Phase III - Stealth Is. http://www.stealthisknowledge.com "In the quietude, you may find solace in knowing." "In knowing, you will find the solace of quietude." Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:50:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en ©Phase II http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?feed=podcast phase.ii.kicks.ass@gmail.com (Phase II) phase.ii.kicks.ass@gmail.com(Phase II) 1440 occult, magick, science, psionics, lulz, art, metaphysics, cyberpunk Gangstah Mage Battles via Telephone. Occult Madness, Magickal warfare, weird speculation, future tech, alternative science and the auditory Great Work Phase II Phase II phase.ii.kicks.ass@gmail.com No no http://stealthisknowledge.com/Pictures/creepyfucker.jpg Phase III - Stealth Is. http://www.stealthisknowledge.com 144 144 Implanted Neurons Let the Brain Rewire Itself http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/implanted-neurons-let-the-brain-rewire-itself/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/implanted-neurons-let-the-brain-rewire-itself/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:50:22 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1186 Transplanting fetal neurons into the brains of young mice opens a new window on neural plasticity, or flexibility in the brain’s neural circuits. The research, published today in the journal Science, suggests that the brain’s ability to radically adapt to new situations might not be permanently lost in youth, and helps to pinpoint the factors needed to reintroduce this plasticity.

A better understanding of brain plasticity could one day point to new ways to treat brain injury and other neurological problems by returning the brain to a younger, more malleable state.

…

Scientists aren’t yet sure how the cells induce this second period of malleability. Stryker’s team and others had previously shown that the cells’ inhibitory signaling plays a key role–the critical period can be delayed or induced earlier by mimicking the inhibitory effects of the cells with drugs, such as valium. But in these previous experiments, it was not possible to induce a second critical period after the normal one. “Once you’ve had it, can never get another one, at least until these transplant experiments,”

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/implanted-neurons-let-the-brain-rewire-itself/feed/ Sex-Changing Herbicide Makes Amphibians Sick http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/sex-changing-herbicide-makes-amphibians-sick/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/sex-changing-herbicide-makes-amphibians-sick/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:24:27 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1183 Atrazine is receiving lots of attention for turning male frogs into girls, but that’s not all the common herbicide does. It also weakens amphibian immune systems, leaving the fragile creatures vulnerable to disease.

Though less obvious than gender bending, immunosuppression could play just as large a part in the worldwide decline of amphibians, which have porous skin and easily absorb chemicals from rain, groundwater and even water vapor.

“Numerous studies have documented the effects of environmental pollutants on the amphibian immune system. Nearly all of these studies suggest that amphibians are particularly sensitive,” wrote Tyrone Hayes, a University of California, Berkeley biologist, in a paper published in the March 15 Journal of Experimental Biology. “In particular, the widespread herbicide atrazine impairs immune function and increases disease rates.”

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/sex-changing-herbicide-makes-amphibians-sick/feed/ “The amount of digital information increases tenfold every five years.” http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-amount-of-digital-information-increases-tenfold-every-five-years/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-amount-of-digital-information-increases-tenfold-every-five-years/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:57:41 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1180 WHEN the Sloan Digital Sky Survey started work in 2000, its telescope in New Mexico collected more data in its first few weeks than had been amassed in the entire history of astronomy. Now, a decade later, its archive contains a whopping 140 terabytes of information. A successor, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, due to come on stream in Chile in 2016, will acquire that quantity of data every five days.

Such astronomical amounts of information can be found closer to Earth too. Wal-Mart, a retail giant, handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes—the equivalent of 167 times the books in America’s Library of Congress (see article for an explanation of how data are quantified). Facebook, a social-networking website, is home to 40 billion photos. And decoding the human genome involves analysing 3 billion base pairs—which took ten years the first time it was done, in 2003, but can now be achieved in one week.

All these examples tell the same story: that the world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly.

…

Alex Szalay, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, notes that the proliferation of data is making them increasingly inaccessible. “How to make sense of all these data? People should be worried about how we train the next generation, not just of scientists, but people in government and industry,” he says.

“We are at a different period because of so much information,” says James Cortada of IBM, who has written a couple of dozen books on the history of information in society. Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it “the industrial revolution of data”. The effect is being felt everywhere, from business to science, from government to the arts. Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the phenomenon: “big data”.

