If you vape at voltages actual users hardly ever do.) Well, maybe one surprise no exception for nicotine free vapes.
|For a mere US$ 10,500, you can have an Ethernet cable that will make your MP3s sound better.
|Oregon, where upskirt pictures of a minor aren't a privacy issue, as long as she's wearing underwear, and the pictures aren't taken in a locker-room.
|After shooting a classmate, what should you not do? a) Take a selfie; b) Send your selfie to others c) All of the above
|"Perhaps a good paddling in school may keep me from having to put a bullet in him later." Look, NRA, even this big-time firearms collector of a WIGOer thinks your guys are insane.
|Britain invents the protest tax.
|A British journalist's personal analysis of current Republican Party attitudes in the U.S. Congress. (Gary Younge: in general, thoughtful and sound.)
|Florida Man wants to convert artificial intelligences to Christianity. (Roko's basilisk should go for this one big time.)
|Woman becomes overweight after fecal transplant,
|OMG Newcastle's favourite mud puddle coloured brew causes cancer. Spoiler: It probably doesn't. (Sorry the only site I could be bothered to find was the Daily Fail. [Replaced link with DoNotLink --])
|An attempt to replicate the "cold fusion" Energy Catalyzer goes bang.
|The ioye of sexe, 1684 style: Aristotle's Masterpiece.
|In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has struck down laws against assisted suicide
|Only in Florida, I guess...
|Talks in Moscow over the Ukraine... Looks promising, maybe...?
|Dear Richard Dawkins: Just stop talking!
|Kickstarter -- Now the home of the Laundry ball. Crystal Wash 2.0, Clean Laundry with No Detergents. The page claims that the balls increase the pH of the water to 8.5, and release Hydrogen Peroxide into the wash (Fun fact: Those should not work together. Hydrogen Peroxide lowers PH.) Hits all the marks for the Laundry-Ball scam, including focusing on gimmicks like an embedded, Bluetoothed PH scanner and a phone app. Guess what? It's over half-way funded, asking for $100,000, and it's Staff-Picked.
|One does not simply get suspended from school for stupid reasons. Or maybe one does. 9-year-old suspended from Texas school after making "terroristic threats" with the One Ring To Rule Them All.
|First they came for the drug-pushing, money-laundering, hitman-hiring Bitcoin advocates, and I was pretty okay with that actually.
|Faux News sinks to new low, contemptible even by their standards.
|Scientists may be on to the first stages of a general anti-viral medication.(original paper)
|Revenge porn site founder guilty, faces 20 years in jail.
|Bobby Jindal's official portrait is all
|Being LGBTQ apparently gives an unfair advantage in video games.
|Not content with earning the wrath of the planet by beheading their hostages, ISIS executes their latest victim by burning him alive. UPDATE: Well played, Jordan, well played.
|Hillary Clinton: "The earth is round and vaccines work".
|British MPs approve mitochondrial transfer law, despite objections from the Anglican and Catholic churches.
|Think the GOP's anti-vax stance is bad? Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) says he's okay with the idea of service industry workers returning to work without washing their hands after touching their unmentionables, as long as customers are made aware of the situation.
|Chris Christie decides there's votes in dead children too. He slightly walks back his original embrace of "parental choice", but not so much you'd notice.
|Rand Paul states that he knows children who wound up with profound mental disorders from vaccination, so he wants to give parents a choice. One wonders if his source was the same as Michele Bachmann's that made her look like a goofball. Either way since Obama has come out in favor of vaccines then the GOP must come out against it. UPDATE: A new world record in backpedaling has been set.
|Croatia cancels debts for its poorest citizens.
|Slicing into a woman's pelvis with a hacksaw and cauterising the wound with a soldering iron is love for the child
|President Obama to parents doubting 'indisputable' science: 'Get your kids vaccinated'
|South Africa grants parole to apartheid hitman known as "Prime Evil". Which gives us an important question: Who appointed Minister Masutha?
[edit] January 2015
|Bulgaria's first democratically-elected president Zhelyu Zhelev dies.
|Mitt Romney will not run in 2016.
|Yet another media triumph for GamerGate
|Texas, where teachers are allowed to shoot students.
|Utah parents murder children, then commit suicide, because they feared a looming apocalypse.
|President Castro says Obama needs to return Gitmo 7 years after he was elected promising to close it down.
|Jewish Leader accidentally gets trapped in AuschwitzNot The Onion
|The American Family Association has fired Bryan Fischer for comments regarding teh gayz and Nazi Germany (Update: but only "as a spokesperson and director of issues analysis", he still will host his AFA talk show).
|Hey kids! Let's smoke some astro turf and huff moon gas!
|BENGHAZI WAS A COVER-UP! Of course, we mean the Republican manufactroversy.
|Conspiracy theories might be right, if they involve waging war for oil. (This apparently came as news to someone, somewhere.)
|The Nightly Show tackles vaccines and the measles epidemic.
|At age 86, James Randi finally retires from the James Randi Educational Foundation.
