Will it soon be possible to teleport energy?

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/02/will-it-soon-be-possible-to-teleport-energy-worlds-leading-experts-say-yes.html

Millions wrongly think they have food allergy. When tested, only 2% actually do.

http://bit.ly/5XrCap

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Click link. Petition world leaders to drop Haiti's debt, give them a chance to recover. Crucial to their future, small $ to US.

http://bit.ly/4q6G2i

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Viral beauty. Glass artist creates works of art using viruses as models. Wow, I like...

http://bit.ly/63csZv

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I believe Clapton when he says he did not shoot the Deputy, and how he will spend the rest of his life looking for the real killer.

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I spent MLK day in the manner of my people, arguing about white, late-night tv talk show guys.

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If I were @BillGates, I'd lobby the Treasury Department to make all hundred dollar bills 3-ply.

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I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers, you too can take part by registering on WBCOOP
Registration code: 254311

Great photograph of Bill Murray in Times Square. Circa 1980.

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Eye test that spots Alzheimer's 20 years before symptoms. Middle-aged could be screened at routine optician's visit

http://bit.ly/4AFW9w

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Hi-tech Device Turns Thoughts Into Words. Could open up communication for those who've been limited. Awesome!

http://bit.ly/85qmiK

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A victory over animal cruelty: Rescuing the Dancing Bears of India. (Link leads to a TED talk)

http://bit.ly/8AaUsV

Traditionally, the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing sloth bear cubs and training them to "dance" through extreme cruelty. Kartick Satyanarayan has been able to put an end to this centuries-old practice, and in so doing discovered a lesson of wider significance: make the practitioners part of the solution.

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What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs.

http://bit.ly/8bvEYc

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Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Japan. Fab photos from Time magazine.

http://bit.ly/55rJb5

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World's Largest (coolest, most amazing) Model Railroad. Six miles of track. Over 700 trains. Just wow.

http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/4-minutes-wunderland/

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33 Conspiricy Theories That Turned Out to Be True.

http://bit.ly/5AAhZ9

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It's a Small World. Beautiful infographic shows most remote places in the world, using proximity to cities as data.

http://bit.ly/8cZCFH

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Periodic Table of Elements, in pictures. They should use this in schools.

http://bit.ly/53tHm3

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Top 10 Everything of 2009. From Time mag, 50 wide-ranging lists.

http://bit.ly/5dtNth

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New Year's news: Willpower is a limited resource. Science suggests spreading resolutions out over time is the best approach.

http://bit.ly/5AX6K7

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Sports Science -- Padraig Harrington using the Happy Gilmore swing. 30 extra yards, and it's legal.

http://bit.ly/5km5w6

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Artificial reefs. Safe, sustainable solution to coastal erosion are in the bag... the Geobag. Harnesses wave energy too. Fascinating.

http://bit.ly/74SnT8

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"Running Bad" by Tommy Angelo. What a great song. "This morning, I woke, This evening, I'm broke..." Merry Christmas. I hate poker.

http://bit.ly/7Tzzbb

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Venice Under Water. Amazing photos of recent flood.

http://bit.ly/4r819n

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Attn: Smug Vegans. Your salad died screaming. Plants' volatile chemicals serve as cries for help. Mwahaha...

http://bit.ly/7zeBdl

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Neat magic trick in a youtube video, from Richard Wiseman. "The Prediction." Can he predict Your guesses?

http://bit.ly/5F4y8M

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Holiday Video Messages for the Troops. Dept. of Defense makes it easy! Please consider making a video, and please retweet.

http://bit.ly/5bvxEn

What a tough time to be in the military. Tell our troops you're thinking of them. Say thanks! 

A special shout out to the poker community: If yours is one of the recognizable faces of the game, here's a great way to promote the game, and to show your gratitude by giving something back to our poker-playing troops. 

Come on --- you'll feel good having done it!

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Sea Secrets Revealed -- Spectacular deep sea pictures taken in Antarctica.

http://bit.ly/8N2xkD

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Legendary rock guitarist Skunk Baxter (Steely Dan--Rikki, Doobie Bros--Take Me in Ur Arms) is a Missile Defense expert for the Feds. Swear!

http://bit.ly/6TwFUd

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Top poker pros seem to be able to read the fishes' minds. Here's how the world must look to Ivey:

http://bit.ly/7VfbgG

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Alternate Nativities

http://bit.ly/6HxJdE

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Extinct Animal Resurrected By Cloning. A Pyrenean Ibex, an extinct animal, has been brought back to life...cloned from frozen tissue.

http://bit.ly/659zIB

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Wow! World's Largest Spherical Panorama. Whopping 18 GigaPixels. Prague from atop TV tower. Zoom in and out, amazing detail.

http://bit.ly/7gXjEd

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Ten Thousand Pictures of You. Robin King's 3-minute movie shot entirely using stop motion photography to capture live actors. Oddly cool.

http://bit.ly/4Yt575

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Climate change is not just about wildlife. It also pits nations against each other in race for territory and power.

http://bit.ly/5NwqrJ

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Think You'd Be Any Good At Profiling? Try playing Pick the Perp and find out. (I gave up after going 1 for 11)

http://bit.ly/5c5R48

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Spectacular animation - The Known Universe. 27 billion light-year round-trip.

http://bit.ly/7pCMq0

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30 Years plus A Million Toothpicks = Fanciful Model of San Francisco

http://dornob.com/3-decades-1-million-toothpicks-amazing-model-city/

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First cancer vaccine to eliminate tumors in mice

http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/first-cancer-vaccine-eliminate-tumors-mice

Encouraging news.
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First, he invented Twitter. Now his latest...

