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The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine

is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number

of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Enrico Fermi Quotes 1

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Extrasensory perception is the ability through which a person

knows things or events without the aid of their physical senses.

Joseph Banks Rhine

  Shimon Peres: Israel's warrior for peace dies   CNN - September 28, 2016
Shimon Peres, the Israeli elder statesman who shared a Nobel Prize for forging a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, has died. He served as a constant force for generations in Israeli politics. The 93-year-old died after suffering a massive stroke two weeks ago.

Appeals Court Overturns Ban on Selfies in Voting Booths   WSJ - September 29, 2016
First Circuit strikes down a New Hampshire law that banned voters from sharing photos of their marked ballots on social media

  Elon Musk outlines Mars colony vision   BBC - September 28, 2016
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has outlined his vision for establishing a human colony on Mars for people that can afford a $200,000 ticket price. Mr Musk, who founded private spaceflight company SpaceX, was speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Tuesday. His colonization plan uses a fully reusable transportation system that would take 100 people and 80 days to get to Mars and eventually as little as 30 days.

Epigenetic clock predicts life expectancy   Medical Express - September 28, 2016
UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath led a team of 65 scientists in seven countries to record age-related changes to human DNA, calculate biological age and estimate a person's lifespan. A higher biological age - regardless of chronological age - consistently predicted an earlier death. Research reveals valuable clues into what causes human aging, marking a first step toward developing targeted methods to slow the process.

Some brains are blind to moving objects   Medical Express - September 28, 2016
As many as half of people are blind to motion in some part of their field of vision, but the deficit doesn't have anything to do with the eyes. Psychologists have shown that motion blindness is a failure of the brain to properly interpret sensory information - a type of deficit called agnosia. The best-known example of an agnosia is probably face blindness, called prosopagnosia, in which people can't tell one face from another (and thus can't tell people apart without other clues).

Brain disruptions similar across many emotional disorders   Medical Express - September 28, 2016
Researchers have long known that emotional disorders have a lot in common. Many often occur together, like depression and social anxiety disorder. Treatments also tend to work across multiple disorders, suggesting shared underlying elements. But perhaps the most common shared characteristic is that almost all emotional disorders involve persistent negative thinking.

It's Not the Economy: Why Unique Baby Names Are Trending Up   Live Science - September 28, 2016
Babies in the United States are less and less likely to share their names with other kids, new research finds. The trend toward increasingly unique baby names is long-standing, but some researchers had speculated that parents might turn back to tradition amidst the uncertainty of the 2008 Great Recession. Not so, according to a new analysis of Social Security naming data.

Life is a journey in which we experience

the full gamut of emotions

from beginning to end.

Which emotion best personifies you?

Naomi Watts Quotes

How to register to vote   Google - September 27, 2016

  6 takeaways from the first presidential debate   CNN - September 27, 2016

What Your Temperament Says About You (or a Presidential Candidate)   Live Science - September 27, 2016
"Temperament" was the buzzword of last night's presidential debate, the first between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump. The most tweeted-about line of the night, according to The Hollywood Reporter, was Trump saying, "I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament. I have a winning temperament. I know how to win. She does not." Later, Clinton said that some of Trump's foreign-policy statements revealed a person without the right temperament to be commander in chief.

How we find a face in a crowd:   Daily Mail - September 27, 2016
A new study shows our brains have a special ability to tune what our attention focuses on when we know what to look out for, like faces in a crowd, meaning knowing what our attention should be drawn to makes the process much easier. Our brains use special tricks to pick out certain features from busy scenes. Some areas of the brain used for spotting non-spatial features, like color. Others specialize in looking for spatial cue like the direction of movement. A Study looked at how brains focus attention on two features at once.

The giant rift under the Midwest: Stunning new images show massive area that was 'largest outflowing of lava in our planet's history'   Daily Mail - September 27, 2016
An ancient scar has long hidden beneath the surface of the American Midwest. Using a new technique to combine different types of seismological data, researchers have now visualized the Earth's interior with unprecedented detail, providing a glimpse at the unseen Midcontinent Rift that nearly tore the continent apart. The researchers say the feature was once the site of what could be Ôthe largest outflowing of lava in our planet's history,' followed by a compression event that squeezed the area until it became much thicker than the surrounding crust.

First 'three person baby' born using new method   BBC - September 27, 2016
The world's first baby has been born using a new "three person" fertility technique, New Scientist reveals. The five-month-old boy has the usual DNA from his mum and dad, plus a tiny bit of genetic code from a donor. US doctors took the unprecedented step to ensure the baby boy would be free of a genetic condition that his Jordanian mother carries in her genes. Experts say the move heralds a new era in medicine and could help other families with rare genetic conditions. But they warn that rigorous checks of this new and controversial technology, called mitochondrial donation, are needed.

SpaceX CEO Musk to present 'mind blowing' Mars plan   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
SpaceX chief Elon Musk is set Tuesday to unveil his ambitious plan to build a human colony on Mars after sending a manned spacecraft to the Red Planet within a decade.