|Feminists are just a bunch of 'hatchet-faced miserable' women so I'm standing for parliament, here's my manifesto, (tl;dr: "Waaaa, waaaaah, whaa!") (Incidentally he's a big fan of Paul Elam)
|Australian anti-vaxxers are encouraging parents to join a fake church to avoid vaccination requirements for daycares
|We're shocked! A fad diet supplement woo meister Dr. Oz has been pushing is "a total hoax." Also found on this page: ads for various questionable weight-loss treatments.
|Russia takes another financial hit.
|Mass surveillance is a fundamental threat to human rights, says a report by the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe.
|The myth of a Good Guy with a Gun is statistically wrong on every level.
|The anti-austerity, anti-capitalism party, Syriza, wins the Greek general election. Euro plummets amidst talk of renegotiating the bailout and reversing austerity measures.
|The North Korean government has been opening North Korean-themed restaurants all over the world, setting off a debate over (irony meter alert) who has the property rights to the Korean culinary tradition.
|A simple graph shows the increasing effect of vaccine denial.
|ahahahaha... hahahahah... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... (Warning: Contains Sarah Palin.)
|Senate Republicans remove "civil rights" and "human rights" from subcommittee name, stating that the subcommittee would be a "watchdog against unconstitutional overreach and will hold the Obama Administration accountable for its actions." Long live the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights.
|Oklahoma state legislators are pushing for bills that would: require a confirmed religious official to perform a wedding, removing judges entirely from the process; remove any official who grants marriage licenses to gay couples; and legalize antigay discrimination.
|Alabama joins other states where gay marriage bans have fallen as everybody looks to the Supreme Court's decision this year. When a deep south Shrub appointee calls you out on your bullshit, you may need to rethink your arguments.
|Thatcher knew about the Westminster pedophile ring. The evidence was found in a place where the Government denied there being evidence when they looked. Hmmm.
|Cooperation between British spies and Gaddafi's Libya revealed in official papers. It's ugly. Meanwhile, the inquiry into the Iraq war by the British parliament gets delayed until after the general election in May 2015.
|Tennessee woman freaks out over "pentagram" on school bus. Not sure what's dumber, her reaction or that this gets reported as news. Even other Southerners mock her.
|The King is dead. Western leaders pay tribute and overlook the poor Saudi Arabian human rights record.
|The Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, citing Climate Change and stasis on Nukes. Internet reaction is to reference an Iron Maiden song.
|King Tutankhamun's Burial Mask, the most famous archaeological relic in the world, has been "irreversibly damaged" during a botched cleaning attempt.
|German court rules that men are allowed to stand and deliver. Yes this is taking the piss!
|In the face of Shi'ite Houthi rebels, the Yemeni federal government has stepped down.
|Bakery facing religious discrimination complaint for refusing to make anti-gay cake, despite offering a workaround.
|Dianne Feinstein denounces Republican attempt to claw back copies of CIA torture report
|Republicans (Even James Inhofe!) admit Global Warming is happening, but deny it's human-caused
|Mike Huckabee, a potential presidential candidate for 2016, says that if the SCOTUS rules for Gay Marriage, the states can just ignore them
|Yemen's presidential palace attacked by Shia Houthi rebels.
|50,000 gallons of oil spill into Yellowstone River after a pipe line bursts.
|Remember the First Nations girl who chose traditional medicine over conventional chemotherapy for her completely treatable leukemia back in October? Her health made a turn for the worse, and she has passed away following a stroke indicative of the cancer spreading to her brain. Her parents blame the chemotherapy.
|Same old, same old. *sigh*
|Liam Neeson criticizes America's gun culture during a press tour. No points for guessing what happened next.
|Saudi national, Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for setting up a liberal blog and criticising Saudi religious authorities. The first 50 lashes were carried out but the second 50 were postponed twice because the wounds had not healed and further lashings might kill him. Future lashings are planned every week after Friday prayers till the sentence is complete . There are Five suggested ways you can help Raif Badawi and an online petition that Amnesty hopes can help.
|Remember Civil Forfeiture? Eric Holder has now somewhat prohibited it.
|It's happening: the SCOTUS has granted writs of certiorari (an announcement of a plan to review lower court findings) to the same-sex marriage cases in Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and will decide if the 14th amendment protects it.
|One of the boys who claimed to have visited and returned from Heaven recants his tale.
|Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantanamo Diary is finally published. WARNING: the extracts are not easy reading.
|Miami cops are using the mugshots of black teenagers for target practice. And yes, they defend it.
|New York mayor Bill de Blasio says he'd veto a bill by city lawmakers that would make it illegal for a police officer to put a person in a chokehold during an arrest.
|Japan asks U.S. publisher to 'correct' textbook references to 'comfort women', the Japanese euphemism for the women forced into prostitution during military conflicts.
|Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts, drug-dealing money-laundering hitman-hiring proprietor of the Bitcoin-powered Silk Road, who was busted by feds using a library computer logged into the Silk Road admin panel, puts forward as his defence that he started the site, but handed it over to someone else, who only talked him into coming back in time to be busted by the feds. This is literally his defence. But wait! He's just claimed that Mark Karpeles, of massively-failed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was the real Dread Pirate Roberts! But wait, there's actually links to Karpeles in the story. Good Lord.
|Clemson University in South Carolina begins process of renaming building dedicated to Benjamin Tillman, virulent 19th-century racist. Well, better late than never.
