Month: May 2014

Sergey Brin says Google will make 100-200 Self Driving Cars this year and plans commercial rollout with Many Partners Like Uber but Disneyland seems like a perfect Pilot location

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Sergey Brin unveiled Google’s first car built from scratch, a gondola on wheels with no steering wheel and no brake pedals. Brin also discussed his impatience with the pace of innovation and his disappointment with the NSA surveillance revelations and joked about new projects (or not) around invisibility cloaks, fembots and thousands of hovering satellites. …

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New Phase of Superconductivity Discovered

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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown phase in a class of superconductors called iron arsenides. This sheds light on a debate over the interactions between atoms and electrons that are responsible for their unusual superconductivity. “This new magnetic phase, which has never been observed before, could …

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Medicine on the verge of drastically reducing and preventing HIV for a second sexual revolution

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Federal health officials recommended two weeks ago that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus that causes it. If broadly followed, the advice could transform AIDS prevention in the United States — from reliance on condoms, which are effective …

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Medicine on the verge of drastically reducing and preventing HIV for a second sexual revolution

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Federal health officials recommended two weeks ago that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus that causes it. If broadly followed, the advice could transform AIDS prevention in the United States — from reliance on condoms, which are effective …

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Children’s Health professionals recommend more pregnant and nursing women take 150 micrograms of iodine supplements

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Currently, only 15 to 20 percent of pregnant and nursing women are taking supplements containing iodine, Paulson, Children’s National Health System and chairman of the AAP’s council on environmental health. They recommend women augment the iodine they get in foods with a supplement containing 150 micrograms of the element. Dr. Luigi Garibaldi said he hoped …

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Children’s Health professionals recommend more pregnant and nursing women take 150 micrograms of iodine supplements

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Currently, only 15 to 20 percent of pregnant and nursing women are taking supplements containing iodine, Paulson, Children’s National Health System and chairman of the AAP’s council on environmental health. They recommend women augment the iodine they get in foods with a supplement containing 150 micrograms of the element. Dr. Luigi Garibaldi said he hoped …

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Do it yourself 12 inch stainless steel claws that come close to recreating Wolverine’s claws

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Garage inventor Colin Furze has recreated Wolverine’s signature claws. The first ever fully automatic wolverine claws that deploy AND retact automaticlly. These beuatiful 12″ stainless steel claws fire out at the touch of a button and bring me as close as anyone has to feeling like they have adamantium claws. You can see how they …

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Space Startup Plans – space telescopes and launches

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Here is a list of planned activity from new Space launch related startups. Lauren De Niro Pipher, head of astronaut relations at Virgin Galactic, revealed that the company’s founder plans to fly with his family aboard the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket plane in November or December of this year. The flight will launch the company’s …

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Space Startup Plans – space telescopes and launches

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Here is a list of planned activity from new Space launch related startups. Lauren De Niro Pipher, head of astronaut relations at Virgin Galactic, revealed that the company’s founder plans to fly with his family aboard the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket plane in November or December of this year. The flight will launch the company’s …

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