Ο τεχνικός υπολογιστών των σχολείων στο Gilbert της Αριζόνας των Η.Π.Α., κατηγορείται και πρόκειται να αντιμετωπίσει βαριές κατηγορίες επειδή χρησιμοποίησε το πρόγραμμα SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) σε περισσότερους από 5.000 υπολογιστές τα τελευταία χρόνια!

Το πρόγραμμα SETI είναι ένα λογισμικό που όταν είναι σε λειτουργία προσπαθεί να εντοπίσει και να καταγράψει σήματα που ενδεχομένως μας στέλνουν οι εξωγήνοι.

Ο 38χρονος Brad Niesluchowski, σύμφωνα με τις κατηγορίες που του αποδίδονται, δημιούργησε χρέη παραπάνω από 1.6 εκατομμύρια δολάρια για την έρευνά του!

Ο Niesluchowski πραγματοποιούσε μυστικά την έρευνά του χωρίς να έχει ενημερώσει κάποιον υπεύθυνο και γι αυτό οι αρχές, που τον παρακολουθούσαν στενά τους τελευταίους μήνες, προσπαθούν να εντοπίσουν αν κρύβεται κάτι περισσότερο πίσω από την ενέργειά του αυτή...

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Ένα ανοσοκατασταλτικό φάρμακο που είχε ανακαλυφθεί παλαιότερα στο νησί του Πάσχα και χρησιμοποείται σήμερα στις μεταμοσχεύσεις φαίνεται ότι παρατείνει τη ζωή μεσήλικων ποντικών έως και 38%.

Η ουσία ραπαμυκίνη παράγεται από βακτήρια που είχαν ανακαλυφθεί στο Νησί του Πάσχα τη δεκαετία του 1970 (παίρνει το όνομά της από την πολυνησιακή ονομασία του νησιού Ράπα Νούι). Σήμερα χρησιμοποείται για να αποτρέπει την απόρριψη μεταμοσχευμένων οργάνων.

Το φάρμακο χάρισε χρόνια στα πειραματόζωα στα οποία δοκιμάστηκε, παρόλο που τους χορηγήθηκε σε μεγάλη ηλικία. Δεν θα μπορούσε όμως να αξιοποιηθεί ως αντιγηραντικός παράγοντας στον άνθρωπο, καθώς καταστέλλει το ανοσοποιητικό σύστημα και αυξάνει έτσι τον κίνδυνο λοιμώξεων, επισημαίνουν οι ερευνητές.

Ωστόσο η νέα μελέτη, που δημοσιεύεται στο περιοδικό Nature, ίσως ανοίγει το δρόμο για την ανάπτυξη άλλων φαρμάκων που προσφέρουν την ίδια αντιγηραντική δράση χωρίς παρενέργειες στο ανοσοποιητικό.

Τα πειράματα πραγματοποιήθηκαν σε τρία ερευνητικά ιδρύματα (τα πανεπιστήμια του Τέξας και του Μίσιγκαν και το Εργαστήριο Jackson στο Μέιν) για λογαριασμό του αμερικανικού Εθνικού Ινστιτούτου για τη Γήρανση, το οποίο αναζητά ουσίες με αντιγηραντική δράση.

Προβλήματα που παρουσιάστηκαν στο σχεδιασμό των πειραμάτων εμπόδισαν τους ερευνητές να αρχίσουν τη χορήγηση ραπαμυκίνης σε ποντίκια μικρής ηλικίας. Η χορήγηση ξεκίνησε όταν τα πειραματόζωα ήταν περίπου 20 μηνών, ηλικία αντίστοιχη με τα 60 έτη στον άνθρωπο.

Σε σχέση με ποντίκια ίδιας ηλικίας που δεν έλαβαν ποτέ ραπαμυκίνη, τα ζώα που κατανάλωσαν το φάρμακο με την τροφή τους έζησαν 14% περισσότερο κατά μέσο όρο, ενώ για τα θηλυκά ποντίκια η παράταση ζωής ήταν ακόμα πιο εντυπωσιακή.

Η αύξηση αυτή αντιστοιχεί περίπου σε 6 επιπλέον χρόνια ζωής για τους άνδρες και 8 για τις γυναίκες.

Σε ορισμένα θηλυκά ποντίκια, η διάρκεια ζωής αυξήθηκε κατά 38%.

