April 2011
Sony sued for PlayStation Network data breach |... →
Like clockwork, the first lawsuit resulting from the security breach of the personal data of more than 75 million Sony PlayStation Network customers has been filed. The suit was filed today on behalf of Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham, Ala., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Johns accuses Sony of not taking “reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and...
"Spacetime has No Time Dimension" -- New Theory... →
Scientists at the Scientific Research Centre Bistra in Ptuj, Slovenia, theorize that this Newtonian idea of time as an absolute quantity that flows on its own, along with the idea that time is the fourth dimension of spacetime, are incorrect. They propose to replace these concepts of time with a view that corresponds more accurately to the physical world: time as a measure of the numerical order...
Graphene Paper 10 Times Stronger, 6 Times Lighter... →
The University of Technology in Sydney has unveiled a sheet of graphene nano paper to demonstrate its strengh, despite being the same thickness as a regular sheet of paper. The potential benefits of graphene are common to other advanced materials. You can use less graphene than you would steel without compromising on strength, which reduces weight and benefits performance, handling and economy....
Scientists create stable, self-renewing neural... →
In a paper published in the April 25 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco and colleagues report a game-changing advance in stem cell science: the creation of long-term, self-renewing, primitive neural precursor cells from human embryonic stem...
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Guernica / Noam Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to... →
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Calf Farm Cruelty Exposed - Mercy For Animals →
A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation provides a horrifying look into E6 Cattle Co. in Hart, Texas. E6 Cattle rears calves for use on dairy farms, confining approximately 10,000 calves and subjecting them to lives of prolonged neglect and misery. For over two weeks in March of 2011, an MFA undercover investigator documented the operation’s deplorable conditions and brutal...
Sitting Can Kill You →
Why is sitting so bad for you? Per James Vlahos in the New York Times, here’s what happens when you sit: Electrical activity in the muscles drops — “the muscles go as silent as those of a dead horse,” [inactivity researcher Marc] Hamilton says — leading to a cascade of harmful metabolic effects. Your calorie-burning rate immediately plunges to about one per minute, a third of what it would...
UNSW: The University of New South Wales - Sydney... →
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum communications and computing using a teleporter and a paradoxical cat. The breakthrough is the first-ever transfer, or teleportation, of a particular complex set of quantum information from one point to another, opening the way for high-speed, high-fidelity transmission of large volumes of information, such as quantum encryption keys, via quantum...
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