March 3, 2012

Will People Alive Today Have the Opportunity to Upload Their Consciousness to a New Robotic Body?

When Steve Jobs passed away last year, a joke bounced around--not that there was anything particularly funny about it--that the man who had done so much to shape modern technology hadn’t really died at all, but rather had figured out how to upload himself into the Mac OS so he could live on with us, and with his products, forever. The notion was ostensibly so far out as to be ridiculous. But not everyone sees it that way.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/achieving-immortality-russian-mogul-wants-begin-putting-human-brains-robots-and-soon

Here is something else the 1% can spend their money on........

March 3, 2012

Aerial views of tornado damage

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10011527-14.html?tag=page

Terrible damage and I will once again post link to help our friends and neighbors and fellow Americans......



http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/01/10552569-2012-tornado-disaster-relief-how-to-help

March 3, 2012

Italy shipwreck captain 'not wearing glasses'

Source: AlJAZEERA

The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner was not wearing his glasses on the evening of the accident, the officer's lawyer has said.

"That evening Schettino had left his reading glasses in the cabin and repeatedly asked [Ciro] Ambrosio to look at the radar to check the route," Ambrosio's lawyer Salvatore Catalano told Reuters outside a pre-trial hearing on the accident on Saturday.

The cruise liner capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio after hitting a rock on January 13, killing at least 25 people and leaving seven people still unaccounted for.

Prosecutors have accused Captain Francesco Schettino of causing the disaster by bringing the Costa Concordia, carrying more than 4,200 passengers and crew, too close to the shore.

The first officer, Ciro Ambrosio, and seven other officers and executives of the ship's owner, Costa Cruises, are also under investigation.


Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/03/20123318315405781.html

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Gotta wear your glasses when you are the captain of a ship carrying thousands of passengers and you are very close to shoreline......

March 3, 2012

Is it possible to use more of our brain?

Yes! Though perhaps not how you might imagine. You can't put more of your brain to work. Your whole brain is working all the time, even when you think you're just being lazy. What you can do is make it work more productively.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-it-possible-to-use-more

My own focus has become more efficient thru meditation and proper diet.....

March 3, 2012

The GOP can no longer avoid its Rush Limbaugh problem.

IN A DEMOCRACY, standards of civil discourse are as important as they are indefinable. Yet wherever one draws the line, Rush Limbaugh’s vile rants against Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke crossed it. Mr. Limbaugh is angry at President Obama’s efforts to require the provision of contraception under employer-paid health insurance and the White House’s attempts to make some political hay out of the policy. His way of showing this anger was to smear Ms. Fluke, who approached Congress to support the plan, as a “slut” seeking a government subsidy for her promiscuity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-can-no-longer-avoid-its-rush-limbaugh-problem/2012/03/02/gIQA1xvVnR_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

The latest scuttle that Rush will never get fired is probably true, however, we can make his life a lot less meaningful and definitely more trivial......

March 2, 2012

Empty Promises: Experts Say Keystone XL Won’t Do Anything For Gas Prices

Top oil economist: Pipeline would increase gasoline prices in the upper Midwest 5 to 10 cents a gallon.
Amidst the mind-numbing array of hollow political promises to lower U.S. gas prices, there’s one really important point everyone should know: the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which supporters say will “bring down prices at the pump,” wouldn’t be built until 2014.

And that’s if everything went forward today without a hitch.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/02/436254/empty-promises-experts-say-keystone-xl-wont-do-anything-for-gas-prices/

Can we all take a step back and look at the big picture.......?

March 2, 2012

How to Make Potato Chips in the Microwave

When we first discovered microwave potato chips four years ago, it was nothing short of a revelation. Even now, the fact that a short spin in the microwave can transform slices of potato into crispy (truly crispy!) chips without needing a drop of oil still seems like magic. Here's how to make them.

http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-crispy-potato-chips-in-the-microwave-166718

If you are a fan of chips like I am, you will really enjoy this recipe.....

March 2, 2012

How to Watch the Mars Close-Up This Weekend

February’s spectacular planetary show continues. After Venus and Jupiter lined up in the night sky last week, the distance between Earth and Mars is now shrinking to its smallest in more than two years.

On March 3 Mars will be in opposition to the sun, providing excellent opportunities for viewing the Red Planet.

The celestial event known as Mars opposition occurs whenever Earth passes between the sun and the Red Planet, approximately once every two years and two months. This makes Mars visible opposite the sun in the Earth’s sky, which is a great time to view the Red planet because the sun’s rays illuminate the full face of Mars. Because the two planets’ orbits regularly bring them close together, it also provides a good time to launch Mars missions such as the recent Mars Science Laboratory.

Mars and Earth will actually be at their closest on March 5, so you have a decent chance to catch the Red Planet anytime in the next few weeks.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/mars-closest-approach/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wiredscience+%28Blog+-+Wired+Science%29

Since I was a child, I have been fascinated with the planets,,,,,,,

March 2, 2012

Could This Radical College Change the World Economy?

Gregory (right), who is from Haiti, and Samuel, who is from the U.S., stand in the intense Costa Rican, sun sharing their agricultural expertise. In the middle of the tropical rainforest, they describe the organic farm they work on, detailing everything from the benefits of its beautiful garden's mandala design to why worm composting makes good sense.

Gregory and Samuel aren't typical farmers. They're college students at EARTH University in Guacimo, Costa Rica, getting a hands-on education in sustainable agriculture.

Instead of churning out grades and papers, these students churn out real-life produce, and they hope to use what they learn to reap a better, more sustainable future across the globe. You may already have tasted the fruits of Gregory's and Samuel's labor if you shop at Whole Foods Market (WFM), which sells EARTH-branded bananas, pineapples, coffee, and fresh flowers from the farms of the campus -- and funnels a portion of the profit back to the school.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/03/02/could-this-radical-college-change-the-world-economy/

An idea way too long overdue..........c'est formidable....

March 2, 2012

What Would President Mitt Romney's Drug Policy Look Like?

The former governor is against the legalization of medical marijuana and has applauded Big Pharma, but his views are otherwise unclear.

As our friends at Stop the Drug War have pointed out, Romney has done his best to avoid establishing a clear drug policy. But despite his best efforts, a review of his actions as the Governor of Massachusetts and his statements on the 2008 and 2012 campaign trail have established one for him -- which might best be summed up by the chorus of En Vogue's hit "My Lovin' (Never Gonna Get It)." As in, "never gonna get" legal medical marijuana, "never gonna get" a true end to the drug war, and "never gonna get" a distinctive or ideologically coherent overall policy.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/what-would-president-mitt-romneys-drug-policy-look-like/253547/

Thank you Lord, the title President will not be bestowed upon this man's name......