big on love, tolerance, and the human potential
A bio-engineered germ of a tooth placed in the jaw of a mouse (top) buds through the gum at 36 days (center) reaching the size and alignment with opposing teeth for proper chewing after 49 days (bottom).
The teeth function like the real thing – roots, inner pulp, and outer enamel as hard as normal teeth.
Continuing to gain control over details, cell biologist Takashi Tsuji of Tokyo University of Science says the crown widths, cusp positions, and tooth patterning were not yet quite normal.
Millions of pounds of bottled placebo.
1000s of peddlers selling ground-up shark as joint supplement no better than a momentary notion.
Outright hustling. A very great impact on this world too.
The industry has already accomplished its main goal of at least curbing, and maybe blocking altogether, any new publicly administered insurance program that could grab market share from the corporations that dominate the business.
Merely 3 miles per gallon improvement in 80 years.
The Transportation Research Institute calculated mileage for the entire US fleet of vehicles from 1923 to 2006.
The 1913 Model T averaged 25 miles to the gallon; the entire US fleet was 14 mpg. From 1935 to 1973 fuel efficiency fell to 12 mpg, rose to 16.9 mpg in 1991, and reached 17.2 mpg by 2006.
Psychopathic extremes are due to faulty pathway between the amygdala, which processes emotions, and the orbito-frontal cortex, which handles impulses and decision-making.
“Essentially what we found is that the connections in the psychopaths were not as good as the connections in the non-psychopaths.
“I would describe them as roads between the two areas — and we found that in the psychopaths, the roads had potholes and weren’t very well maintained.”
Astonishing for an Australian company!
“If they build all of the boats they’re promising, by 2014 we will have built 20% of the US Navy’s fleet.”
“I get a little frustrated that we do some pretty amazing engineering things here and most of the world doesn’t know about it.”
U.S. multinational corporations pay more taxes to foreign nations than to the United States. Standards & Poors also notes the difficulty in obtaining detailed data.
Whoa folks. Much of this report is due to the downturn, but nevertheless speaks to the matter.
They announce they have more than doubled sewer bacteria effectiveness.
A bizarre contraption has just been put together in the northern Utah town of Plain City.
It’s the first full-scale test of a major invention from the University of Utah.
If it works, it could have worldwide significance and will save people lots of money on their sewer bills.
By tucking them into bed, no?
Our mortgage finance system is broken and needs to be restructured.
We can learn a lot from Denmark when it comes to restructuring our mortgage system.
The Danish mortgage system is one of the oldest and most sophisticated housing finance markets in the world.
Dilute Wall Street.
This amazingly simple yet powerful idea takes its example from, of all places, the state of North Dakota, which has operated the Bank of North Dakota since 1919.
It works like this – the state charters a public bank.
Instead of placing reserves, tax revenues, deeds for lands, and so forth with underwriters and Wall Street, it puts it all in our public bank.
At home, we own a reserve bank, multiplying many times, to generate loans, a local lender. And watching our money supply.
Paul Krugman said:
“Neither the administration, nor our political system in general, is ready to face up to the fact that we’ve become a society in which the big bucks go to bad actors, a society that lavishly rewards those who make us poorer.”
Bring it close.
Put capture on its head.
Male participants showed a decline in cognitive performance after chatting for a few minutes with a female. They were slower by an average of about 40ms – a small, but statistically significant impairment.
At first I thought a Scapoose was a baby on the run. But no.
Chinook Chief Casino of the Kiersinno Tribe held stewardship at Scapoose, a meeting place. Bounty that astounded Lewis and Clark in 1804.
Machine-to-machine communication will outnumber human subscribers by a huge factor soon.
I like this one, maybe ubiquitous in our cities someday.
Load-Volume Tracking (LoVoTrack)
ultrasonic sensors, mobile comm and satnav to obtain information on the space available in trucks and containers.‘We installed sensors on the ceiling of each container that continuously monitor the available empty space. This information, together with the precise location of the truck, is transmitted via a cellular phone network to a central server that follows the whole fleet….
