The Department of Energy employs more than 16,000 full time bureaucrats and 100,000 contractors. CW Roberts and his colleague show how to solve the oil spill problem. We can replace the entire Department of Energy with these two guys. They’ve produced more value in this video than 16,000 bureaucrats and 100,000 contractors.  Read More »

A most intriguing report prepared by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) on the killing of one of their “operatives” posted at a United States space weapon laboratory states that the death of Doctor-Scientist Maria Beloyvan last week was “directly attributed” to knowledge she had gained about the Americans “inter-dimensional space communication”... 

This stunning picture is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that shows our home as a planetary disc, with the Moon in the distance (click on the image to enlarge it) This stunning picture is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that shows our home as a planetary disc, with the Moon in the distance. Captured by Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the spacecraft... 

"Biomorphs" found on meteorites traced to Mars have been proposed as evidence that life has existed on the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands of years ago on Antarctica shows... 

Mystery ... scientists are already planning more missions to Mars NASA scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on Mars. A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum – the building blocks of life as we know it. NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to... 

The super-laser It may be an American project, but it has the potential to greatly affect not only the EU, but the entire planet. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory believe they have come up with a way to permanently cure the planet’s energy woes – to create a star on Earth. Now immediately, the entire plan sounds like ‘science-fiction gone mad’ and throws... 

This research, conducted by social neuroscientists at UofT Scarborough, explored the sensitivity of the “mirror-neuron-system” to race and ethnicity. The researchers had study participants view a series of videos while hooked up to electroencephalogram (EEG) machines. The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass... 

Williams syndrome makes kids ‘hypersocial,’ researchers say. Never has a human population been found that has no racial stereotypes. Not in other cultures or far-flung countries. Nor among tiny tots or people with various psychological conditions. Until now. Children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that makes them lack normal social anxiety, have no racial biases. They... 

Here’s the article from M6 translated from French. – Source Eugenics may be designated as the set of methods and practices to improve the genetic heritage of mankind. It may be the result of a deliberate policy carried out by a State. It may also be the collective result of a convergent sum of individual decisions taken by prospective parents, which would prevail in a society seeking the... 

Somalian Air Force :) Three Somalis from Somaliland who, ever since they were young dreamed of building a helicopter have designed and built their own helicopter in their own backyard using scrap metals and an old engine from a van. The trio, Mohamed Abdi Barkadle, Saed Abdi Jide and Abdi Farah Lidan said the purpose of their helicopter was to be used to fight fire in the city and surrounding area.... 

Western Digital and Seagate awaiting bankruptcy. As most of us computer users already know, Hard Disk Drives are getting retired because of the newcomer, Solid State Drive. This new technology has finally hit the market hard and by the end of 2010 to mid of 2011, prices will become affordable for all computer users. Right now, SSDs are very expensive but once this happens, there is no way for HDD manufactures... 

Evolution or not? Have you noticed that technology is not evolving anymore and when it does, it only makes small leaps as if they were intentionally limited by someone? What you are about to read would probably shock you. You were probably one of those who thought that the technology would evolve faster if it could but it’s not possible so that’s why it doesn’t. Well the truth is that where is... 

A real-life Jurassic Park for extinct creatures has moved a step closer after scientists extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of birds Genetic material was pinpointed for the giant moa and 10ft tall, half tonne elephant birds that died out hundreds of years ago. Researchers said the successful recovery of ancient DNA from eggshell ‘has major implications in the fields of archaeology and... 

The head was part of a gigantic statue with its hands crossed over its chest A colossal red granite head of one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs has been unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, officials said. The 3,000-year-old head of Amenhotep III – grandfather of Tutankhamun – was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple. Experts say it is the best preserved... 

Dealing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a diplomatic slap, France announced Monday it will sell at least one amphibious assault warship to Russia. The sale, the first by a NATO member to Russia, comes despite objections from U.S. and other NATO members and was disclosed while Mr. Gates was visiting Paris. The French sale will help Moscow to begin modernizing its aging armed forces at a time when...