Routery WiFi niekorzystne dla naszego zdrowia? - Onet Technowinki W dużej części naszych mieszkań spotkać można routery WiFi, dzięki którym mamy dostęp do globalnej sieci. Te urządzenia nie jest bezpieczne dla naszego zdrowia. A udało się to udowodnić kilku duńskim uczennicom, które przeprowadziły ciekawy eksperyment. Pięć uczennic dziewiątej klasy przeprowadziło niedawno szkolny eksperyment, powodujący spore poruszenie w naukowym środowisku. Chciały więc przekonać się jaki efekt wywołuje u ludzi promieniowanie nadajników wbudowanych w komórki. Obsadziły więc sześć tacek rzeżuchą, a następnie umieściły je w pomieszczeniu bez żadnego promieniowania. Po 12 dniach sprawdziły efekt swego eksperymentu i wykonały jego zdjęcia. Eksperyment dziewcząt wzbudził już zainteresowanie neurobiologów ze szwedzkiego Karolinska Institute, którzy chcieliby powtórzyć go w profesjonalnym środowisku. Źródło: Mnn.com
Sukhoi SU-35 fighter has all the right moves at Paris Air Show The Paris Air Show this week hosted the first foreign demonstration of the Russian supermaneuverable multirole fighter the Sukhoi Su-35. The specific aircraft on show is the latest iteration of the aircraft, designated Su-35S, 48 of which have been allocated to the Russian Air Force as they roll off the production line between 2011 and 2015. Visitors to the air show were treated to a display of the Su-35's impressive aerobatics, including a demonstration of the breathtaking Pugachev's Cobra maneuver. View all Describing the Su-35S as a "4++ generation" jet fighter, Sukhoi claims that the characteristics of the aircraft exceed those of all European tactical fighters including the Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon. Further, the company claims the aircraft can "successfully counter" fully-fledged fifth generation US jet fighters, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor – a bold statement given the stealth capabilities of the latter. Source: Sukhoi
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common." The independent research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary 'Human And Nature DYnamical' (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in association with a team of natural and social scientists.
Russia Responds To U.S. Magnitsky Act By Placing 18 Americans On Blacklist MOSCOW — Russia on Saturday banned 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations. The list released by the Foreign Ministry includes John Yoo, a former U.S. Justice Department official who wrote legal memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques; David Addington, the chief of staff for former U.S. The move came a day after the U.S. announced its sanctions under the Magnitsky Law, named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested in 2008 for tax evasion after accusing Russian police officials of stealing $230 million in tax rebates. The U.S. "As we've said many times before, the right response by Russia to the international outcry over Sergey Magnitsky's death would be to conduct a proper investigation and hold those responsible for his death accountable, rather than engage in tit-for-tat retaliation," according to the statement. A federal judge, one FBI agent and four U.S.
Facebook Snowden could spark a new Cold War Venezuela on Tuesday night appeared to be the final taker for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden after an erroneous tweet by a senior Russian official announced the fugitive had accepted the country’s offer of asylum. In fact, Snowden remains in the transit lounge of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, apparently still choosing between offers from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia — drawing attention to the burgeoning relationship between Moscow and those Latin American critics of the United States. The former security contractor isn’t the only thing they have in common: Natural gas, billions of dollars in arms shipments and similar geopolitical agendas also tie them together. With Russia positioning itself as a global rival to Washington, those countries seem to be falling in line as part of a Kremlin drive to provide some pushback in the US backyard. His relationship with the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been most prominent. “Who is the guilty one?
Science or Art? Beautiful Illustrations of Animals From 170 Years Ago - Wired Science inShare1 Cacicus montezuma, aka Montezuma's oropendola -- a bird with some of the most delightful vocalizations you'll hear. (Biodiversity Heritage Library) Sipuncula are marine worms. They're also known as peanut worms. (Biodiversity Heritage Library) These guys are sea squirts -- squishy marine invertebrates. "Actinozoa" is a bygone classification in zoology that once included such critters as marine polyps, corals, jellies, rotifers, and sea urchins. <div class="slide" data-slide-id="635650" ><img title="" alt="" width="650px" src=" data-image-width="660" data-image-height="1175" /><p class="caption">The now-extinct Dodo bird, a former inhabitant of Mauritius. Published in 1844, the Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches contains illustrations of a number of creatures, some of which no longer walk this planet.
From Russia With PR Commentaries published on CNBC.com and the Huffington Post were written by seemingly independent professionals but placed on behalf of the Russian government by its PR firm, Ketchum. Today, Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed [1] about Syria in the New York Times. The piece was placed by the public-relations giant Ketchum, Buzzfeed reported [2]. Several opinion columns praising Russia and published in the last two years on CNBC’s web site and the Huffington Post were written by seemingly independent professionals but were placed on behalf of the Russian government by its public-relations firm, Ketchum. The columns, written by two businessmen, a lawyer, and an academic, heap praise on the Russian government for its “ambitious modernization strategy” and “enforcement of laws designed to better protect business and reduce corruption.” There’s nothing unusual about Ketchum’s work on behalf of Russia. “People write op-eds because they have agendas.