…

Moreover, there are now many more people who interact with information. Between 1990 and 2005 more than 1 billion people worldwide entered the middle class. As they get richer they become more literate, which fuels information growth, notes Mr Cortada. The results are showing up in politics, economics and the law as well. “Revolutions in science have often been preceded by revolutions in measurement,” says Sinan Aral, a business professor at New York University. Just as the microscope transformed biology by exposing germs, and the electron microscope changed physics, all these data are turning the social sciences upside down, he explains. Researchers are now able to understand human behaviour at the population level rather than the individual level.

The amount of digital information increases tenfold every five years. Moore’s law, which the computer industry now takes for granted, says that the processing power and storage capacity of computer chips double or their prices halve roughly every 18 months. The software programs are getting better too. Edward Felten, a computer scientist at Princeton University, reckons that the improvements in the algorithms driving computer applications have played as important a part as Moore’s law for decades.

A vast amount of that information is shared. By 2013 the amount of traffic flowing over the internet annually will reach 667 exabytes, according to Cisco, a maker of communications gear. And the quantity of data continues to grow faster than the ability of the network to carry it all.

Read more about our increasing data and it’s associated problems at The Economist

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-amount-of-digital-information-increases-tenfold-every-five-years/feed/ Earth’s magnetic field may drop in a flash http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/earths-magnetic-field-may-drop-in-a-flash/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/earths-magnetic-field-may-drop-in-a-flash/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:33:38 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1177 Our planet’s magnetic field has reversed polarity from time to time throughout its history. Some models suggest that a flip would be completed in a year or two, but if, as others predict, it lasted decades or longer we would be left exposed to space radiation. This could short-circuit satellites, pose a risk to aircraft passengers and play havoc with electrical equipment on the ground.

To test whether we would see a flip coming, Gauthier Hulot of Denis Diderot University in Paris, France, and colleagues ran computer simulations of Earth’s magnetic dynamo based on a range of plausible values for inputs such as the viscosity, electrical and thermal conductivity of the outer core, and the temperature difference across it. The model’s predictions remained consistent over this range of values for no more than a few decades, Hulot’s team will report in Geophysical Research Letters. Their result implies that we can forecast a flip only this far in advance - and then only with data that is as precise as possible. “It’s like predicting the weather,” says Hulot.

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/earths-magnetic-field-may-drop-in-a-flash/feed/ Borderland Sciences Research Foundation - The Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderland-sciences-research-foundation-the-lakhovsky-multiple-wave-oscillator/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderland-sciences-research-foundation-the-lakhovsky-multiple-wave-oscillator/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:54:14 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1174

Borderland Sciences Research Foundation - The Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator from Borderland Sciences on Vimeo.

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderland-sciences-research-foundation-the-lakhovsky-multiple-wave-oscillator/feed/ Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/obama-signs-one-year-extension-of-patriot-act/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/obama-signs-one-year-extension-of-patriot-act/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:53:22 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1171 President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.

Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday.

The act, which was adopted in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, expands the government’s ability to monitor Americans in the name of national security.

Three sections of the Patriot Act that stay in force will:

*Authorize court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones.

*Allow court-approved seizure of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.

*Permit surveillance against a so-called lone wolf, a non-U.S. citizen engaged in terrorism who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group.

The Senate also approved the measure, with privacy protections cast aside when Senate Democrats lacked the necessary 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Thrown away were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the government’s authority to spy on Americans and seize their records.

Tyranny - it’s here to stay.pat

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/obama-signs-one-year-extension-of-patriot-act/feed/ The Power of Plant Clock Computing http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-power-of-plant-clock-computing/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-power-of-plant-clock-computing/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:07:48 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1164 One of the limitations of conventional thinking in computation is that computable functions proceed in a sequential manner, one independent step after another. When computer scientists talk of parallelism, they usually mean carrying out more than one of these independent linear computations at the same time.

In the biological world, things are more complex because steps in biological computations may not be independent. Take, for example, the circadian rhythm in plants, the 24 hour cycle of biochemical processes that govern behavior. The cycle has various important features such as the ability to synchronizes with an external periodic light source and to continue to oscillate even in the absence of variations in illumination.

…

Each feedback loop is part of a hugely complex biochemical network and is affected by many factors simultaneously…Of course, plant clocks have been studied for hundreds of years and a huge amount is known about how they work, particularly about Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant that is the standard object of study for plant biologists.

The trouble is that nobody has been able to accurately model the behavior of these rhythms from first principles.

That’s because these processes do not involve independent sequential steps, so conventional computational methods are just not up to the job. Biochemists need some other way of thinking about their problem.

