TOM PRICE TO BROOMEWednesday 2nd June we had 420km to go today so we left early. Some of the scenery of the Mungaroo Range were just as good as the Hamersley Range on the way up. After lunch we got held up for about half an hour with a very large 9 mtrs high and 15 mtrs wide mining rig section being delivered by road to one of the mines. There were 4 trucks in total in the convoy.We
Day 7 Milwaukee to Indiana Somewhere
Today was less eventful then the others. I got my oil changed at Firestone in downtown Milwaukee while Jerome was at his audition. I ate lunch and then went to Veteran's Park downtown. Jerome did not do as well as he had anticipated on his audition so we went ahead and left for our next part of the journey. We headed back south and stopped at the Mars Cheese Castle by the side of the highway
Den Tredie uge
Den tredje ugeNormer skik og brug i Kina er noget anderledes end i Danmark. Regler ser ikke ud til at bekymre kinesere ret meget. Vi har en teori om de forbudsskilte der bde er p kinesisk og et sprog som vi kan forst at p den kinesiske del str skrevet rdquoSymbolet herunder glder kun for de som ikke kan kinesiskrdquo. I flyet fra Lijiang til Chengdu begyndte kineserne at rejse sig og
Day 17 New York State
Hi AllWell we have been so tired so please excuse the lateness of the blogs. We went to Palmyra NY. We began at Hill Cumorah we climbed up to the top not knowing that you could drive up to see it. The best part was walking down hill through the forest very beautiful. We then went to the Sacred Grove and the Smith Farm it was a very quiet and peaceful place to be. We drove into down town Palm
Exploring la ciudad
Hola amigosToday I met with a local Bolivian student named Vanessa to take a tour of La Paz from a local's point of view. It was such a great experience. Vanessa got me oriented to the area and also instructed me on how to get around using public transportation large buses and mini buses which take 5 times longer but are 5 times less expensive then taxis. She brought me to the calvary calle
Chengdu
Hej alle sammen Nu har jeg vret i Chengduomrdet i seks dage. Vi har haft guide p alle dage lige fra den dag vi kom og vi har set en mase ting. Den frste dag var vi ude et sted hvor man opdrtter pandaer og man forsker ogs i pandaer. Det er nok den strste koncentration af pandaer i verden. Der var bde sm og store og rde pandaer.Men de sm pandaer var klart de sdeste fordi de legede med
Central America on a shoestring
Thursday May 27th 2010This is the beginning of a new adventure Central America. I got the idea with Hubert a few months back when we decided to go somewhere different than United States where we spend the most of our time. I recall Hubert saying something like we could go to Guatemala and the whole idea grew from there.Our plan is actually quite sophisticated we are flying to Cancun Mexico
Bequia Day 5
Hi everybodyHow's everybody back home Yesterday we spent the entire afternoon showing some property agents from the UK all the most expensive villas on Bequia. Thirteen villas in 5 hours. It was a whirlwind tour. Each villa was nicer and had a better view than the previous one. The final stop was at a villa perched on the top of the island called Mangwana. It rents for 10000 per week in
Gringo 1 Drunk 0
Day 24 Tuesday This morning at 100 AM a drunk in the next door to decided that it would be fun to have some music. The only thing louder and more obnoxious that the huge diesel busses are the incessant music they insist on playing every where. At 100 AM it is less pleasing than normal. I lay awake for about hour thinking he will get tired and go to sleep. That did not work or he had already f
Monday June 7 2010
MondayWoke up for class today. I wish I didn't have to go five days a week. As much as I am learning being the ONLY student it takes time away from seeing the sides or traveling to other cities. I didn't see anyone after my class so I came straight back to the apartment made lunch and skyped my mom. There is usually a class that lets out at the same time as mine full of students from my p
Cuanto cuesta eso
Day 25 Wednesday I have been struggling with asking how much something is I have been using the single word cost costa Regardless how I say it I get blank stares or a barrage of questions. It was just not working as well as I thought it should. Years ago I worked for a brilliant man named Jon there was a mandatory corporate ritual each year called capitol budget approval. I would have to write
Copycat student torches school – The Associated Press
Copycat student torches school The Associated Press According to Thai PBS Television, the student's grades had slipped as his parents put pressure on him to get into a top medical school. ... |
The Spirit Of Islam – Times of India
The Spirit Of Islam Times of India Enlightenment should accompany the study of religion, not dogma. We now have every other self-styled scholar rushing to issue headline-grabbing fatwas ... |
