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#CyberSpaceWar – Building Tiny Human Organs With 3-D Printing
from hereandnow.org: Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia has big ideas about her work with tiny organs. Using 3-D printing and human cells, she’s created a miniature human livers in her lab at MIT that can be used for testing drugs. Dr. Bhatia is part of a bio-engineering revolution that is transforming the field of medicine. She tells…
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Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?
from BBC News: Berlin thinks it is making religious history as Muslims, Jews and Christians join hands to build a place where they can all worship. The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof. An architecture competition has been held and the…
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Stonehenge’s Singing Stones
from archaeology.org: SALISBURY PLAIN, ENGLAND—Could the massive standing stones of Stonehenge also have made sounds? The New York Times reports that a team of researchers from London’s Royal College of Art hypothesizes that some of the dolmens make a loud, clanging noise when struck, producing a high–pitched sound similar to a large bell being rung.…
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Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
from damninteresting.com: Sometime in the 1940s, an improbable encounter occurred at a mental institution in Maryland. Two women, each of whom was institutionalized for believing she was the Virgin Mary, chanced upon one another and engaged in conversation. They had been chatting for several minutes when the older woman introduced herself as “Mary, Mother of…
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Australia: GM Grass For Dairy Cows Sparks Concern
from theage.com.au: A plan to feed Australian dairy cows genetically modified rye grass designed to boost milk production has sparked concerns from both organic and non-organic farmers. Opponents of the scheme fear that GM grasses could contaminate neighbouring properties and that existing labelling requirements would not allow consumers to identify products made from cows fed on the modified…
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The Power of the Bard
from IshtarsGate.wordpress.com: “As some followers here may have noticed. I’ve recently decided to concentrate more on writing poetry than long essays, but not because I want to hide in some irrelevant and anachronistic past-time …..far from it. It’s because I‘ve been coming to realise that what’s known as the ‘power of the bard’ is one…
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Reinventing the Renaissance Occult
from jwmt.org: From the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition: Five hundred years ago the occult – what we think of as ‘the occult’ – was taught in university and practiced by many of the foremost personalities of the age. Still it was persecuted. Dangerous. Between the Church and the deep blue sea: Scylla and Charybdis. It…
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: 12 Agrihoods Taking Farm-to-table Living Mainstream
from shareable.net: Ever wish you could live at your CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)? Or move to a neighborhood where everyone is as excited about fresh, healthy food as you are? All over the United States people are embracing local food production in an exciting new way. Called ‘agrihoods,’ this new type of neighborhood serves up farm-to-table living in a cooperative…
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How an Ancient Act of Terror Brought Down a Republic
from HHN.us: That arresting new image invites comparisons to Osama bin Laden. After 9-11, international commentators of all stripes, from US conservatives to Italian leftists and Islamist militants, alluded to Mithradates, his terror attack on 80,000 Roman civilians in 88 BCE, and his ability to evade capture. Current events leap to mind. Mithradates’ revolt plunged…
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CDC ‘Can I Eat This’ App Helps Prevent Traveller’s Diarrhea
from thehealthsite.com: For those who are gastronomically adventurous, travelling is hardly any fun without savouring the succulent local dishes and drinks. Even as they soak themselves in the fresh flavours of a new destination, researchers have now developed an app to help travellers avoid what’s commonly known as traveller’s diarrhoea, a condition that affects an…
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Byzantine Monastery and Mosaics Found in Israel
from news.discovery.com: The remains of a 1,500-year-old monastery with intact mosaics covering the floor have been unearthed in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday (April 1). The Byzantine complex — which was discovered near Hura, a Bedouin village in the northern Negev Desert — measures 65 feet by 115 feet. It is arranged…
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China orders hunt for facilities illegally producing #GMO’s
from scmp.com: The continued illegal sale of genetically modified (GM) food in parts of China has prompted the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)to order officials to track down possible testing facilities. In a document published yesterday, the ministry asked agricultural supervisors to look for possible unauthorised genetic modification testing sites at research institutions, universities and corporations.…
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Are Nanoparticles From Packaging Getting Into Your Food?
from motherjones.com: A while back, I wrote about the US regulatory system’s strange attitude toward nanotechnology and food… But what about packaging—the wrappers and bags and whatnot that hold food to keep it fresh? Nano-sized silver has powerful antimicrobial properties and can be embedded in plastic to keep food fresh longer; and nanoparticles of clay…
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New evidence on fructose in Coca Cola, Pepsi and other sodas in the US
from globalresearchreport.com: A new analysis from the University of Southern California finds that sodas in the US are potentially a bigger risk for obesity than assumed, because of the high fructose levels they contain. The battle over high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in sodas in the US is likely to intensify following the publication today…
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The Strange, Secret History of Isaac Newton’s Papers
from Wired.com: When Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left behind no will and an enormous stack of papers. His surviving correspondences, notes, and manuscripts contain an estimated 10 million words, enough to fill up roughly 150 novel-length books. There are pages upon pages of scientific and mathematical brilliance. But there are also pages that…