|So, Pope Francis has developed a reputation as an enlightened breath of fresh air in the Vatican. Except when it comes to Charlie Hebdo, free speech and satirizing or insulting someone's faith and belief. In that case, Papa Frankie thinks that there are limits to questioning the "dignity" that he says every religion has.
|The dumbest man in Congress is named "Legislator of the Year" by Texan judges.
|Mike Huckabee questions Obama's parenting skills for letting his daughters listen to Beyoncé. Of course, Huckabee's kid had hung a stray dog, slit its throat and stoned it to death.
|March for solidarity in Paris? Cool! Just keep those nasty vaginas out of it!
|Map of literally every goat in the United States
|Meanwhile, winning the award for fewest fucks given, Charlie Hebdo's next cover features Muhammad holding a "Je suis Charlie" sign. Also considers a run of
|David Cameron: If we don't ban encrypted messaging apps like Snapchat, then we can't read your messages, and the terrorists win!
|Antivax parents spread disease through Disneyland
|Sri Lankan astrologer didn't have the heart to tell the president what the stars really said.
|Old school RatWiki goats!
|New Charlie Hebdo cover revealed. Muhammad appears again.
|South Dakota's ban on Marriage Equality is declared unconstitutional, as the bans of the deep south are under review as well
|Is the security of the West in competent hands? Yes, of course it is!
|Meanwhile in Nigeria, Boko Haram has massacred an estimated 2.000 people. Not heard about it?
|Under Abbott's education "reforms", the Australian government will fund education in homeopathy, iridology, naturopathy, and other forms of alt-med nonsense.
|Not all Muslims are terrorists: the brother of the murdered Paris policeman speaks. Update: Lassana Bathily: the Paris kosher supermarket hero
|Winfield, Alabama city council announces that God now owns their town. God was not asked if He wanted it.
|Reconstruction of the face of a Native American girl who died 12000 years ago reveals a face that doesn't match contemporary ideas about race, though genetic tests confirm she's related to the ancestral population.
|Due to high rate of road accidents, Russia has announced tightened medical restrictions and contraindications to driving, encompassing those with hereditary eye disorders, severe epilepsy, dementia... compulsive gambling, PTSD, transvestism, and transgenderism? Oh dears.(Official Russian Gov Doc with ICD-10 references can be found at http://government.ru/media/files/A5X9GSAYrpA.pdf)
|Charlie Hebdo: What do you do after much of your staff is murdered on the job? Cease publication? Suspend operations temporarily? How about publish next week's issue on schedule and print over 20 times the standard run.
|Judge overturns California ban on pâté de foie gras.
|Receiving food stamps objectively boost academic performance and IQ in children compared to children living in poverty who don't receive assistance.
|Filipinos may lose bladder and bowel control during Papal visit.
|Plop open some vials of penicillin and gulp it down in celebration! We need space for our new antibiotic, defeating all tested mutants of Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis!
|Another stupendous victory for Gamergate! Intel announces a $300 million diversity initiative, directly inspired by Gamergate fooling them into pulling an ad campaign. And Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency are directly involved. (Gamergate are evidently deep cover cultural Marxists.)
|NAACP office bombed in Colorado Spring, no deaths or injuries to be reported.
|Charlie Hebdo's Paris office was attacked by Islamists, 12 people dead. UPDATE: The shooters have reportedly been identified; one has reportedly turned himself into the police, claiming he was not in Paris the day of the shooting.
|British farmer forced to turn murderous Nazi cows into sausages. [No, not The Onion]
|A story that gives HuffPo a chance to talk about Streisand effect: At a recent county council meeting in Frederick County, Maryland, councilman Kirby Delauter got upset at the local newspaper for publishing the name Kirby Delauter without first getting the permission of Kirby Delauter to publish the name Kirby Delauter in the paper. Aw, that Kirby Delauter. He's such a Kirby Delauter. Update: Mr Delauter realises what a huge dick he was being and properly apologises.
|Mommy Dearest Phylis Schlafly says college women are being raped because they go to college, duh.
|South Carolina legislators file bills to teach gun rights in school, with help from the NRA on defining just what those rights include.
|Problem: People keep robbing stores. Solution:
|Three cheers for Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay! ...And three more jeers for the Fraternal Order of Police.
|The dumbest man in in Congress believes global warming will lead to more plants. For context, the decrease in plant biomass from deforestation is one of the primary anthropogenic causes of global warming.
|The dumbest man in in Congress wants John Boehner's job.
|John Boehner - Scalise's 10-year association with KKK Grand Wizard was an "error in judgement," but GOP top brass are happy to have the totally-not-a-white-supremacist as their majority whip.
|Randy Andy has allegedly gone way beyond the Koo-ee I'm Stark-ers stage. We don't know the truth but court cases are pending and there may be a book. This will run and run. The Queen is not amused.
|Researchers find the ancient genetic link between fish fins and animal hands.
|You just can't start early enough to find out potential terrorists.
|Evolutionism goes on beyond
|In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin has dropped from US$310 to US$260. Follow the carnage live on Coindesk! Update: Bitstamp? Aaaand it's gone. What an amazing coincidence they got hacked the day after a price crash!
|It turns out that, even in terms of revealed preferences, Uber-style price gouging means the free market doesn't trust you after you burnt them once.
|"Just the way she goes sometimes". Actually 2/3 times, apparently. Recent studies suggest that about 2/3 forms of cancer are not preventable, so sit back, crack open a beer, and let the chips fall where they may.
|The Bible - so misunderstood it is a sin. Pull up the deck chairs, get a beer, let's watch the fun....right on time!
|Sony tries to use the DMCA to suppress people reposting leaked documents detailing their financial malfeasance. We're sure that will work just fine.
|Starting off the New Year, the man who helped inspire Viagra and the creator of the "Periodic Table Videos" have been knighted.