Doctors group says Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees – Raw Story
Doctors group says Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees Raw Story Most of us want freedom and peace and have no desire to go around killing people. We are slaves to our own government in the same we they like to enslave ... |
Mapendo and Freedom Now founders win Bronfman Prize – Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog)
 Boston Globe | Mapendo and Freedom Now founders win Bronfman Prize Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog) He started Mapendo in 2004 by setting up a medical clinic with a Kenyan doctor to help refugees in Nairobi. The group now has a staff of 30 -- five in ... The Charles Bronfman Prize Names Two 2010 RecipientsBusiness Wire (press release) |
Iran’s Red Crescent in bid to break Israeli blockade on Gaza – InTheNews.co.uk
 MiamiHerald.com | Iran's Red Crescent in bid to break Israeli blockade on Gaza InTheNews.co.uk Last week Israel blocked a 'Freedom flotilla' of aid ships from entering Gaza, killing nine aid workers after boarding one of the ships. ... 'Israel won't allow Iran ships to Gaza'Press TV Iran's Red Crescent Society To Send Aid Ships To GazaRTT News Iran to send own aid ships to Gaza allegedly with naval shipsNational Turk English RIA Novosti -Veterans Today Network all 442 news articles » |
80 IVF foetuses are aborted a year, figures show – BBC News
Daily Mail | 80 IVF foetuses are aborted a year, figures show BBC News The figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which regulates IVF clinics in the UK, were obtained as part of a Freedom of Information ... How COULD a woman who's been through IVF abort her baby?Daily Mail Dozens of woman are having abortions following fertility treatmentTelegraph.co.uk 80 British IVF Babies Aborted per YearLifesite Private Healthcare UK -The Sun -Times Online all 22 news articles » |
Roger Clarke: Cyborg rights ‘need debating now’
Australian prof Roger Clarke says that cyborg rights need to be debated now; Cyborgs are alive and well today and asserting their rights, presenting society with a challenge that needs to be met head on:
Dr Clarke says as cyborgisation is increasingly used in the medical arena, people may expect they have the right to have technology that keeps them alive.
"They may also want the right to have the technology removed when they want to die", he said.
In summary, says Dr Clarke, cyborgisation of humans is leading to a plethora of questions about human rights.
"People who are using prostheses to recover lost capabilities will seek to protect their existing rights. People who have lost capabilities but have not yet got the relevant prostheses will seek the right to have them," Dr Clark said.
"Enhanced humans will seek additional rights to go with the additional capabilities that they have."
Dr Clarke says engineers and others who develop these new technologies have an obligation to brief political, social and economic institutions on their implications.
"They have to date signally failed to do so, and urgent action is needed," Dr Clarke said.
"The need for policymakers to wake up to themselves and get debating things is becoming more acute."
Time: The quest for fake meat
Time Magazine on the potential for artificial meat.
Excerpt:
What has confounded fake-meat producers for years is the texture problem. Before an animal is killed, its flesh essentially marinates, for all the years that the animal lives, in the rich biological stew that we call blood: a fecund bath of oxygen, hormones, sugars and plasma. Vegan foods like tofu, tempeh (fermented soy) and seitan (wheat gluten) don't have the benefit of sloshing around in something so complex as blood before they go onto your plate. So how do you create fleshy, muscley texture without blood?
NS: Rise of the replicators
Enthusiasts are building machines that can make just about anything – including their own robotic offspring. New Scientist explains:
Still, ingenious as these machines are, they merely churn out piles of parts. What about assembly? A heap of plastic and metal is not a machine, just as you don't have much in common with a pile of flesh and bones.
Greg Chirikjian, a roboticist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, agrees. "When a prototype only makes parts, the machine that made those parts wasn't reproduced," he says. A true self-replicator must handle both fabrication and assembly. Chirikjian and his colleague Matt Moses are aiming to achieve this with a kind of Lego set that doesn't need anyone to play with it.
The pair have already demonstrated key parts of such a system, using around 100 plastic blocks. Although it cannot yet fabricate these blocks itself, the machine is able to move in 3D to pick up and bind them into larger structures. Moses is currently working on having it make a complete replica of its own structure using Lego-like bricks, though the machine still relies on conventional motors - which have to be installed by hand - to drive its activity.
