Scientists say the ozone layer is in good shape thanks to the Montreal Protocol, which has helped us avoid severe ozone depletion. Research suggests that the Antarctic ozone hole would have been 40% bigger by now if not for the international treaty.
Whoopdy Do.
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Hey, have you seen my wooden computer?
Researchers in the U.S. and China have developed semiconductor chips that are almost entirely made
In addition to being biodegradable, the cost of production is much less than conventional semiconductors.
According to the NetworkWorld report:
"The researchers used a cellulose material for the substrate of the chip, which is the part that supports the active semiconductor layer.
Taken from cellulose, a naturally abundant substance used to make paper, cellulose nanofibril (CNF) is a flexible, transparent and sturdy material with suitable electrical properties.
That makes CNF better than alternative chip designs using natural materials such as paper and silk, they argue in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications."
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Now this is amazing.
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But the work didn't end up in the snowy Alps — when the team got back they had with them no less than 46TB of images which they needed to process in order to create one giant interactive image, 365 Gigapixels in size.
This processing required some very powerful hardware and took over two months to complete, but the result is a look at the Mont Blanc (the tallest mountain in the Alps and the highest peak in Europe outside of the Caucasus range raising 4,810 meters or 15,781 feet above sea level) — like it has never been seen before.
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I have not a clue...
Robert Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and a former senior policy adviser to the Energy Department's secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment, details the horrific consequences of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands and explains the lawsuits the Marshallese have filed against the nuclear weapons states.
The lawsuits hope to close the huge loophole
those states carved for themselves with the vague wording of Article VI
of the NPT (Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty), wording that allows those
states to delay, seemingly indefinitely, implementing the disarmament
they agreed to when they signed the treaty.***
Really, seriously?
We accepted the low quality of compressed MP3's and now you want us to go for real quality...what's that?
Microsoft has revealed that its new Edge web browser will come with support for Dolby Audio in order to offer high-class audio when visiting websites.
"It allows websites to match the compelling visuals of H.264 video with equally compelling multi-channel audio.
It works well with AVC/H.264 video and also with our previously announced HLS and MPEG DASH Type 1 streaming features, which both support integrated playback of an HLS or DASH manifest," Microsoft explains in a blog post.
Windows 10 will also ship with a Dolby Digital Plus codec.
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Somehow I don't feel sorry for these ad companies...nope...not one bit!
AdBlock Plus has successfully defended itself in court for the second time in five weeks.
The Munich Regional Court ruled against media companies ProSiebenSat1 and IP Deutschland.
The companies sued Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, asking the court to ban the distribution of the free ad-blocking software, saying it hurts their ad-based business model.
An Eyeo release says in part:
"We are elated at the decision reached today by the Munich court, which is another win for every internet user.
It confirms each individual’s right to block annoying ads, protect their privacy and, by extension, determine his or her own internet experience.
This time it also confirms the legitimacy of our Acceptable Ads initiative as a compromise in the often contentious and rarely progressive world of online advertising."
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This deserves to go viral if i have any say so!
A story about a 102-year old lady doing her PhD thesis defense is not that common, but when the thesis defense was delayed by a whopping 77 years, that gotta raise some eyebrows.
Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport studied diphtheria at the University of Hamburg in Germany and in 1938, the 25-year old Protestant-raised, German-born Ingeborg submitted for her doctorate thesis defense.
She was denied her chance for her defense because her mother was of the Jewish ancestry, making her an official "cross-breed". As such the Nazi regime forbid the university from proceeding with her defense, for "racial reasons".
She became one of the thousands of scholars and researchers banished from German academe, which at the time included many of the world's most prestigious research institutions, because of Jewish ancestry or opposition to Nazi policies.
Many of them ended up suffering or dying in concentration camps.
Rudolf Degkwitz, Syllm's professor, was imprisoned for objecting to euthanizing children. Syllm, however, was able to reach the United States and earned her medical degree from the old Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
back to
Germany in the 1950s, where she achieved prominence in neonatology.
Syllm-Rapoport, who is now 102 years old, might have remained just a
doctor (if a very accomplished one) had not the present dean of the
Hamburg medical school, Uwe Koch-Gromus, heard her story from a
colleague of her son, Tom Rapoport, a Harvard cell biologist. Determined to do what he could to mitigate this wrong, Koch-Gromus arranged Syllm-Rapoport's long-delayed defense. Eventually she married a fellow physician named Samuel Mitja Rapoport, had a family, and moved
Despite failing eyesight, she brushed up on decades of developments in diphtheria research with the help of friends and the Internet.
Koch-Gromus called the 45-minute oral exam given by him and two colleagues on 13 May in her Berlin living room "a very good test. Frau Rapoport has gathered notable knowledge about what's happened since then. Particularly given her age, she was brilliant."
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Ya Right. Not!
President Obama has asked the Senate to renew key Patriot Act provisions before their expiration on May 31.
This includes surveillance powers that let the government collect Americans' phone records.
Obama said, "It's necessary to keep the American people safe and secure."
The call came despite recent revelations that the FBI is unable to name a single terror case
in which the snooping provisions were of much help.
"Obama noted that the controversial bulk phone collections program, which was exposed by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, is reformed in the House bill, which does away with it over six months and instead gives phone companies the responsibility of maintaining phone records that the government can search."
Obama criticized the Senate for not acting on that legislation, saying they have necessitated a renewal of the Patriot Act provisions.
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Neo ...look up "Indigo Skyfold" here
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People are waking up
You should wake up also... Here is why
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http://www.naturalnews.com/049861_vaccine_racket_infographic_CDC_criminals.html#
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