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The Ohio Lottery is reports record-high sales and profits for the 2014 fiscal year, boosted in part by revenue from new video lottery terminals at three racinos.
The State Controlling Board has approved an Ohio Lottery plan to spend 22.5 million dollars on 12 hundred new electronic raffle machines for veterans' posts and fraternal organizations.
Six veterans posts and fraternal organizations has rejected the state's offer of new gaming machines to replace ones that have been deemed illegal.
The Ohio Lottery says it has developed a video-style game alternative to illegal electronic raffles offered by veterans and fraternal posts.
The Ohio Lottery says public schools in the state will get 803 million dollars from a record-high 2.8 billion in lottery sales during the 2013 fiscal year.
Ohio Lottery officials are asking the State Controlling Board to renew the contract with the company hired to operate the lottery, despite a decline in sales this year.
A provision in the Ohio House version of the state budget bill prohibits the Ohio Lottery from following the lead of other states and selling tickets directly to players via computers and hand-held devices.

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The duo's second album cleans up the beats and the lyrics, but holds true to Purity Ring's signature paradoxes.
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We'll be supporting multiple projects over time – here's this semester's work:
WHO Measles Data Visualization Project
This project utilizes a web-based platform to allow a user to transparently and quickly view and compare trends associated with the Measles virus for all 193 sovereign states. It will be used by the World Health Organization to make more effective decisions regarding vaccine deployment.
Can technology improve the way we learn and think? Google's head of research argues we're headed into a new era of education.
By Basant Pandey, Lumbini, Nepal
Alfred Spector: technology can enhance learning (Amy Sussman)
"This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories," a concerned commentator once spoke of a new technology. "[People] will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
The commentator? Socrates, quoting an Egyptian king. And the technology? Writing.
Two thousand years later, the technology has changed but the dialogue remains the same. Facebook, smartphones, and video games are all supposedly bad for us: damaging our concentration, or leading to falling grades.
While there's no doubt that information technology can have its downsides for our day-to-day behaviour, there is very little evidence that computers are damaging our brains – any more than writing made us more forgetful. In fact, computers might just make us a bit smarter.
This potential for technology to enhance the mind was explored by Google's vice-president of research Alfred Spector at the World-Changing Ideas Summit in New York on 21 October. He outlined the ways that even simple apps could improve the way we think and learn. "Since I was a freshman in college, almost every piece of information technology is a million times better than when I started," he said. "And there are reasons to believe that this will affect education."
For some enthusiastic learners, the revolution has already started: the last few years have seen a rapid rise in apps that aim to help us effortlessly absorb new material. Duolingo – an app that teaches foreign languages through playful games – already has around 40 million users, while programs like Cerego and Memrise aim to teach more general subjects, based on a growing understanding of the way the brain learns and forgets information.
But these could just be the tip of the iceberg, said Spector – if the technology will follow three important principles. Firstly, he points to research showing that even average students can reach the top 2% of a class if they have a personal tutor that can adapt their teaching methods to the student's style of thinking and learning. "If it were the case that technology could become custom tutors, then it's possible to imagine enormous improvements in educational attainment," said Spector.
In fact, Memrise and Cerego already use this strategy to a certain extent – by tracking patterns in the ways they remember and forget the information – but more sophisticated approaches may emerge with time. In other words, we may all be able to enjoy the advantages that were once only available to the richest children.
Spector also pointed out that designers have already mastered the way to create immersive, compelling environments – through video games – that could take the boredom out of studying. "We have user interfaces that are so exciting that people play video games for hours and hours a day, and they could be educated by them." Besides adding interest, Daphne Bavelier at the University of Rochester, New York, says that by effortlessly focusing our attention, immersive environments can also improve" – the kind of memory that allows you to learn a musical instrument, or a foreign language, and which normally shuts down after childhood.
Finally, Spector says that social networks could be used to increase the interaction between students. "I learnt as much from fellow students as we do from the faculty," he told the WCIS audience. Indeed, part of the popularity of apps like Memrise is the fact that users can share their experiences.
Spector readily admits that all of this might sound a bit pie-in-the-sky at the moment, and may only attract the more dedicated users, but the obvious enthusiasm with which people are devouring apps like Duolingo suggests there is a genuine interest. "It may be enough to get this started," he says. He thinks much of the necessary technology is already there – it just needs to be packaged in a more attractive way.