As luck would have it, just such a system has been waiting in the wings. Process algebra is a form of computation that can handle multiple simultaneous interdependent steps and this makes it perfect for modeling these tricky biochemical networks and the feedback loops that drive them.

…

Several orders of magnitude separate the efficiency of biological computation from what is possible with silicon. If that difference turns out to be the result of process algebra, then the study and manipulation of networks such as the Ostreococcus clock, may turn out to be the trigger for a new generation of super-efficient computing.

Read more at technology review or check out Plants and Radionic Currents for some good ol’ kookery.

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-power-of-plant-clock-computing/feed/ Febuary 2010 Nano & Biotech Round-up http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/febuary-2010-nano-biotech-round-up/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/febuary-2010-nano-biotech-round-up/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:06:59 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1156 Gonna try and do one of these monthly for about a year or so. Will mostly be Nanotech oriented, may leak over into neuroscience developments from time to time.

So, How close are we to grey-gooing ourselves? Let’s try to find out together, shall we?

Digging deep into diamonds - “The new device offers a bright, stable source of single photons at room temperature, an essential element in making fast and secure computing with light practical.

The finding could lead to a new class of nanostructured diamond devices suitable for quantum communication and computing, as well as advance areas ranging from biological and chemical sensing to scientific imaging.”

A Stellar, Metal-Free Way to Make Carbon Nanotubes - Meteorite’s containing naturally formed space-Carbon Nanotubes could help us in their design and possibly shed a bit of light on the way carbon is seeded on planets

You live in a very unhealthy world and probably don’t take steps to reduce your risk of health problems, but have no fear - Medibots could be fixing your damaged equipment before you know it.

Artificial Skin will use Quantum Tunneling - so now your sexbots will actually feel your love through non-local entanglement sensors? Kind of:

“Peratech makes an electrically conductive material called quantum tunneling composite (QTC). When the material is compressed electrons jump between two conductors separated by polymer insulating layer covered with metallic nanoparticles.

…

QTC robot skin could perhaps let a robot know precisely where it has been touched, and with how much pressure. It could also be helpful in designing machines that have better grasping capabilities, and for developing more natural ways for machines to interact with humans.”

Organic Transistor Paves Way for New Generations of Neuro-Inspired Computers - “For the first time, CNRS and CEA researchers have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionality of a synapse. This organic transistor, based on pentacene and gold nanoparticles and known as a NOMFET (Nanoparticle Organic Memory Field-Effect Transistor), has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired computers, capable of responding in a manner similar to the nervous system.”

Them gold nanoparticles sure have been worth all the years of failed alchemist looking for their philospher’s stone. See:NanoGold used in Cancer Treatment.

Of course, everyone’s been wigging out about the emerging actualization of William Gibson’s Nanofaxes via “3D printing” which is actually tech that’s been in development for several years, mostly aimed at organ tissue printing.

The Self-Assembling Nanoparticles into Complex Nanostructures article over at H+ Magazine discusses the issue: “These parts, in turn, can be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products. The concept is that a functioning nanofactory will create virtually any product at the cost of only the input raw material and energy.”

and the idea receives further fanfare with a different perspective via Can Open Source Manufacturing Save Humanity?:

While this technology is very promising, consider that your governments are passing measures to stop you from trading purely digital information on the basis of copyright. Given their investment in production, don’t you think they will attempt to lockdown this developing science in one way or another?

KNOW YOUR FUTURE BETTER.

So, what’d we miss?

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/febuary-2010-nano-biotech-round-up/feed/ SETI founder wants off-world listening post. http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/seti-founder-wants-off-world-listening-post/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/seti-founder-wants-off-world-listening-post/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:57:12 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1153 Frank Drake, the founder of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), wants to take the search for aliens further: about 82 billion kilometres away, in fact.

At this point in space, electromagnetic signals from planets orbiting distant stars would be focused by the gravitational lensing effect of our sun, making them, in theory, more easily detected. Drake wants to send spacecraft there in a bid to overhear alien communications, which would be too faint for telescopes on Earth to detect.

It’s neither a new or original idea, but it has never taken off because of the distances involved. With existing propulsion technologies, spacecraft would take hundreds of years to make the voyage, which is about 550 times the distance from Earth to the sun.

via New Scientist

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/seti-founder-wants-off-world-listening-post/feed/ For the lulz. http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/for-the-lulz/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/for-the-lulz/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:45:38 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1149

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/for-the-lulz/feed/ Borderland Science Reasearch Foundation - Viktor Schauberger, Nature was my teacher http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderland-science-reasearch-foundation-viktor-schauberger-nature-was-my-teacher/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderland-science-reasearch-foundation-viktor-schauberger-nature-was-my-teacher/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:47:24 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1140

Borderland Sciences Research Foundation - Viktor Schauberger - Nature was my teacher from Borderland Sciences on Vimeo.

