February 16, 2013
Mohenjo
Political
amazon, aviation, business, climate, economy, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren Bank Regulators, Elizabeth Warren Banking Committee, Elizabeth Warren Occ, Elizabeth Warren Sec, Elizabeth Warren Wall Street, Financial Regulation, government, Hotels, huffingtonpost, occupy-wall-street, politics, Politics News, research, Science, Science News, Senate Banking Committee, technology, transportation, travel, vacation, Video
FROM
Click link below picture
.
Bank regulators got a sense Thursday of how their lives will be slightly different now that Elizabeth Warren sits on a Senate committee overseeing their agencies.
At her first Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Warren questioned top regulators from the alphabet soup that is the nation’s financial regulatory structure: the FDIC, SEC, OCC, CFPB, CFTC, Fed and Treasury.
The Democratic senator from Massachusetts had a straightforward question for them: When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial? It was a harder question than it seemed.
.
.
.Click link below for story, video, and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/elizabeth-warren-bank-regulators_n_2688998.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
.
____________________________________________________
February 15, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
amazon, business, chemistry, climate, dawn of life, Dna, dna strand, evolution, Evolution Of Life, gaming, Genes RNA World, Hotels, huffingtonpost, Human Body, Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Organic Molecules, Origin Of Life, research, RNA Life, RNA-like molecules, rnas, Science, Science News, Self-Assembling Molecules, spain report, technology, travel, vacation, Video
FROM
Click link below picture
.
A pair of RNA-like molecules can spontaneously assemble into gene-length chains, chemists in the United States and Spain report. Billions of years ago, related molecules may have created a rudimentary form of genetic information that eventually led to the evolution of RNA and life itself, the researchers say. Although it’s likely to be difficult, if not impossible, to prove whether similar proto-RNAs were present at the dawn of life, the researchers are working to see if the proto-RNAs can indeed faithfully encode information and evolve toward RNA.
.
Researchers have thought that RNA, the molecular cousin of the DNA that encodes our genes, may have played a role in the initial evolution of life. Shown here is an image of a DNA strand.
.
.Click link below for story, slideshow, and video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/origin-of-life-rna_n_2670326.html?ref=topbar
.
____________________________________________________
February 15, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
amazon, Astronomers, Astronomy, climate, companion star, Forecast Star Death, giant explosions, Hotels, huffingtonpost, million light years, NASA, NASA's Swift mission, palomar observatory, research, Science, Science News, Space, Star Death, Stars, stellar explosions, Supernova Death, Supernova Explosion, Supernova Forecast, Supernovas, technology, Telescope, travel, vacation, Video
FROM
Click link below picture
.
Forecasting when stars will die in giant explosions may one day be possible by looking for the warning outbursts they release beforehand, researchers say.
Supernovas are the most powerful stellar explosions in the universe, visible all the way to the edge of the cosmos. These stars detonate for two known reasons: either from gorging on too much mass stolen from a companion star or by running out of fuel and abruptly collapsing.
Astronomers have suggested that stars can give off smaller explosions just before they go supernova. To find out more about supernovas, researchers used three telescopes — the Palomar Observatory, the Very Large Array and NASA’s Swift mission — to investigate a star 500 million light-years away.
.
The image shows a simulation of a collision between two shells of matter ejected by a massive star in two subsequent pulsational pair-instability supernova eruptions, only years apart, just before the star dies. Image released Feb. 7, 2013.
.
.Click link below for story, slideshow, and video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/supernova-warning-explosion-star-death_n_2668510.html?ref=topbar
.
_____________________________________________________
February 10, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
business, climate, Earth, Earth-observation satellite, Environment, environmental change, Health, huffingtonpost, Landsat, Landsat 1 launched in 1972, Landsat 11, Landsat Data Continuity Mission, landsat spacecraft, LDCM, manage their natural resources, monitor environmental change, most advanced and capable Landsat, NASA, natural resources, research, satellite nasa, Satellites, Science, Science News, Space, technology, travel, United States, vacation, vandenberg air force, vandenberg air force base, vandenberg air force base in california, Video
FROM
Click link below picture
.
NASA is gearing up for the Monday (Feb. 11) launch of an Earth-observation satellite that will continue a celebrated 40-year project to monitor our planet’s surface from space.
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission is slated to blast off Monday at 1:02 p.m. EST (1802 GMT/10:02 a.m. PST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The LDCM satellite is the eighth overall in the Landsat program, which has been scrutinizing Earth from orbit continuously since Landsat 1 launched in 1972.
Mission team members call LDCM the most advanced and capable Landsat spacecraft ever built. It should help the United States and other nations around the world monitor environmental change and better manage their natural resources, they say.
.
The payload faIring containing the Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex-3E where it will be hoisted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V for launch. Image released Jan 25, 2013.
.
.Click link below for story, slideshow, and video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/09/landsat-launch-earth-observing-satellite-nasa_n_2652621.html?ref=topbar
.