If so, he believes it could fundamentally change our society – perhaps even abolishing the need for schools. "In the past it seemed you had to go to a school to get formal education – there was no choice but to go to isolated places to be educated, but now we don't have to do that. We may choose to but we don't have to." Or perhaps universities will cut down the number of years you spend on campus – allowing you to finish your education with distance learning. And since it means that people aren't all taught in one class – but offers a more personal approach – it may mean that future students can pick and choose the bits that are most appealing while avoiding the more tedious parts of their subject.
Despite his obvious enthusiasm, Spector recognises that there could be some unexpected downsides to this kind of effortless learning, should it ever be achieved. "How do we learn grit?" he asked the audience. "If everything is a computer game how do you learn to deal with that challenge that you spent all night trying to read Chaucer and write a summary of it?" For many, though, that is probably a small price to pay if the easier path to learning makes us all a bit smarter, and a bit more creative.
As another speaker at the conference, Alexis Ohanian – the founder of reddit – put it: "The internet has flattened the world… It allows us to learn anything that we want. A teenager with a smartphone has access to more knowledge than the president did a few decades ago."
We were hoping this post would include details on our research trip to Belize during January. Unfortunately, a team member was in an accident, which caused us to postpone our trip until this spring. However, we do have some information to share on preparations to date and future plans.
Equipment Builds
Plenty of hours were spent preparing our equipment for the trip. Much of time was spent on completing the assembly of our "Game of Drones" build, affectionately known as Motley (see figure below).
I designed the dome/lid (white, seen in the middle of Motley) and had it printed on a 3D printer in our Center for Design and Fabrication. An idea from our friends at UAV-America suggests that we add a bit of plasti-dip to the dome edge and inner rim of the frame to secure the fitting, since the lid does not quite snap into place. All of the components were oriented and re-seated within this hardier frame. The newly-combined GPS receiver and magnetometer can now be mounted externally on the dome (note: the GPS/magnetometer are not shown in the above image). We are able to fit two LiPo (lithium polymer) batteries inside the cavity and we await warmer weather – or a trip to the indoor gymnasium – to test Motley's flight characteristics.
We also invested additional time building our Aquacopter UAV (see picture below). The Aquacopter is a durable frame that, as the name implies, is specially built for water environments. The frame and components arrived in early December, not leaving much time to build or modify. With help from UAV-America and additional hours in our lab, we were to get the motors generating lift and the quad up in the air. However, we are still experiencing irregular flight characteristics, primarily with unpredictable and unresponsive yaw motion. The motors may be slightly pitched in their mounting, which would cause these issues.
Future plans include adding shims under the motors, performing test flights to find the cause of the problem (and therefore fix the yaw), and also determine if the Aquacopter can actually float. This would give it a significant edge over Motley in our data collection, because being able to retrieve the quad from a water landing is crucial.
Travel Preparations
We also spent time reading and understanding FAA regulations governing what types of batteries are allowed on commercial flights. Specifically, we reviewed the Delta Airlines baggage restrictions to understand what size and quantity LiPo batteries we can pack and transport in our carry on bags. As Christine writes:
I've looked at the restrictions on carrying on lithium batteries and the only restrictions I can find are that you can only have two batteries that are "large", or between 8 and 25 grams of lithium and between 100 and 160 watt hours. None of our batteries are anywhere close to those restrictions, so according the guidelines you sent me we can take as many of our batteries as we want to. These can't be damaged and must be put in their original packaging (or, if we don't have that, then we just need to insulate the battery terminals from metal or other batteries). Also, we have to make sure that there won't be a lot of pressure on the batteries at any time. All the batteries must be in carry on.
We are taking extra precautions to print and adhere to these regulations, and plan to adhere a print-out with an inventory of batteries stored in each battery safe bag to the outside of our carry-on luggage. Hopefully, this will save time and confusion as we proceed through the airport security area!
Could we one day hook up our brains to the internet? Rose Eveleth investigates a claim for the 'first' online message sent between two minds.
As internet connections become faster and more of the devices we carry help keep us online, it can sometimes feel like we're on the verge of spontaneous email communication. I send an email; you receive it, open it, and respond – all in a matter of seconds. Regardless of whether you think near-instant communication is a good thing or not, it's certainly happening. Not long ago we routinely waited days or weeks for a letter – today even waiting hours for a reply can feel like an eternity.
Perhaps the ultimate way to speed up online communication would be to push towards direct brain-to-brain communication over the web. If brains were directly connected, there would be no more need for pesky typing – we could simply think of an idea and send it instantly to a friend, whether they are in the same room or half the world away. We're not there yet, of course, but a recent study took a first step in that direction, claiming direct between people thousands of miles from one another.
The work is simply a proof of concept, as Giulio Ruffini, one of the researchers on the project – and CEO of Starlab, based in Barcelona – is quick to explain. The team did not, as some reported, send words or thoughts or emotions from one brain to another. Instead they did something much simpler.
Technology to detect brainwaves can be used to broadcast simple messages
Here's how it worked. One subject – in this case a man in Kerala, India – was fitted with a brain-computer interface that records brainwaves through the scalp. That person was then instructed to imagine they were moving either their hands, or their feet. If he imagined moving his feet, the computer recorded a zero. If he imagined moving his hands, it recorded a one.