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderland-science-reasearch-foundation-viktor-schauberger-nature-was-my-teacher/feed/ Borderlands’ New Catalog & Special offer http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderlands-new-catalog-special-offer/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderlands-new-catalog-special-offer/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:47:48 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1130

The Borderland Sciences Research Foundation is making a special offer for it’s 65th anniversary and the release of it’s new catalog:

“The first 23 customers using our new CubeCart shopping cart to place orders of $23 (or more) will also receive one of these two - FREE - Thank You gifts:

Journal of Borderland Research: Annual 2004 — Perception and Physics ($14.95 $7.95)
AND
“My Search for Radionic Truths” by R. Murray Denning ($9.95)

OR

“The Cosmic Pulse of Life” by Trevor James Constable ($24.95$16.95)
Just tell us which one you want in the Comment box when you place your order.“

Be sure to check out the new catalog for all your legitimate, mad science research needs. Or if you’re absolutely broke, check out this torrent which contains some alternative science goodies including an issue of Red Robin, the Borderlands Journal publication.

Also, I’m sure Borderlands would love to initiate contact via Twitter, Tumblr or Vimeo if you’re so inclined.

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/borderlands-new-catalog-special-offer/feed/ Advice On Removing Your Alien Implant — From An Expert | Kook Science Resistance http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/advice-on-removing-your-alien-implant-%e2%80%94-from-an-expert-kook-science-resistance/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/advice-on-removing-your-alien-implant-%e2%80%94-from-an-expert-kook-science-resistance/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:27:53 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1131
Dr. Leir, a major player in the world of UFO research, will be appearing as a special guest at an event in Burbank on Sunday, February 7 [2010]. The gathering at Pickwick Gardens also include Jordan Maxwell (“a preeminent researcher and speaker in the fields of secret societies, occult philosophies, and ufology since 1959,” according to the man’s website) giving lectures on “The Hidden Dimensions in World Affairs.” (Both seem to be friends to the Forteans.)

In this special session [Dr. Roger K. Leir] will reveal scientific proof that WE ARE NOT ALONE. Dr. Leir is a podiatric surgeon, in private practice for the past 43 years and has written numerous books including The Aliens and the Scalpel, UFO Crash in Brazil, and Casebook Alien Implants.

Care of the Kook Science Resistance on Tumblr - where they could use your help fighting the good fight against rationale.

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/advice-on-removing-your-alien-implant-%e2%80%94-from-an-expert-kook-science-resistance/feed/ The GSpot: Nick Pell http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-gspot-nick-pell/ http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-gspot-nick-pell/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:13:34 +0000 admin http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/?p=1127 Nick Pell has been a professional writer for more than half his life. He has written about culture, arts, spirituality, and politics for “Maximumrocknroll,” “Just Out,” “The Hit List,” and “Key 64.” He has also been an editor for Immanion Press and London PA. He currently webmasters Black Sun Gazette and joins Joseph Mathney in this episode of the Gspot to discuss the political commentary he’s running there.

Nick Pell on the GSpot via Alterati

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]]> http://www.stealthisknowledge.com/the-gspot-nick-pell/feed/ 00:01:01 Nick Pell has been a professional writer for more than half his life. He has written about culture, arts, spirituality, and politics for ldquo;Maximumrocknroll,rdquo; ldquo;Just ... Nick Pell has been a professional writer for more than half his life. He has written about culture, arts, spirituality, and politics for ldquo;Maximumrocknroll,rdquo; ldquo;Just Out,rdquo; ldquo;The Hit List,rdquo; and ldquo;Key 64.rdquo; He has also been an editor for Immanion Press and London PA. He currently webmasters Black Sun Gazette and joins Joseph Mathney in this episode of the Gspot to discuss the political commentary he's running there. Nick Pell on the GSpot via AlteratiRelated External LinksGenerated by LinkCurlNick P. on the G-Spot #124; Black Sun GazetteGenerated by LinkCurlbuyfemalevibrator raquo; Blog Archive raquo; G Spot Vibrators Oyster VibratorGenerated by LinkCurlGenerated by LinkCurl CULTure,,DIY,,conspiracy,,economic,manipulation,,enlightened,media Phase II no No