Freakin' brilliant. This will be ubiquitous someday.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/twitter-co-founder-launches-square-like-smartphone-paypal-for-credit-cards/

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced his new company on Tuesday in appropriate fashion: with atweet on the network he created in 2006. His new company, Square, allows merchants and individuals accept secure payment from credit (and other) cards using a mobile phone.

“The basic idea behind Square is that everyone has this little plastic device in their pocket today, which is a payment card, credit card, debit card or pre-paid card, and they’re using them everywhere, they’re using them to buy anything,” explained Dorsey in a TechCrunch video demonstration. “We found that very interesting, and we wanted to turn on the other side of that — we wanted to allow people to very easily and quickly, within 10 seconds, be able to accept these plastic devices as payment.”
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Update Dec. 9 --- Check it out!
http://squareup.com/
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Digital Art & Photomanipulation

http://www.webdesigncore.com/2009/11/22/40-mindblowing-examples-of-digital-art-photomanipulation/

The link above leads to some excellent digital art. The link below leads to some free web-based alternatives to Photoshop. Try it for yourself---it's the next best thing to having any actual talent.

http://www.lifeclever.com/10-free-web-based-alternatives-to-photoshop/
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United Breaks Guitars

A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United 

Airlines.  United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500)
during a flight.  Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay for
damages caused by baggage handlers to his custom Taylor guitar.  During his
final exchange with the United Customer Relations Manager, he stated that he
was left with no choice other than to create a music video for youtube
exposing their lack of cooperation.  The Manager responded : "Good luck with that one, pal".

 So he posted a retaliatory video on youtube.  The video has since
received over 5.5 million hits.  United Airlines contacted the musician and
attempted settlement in exchange for pulling the video. Naturally his
response was: "Good luck with that one, pal".


Here's a link to Carroll's video(s): The first song, in particular, is very well done, I think.


http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/united-breaks-guitar-5734/


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Taylor Guitars sent the musician 2 new custom guitars in
appreciation for the product recognition from the video that has lead to a
sharp increase in orders. They also made a video response, which you can see here:


http://blogan.net/blog/2009/07/10/taylor-guitars-responds-to-united-breaks-guitars/
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Mmmm... In-Vitro Meat

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/bio/eight-ways-vitro-meat-will-change-our-lives

In-Vitro Meat will be 100% muscle. It will eliminate the artery-clogging saturated fat that kills us. Instead, heart-healthy Omega-3 (salmon oil) will be added. IVM will also contain no hormones, salmonella, e. coli, campylobacter, mercury, dioxin, or antibiotics that infect primitive meat. I've noted above that IVM will reduce influenza, brucellosis, TB, and Mad Cow Disease. Starvation and kwashiokor (protein deficiency) will be conquered when compact IVM kits are delivered to famine-plagued nations. The globe's water crises will be partially alleviated, due to our inheritance of the 8% of the H2O supply that was previously gulped down by livestock and their food crops.
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Computer Based on Insights From The Brain

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28842.wss

World ending in 2012?

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html

I'll take the overs.




Here's a bonus link:   Top 10 Failed Apocalyptic Predictions

http://listverse.com/2008/09/18/top-10-failed-apocalyptic-predictions/

Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind!

http://greenmonk.net/spain-gets-53-of-its-energy-from-wind/

Are you kidding me? Fucking SPAIN??

As an American, I'm embarrassed.

Rectangular Pie Chart

Here Come da Genes

Gene Therapy Halts Fatal Brain Disease

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/ald-gene-therapy/

Scientists have used gene therapy to halt the progression of a fatal neurodegenerative disease, caused by a single defective gene, in two seven-year-old boys.
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100 "How-To" Sites --- Teach Yourself Anything!

http://www.ratedcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-amazing-how-to-sites-to-teach-yourself-anything/

Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/an_insurance_industry_ceo_expl.html

Kaiser Permanente shows you why. Click the linky thing above.

Ultimate Dictionary

http://www.wordnik.com/

An evolving dictionary aiming to collect all the words in the English language: 1.7 million so far. Examples, pronunciations, user notes, and more. Wikipedia meets Websters, with a dash of Twitter.

Next Housing Bubble Is Already Underway

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-next-housing-bubble-is-here-2009-10#it-starts-with-cheap-money-1

Time Travel Through the Brain

"Over the last 100 years, the way we visualize and understand the complexity of the brain has evolved."

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23758/

 

Augmented Reality is Here to Stay

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/augmented-reality---here_b_329109.html

Intelligence Explained

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23695/

"Tracking and understanding the complex connections within the brain may finally reveal the neural secret of cognitive ability."