Το πώς η ραπαμυκίνη παρατείνει τη ζωή παραμένει εν πολλοίς άγνωστο, οι ερευνητές ωστόσο υποψιάζονται ότι το φάρμακο μιμείται τη δράση του δραστικού περιορισμού των θερμίδων της διατροφής -ο θερμιδικός περιορισμός είναι η μόνη τακτική που αποδεδειγμένα παρατείνει τη ζωή των θηλαστικών.

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Μία πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα θεωρία (συνωμοσίας;) για τον Michael Jackson και το αδιαμφισβήτητο γεγονός πως κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής του κατανάλωσε δεκάδες διαφορετικά ψυχοφάρμακα. Η θεωρία πρωτοπαρουσιάστηκε από τον Mike Adams, ανεξάρτητο δημοσιογράφο και συγγραφέα πλήθους βιβλίων για την υγεία και την ορθή διατροφή. Το παραπάνω σε συνδυασμό με την πηγή του παρόντος κειμένου (NaturalNews.com), αποτελεί μία πολύ καλή δικλίδα ασφαλείας για την αξιοπιστία και την επιστημονική ορθότητα της θεωρίας...

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Michael Jackson's death gives us an opportunity to reflect on the way he was treated by the media (and the public) while he was alive. Through his work, Michael Jackson went to great lengths to send a message of love to the world -- to inspire others and add joy to our lives -- and yet he was derided as a monster by the tabloid media while being humiliated by the comedy routines of late-night talk show hosts.

Western culture is cruel to celebrities.

Anyone in a position of notoriety is automatically deemed a fair target for outrageous accusations and slander. As somewhat of a minor celebrity (in a narrow field) myself, I've seen some of this cruelty directed my way, and I can only imagine how much more devastating the cruelty would be at the scale and degree that was thrust upon Michael Jackson throughout his professional career.

Jackson was derided simply for being different. He had unconventional tastes and pursued uncommon lifestyle choices, and many of those choices made conservative people nervous. So they invented lies and played them up for their own personal profit. The whole accusation of Michael Jackson having sexual escapades with young boys was, by any honest accounting, a complete fabrication engineered for nothing more than personal profit.

In fact, Jackson was financially exploited by virtually everyone close to him. His "handlers" were highly-paid promoters who saw Jackson as their ticket to wealth. It might even be argued that they pushed him to the fringe of a pharmaceutical-induced death through their attempts to exploit his work for their own profits.

Again, I sometimes feel exploited in the same way, such as when companies pressure me to write articles about their products even though I'm on a hectic schedule of trying to cover other important topics. With Michael Jackson, though, the pressure must have been a thousand times worse. Hundreds of millions of dollars were on the line, and if Jackson could only be pumped up with enough drugs and makeup to bang out another fifty concerts, the people around him could walk home filthy rich.

Pharmaceuticals as tools of control

Although I have no specific proof of this, it is my belief that pharmaceuticals became the tools by which Michael Jackson's handlers were able to chemically abuse him in their quest for further profits. With the right drugs, even a frail man can be artificially pumped up with enough energy to make a stage appearance -- although at great cost to his vitality. And some of the drugs he was put on have the effect of turning you into a mind-numbed zombie, primed for mental manipulation.

Jackson's handlers, of course, will insist they loved the man like a friend and money had nothing to do with it. Such a claim is easy to verify: Just check the payroll stubs. If the numbers aren't zero, money probably had everything to do with it. (It's easy to be somebody's "friend" when they're paying you a seven-figure income.)

In the end, there's no doubt that Jackson was pumped full of too many drugs for any man to bear. Pharmaceuticals don't cure anything, after all, and the more you take, the more toxic the combinations become. The Sun newspaper in the UK claims Jackson was taking Xanax, Prilosec, Vicodin, Paxil, Demerol, Soma, Dilaudid and Zoloft. That's an extremely toxic combination of drugs that no person should be taking long-term. And yet it seems (from press reports, if you can believe those) that Jackson was on some of these drugs for a very long period of time... decades, in some cases.

Certainly, Jackson himself is not free from responsibility in all this. His seemingly fanatical pursuit of cosmetic surgery might be called a form of self-inflicted medical abuse. Some of the drugs he was taking were no doubt pursued as a way to alleviate the possible pain and scarring resulting from so many surgical procedures. And yet for that, he can only blame himself, as those procedures were voluntary (and entirely unnecessary). Jackson was loved for his voice, his message and his wide-open heart. In no way did he actually need a new face to be a successful, inspiring artist (the face he was born with would have been just fine).

