the KING is traveling incognito

For What It's Worth Dept:
"98 percent of overweight women could be identified by increased levels of a single bacterial species, called Selenomanas noxia"

Attractive Males:
stingy with sperm

Antibody Surrogates
make lab-on-a-chip blood testing cheap and easy.

Next Generation Antibiotics
Two talks on Ted: here and here.
Compare and contrast presentation styles. There will be a test!

Cheap At The Price
if we could just sweep all the failures off the market
Ginger is good for nausea and most other "alternative cures" are bunk...

Baby Daddy
Human sperm created from embryonic stem cells
...one for the Frankenstein Files

did you remember to drink your joe?
Can coffee prevent, treat Alzheimer's?

Put on your learning cap!
Learning of skilled motor movements enhanced by magnetic brain stimulation.

Zoom in.
Enhance.
TV and movies make it look easy, now a new approach makes it real.

ATTACK OF THE ROBO-BATS!

Invisibility!
...in the invisible spectrum...

Artificial Nerve Cells
to communicate with the body's natural nerve cells via neurotransmitters.

PRINTABLE BATTERIES!

Every day in every way I'm getting dumber and dumber
(positive mantras can backfire)

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger
And something that made me stronger can kill me
...suggests "a functional potential for these [cancer causing] mutations."

Sometimes an idea just clicks
ECHO-LOCATION FOR HUMANS
I sense a summer camp in the making...

Men: Want to avoid having kids?
Have less sex!

Here's one for all the bird brained art critics:
you could be replaced by a pigeon...

Think Longevity research is batty?
"Scientists find a biological 'fountain of youth' in new world bat caves."
Hint: It's about protein folding...

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD DEPT:
Analysis of the running mechanics of bilateral amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius reveals...

Astounding Implications Dept:

"I can tell you whether the bird has heard a particular song before or not just by looking at the molecular assay."

Remember so-called "Smart Drugs"?
Would one that works as Nerve Growth Factor in the brain count?

Hearing is Believing
Acoustical imaging of structures within the body (or a building, or a bridge) just got sharper.

Must Have Dept:
Cell Phone Screen Projector!

SUDOKU!
Do 10 Million bucks worth of gene sequencing for 50 Grand.

HOMO HABILIS, meet HOMO CYBERNETICUS
Tools integrated into "body image"
does this apply to calculator watches?

All In Your Head Dept:
Non invasive neurosurgery "sounds" like a good idea.

Built To Crash
NASA's LCROSS to impact Lunar Surface
visible to earth telescopes 10-to-12 inches and larger.
wanna bet they time it so it's visible from the US?

SAGE ADVICE FROM PARENT:
Plants communicate with nearby "clones" to warn of danger.

“volatile cues are required for communication among branches within an individual sagebrush plant. This observation suggests that communication between individuals may be a by-product of a volatile communication system that allows plants to integrate their own systemic physiological processes.”

Twice as Good and 10 Times Faster
computer vision takes a giant leap

Ok... June!

Plastics from Biomass
as a side effect of making biofuels
Eat that, Canada!
(where most US oil imports originate)

King of The Year After That is taking a hiatus.
See ya in May!

The most luminous events in the sky are invisible to the human eye. If we could see them, we'd go blind in the gammarays: Come on, it's a singalong song! In the gammaraaayyys!

Abandon Hope!

Inching toward quantum computers: This tech seems like a quantum leap in that arena, otherwise I'd pass on it as just another "quantum computers are coming!" hype-o.
Tho I'm not going to try to explain what it is or why I think so here...

4 Year Plan: Find Another Earth. Billions of Earthlike planets likely in this galaxy.

Maybe all that stem cell research REALLY WILL cure Parkinson's....
While this breakthrough can diminish demand for "fresh" fetuses.

Popin pint-sized wheelies in your room-temperature nanocar: steering may be issue...

Not your sensei's paper cranes: Two-fisted nanorobots create DNA origami with 100% accuracy.
Creators aim at DNA computing.

Out-of-the-box "seeing machines" for the blind developed by visually impaired poet at MIT.

How high is your tolerance for your own ignorance? What if the universe is both beautiful and incomprehensible? How much are you willing to bet on your own intuition?

WHERE ARE THEY NOW, DEPT: Published one year ago, tomorrow: Genetic breakthrough supercharges immunity to flu and other viruses

The Journal Television and New Media turns 10.

Are you living in a HOLOGRAM? Graig Hogan, co-discoverer of "Dark Energy" thinks he has evidence that you are.
Possible "new era in fundamental physics."

The Experiment Must Continue! A generation after Milgram, Americans (almost) as likely to torture if someone carrying a clipboard tells 'em to.

Wear Your World: in the palm of your hand
Snap photos by framing them with your hands, dial a virtual phone, get all Minority Report on your ass.
MIT's Fluid Interface Group unveils prototype, TED lecture link to come...
photo: Erik Hersman / Flickr

Forget that jack-in-the-back-of-your-neck, future computer/brain interfaces grown from neurons.
Elisha Moses: let my neurons grow... in 2D matrices etched on glass.
so far: various logic gates, diodes oscillators...

Eat the corn you grow. Biofuels from stalks, straw, leaves...
New techniques create biogas from cellulose. Goobye food shortage?
QUOTES:

• "...30% more biogas than conventional facilities..."
• turnaround time reduced up "to 70%"
• converting to electricity via fuel cell with "overall efficiency of up to 85%"

Teach your children well.... Even those inheriting dumbness genes can overcome them, and pass on this ACQUIRED TRAIT to their offspring!
(dumbed down, here)
Epigenetics, anyone? Maybe educating children improves generations yet unborn..
Sound like an OK ROI to you?

Lesser Known Effects of Global Warming: Big Fucking Snakes.
Quote: "Scientists have long known of a rough correlation between a period or epoch's temperature and the size of its poikilotherms [cold-blooded creatures]"
this 1.25 ton monster requires an average of only 3 degrees (fahrenheit) warmer than current avg.

Where wisdom, information and communication become the common coin, what happens to the doctrine of scarcity on which our old world, now dying, was founded?