This string of zeros and ones was then sent through the internet to a receiver: a man in Strasbourg, France. He was fitted with something called a TMS robot – a robot designed to deliver strong but short electrical pulses to the brain. When the sender thought about moving his hands, the TMS robot zapped the receiver's brain in a way that made him see light – even though his eyes were closed. The receiver saw no light if the sender thought about moving his feet.
To make the message more meaningful, the researchers came up with a cipher: one string of zeros and ones (or hands and feet) meant "hola" and another meant "ciao". The receiver – who had also been taught the cipher – could then decode the signal of lights to interpret which word the sender had sent.
Deep concentration
This might sound simple, but at each stage there are complications. The sender has to concentrate extremely hard to focus only on imagining moving their hands or feet. Any other activity in the brain can cloud the signal, and make it hard to pick up the message. In fact, the sender had to be trained in how to do this properly.
The whole process isn't fast, either. The researchers estimated that from brain to brain the transmission speed was about two bits (a zero and a one) per minute. So to get even a simple message from one brain to another would take a while. But when it happened, and it worked, Ruffini says it was exciting.
"I mean, you can look at this experiment in two ways," he says. "On the one hand it's quite technical and a very humble proof of concept. On the other hand, this was the first time it was done, so it was a little bit of a historical moment I suppose, and it was pretty exciting. After all the years thinking about it and finding the means to do it, it felt pretty good."
Just a stunt?
There is actually some debate over whether the experiment really does represent a first. Last year, a team at Harvard hooked up a man's brain to a rat's tail, and he was able to make the tail twitch just by thinking. Also last year, a group at the University of Washington was able to create a brain-to-brain interface in which a sender gained some control over a receiver's motor cortex, allowing him to send messages that caused the receiver's hand to subconsciously strike a keyboard. Consequently, one scientist told IEEE Spectrum he thought Ruffini's work was "pretty much a stunt", and had "all been shown before". But Ruffini's experiment is certainly the first in which a brain-to-brain connection was attempted over such great a distance, and the first time the receiver was consciously interpreting the signal.
And Ruffini has bigger dreams. He wants to transmit feelings, sensations, and complete thoughts between brains. "The technology is very limited right now, but some day can be very powerful," he says. "Some day we will transcend verbal communications."
There are advantages to doing so, he says. Receiving another's thoughts directly into your brain might allow people to more effectively put themselves in someone else's shoes and understand how they feel, which could make the world a better place. "I think most of the world's problems stem from the fact that we have different viewpoints and we don't understand how other people see or feel about the world," he says, "Being able to actually feel what other people are feeling, it would change a lot." He even talks about applying the method to animals, to understand their world and feelings.
Before they can send fully formed concepts, the next step for the team is to try to transmit something more complicated than a one or a zero. This might involve stimulating the brain at multiple sites, and moving beyond using the perception of light as the signal. "The way we have encoded information in the brain, it's distributed, there is not a single place where the word 'hello' is stored," says Ruffini. To transmit language directly, he says, the researchers will have to figure out how to stimulate the networked brain in a new way. And if they want to send sensations, they'll have to figure out how to stimulate those segments of the brain too. What makes the task even harder is the fact that the researchers want to do this stimulation externally, without invasive – but more precise – brain implants.
Of course, with this kind of power comes danger too. Anything sent over the internet can be hacked and tracked. The ability to send messages directly into a person's brain is, to some, a terrifying concept. "It can potentially be some day used in a negative way – you could try to take control of [somebody's] motor system," says Ruffini. But he points out that researchers are a long way from being able to do anything even remotely so sophisticated.
Still, it remains an intriguing thought that one day, many decades from now, you might be digesting emails, messages or even an article like this one directly into your mind.
The goal of this project is to design a device that attaches to an everyday bicycle. The Bike Generator harvests energy from the movement of powerful magnets on the bike's back wheel, or from a motor mechanically connected to one of the bike's wheels. Through the use of electromagnetism, a battery then stores that power in a battery with the intention of charging electronics at a later time. By using a device to make the bicycle stationary, the Bike Generator could also be used as an exercise bike in a gym, and could potentially generate power that could go back into the electrical grid.
Let's see what happens between now & the project's end in May.


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Ok Now that I have my new toy I want to plug in my subwoofer into my radio. I started looking at the dash and I can't find a way to get to the back of the radio. Anyone had a chance to play with this yet before I break something?
You can't just plug in your amp to the factory radio, you need a HI-level converter to take your speaker level wires and convert them to an RCA output. You don't need to pull out the radio for that, just locate the speaker wires and tap into those, then locate an Accessory wire to make the amp turn on and off. Then run a wire to the battery for power.
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The responses appeared on the wall during the last two weeks of the Fall Term. Faculty advisor Linda Shul, who organized the "1,000 Reasons to Graduate" campaign, said she expects even more as the Spring Term gets under way.
Shul, who teaches marketing and entrepreneur classes in the School of Business & Information Technology, is one of a handful of faculty members across all CNM schools selected to serve as faculty advisors in a pilot program that was initiated last fall. The advisors are a resource to other faculty members, helping them figure out ways to motivate students to stay in school and graduate, said Sydney Gunthorpe, vice president of Academic Affairs.