Being really famous leads to extreme isolation

The more he tried to alter his face, though, the more he became the subject of ridicule by the press and his fans. The cruelty of accusations and jokes drove Jackson into extreme isolation, where he could never interact with the real public. Unlike you and I, Michael Jackson couldn't stroll through a mall, or order a sandwich at a restaurant. He couldn't sit anonymously in an airport or meet new friends in a public park. As a result of his super-worldly celebrity status -- combined with outrageous public ridicule for his chosen way of life -- he was more alone in our world than almost anyone.

And in that state of extreme loneliness and isolation, his doctors prescribed powerful, mind-altering psychiatric drugs along with a chemical cocktail of other pharmaceuticals that ultimately killed him. That is the saddest part of this story: That Big Pharma's chemicals have stolen from us yet another amazing individual whose life was cut short by chemical intervention.

While he may have made many poor decisions in his life (and with his health), in no way did Jackson deserve to be killed by Big Pharma. Nor does anyone else deserve such a devastating fate. Yet that same fate continues to hammer down upon a hundred thousand Americans each and every year. Their tombstones are not as elaborate as Michael Jackson's, nor are their funerals as extravagant, but their deaths are just as tragic and unnecessary as the death of the King of Pop.

May he rest in peace, and may the cruel defamation of his character finally be laid to rest at the same time.

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DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.

Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.

Even so, the research published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B, shows very clearly that homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals.

In the study, scientists observed the behavior of fluorescently tagged DNA strands placed in water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment. Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences. No one knows how individual DNA strands could possibly be communicating in this way, yet somehow they do. The “telepathic” effect is a source of wonder and amazement for scientists.

“Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA,” said the authors Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexei A. Kornyshev and colleagues.

This recognition effect may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes, which is a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings may also shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other health issues.

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Thousands of people will test their psychic powers this week on Twitter.

In the first scientific experiment to be conducted via the social messaging service, experts will investigate "remote viewing" - the psychic ability to identify distant locations.

Members of the public will be asked to "tweet" their impressions of a randomly chosen spot in the UK visited by one of the researchers.
Then they will vote for which of five photographs on a website shows where the visitor was standing.

The trial will be repeated with visually different locations four times.

If at the end of the experiment the votes correctly identify at least three targets, it will support the existence of extra-sensory perception.

Study leader psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, who specialises in investigating psychic phenomena, said: "Personally, I'm sceptical, but three hits would be against odds of one in 125, which would be quite impressive."

He hopes as many as 10,000 people will take part in the research, being conducted in collaboration with New Scientist magazine.

Prof Wiseman will travel to each target location and send a message to thousands of participants to "tweet" their thoughts about his surroundings.

Twenty minutes after sending this message he will transmit another containing a website address on which participants can view photographs of the actual location and four decoys. They will then cast their votes.

"I have staged several mass participation studies over the years, but this is the first to use Twitter," said Prof Wiseman.

"The instant nature of tweets allows thousands of people to take part in real time, making it perfect for an extra-sensory perception experiment.

"If the effect does exist then having so many people participate will help detect it."

Prof Wiseman is not the first scientist to investigate remote viewing.

At the height of the Cold War in the 1970s, the CIA spent $20 million (£12.5 million) conducting remote viewing experiments in a real-life case of the "X-files".

The "Stargate Project" was aimed at conducting "psychic spying" missions against the Soviet Union.

"The Russians were doing the same thing, and there was evidence from laboratory studies that suggested there might be something going on," said Prof Wiseman. "The CIA just thought it was worth a try and ran the programme for about 10 years."

Remote viewing has been linked to astral projection and telepathy, but no-one knows how it might work.

Unlike the CIA, Prof Wiseman will be looking for a group effect rather than individual ability.

This is a phenomenon known as "the wisdom of the crowds".

"If you have a jar full of jellybeans and you want to know many are in it, you get the most accurate estimate by averaging a number of different people's estimates," said Prof Wiseman.

The results of the experiment should be known on Friday.

Sumit Paul-Choudhury, online editor at New Scientist, said: "There have been mass participation experiments since the start of mass communication and this is the next step.

"If we find some sort of effect then we can get into speculating about how it works."

Anyone can take part in the experiment by visiting the site.

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