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October 04, 2016 By   Mohit Kumar   "Wikileaks completed its 10 years today, and within this timespan, the whistleblower site has published over 10 million documents, and there’s more to come. In the name of celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Wikileaks promises to leak documents pertaining to Google, United States presidential election and more over the next ten weeks. Speaking by video link to an anniversary news conference at the Volksbuhne Theater in Berlin on Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks founder  Julian Assange  eagerly  announced  his plans to release a series of publications every week for the next 10 weeks. The upcoming leaks will include "significant material" related to Google, the US presidential election, military operations, arms trading and, the hot topic of past few years, mass surveillance. Assange also promised to publish all documents related to the US presidential race before the election day on November 8. "There is an enormous expec...

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"NASA's Operation IceBridge has launched its Antarctic 2012 campaign, flying high-priority missions measuring polar ice from a base of operations at the tip of Patagonia on the Strait of Magellan. They have even made a return visit to the Pine Island Glacier, the site of last year's discovery of a massive rift in the ice. Sea ice doesn't always hold the allure of a massive ice sheet, or a crevassed blue glacier spilling between mountains, but it comes in array of shapes and sizes and has its own ephemeral beauty. Operation IceBridge studies sea ice at both poles, and also runs across interesting formations on route to other targets. Operation IceBridge returned to the Pine Island Glacier twice in 2012, and NASA glaciologist Kelly Brunt discusses the implications of the glacier's impending calving event. Operation IceBridge has now returned to the Pine Island Glacier, not once, but twice in 2012. And the year-old giant crack in the glacier, poised to create an...

Image: Google GUIA DEL PRADO, BUSINESS INSIDER 30 JUN 2015 Google's image recognition programs are usually trained to look for specific objects, like cars or dogs. But now, in a process Google's engineers are calling  'inceptionism' , these artificial intelligence networks were fed random images of landscapes and static noise. What they get back sheds light on how AI perceive the world, and the possibility that computers can be creative too.  The AI networks churned out some insane images and took the engineers on a hallucinatory trip full of knights with dog heads, a tapestry of eyes, pig-snails, and pagodas in the sky. Engineers trained the network by "showing it millions of training examples and gradually adjusting the network parameters," according to Google’s research blog. The image below was produced by a network that was taught to look for animals: Each of Google's AI networks is made of a hierarchy of layers, usually about ...

Image: Lucille Pine/Flickr “Minnesota has passed a law that will make it illegal to manufacture and sell any cleaning products containing a common antibacterial chemical, Triclosan, by 2017. Triclosan has been a key ingredient in 75% of all soaps, detergents, deodorants, and toothpastes for decades. It kills bacteria by disabling an enzyme used in fatty acid synthesis. The chemical doesn’t affect human enzymes, making it safe for common use. However, recent studies have suggested that...

“No more fillings! Scientists have figured out how to regenerate dentin, the material inside our teeth. Image: Muskoka Stock Photos/Shutterstock And all it takes is a quick blast with a low-powered laser, according to new research by a team of Harvard University-led scientists. The new study  published in  Science Translational Medicine  shows that

“Australian researchers have discovered a wound-healing, cancer-causing hormone in the spit of a deadly parasitic worm. Image: Wikimedia (top), Professor Banchob Sripa (bottom left), Wikimeda (bottom right) The Southeast Asian liver fluke ( Opisthorchis viverrini ) lives in over 9 million people, and survives by munching through our livers and healing its damage as it goes, so it can go back and eat some more. It’s an impressive skill, but after many years of infection, the worm can cause liver cancer, and

source: phys.org http://phys.org/news/2013-08-element.html#jCp Remember the periodic table from chemistry class in school? Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have presented fresh evidence that confirms the existence of a previously unknown chemical element. The new, super-heavy element has yet to be named. An international team of researchers, led by physicists from Lund University, have confirmed the existence of