Ancient eggshell protein breaks through the DNA time barrier   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
Scientists fhave identified fossil proteins in a 3.8 million year-old ostrich eggshell, suggesting that proteins could provide valuable new insights into the evolutionary tree, much further back in time than was previously thought.

Over 90% of world breathing bad air: WHO   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
The problem is most acute in cities, but air in rural areas is worse than many think, WHO experts said. Poorer countries have much dirtier air than the developed world, according to the report, but pollution affects practically all countries in the world and all parts of society.

Methane was not the climate savior once imagined for the middle chapter of Earth history   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
For at least a billion years of the distant past, planet Earth should have been frozen over but wasn't. Scientists thought they knew why, but a new modeling study from the Alternative Earths team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has fired the lead actor in that long-accepted scenario.

Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
Around 7 million years ago, landscapes and ecosystems across the world began changing dramatically. Subtropical regions dried out and the Sahara Desert formed in Africa. Rain forests receded and were replaced by the vast savannas and grasslands that persist today in North and South America, Africa and Asia. Up to now, these events have generally been explained by separate tectonic events - the uplift of mountain ranges or the alteration of ocean basins - causing discrete and local changes in climate. But in a new study, a team of researchers has shown that these environmental changes coincided with a previously undocumented period of global cooling, which was likely driven by a sharp reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Neanderthal middle ear structure found to be closer to modern human than apes   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
There has been a change in perception of Neanderthals in recent years as archaeologists have uncovered evidence that has suggested the extinct species of human was far more capable than has been conventionally believed. They built primitive homes, for example, created jewelry and painted on walls, and now, it appears they had an ear structure that would have enabled them to use vocal communications similar to modern humans. Prior research has suggested that Neanderthals came to exist approximately 280,000 years ago and lived in much of Europe and parts of Asia - but inexplicably disappeared approximately 40,000 years ago.

Quantum computing advances with control of entanglement   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
When the quantum computer was imagined 30 years ago, it was revered for its potential to quickly and accurately complete practical tasks often considered impossible for mere humans and for conventional computers. But, there was one big catch: Tiny-scale quantum effects fall apart too easily to be practical for reliably powering computers

Cosmic dust demystified   PhysOrg - September 27, 2016
The solar system is a dusty environment, with trillions of cosmic dust particles left behind by comets and asteroids that orbit the sun. All this dust forms a relatively dense cloud through which the Earth travels, sweeping up the interplanetary dust particles very effectively.

Samsung says only 60 percent of Galaxy Note 7 phones have been replaced in US and Korea   The Verge - September 27, 2016
More than 60 percent of defective Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in the United States and South Korea have now been returned and exchanged for new models, Samsung has claimed. In other words, 40 percent of the dangerous devices are still in consumer hands, almost four weeks after Samsung issued a global recall on the Note 7. The new figures appear to show a slowdown in the number of successful exchanges in the United States.

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When is Google's birthday? Search engine celebrates 18th birthday with a doodle
- but there's something wrong   Mirror - September 27, 2016

How to register to vote   Google - September 27, 2016

Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition   Scientific American - September 26, 2016
Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the campaign. Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, is spearheading Trump's transition plans for EPA, the sources said. The Trump team has also lined up leaders for its Energy Department and Interior Department teams. Republican energy lobbyist Mike McKenna is heading the DOE team; former Interior Department solicitor David Bernhardt is leading the effort for that agency, according to sources close to the campaign.

Life in ancient oceans enabled by erosion from land   PhysOrg - September 26, 2016
As scientists continue finding evidence for life in the ocean more than 3 billion years ago, those ancient fossils pose a paradox. Organisms, including the single-celled bacteria living in the ocean at that early date, need a steady supply of phosphorus, but it's very hard to account for this phosphorus unless it is eroding from the continents. So that makes it really hard to explain the fossils we see at this early era.

X-rays that don't come from any known source   Science Daily - September 26, 2016
NASA-funded sounding rocket solves one cosmic mystery, reveals another. Space is filled with types of light we can't see -- from infrared signals released by hot stars and galaxies, to the cosmic microwave background. Some of this invisible light that fills space takes the form of X-rays, the source of which has been hotly contended over the past few decades. A new study confirms some ideas about where these X-rays come from, shedding light on our solar neighborhood's early history. But it also reveals a new mystery -- an entire group of X-rays that don't come from any known source.

New finding supports Moon creation hypothesis   PhysOrg - September 26, 2016
A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues. A paper uses laboratory simulations of an Earth impact as evidence that a stratified layer beneath the rocky mantle - which appears in seismic data Ð was created when the Earth was struck by a smaller object. The authors argue this was the same impact that sent a great mass of debris hurtling into space, creating the moon.

