3D printer spits out CYBORG EAR… but where will you PUT it?

Princeton’s finest boffins have managed to print out an ear, and it’s not just a simple prosthetic, it’s actually an enhancement with a radio antenna built in. The process of combining electrical circuits with flesh is fraught with difficulties, and building ears is a common challenge given the complexity of shape and their propensity to become torn off or damaged Continue reading

Goddesses And The Divine Feminine – Rosemary Ruether – Video




Goddesses And The Divine Feminine – Rosemary Ruether ll4.me Goddesses And The Divine Feminine – Rosemary Ruether This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture-from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation of the complexity of the social forces- mostly androcentric-that have shaped the symbolism of the sacred feminine. At the same time, it charts a new direction for finding a truly egalitarian vision of God and human relations through a feminist-ecological spirituality Continue reading

NASA Partners With cPacket Networks to Monitor 100-Gigabit Demonstration at Supercomputing

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)– NASA is demonstrating 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) networking for delivering scientific datasets, climate analysis, environmental data, and atmospheric predictions. Designed for SC12, a supercomputing conference taking place this week, the demonstration relies on cPacket Networks for monitoring performance and for reliability assurance. High speed networks are important for our efforts to expand our supercomputing and cloud infrastructure, said Paul Lang, Senior Networking Engineer from the High End Computer Networking Group (HECN) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Continue reading

On health care: The tax man cometh

July 8, 2012 By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama’s health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about two-and-a-half years, when they’ll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance. That scenario puts the Internal Revenue Service at the center of the debate, renewing questions about whether the agency is capable of policing the health care decisions of millions of people in the United States while also collecting the taxes needed to run the federal government. Under the law, the IRS will provide tax breaks and incentives to help pay for health insurance and impose penalties on some people who don’t buy coverage and on some businesses that don’t offer it to employees. Continue reading

Policing compliance with health care law will fall largely to IRS

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press twitter.com/stephenatap WASHINGTON The Supreme Courts decision to uphold most of President Barack Obamas health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2 years, when theyll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance. That scenario puts the Internal Revenue Service at the center of the debate, renewing questions about whether the agency is capable of policing the health care decisions of millions of people in the United States while also collecting the taxes needed to run the federal government. Under the law, the IRS will provide tax breaks and incentives to help pay for health insurance and impose penalties on some people who dont buy coverage and on some businesses that dont offer it to employees Continue reading

Acobot Delivers High-Performance AI Chat at Fraction of the Cost of Peers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking over the Internet, one small business site at a time. Continue reading

Male fertility genes discovered

Public release date: 24-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Lisa Lyons elyons@cell.com 617-386-2121 Cell Press A new study has revealed previously undiscovered genetic variants that influence fertility in men. The findings, published by Cell Press on May 24th in the American Journal of Human Genetics, shed much-needed light on human reproduction and might provide answers for countless men suffering from infertility. Continue reading

Breast cancer study reveals 'substantial genetic diversity'

A new study of the protein-coding genes in 100 breast cancer tumors revealed vast differences among the cancers and highlights how complicated the disease really is, researchers said Wednesday. A sobering perspective on the complexity and diversity of the disease is emerging, they wrote in the online edition of the journal Nature (subscription required), which is publishing a series of studies of the genetic changes in breast cancer. Continue reading