_____________________________________________________
February 10, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
44 percent less sperm, British, British Journal Of Sports Medicine, business, climate, Harvard, Harvard School of Public Health, harvard study, Health, huffingtonpost, Infertility, journal of sports medicine, Male Fertility, mental-health, politics, Reproductive Science, research, school of public health, Science, Science News, society, sperm, Sperm Count, Sperm Counts Declining, Sperm Production, technology, Television, Too Much Tv, travel, TV, TV might kill you sooner, TV Viewing, vacation, Video
FROM
Click link below picture
.
A few years ago, we learned that too much TV might kill you sooner. Now, a new Harvard study is telling us excessive TV-watching could slash men’s sperm count, too.
The Harvard School of Public Health’s sperm study, published this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, determined that guys glued to the tube more than 20 hours per week had 44 percent less sperm than those who watched no TV.
.
A new study on sperm counts suggests that excessive
TV-watching could slash men’s sperm count.
.
.Click link below for story, slideshow, and video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/tv-sperm-count-harvard-study_n_2623238.html?ref=topbar
.
____________________________________________________
February 6, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
brains, brains and our minds, business, climate, connectome, focuses on the connections between neurons, Future, genome, Health, mapping, medicine, mental-health, Mind, minds, model of the brain, neuron, new model, new model of the brain, research, Science, Science News, Sebastian Seung, ted, travel, vacation, Youtube Videos
Click link below picture
.
Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our “connectome,” and it’s as individual as our genome — and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds.
.
.
.Click link below for Ted talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7GwKXfJB0
.
____________________________________________________
February 6, 2013
Mohenjo
Medical
aviation, Baruch Avruch Vice President of Operations, business, climate, Dr. Kobi Vortman, Dr. Kobi Vortman Founder and President, ExAblate, Future, Health, InSightec, libya, medicine, middle-east, MR Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS), personalized non-invasive treatment, politics, research, Science, Science News, Technion alumni Dr. Kobi Vortman, technology, transportation, travel, vacation, Video, Youtube Videos
RECEIVED THIS LINK IN AN EMAIL FROM A FRIEND
Click link below picture
.
The Operating Room of the Future Israeli pride #2 –
InSightec® is the pioneer and global leader in MR guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) . InSightec developed ExAblate, a product which pioneers the use of MRgFUS, and provides a personalized non-invasive treatment that can replace invasive procedures and offer therapeutic alternatives to millions of patients with serious diseases around the globe. Interview with Technion alumni Dr. Kobi Vortman, Founder and President and Baruch Avruch, Vice President of Operations from InSightec.
.
.
.Click link below for video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IfJemqkby_0
.
______________________________________________________
February 5, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
amp, article requests, biology, brains, business, climate, connectome, Connectome Q&A, connectomics, consciousness, evolution, Facebook, first-ever official Connectome Q&A, Future, imaging, incoming questions, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, queries, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, Twitter, vacation
Click link below picture
.
As promised, here’s the first-ever official Connectome Q&A! We’ve been getting lots of incoming questions on our Facebook and Twitter pages – some of them on the technical side; others of the more “general interest” variety. Most of these questions require pretty involved answers – and it’s important to me that each of them gets the full treatment it deserves.
So for today’s Q&A, I’ve decided to focus on just one question. That doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten the others, though – we keep everything archived, and we’ll be doing plenty more Q&As in the future. So keep sending those neuroscience queries and article requests our way.
.
.
.Click link below for article:
http://theconnecto.me/2012/11/qa-can-we-preserve-our-brains-after-death/
.
____________________________________________________
February 5, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
business, Chile in 1960, climate, current-events, earthquake prediction, earthquakes, earthquakes that rocked Tohoku, Environment, Future, Japan, magnitude 9, magnitude 9.0 or greater, master fault, old oceanic crust, recent earthquakes, research, Science, Science News, seismologist, Sumatra, Sumatra in 2004, superquakes, technology, tohoku japan, travel, vacation, Yahoo News
Click link below picture
.
The earthquakes that rocked Tohoku, Japan in 2011, Sumatra in 2004 and Chile in 1960 — all of magnitude 9.0 or greater — should not have happened, according to seismologist’s theories of earthquake cycles. And that might mean earthquake prediction needs an overhaul, some researchers say.
All three earthquakes struck along subduction zones, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates collide and one dives beneath the other. Earlier earthquakes had released the pent-up strain along Chile’s master fault, meaning no big quakes were coming, scientists had thought. Japan and Sumatra both sat above on old oceanic crust, thought to be too stiff for superquakes.
.
.
.Click link below for article:
http://news.yahoo.com/potential-superquakes-underestimated-recent-earthquakes-show-153606464.html
.
_____________________________________________________
February 4, 2013
Mohenjo
Crime
aol, aviation, basement of a Middletown home, business, butler county basement raid, cars, celebrities, chelsie peck, climate, Crime News, douglas wolf, entertainment, methamphetamine, methamphetamine lab, Middletown, Middletown home, Police say they found a methamphetamine lab, research, Science, Science News, technology, transportation, travel, vacation, Video, wlwt
Click link below picture
.
Police say they found a methamphetamine lab in the basement of a Middletown home.
.
.
.Click link below for video:
http://www.aol.com/video/fleeing-passenger-leads-cops-to-basement-meth-lab/517657799/?icid=maing-grid7|myaol|dl4|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D263693
.
__________________________________________________
Older Entries
Newer Entries
James' World 2 