28Mar
How much screen time should a preschooler have per day? None, one hour, two hours? Parents need to decide this for themselves. Is TV bad for babies and preschool kids?
19Mar
Cell phones seem to be mandatory devices for the modern age, giving us access to voice and data services almost everywhere we are in the world. However, there is a downside to our dependence on them. Studies have found that chronic cell phone use may have a negative impact on long-term health. The following information provides an overview of the effects of cell phone use on our lives.
18Mar
The attached image looks like neuro networks to me. A ‘crunched’ Cray mainframe image, some 15 or so years ago, of the then charted cosmos (billions of galaxies, but extremely elementary at best) looked like the three dimensional image of a brain and cerebral cortex of a human.
~ Uncle Russ
A supercomputer capable of doing a billion calculations each second has been installed at the University of Portsmouth, enabling cosmologists to test our understanding of the origin of galaxies and of gravity itself.
18Mar
More waste of taxpayer monies while harming citizens with proven damaging radiation (cancer causing) exposure.
~ Uncle Russ
The US Transportation Security Administration began rolling out new airport scanner software Tuesday that produces less revealing images of travelers.
17Mar
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn) and his co-sponsors plan to reintroduce a comprehensive cybersecurity bill during this Congress, but recent events in Egypt have reignited controversy over the potential for what has been called a presidential Internet “kill switch” in the legislation.
Egypt’s Internet blackout reignites kill switch debate
15Mar
(AP) — Users of phones running Google Inc.’s Android operating system are getting more ways to browse and buy apps for playing games, reading the news and other tasks.
Google rolls out Android Market for Web browsers
15Mar
(AP) — Apple Inc. has rejected Sony Corp.’s e-book reader app for the iPhone because it doesn’t give people the choice to buy books without leaving the app for a website.
11Mar
TSA, stop KILLING Americans with lethal levels of radiation on proven deadly scanning; use this!
~ Uncle Russ
Princeton University engineers have developed a new laser sensing technology that may allow soldiers to detect hidden bombs from a distance and scientists to better measure airborne environmental pollutants and greenhouse gasses.
‘Air laser’ may sniff bombs, pollutants from a distance (w/ Video)
09Mar
Tesla, the electric car manufacturer, has begun planning for a small sport utility vehicle that will be called Model X and come to the market in 2014, the Palo Alto company said.
06Mar
Shssssh, it’s a “secret”….”they are hunting wabbits”…
~ Uncle Russ
The U.S. Air Force will try to launch its second secretive X-37B space plane from Florida again today (March 5), after bad weather foiled the first attempt yesterday.
Air Force to Launch 2nd Secret X-37B Space Plane Today After Delay
06Mar
Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT’s first female graduate and faculty member, opened the door for women in science, and founded ecology and home economics along the way
06Mar
Google Inc. is getting closer to releasing a version of the Android software meant for tablet computers, one that will include a fresh look and updated Web browser and keyboard.
04Mar
Air-powered batteries, 3-D cellphones that project holographs and personalized commutes are among the predictions of IBM scientists gazing into their crystal balls.
04Mar
In the not-so-distant future, instead of buying manufactured food items at the store, you may instead just “print” them right in your own kitchen. The technology is called “food fabrication,” and it allows you to fabricate foods right in your own kitchen, layer by layer, in much the same way an inkjet printer prints a color bar chart on a piece of paper.
What’s in your future kitchen? Food fabrication technology prints out your meals in seconds
04Mar
The Red Commie Chinese are liars, thieves, and mass murderers.
~ Uncle Russ
A Chinese state newspaper on Tuesday poured scorn on reports that it had used technology from a downed US plane in its stealth fighter, hailing its jet as a “masterpiece” of homegrown innovation.
03Mar
(Note Sarcasm) Heaven forbid these junk food and beverage death merchants might be associated with something negative.
~ Uncle Russ
Taco Bell has decided MTV’s new series “Skins” is too spicy for its taste and pulled its ads from the drama, which has been criticized as glamorizing teen sex, drugs and boozing.
01Mar
Federal regulators are weighing whether to downgrade the risk classification of electroshock devices, reinforcing what many psychiatrists consider a deepening acceptance of electroshock in modern therapy.
27Feb
Red China Remains An Evil Empire.
~ Uncle Russ
A Chinese stealth fighter jet that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority may borrow from US technology, it has been claimed.
26Feb
Apple Inc. is known worldwide for creating computers, iPhones, and other electronic devices with unique lines and clean designs. But the multinational giant has also been pinned as the worst company for pollution and “occupational health hazard incidents” at its facilities in China.
25Feb
Monitoring everything from explosives to tainted milk, materials for use in creating sensors for detection devices have been developed by a University of Houston (UH) chemist and his team.
Sensors to detect explosives, monitor food being developed at UH
25Feb
The laser guru, as he is known among colleagues, tinkers with the tools of the trade in the basement of his suburban Philadelphia home. Of the pile of parts on which he works, Samuel Goldwasser, 56, says, “You don’t ask how sausage is made.”
24Feb
After 233 days in a locked steel capsule, six researchers on a 520-day mock flight to Mars are all feeling strong and ready to “land” on the Red Planet, the mission director said Friday.
21Feb
Susan Maushart lived out every parent’s fantasy: She unplugged her teenagers.