Mercury found to be tectonically active   PhysOrg - September 26, 2016
Images acquired by NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft show geologic features that indicate Mercury is likely still contracting today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet in our Solar System. Previously undetected small fault scarps were observed in images collected during the MESSENGER mission's final 18 months in orbit around Mercury, according to a new paper in Nature Geoscience. During these last months of the mission, the spacecraft's altitude was lowered allowing the surface to be imaged at higher resolutions than ever before possible.

Hubble spots possible water plumes erupting on Jupiter's moon Europa   PhysOrg - September 26, 2016
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erupts with high-altitude water vapor plumes. The observation increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa's ocean without having to drill through miles of ice.

Pluto's 'heart' sheds light on possible buried ocean   Science Daily - September 26, 2016
Ever since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, evidence has been mounting that the dwarf planet may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell. Now, by modeling the impact dynamics that created a massive crater on Pluto's surface, a team of researchers has made a new estimate of how thick that liquid layer might be.

  Pluto's 'Heart' Hints at Deep, Underground Ocean   Live Science - September 26, 2016
A new simulation of how Pluto got its "heart" suggests that the dwarf planet most likely has a deep ocean beneath its surface. Scientists have long suspected that Pluto has liquid water hidden underground. When NASA's New Horizons mission first set sail to the outskirts of the solar system, scientists were already planning to investigate whether the dwarf planet harbors water. When New Horizons flew past Pluto in July 2015 and beamed its observations back to Earth, scientists found evidence suggesting that Pluto had water at some point. However, they weren't sure whether Pluto's had an existing ocean, or if it had frozen solid over time.

The 17th-century man who was buried face down   PhysOrg - September 26, 2016
In 2013 archaeologists discovered a cemetery in use as long ago as the early Middle Ages in the Bernese Lakeland region of Switzerland. One of the bodies interred there was buried in an unusual way, and in order to better understand this puzzling situation coins found in the grave have been studied in detail by Empa's x-ray specialists and reconstructed on the computer.

6 Big Mysteries of Alzheimer's Disease   Live Science - September 26, 2016
Despite intensive, worldwide research efforts for more than three decades to better understand Alzheimer's disease, there are still numerous mysteries surrounding the condition. Alzheimer's disease is a slowly progressing brain disorder. In people with the condition, abnormal deposits of a protein called amyloid-beta forms sticky plaques in the brain, and strands of the protein tau twist around, causing tangles that ultimately kill brain cells and cause a loss of memory, thinking and reasoning skills. About 5.4 million Americans currently have Alzheimer's disease, and the number is expected to grow rapidly in the coming years as a larger share of the population ages, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers restore first ever computer music recording   PhysOrg - September 26, 2016
New Zealand researchers said Monday they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by British genius Alan Turing.

Melting Greenland ice threatens to expose Cold War waste   PhysOrg - September 26, 2016
A snow-covered former US army base in Greenland - dubbed "a city under ice" -could leak pollutants into the environment as the climate changes, raising difficult questions over who is responsible for a clean-up.

In Photos: The 2016 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony   Live Science - September 26, 2016
Accordion harmonies ushered in the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony on Sept. 22, at Harvard University's historic Sanders Theater. The Ig Nobel awards honor unusual scientific studies that ask and answer peculiar questions about our world. As visitors entered the theater lobby prior to the ceremony, they were greeted by the dulcet tones of a Timely Concert ("Time" was this year's theme), performed by the Boston Squeezebox Ensemble under the direction of Thomas Michel, accordion player and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

  Golfing great Arnold Palmer dead at 87   CNN - September 26, 2016

I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.

Serena Williams Quotes

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  How Scientists Read Ancient Scrolls That Can't Be Opened   Epoch Times - September 25, 2016
The Ein Gedi scroll is an artifact dug out of a Jewish synagogue that was destroyed in A.D. 600. It looks like a lump of coal and will probably never be opened, but we now know it contains the beginning of the book of Leviticus - maybe the oldest example in Hebrew outside of the Dead Sea scrolls. We know that because researchers scanned the scroll with a technique called X-ray microtomography - like a medical CT scan, but more powerful. It looks like a medical CT at first, too.

California eyes unusual power source: its gridlocked roads   PhysOrg - September 25, 2016
All those cars on California's famously gridlocked highways could be doing more than just using energy - they could be producing it.

MIT's flea market specializes in rare, obscure electronics   PhysOrg - September 25, 2016
Once a month in the summer, a small parking lot on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's campus transforms into a high-tech flea market known for its outlandish offerings. Tables overflow with antique radio equipment, some of it a century old. Visitors can buy a telescope that's the size of a cannon. One man has hauled in a NASA space capsule he owns.

Indonesia struggles to tap volcano power   PhysOrg - September 25, 2016
Columns of steam shoot from the ground at an Indonesian power plant sitting in the shadow of an active volcano, as energy is tapped from the red-hot underbelly of the archipelago.

The force is an energy field created by all living things, it surrounds us,
it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.

Obi-Wan to Luke (Mark Hamill)

Mark Hamill Quotes