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Fire glass produces more heat than real wood, and is also environmentally friendly. There is no smoke, it’s odorless and doesn’t produce ash. You are able to stay toasty warm without cutting down trees and the specially formulated glass crystals give off no toxic deposit. source: Mysterious Things in The World https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=333672843420438&set=a.257929444328112.60568.257620137692376&type=1&relevant_count=1

" How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask." source: http://youtu.be/FktsFcooIG8

"This video reveals the magic behind the magic, making people aware of the fact that their entire life can be found online. And by doing so urging everybody to be vigilant." http://youtu.be/F7pYHN9iC9I

This video was made in an attempt to try an explain some of the specifics relating to the accusations against Julian Assange. It was also made in the hope of shedding some light on the circumstances that have led to the current diplomatic standoff involving the Wikileaks founder.

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The Milky Way is on course for an epic collision with the Andromeda galaxy... after time... National Geographic video: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/when-galaxies-collide/ more of label "cosmos": http://juliamladenova.blogspot.com/search/label/cosmos

The Portuguese man-of-war is a superorganism, a colony of tiny animals that form a very menacing predator. National Geographic video: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/invertebrates-animals/other-invertebrates/weirdest-man-of-war/?source=vidcarousel more of label "sea world": http://juliamladenova.blogspot.com/search/label/sea%20world

"You may feel self-indulgent today and experience a pull toward excess. A healthy way to channel your desires is by choosing to practice moderation. Since cravings can be satisfied in many ways, you might think about different kinds of experiences that can serve the same purpose today. For example, a desire for passionate romance might be served by immersing yourself in a beautiful setting that soothes your soul, while a craving for rich sweets might be satisfied by experimenting in the kitchen until you find a healthier alternative. It is also important to understand that cravings are often a mirror for emotional needs that aren’t being satisfied, and reflecting on your desires can often reveal what it is that you truly crave.  Exploring the feelings behind our cravings and making an effort to practice moderation when indulging ourselves can help us create more balance and enjoyment in our lives. We often crave an activity or substance because of the feeling it can provide fo...

Silence All sounds, from a whisper to a classical symphony, arise out of silence and disappear into silence. But silence is always there beneath sound and is the space where sound can exist. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but silence has its own weight and quality. When you listen to silence, you can perceive its intense depth and power. Taking the time to experience silence calms the mind and rejuvenates the body. Silence is the void where we can hear the many sounds that we often ignore – the voice of our intuition telling us the truth, the sound of the breeze blowing, the hum of the radiator, and the noises we make just because we are alive. One way to experience silence is to wake up before the rest of the world has come alive. Try not to move into activity, and leave off the lights, radio, and television. Sit still and simply listen. You may hear your heartbeat or your breath, but keep your attention tuned to the silence that surrounds you. Stay this way fo...

Neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita hypothesized in the 1960s that “we see with our brains not our eyes.” Now, a new device trades on that thinking and aims to partially restore the experience of vision for the blind and visually impaired by relying on the nerves on the tongue’s surface to send light signals to the brain. Legal blindness is defined by U.S. law as vision that is 20/200 or worse, or has a field of view that is less than 20 degrees in diameter. The condition afflicts more than one million Americans over the age of 40, according to the National Institutes of Health. Adult vision loss costs the country about $51.4 billion per year. About two million optic nerves are required to transmit visual signals from the retina—the portion of the eye where light information is decoded or translated into nerve pulses—to the brain’s primary visual cortex. With BrainPort, the device being developed by neuroscientists at Middleton, Wisc.–based Wicab, Inc. (a company co-founded by the...

Snapped in Gabon's Petit-Loango Reserve, a western bush pig is recognizable by its distinctive white-tasseled ears and red hair. Found in the forests and scrublands of sub-Saharan Africa, the omnivorous bush pig uses its snout to root for food. Throughout the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) Megatransect, ecologist Mike Fay painstakingly recorded "every pile of dung, every tree, every cry of a chimpanzee," to convey the importance of preserving central Africa’s rich ecosystem. Photograph by Michael Nichols source -  National Geographic http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/western-bush-pig-photography.html more of label "animals": http://juliamladenova.blogspot.com/search/label/animals