Relatively easy to insert freight when space is available.
Julia was the person who told this latchkey 9-year-old that he could make a pie.
I turned off the TV that afternoon, and made that pie…
Christine McLaren:
Of course, it’s not as though Alec or Katherine have any time to spend in bars. They’re far too busy reveling in the throng of excitement pulsing elsewhere in the city; starting free organic produce markets (The Free Market!), or riding their bikes naked with 5000 other people through the streets of Portland in the World Naked Bike Ride, which I obliged to join towards the end of my stay.
As I ride beside Katherine, a newfound friend of only a few days, stark naked on a rental bike, a man on the side of the street drops his pants in solidarity, clapping slowly as we jiggle by. I buckle over laughing.
“People just love nudity here,” I say, aware that I’m probably making a rather sweeping generalization.
Katherine keeps pedaling in the bright sun.
All the issues which so worried Madison in The Federalist Papers have come to full flower: the power of the State has been legally channeled into Elites which have nothing to fear from any branch of the State because they are the State.
The world’s first water bottle that removes all waterborne pathogens and other pollutants creating safe sterile drinking water.
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“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked,” said Warren Buffett.
Berkshire Hathaway, in which Buffett owns 27 percent, according to a recent proxy filing, has more than $26 billion invested in eight financial companies that have received bailout money.
The TARP at one point had nearly $100 billion invested in these companies and, according to new data released by Thomson Reuters, FDIC backs more than $130 billion of their debt.
To put that in perspective, 75 percent of the debt these companies have issued since late November has come with a federal guarantee.
Follow on here:
Even the most pious among us will sacrifice their principles when their own money is at stake.
Warren Buffet?
And the reason none of his investments went the way of Lehman and Bear has nothing to do with superior fundamentals.
And I didn’t even mention the accounting shenanigans these guys are playing.
Buffett SAYS a lot about accounting integrity, but his businesses are engaged in some very shady number fudgery.
Benedict Buffet?
People give Buffett a free pass because they think, deep down, he really cares about their interests. I think he does too. Just not when they conflict with his own.
Reuters, as our water goes dry.
American Taliban:
A leaked memo details Tea Party Patriots infiltrating and harassing Democratic town halls during congressional recess.
somnamdrillists:
But what Sarah Palin was saying is what is built into the very DNA of capitalism: the idea that the world has no limits.
She was saying that there is no such thing as consequences, or real-world deficits. Because there will always be another frontier, another Alaska, another bubble. Just move on and discover it. Tomorrow will never come.
This is the most comforting and dangerous lie that there is: the lie that perpetual, unending growth is possible on our finite planet. And we have to remember that this message was incredibly popular in those first two weeks, before Lehman collapsed.
Thoughts on our pillage of the incredible, by Naomi Klein.
Fraud throughout General Electric, from its financing arm to sales of trains and aircraft parts, falsely boosted the books by almost $600 million.
“We have concluded that it is in the best interests of GE and its shareholders to resolve this matter and put it behind us.”
Another Blue Chip flagship. Yeh sure.
Tempted to a motel in Wisconsin by the prospect of a tryst with one of his numerous lovers, according to court documents, he found himself bound and blindfolded by four angry women – among them his wife – with his penis superglued to his stomach.
Oh oh, here comes Ethel with her methyl.
Free Market Fairy Tales points to those horrid days before deregulation:
You have been hauled in front of the auditors. Against all your instincts & better judgment, you go into the conference room kicking & screaming…”
Everything you know about addiction treatment is wrong??
Recent scientific research has discovered new avenues of treatment by showing conclusively that addiction is a chronic physical disease that attacks the brain, damaging key parts of the cerebral cortex and limbic system.
This isn’t about morals or behavior, but ripping neurons.