For six months, she took away the Internet, TV, iPods, cell phones and video games. The eerie glow of screens stopped lighting up the family room. Electronic devices no longer chirped through the night like “evil crickets.” And she stopped carrying her iPhone into the bathroom.
20Feb
The TSA is KILLING more Americans that Al Qaeda ever dreamed.
This is not hyperbole, read the attached article suppressed in the US Press.
Once again, Uncle Sam (Congress – House & Senate) is out to harm you.
I am in airports weekly, I refuse the new scan and make them pat me down.
~ Uncle Russ
Full body scanners at airports could increase your risk of skin cancer, experts warn.
The X-ray machines have been brought in at Manchester, Gatwick and Heathrow.
Airport body scanners ‘could give you cancer’, warns expert
20Feb
I Told You So!
~ Uncle Russ
Fifteen years ago Om Gandhi pointed out that children are exposed to higher levels of radiation from cell phones than adults. He was right then and he is right today. Yet, no one could blame you for thinking otherwise.
18Feb
17Feb
You are in a concert hall, listening to music you love, Ludwig von Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. You are happily awaiting the glorious climax in the fourth movement — you know it’s coming — when the full orchestra and chorus erupt with the “Ode to Joy.” The moment is here and you are exhilarated, awash in a sudden wave of pleasure.
Research reveals the biochemical connection between music and emotion
17Feb
I told you so!
~ Uncle Russ
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2011) — The highest-quality research data available suggests that long-term exposure to microwaves from cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors, reports a paper in the November/December issue of Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography.
13Feb
A positive use of alcohol.
~ Uncle Russ
(PhysOrg.com) — A Japanese scientist who “likes alcohol very much” has discovered that soaking samples of material in hot party drinks for 24 hours turns them into superconductors at ambient temperature.
12Feb
What is it that makes you want to return to a restaurant again and again?
UT professor helps develop DinEX scale to measure restaurant appeal
11Feb
Japan’s top three automakers Toyota, Honda and Nissan have united with Japanese energy firms in a push to commercialise greener hydrogen fuel cell cars and build a network of fuelling stations.
10Feb
Sailors may soon have a weapon in their battle against sea-borne raiders: an anti-pirate laser.
10Feb
Scientists are reporting the development of a new, ultra-light form of “frozen smoke” — renowned as the world’s lightest solid material — with amazing strength and an incredibly large surface area.
New ‘frozen smoke’ material: One ounce could carpet three football fields
02Feb
The Indians need to talk to the Red Chinese, who will sell stolen rocket technology from the USA to anyone.
~ Uncle Russ
An Indian space rocket carrying an advanced communications satellite was destroyed by mission control Saturday following a malfunction after lift-off, officials said.
01Feb
Also they are MADE IN GODLESS EVIL EMPIRE CHINA!
~ Uncle Russ
Energy-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken.
Eco-bulbs ‘a health hazard for babies and pregnant women due to mercury inside’
01Feb
First there were meals we had to make all by ourselves.
Then ‘ready made’ meals came along, making life that much easier.
31Jan
Carsten Beier from the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen, Germany does not believe that “anyone would burn a 50-dollar bill just to keep warm. It’s obvious that it simply is too valuable for that.”
29Jan
McNuts And Cracker Crazy Hyping Junk Food & Bad For You Soda.
~ Uncle Russ
McDonald’s has been a frequent target on this blog, and many others related to health and environmental issues. But mark it on your calendar: This post is in praise of Micky D’s, for installing EV charging stations at a new West Virginia location.
28Jan
Just days after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to essentially take over the internet, FOX News is reporting that a procedural delay could bring any new FCC rules to a grinding halt.
FCC internet takeover faces potential roadblock
FCC internet takeover faces potential roadblock
27Jan
New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.
27Jan
New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.
27Jan
The Pentatonic scale is by far among the most complex and ancient musical scales.
This video segment of one of the finest performances ever witnessed, or heard, in the west on the sitar, in 1967 in Monterey, CA, by Master Ravi Shankar, remains the stuff of legend.
Multiply the music several thousand fold, and you BEGIN, to understand thecomplexity of moringa and Zija®.
DRINK LIFE IN!®
~ Uncle Russ
Monterey Pop Festival 1967 – Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Eric Burdon, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar & more
26Jan
The man widely seen as the architect of China’s vast Internet censorship system known as the “Great Firewall” has had to take down his microblog after a storm of criticism by web users.
25Jan
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC, says Federal Communications Commission should be renamed the “Fabricating a Crisis Commission,” following a vote by the panel’s three Democrats to approve proposed rules that amount to a hostile takeover of the Internet by a government agency acting illegally.
24Jan
More THUGISM from Chavez The Commie Dictator.
~ Uncle Russ
The Venezuelan parliament passed a law banning for the first time Internet content that promotes social unrest, challenges authority or condones crime, fueling outrage by the opposition.
22Jan
Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government’s reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agency will circumvent Congress and disregard a recent court ruling.
22Jan
Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks and decades after hijackers first began to target passenger airliners, the United States has invested billions of dollars in an airport system that makes technology the last line of defense to intercept terrorists.
21Jan
The game show “Jeopardy!” will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence.
18Jan
Use of advanced imaging machines in hospital emergency departments tripled between 1998 and 2007, resulting in higher costs and longer emergency room stays, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
18Jan
As concern about online privacy grows, Mozilla is promising to let people cloak Internet activity in free Firefox Web browsing software being released early next year.
