Foreclosures are ramping up again, prices are coming down again.
Home prices in the U.S are right back where they were at the beginning of 2003. The effect on home ownership could continue for decades to come.
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Concept vessel for Blueseed.
It can be hard to get a visa to live and work in the United States. It’s can even be hard for highly skilled immigrants and entrepreneurs looking to start businesses. Here is a startup with a plan and a very important backer that could change everything.
Plasma for the common cold?
Would you snort a plasma lamp to fight the common cold? Don’t laugh – plasma balls may be trippy to you but they’re downright deadly to viruses.
According to scientists, cold plasma (basically a stream of ionized gas) can actually prevent viruses from replicating…
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Solar Impulse
Pictured above is proof that alternative energy sources are a viable way to replace the fossil fuels we have been dependent on for so long. Called the Solar Impulse it’s the creation of Bertrand Piccard, the grandson of Auguste Piccard who invented a pressurized gondola that allowed him to travel 50,000 feet into the air… in 1931.
You can see the pedigree that Bertrand comes from and understand his drive to push limits and explore things previously thought to be impossible. His goal for the Solar Impulse was to create the world’s first solar-powered plane that could travel both day and night, an interesting prospect since there are no solar rays to collect at night…
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The animal landscape will never be the same again.
Scientists have been trying to clone woolly mammoths for years, but now they’re really close. So close that in five years you may see herds of this gigantic beast—one of the favorite extinct prehistoric animals of the all-time.
Scientists from Japan’s Kinki University and the Sakha Republic’s mammoth museum have discovered well preserved marrow in a thigh bone discovered in Siberia, buried under the permafrost. The marrow is in such good condition that its cells’ DNA could be used to replace the nuclei of elephant egg cells. This will allow scientist to create mammoth embryos…
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Once again his application to work in the oil refinery was rejected
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?” – – George Carlin
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The person’s speech provides all the cues to detect deception.
A professor of computer science at Columbia University, Julia Hirschberg, may spell trouble for a lot of liars. That’s because Dr. Hirschberg is teaching computers how to spot deception — programming them to parse people’s speech for patterns that gauge whether they are being honest.
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AcceleDent
The newly FDA-cleared AcceleDent system is a device that when worn just 20 minutes a day, can dramatically speed up orthodontic tooth movement. (Video)
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Miniatur Wunderland (in German it means “miniature wonderland”) is the world’s largest model railroad, with over 39,000 feet of tracks taking up over 12,000 square feet in Hamburg. Construction on Miniatur Wunderland began in 2001, the project is not expected to be finished until 2020, at which point it will be twice as big as it is today.
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“‘Can You Crack It?’
“‘Can You Crack It?’ website has been set up by British GCHQ intelligence agency. GCHQ is looking for a few good spies. The intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, is looking for some web-savvy cyber-sleuths-to-be, and apparently decided a post on Craigslist wouldn’t quite do it.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: If you listen closely you can almost hear the armaments of battle being rolled into place. The stage is set with warring parties getting organized and the frontlines prepared. 2012 is destined to become the most turbulent year on record, a battleground of epic proportions.
Continue reading… “Eight Colliding Forces of 2012”
Scientists at the University of Hull have found that some people have the ability to hallucinate colors at will.
Scientists at the University of Hull have found that some people have the ability to hallucinate colours at will — even without the help of hypnosis…
The study, published this week in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, was carried out in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hull. It focused on a group of people that had shown themselves to be ‘highly suggestible’ in hypnosis.
The subjects were asked to look at a series of monochrome patterns and to see color in them. They were tested under hypnosis and without hypnosis and both times reported that they were able to see colors.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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