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Posts published in December 2011

‘Occupy’ Protesters Listed As Domestic Terrorists

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationOccupy London demonstrators have been listed as domestic terrorists by the City of London Police, who characterized them in the same context as Al-Qaeda, the Colombian FARC and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground.   The US Department of Defense is now training its personnel that protest amounts to “low-level terrorism” through tests that DoD…

Rapamycin used to increase the lifespan of mice

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureHere, we demonstrate that lifelong administration of rapamycin extends lifespan in female 129/Sv mice characterized by normal mean lifespan of 2 y.   Rapamycin inhibited age-related weight gain, decreased aging rate, increased lifespan (especially in the last survivors) and delayed spontaneous cancer. 22.9% of rapamycin-treated mice survived the age of death of the last mouse…

Giant Casimir Effect Predicted Inside Metamaterials – Technology Review

Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future Exotic materials should lead to new ways of observing and playing with one of the strangest effects in physics, say Chinese physicists…   They say that in a particular kind of electromagnetic space called a Rindler space, the Casimir effect is huge. The essential idea here is that the space can be designed to…

Flying robots build structure

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureFour autonomous quadcopter robots retrieve foam bricks and then a networked computer vision system directs their placement. The installation consists of more than 1,500 bricks and is a 1:100 model of what the architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler call a “vertical village.”Via boingboing.net

Did fracking kill Dunkard Creek?

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation After oil and gas extraction arrived in southwest Pennsylvania, a massive fill kill occurred.   We need to have a “Mission to Renewable Energy” for the US. Via www.salon.com