"The Deans Council came up with the idea of faculty advisors," he said. "It was a way to help ease the burden on advisors."
He added that some faculty members are reluctant to give students advice, because there are so many factors related to programs and nuances for students to transfer. The faculty advisors serve as a bridge between the academic advisors, school advisors and faculty.
"It's an important role," Gunthorpe said. "They understand the scope of the programs, accreditation and curriculum. They can help Academic Affairs develop the right programs that meet accreditation standards."
The faculty advisors don't necessarily advise students one on one (but sometimes they do). Instead, they work with faculty, usually in group settings, to show them how to help students follow a path to graduation. They'll also go into classrooms and talk to students about the degrees they are seeking and how to get there.
Each school selected its own faculty advisors – generally two per school. The faculty advisors are released from one to two classes a term to give them time to perform their new functions.
"The faculty advisors are coming up with unique ideas that might eventually be used by other faculty advisors and faculty members," Gunthorpe said.
For example, Alexandria Cisneros, faculty advisor in the School of Adult & General Education, created a manual of SAGE classes for faculty. And Shul and another faculty advisor from BIT, Francis Heis, put together a community website for faculty that offers advisement tips.
Gunthorpe and the Deans Council are watching the faculty advisor pilot program closely to see if it will become permanent.
"There's a good chance it will, depending on the budget," he said. "We started the school advisor program slowly, and today there is an advisor in every school. So far it appears that we will see the same success with the faculty advisor program."]]>
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Last year, he donated sophisticated Lavu POS (Point of Sale) software to CNM. The cloud-based system allows students in CNM's Culinary Arts program working at the student-run restaurant, Bistro 106, to take orders on iPads and send them back to the kitchen, a practice that is becoming more common in restaurants today.
Lavu, as a valued CNM partner, also supports CNM's STEMulus Center in Downtown Albuquerque. Lavu recently staged a "hackathon" at the STEMulus Center, where local developers competed to enhance Lavu software through coding activities. More Lavu hackathons will take place at the STEMulus Center. Lim also serves as a mentor for CNM's IGNITE Community Accelerator at the STEMulus Center.
"We value Lim's support of our entrepreneurial and ESL programs," said Donna Diller, dean of CNM's School of Business & Information Technology. "The money will go a long way in helping students get their degrees and become entrepreneurs."
This generous contribution is one of the 50 the foundation is seeking for endowed scholarships in 2015, which will mark CNM's 50th anniversary. The CNM Foundation is grateful to have the support of Lavu, Inc.
CNM Dean of Students Rudy Garcia said that PHA approached him last year to see if the college would be interested in participating in the new Healthier Campus Initiative.
"We've been working towards a healthier population for the past several years and this initiative was a good fit," Garcia said. "It's going to be a lot of work but also a lot of fun."
He added that PHA wants more community colleges involved in the Healthier Campus Initiative. As a result, he is helping organize a February summit in Washington, D.C., that will bring together representatives from other community colleges. The summit is designed to give them more information about the initiative.
As part of the MOU, CNM is committed to achieving goals over the next three years in the areas of food and nutrition, physical fitness and programming.
For the food and nutrition portion of the MOU, goals are for cafeteria menus to be revised to offer a minimum of one wellness meal during serving hours; to offer a minimum of three types of fruits, three types of vegetables and one 100 percent whole grain product at both lunch and dinner time; and to offer desserts at both lunch and dinner that have less than 150 calories.
This portion of the MOU will affect Sodexo, the company that operates CNM's cafeterias and catering services, and Bistro 106, the student-run restaurant. CNM Nutrition students and faculty members will also partner with Culinary Arts students and faculty in developing a healthier catering menu.
One of CNM's commitments in the physical fitness area is providing marked walking routes on campus that must be at least two miles in length and have distance markers at regular intervals. A walking and fitness route is currently being designed. Upon completion, a map will be made available on the CNM website. Fitness and Architectural/Engineering Drafting students are working together on the project.
Some of the other physical fitness commitments include providing designated bicycle lanes on major roads; implementing a bicycle and pedestrian recognition program; and offering without a user fee a minimum of one monthly "how to" physical activity, which will be conducted by interns in the Fitness Technician program.
In the area of programming, CNM is committed to implementing an integrated, comprehensive on-campus wellness program. Faculty will participate in a variety of wellness activities to include sessions on healthy eating on a budget.
Another commitment in the MOU is to provide service learning opportunities for students in the School of Health Wellness & Public Safety, the School of Math, Science & Engineering, and the School of Business & Information Technology. It will provide students with an opportunity to serve their community while learning more about food and nutrition, physical activity/movement, and/or coaching.
"We at CNM are determined to reach all of these goals," Garcia said. "And when we do, we will be a model of healthiness to all community colleges."
The other schools that joined PHA in a three-year commitment to make their campuses healthier are Arizona State University; Binghamton University; Clayton State University; Florida International University; George Mason University; George Washington University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Hampshire College; North Caroline State University; Ohio State University; Oklahoma State University; Southern University and A&M College; Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi; University of California – Los Angeles; University of Miami; University of New Hampshire; University of North Dakota; University of Oregon; and Washington University in St. Louis.]]>
The competition was very close, but the CNM team, called Team Zero, emerged the victors. The students created a "Lazy Inventory" solution for Lavu iPad POS. The team had five members, including Mark Hayes, Zach Grant, Gerardo Medrano, Dameon Smith and Ryan Sloan, who learned about the event through the Deep Dive Coding Bootcamp.