The Giant Methane Monster That Can Wipe Out the Human Race Photo Credit: Cardaf/Shutterstock July 4, 2014 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. There's something lurking deep under the frozen Arctic Ocean, and if it gets released, it could spell disaster for our planet. That something is methane. Methane is one of the strongest of the natural greenhouse gases, about 80 times more potent than CO2, and while it may not get as much attention as its cousin CO2, it certainly can do as much, if not more, damage to our planet. That's because methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and there are trillions of tons of it embedded in a kind of ice slurry called methane hydrate or methane clathrate crystals in the Arctic and in the seas around the continental shelves all around the world. If enough of this methane is released quickly enough, it won't just produce the same old global warming. But here's where it gets really scary.
SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN A CASE OF MISSION CREEP, ACCORDING TO NEW BOOK AND ORIGINAL SOVIET DOCUMENTS Washington, DC, October 13, 2012 – Contrary to U.S. myths of a strategic Soviet offensive towards warm water ports on the Persian Gulf or Indian Ocean, it was "mission creep" that led the Soviet Union into its ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, according to a new, richly documented account of early Soviet engagement in Afghanistan, published in English and in Russian today by the National Security Archive at www.nsarchive.org. The groundbreaking book by two Russian authors - the historian and journalist Vladimir Snegirev and the veteran of Soviet foreign intelligence Valery Samunin - appears today in English under the title The Dead End: The Road to Afghanistan, together with 21 key documents from the National Security Archive's collection of Soviet and U.S. secret files on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and seven historic photographs from the period immediately before the invasion. Read the English translation of The Dead End: The Road to Afghanistan
Scientists Warn We Are Approaching The Next Mass Extinction The decline of various animal populations and species loss are occurring at alarming rates on Earth, contributing to the world’s sixth mass extinction. While these deadly events may ultimately pave way for the emergence of new species, Stanford scientists have warned that if this “defaunation” that we are currently experiencing continues, it will likely have serious downstream impacts on human health. The study has been published in Science. Biodiversity on Earth is extremely rich at present; it’s estimated to be the highest in the history of life on our planet. Thanks to the fossil record, we are very familiar with large extinction events. By reviewing literature and analyzing various data sets, scientists have found that since 1500, 322 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct. Among vertebrate species, it is estimated that up to 33% are threatened or endangered. Loss of megafauna has various downstream effects and may eventually impact human health.
Russia Needs Its Own Prophet Muhammed | Opinion Is President Vladimir Putin the Russian Mitt Romney? He certainly seems to see the United States as Russia's "No. 1 foe." The question, as always, is how much of this is sincere and how much is an attempt to manipulate the populace for domestic political reasons? This may be one of the rare cases in which cynicism is preferable to sincerity. What is certain is that Russia's recent outburst of Americaphobia, expressed last week in the expulsion of USAID, is different from the epidemic of hateful fury that swept the Islamic world. Local political interests were at play there as well, but something greater was involved: the inevitable clash between a civilization that reveres freedom of speech and a civilization passionate about the sacred. Russia, clearly, is neither. At the same time, however, Russia has none of that blind emotional sense of the sacred that many Muslims feel for the Quran and the image of the prophet. Related articles:
Monsanto's Roundup Causing Evolution of "Super-Weeds" That Grow 3 Inches a Day Photo: Peter Blanchard, Flickr/CC BY-SA All hail the rise of super-weeds! Sure, we've already thanked Monsanto for helping a tenacious, fast-growing, brand new kind of plant evolve. But the latest revelations from a study published in Weed Science reveal the details how dousing weeds with Roundup have caused the evolution of a "super-weed" that can grow up to 3 inches a day -- and the impact new, herbicide-resistant weeds might have on global food production.Fast Company has more: A new series of studies released by Weed Science this month finds at least 21 weed species have become resistant to the popular herbicide glyphosate (sold as Monsanto's Roundup), and a growing number survive multiple herbicides, so-called "super-weeds." Remember, Roundup is the most widely used herbicide in the world. Indeed, reports of flourishing super-weeds are alarming.
Pravda on Mitt Romney: 'Out-Of-Touch, Out-Of-Date, Unelectable' Pravda is hitting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over comments he made about Russia. "Russia is the geopolitical foe," Romney said earlier this week in response to President Obama telling his Russian counterpart to give him "space" so that he could have "more flexibility" after the 2012 presidential election. So, in an op-ed today posted on Pravda's website, the infamous former Soviet newspaper writes, "Electing Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States of America would be like appointing a serial paedophile as a kindergarten teacher, a rapist as a janitor at a girls' dormitory or a psychopath with a fixation on knives as a kitchen hand. His comments on Russia are a puerile attempt at making the grand stage and boy, did he blow it..." Pravda goes on to question American democracy and say that Romney is just an "adolescent" school boy: Somewhat like Condoleezza Rice did before the Bush regime was er..." The piece ends by threatening Romney.