The team won a $1,000 prize that they split evenly. In addition, their creation can now be used by Lavu's worldwide customer base. In addition to enhancing Lavu's software, the students have also greatly enhanced their résumés.
Lavu sells point-of-sale software for restaurants and hotels to conduct their business on mobile devices like tablets. Lavu software allows establishments to integrate all their front- and back-end operations.
The students' app makes it faster and easier to access the inventory control panel in the Lavu system.
The next Hackathon will be the weekend of Jan. 23 at the CNM STEMulus Center. Those interested in participating can register at lavu.com/hackathon.]]>
"We feel it's important to give back to the community," said Donna Diller, dean of the School of Business & Information Technology. "In our small way we were able to help multiple families have a brighter holiday."She added that the Deans Council has made a commitment to do at least one community service event each term. ]]>
Students can still register for classes online through the break. Visit www.cnm.edu/schedules to view course offerings for the Spring Term, which begins Jan. 20.
CNM wishes you and yours a happy and safe holiday season.]]>
Volunteering their own time during their winter break, CNM faculty members and advisors helped students understand financial aid and introduced them to the wide variety of classes, degrees and certificates CNM offers, including offerings at the South Valley such as phlebotomy, cosmetology, veterinary technology, chemistry, early childhood multicultural education, medical laboratory technician, and many others.
Overall, it was an eye-opening experience for many of the students. Some had never ridden the city bus, which they took from school to the campus. Others didn't know the extent of options for areas of study.
"I didn't know about the dual credit before this," said eighth grader Tiara Taylor who wants to go into chemistry. "I considered college before this, but I didn't know CNM had this many options."
Eighth grader Cesar Becerra said he didn't think he liked writing, but he loved the English presentation, which had students create new products and write about them, because it allowed him to be creative and think of new technology.
It was also rewarding for the CNM employees who volunteered their own time. Albert Paredes said he wasn't pushed to pursue higher education when he was younger. Because of his experience and because he attended Polk, which is located in the South Valley, he said he was better able to connect with the visiting students.
"I wish this was something that would have been done when I was young," said Paredes, a CNM student who also works in the Veterinary Technology program. "It opens up their eyes to what's coming."
The most important thing the students learned was to write their own story by discovering what they are most interested in and pursuing it.
Story courtesy of Albuquerque Public Schools.]]>
"Rather than selling the engine, we feel that encouraging education in large aircraft maintenance will be a much better use," said Rick Hatton, president of 10 Tanker Air Carrier. "We employ graduates from CNM, and we hope this can strengthen that partnership in the future."
The engine, which originally was one of three engines on a DC-10 wildfire fighting plane, was transported to CNM's Advanced Technology Center from near the Albuquerque Sunport where the firefighting planes are housed.
The engine completes the four-turbine engine types that students train on, including the Turbojet, Turboshaft, Turboprop and now the Turbofan, said David Ortiz, Aviation Technology instructional technician.
Recently, the aerial firefighting plane company hired two CNM Aviation Technology graduates as aircraft technicians. It also hired six students to work at the company during CNM's Winter Break.
"This was a fantastic event," said John Mierzwa, who runs the Deep Dive Coding Bootcamp at the STEMulus Center. "We had a full house, and the kids had lots of energy."
While the students worked through the tutorials, parents were engaged in discussions about Albuquerque's current happenings in the tech community and beyond.
Mayor Richard Berry kicked off the evening, welcoming the students and parents, and expressed how proud he was of the students who were being introduced to coding. After completing the Hour of Code, each child was awarded a certificate of completion.
The premise of the Hour of Code is that every student should have the opportunity to learn computer science. The basics help further creativity and problem-solving skills and prepare students for future careers. But while software and computers are everywhere, fewer schools teach computer science than 10 years ago.
Last year's Hour of Code event reached more than 15 million students worldwide.]]>
"This was huge news and such an honor," said Givhan. "Poetry frames my world."
Givhan has been a CNM faculty member since 2011. She started as an instructor in the School of Adult & General Education and most recently has been teaching English Composition classes in the School of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences.
She plans to use the fellowship money to teach fewer classes over the next year and focus on her writing.
She said she has been scripting poetry since she first picked up a pencil to write. She began to hone in on the craft as an English student in the master's program at California State University-Fullerton where she had a choice of writing a thesis or doing a creative project that involved writing poetry. She opted for the creative project.
She is currently finishing a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. through a low-residency program that allows her to spend two weeks on the college campus and do most of her work online. This gives her the opportunity to continue to teach at CNM. She graduates Jan. 13.
To apply for the NEA fellowship, candidates had to have been published in at least 20 journals. Givhan submitted 10 separate poems.
The NEA was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. To date, the NEA has awarded more than $5 billion to support artist excellence, creativity and innovation to the benefit of individuals and communities.
Read some of Givhan's poems at her website.]]>


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