Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Time Travel is Possible, Say Scientists [feedly]

Time Travel is Possible, Say Scientists
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The subject of time travel has intrigued both scientists and science-fiction writers alike for centuries, but now scientists are suggesting that the concept is theoretically sound.

Back in September of this year, UK physicist, Professor Brian Cox, declared that time travel was certainly possible, but only to the future and not to the past.
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Monday, December 30, 2013

The Story Behind the Only Sculpture on the Moon Is a Doozy [feedly]

The Story Behind the Only Sculpture on the Moon Is a Doozy
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Could a Smartphone Cholesterol Sensor Convince You Not to Supersize? [feedly]

Could a Smartphone Cholesterol Sensor Convince You Not to Supersize?
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Alcohoot smartphone breathalyzer shipping now for $119 [feedly]

Alcohoot smartphone breathalyzer shipping now for $119
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1940 photo of a Nazi fighter test seems from the future [feedly]

1940 photo of a Nazi fighter test seems from the future
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Real life Jurassic Park exists in Australia and everyone needs to go [feedly]

Real life Jurassic Park exists in Australia and everyone needs to go
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Water May Be Flowing On Mars Right Now [feedly]

Water May Be Flowing On Mars Right Now
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The Dark Streaks
Nature Geoscience / Alfred McEwen et al.

The intrepid Mars rover Curiosity has already confirmed that water once flowed on Mars, but that it's long since dried up. Still, that doesn't mean there's not flowing water now, too.

NASA data has long supported the idea that a seasonal, briny water may be flowing on the Red Planet. In 2011, scientists noted that landscape formations showing up in the planet's warmer months were caused by flowing water--or, at least, that was the "best explanation for these observations so far." Now, the Mars Reconnoissance Orbiter has spotted more of those "dark, finger-like features" near the Martian equator, offering tantalizing evidence of briny water--or some other liquid substance--that appears in the winter but evaporates in the warm season.

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Don't loan your iPhone to people in these states [feedly]

Don't loan your iPhone to people in these states
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SquareTrade releases data showing that Washington isn't just the nation's capital, it's also the scariest place in the country to be an iPhone.
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Microsoft Is Helping Develop a Bra That Tells Women When to Stop Eating [feedly]

Microsoft Is Helping Develop a Bra That Tells Women When to Stop Eating
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Wii Fit Plus Helps Diabetics Control Blood Sugar [feedly]

Wii Fit Plus Helps Diabetics Control Blood Sugar
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Wii Fit Plus Model with a Screenshot

As you might already know, playing Wii Fit is a funny thing. It feels kind of like cheating—because aren't I supposed to be grunting it out at the gym or something?—but it is also genuinely fatiguing. Now a new study suggests it's no cop-out. In a randomized controlled trial, older adults with type 2 diabetes had better controlled blood sugar after playing Wii Fit Plus for half an hour a day, every day, for 12 weeks.

They also lost some weight—a little more than a kilogram, on average—and lowered their body mass indices slightly. Their blood sugar level reductions were on par with study participants who received the "standard care" doctors normally give people with diabetes, the U.K.'s National Health Service reports.

This is encouraging because getting set up to play Wii Fit Plus is cheaper than other forms of diabetes care, National Health Service reports. Plus, I'm guessing there's little danger of negative side effects. One major drawback of the study is that people had trouble following the routine, which may have biased the results, for example if the dropouts left because they weren't seeing any good effects. Out of the 220 volunteers researchers recruited for the study, one-third eventually dropped out, the BBC reports.

The National Health Service has a good breakdown of the study, which is one of the first to so rigorously examine the health benefits of active video games. The bottom line is that there's evidence playing Wii Fit Plus daily can help those with type 2 diabetes, though it's not exactly a proven treatment yet.

The research was published in the journal BMC Endocrine Disorders.


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Red Pills of the Week — December 14th [feedly]

Red Pills of the Week — December 14th

Greetings, fellow Coppertops! This will be our very last batch of Red Pills, before the concluding recap of the most important stories occurring in 2013. But even if news are starting to become somewhat scarcer, we still have plenty of cool stuff to look upon: From presidential mentions to area 51, fresh-water lakes on Mars, to the NSA spying on gamers. And as we ponder upon the implications for space exploration of China's 1st successful landing on the Moon, we'll say farewell to a prominent Fortean researcher who dedicated his life to finding the clues to our future, buried in our ancient past. Have you tweeted your wishlist to the North Pole, boys & girls? Well, I hope you don't get too disappointed, because that fat bearded guy isn't Santa –it's the Architect after he quit his job & discovered 5 Guys.

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More After Death Writings of Mark Twain [feedly]

More After Death Writings of Mark Twain
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Mark Twain has been pretty busy since 1910, which is impressive since that's the year he died. On 3 December, I brought readers of Mysterious Universe the story of Emily Grant Hutchings, a teacher, journalist, and struggling novelist who conjured the author of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" through a Ouija board. Between 1915 and 1917, with the help of Spiritualist medium Lola V. Hays, the two claimed Twain dictated a new novel, "The Coming of Jap Herron," and two short stories, "Daughter of Mars" and "Up the Furrow to Fortune," to them letter by letter on the board.

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Squatch Talk with William Jevning [feedly]

Squatch Talk with William Jevning
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An incredible photo of a colonial base in an alien world called Earth [feedly]

An incredible photo of a colonial base in an alien world called Earth
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This otherworldly photo is so amazingly weird and exotic that you may think it comes from a secret colonial base in the Jovian moon of Europa. In reality, it's the Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica as photographed by Antony Dubber, the chef of the British Antarctic Survey
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How Facebook's New Machine Brain Will Learn All About You From Your Photos [feedly]

How Facebook's New Machine Brain Will Learn All About You From Your Photos
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How AI Sees The World
Graham Murdoch

Facebook users upload 350 million photos onto the social network every day, far beyond the ability of human beings to comprehensively look at, much less analyze. And so that's one big reason the company just hired New York University (NYU) machine learning expert Yann LeCun, an eminent practitioner of an artificial intelligence (AI) technique known as "deep learning." As director of Facebook's new AI laboratory, LeCun will stay on at NYU part time, while working from a new Facebook facility on Astor Place in New York City.

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7 Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read [feedly]

7 Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read
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Bill Gates is a busy man, but he still clears some time for reading. Here are some of his favorites from 201
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Monsters and Mysteries in America: Chupacabra, Zombie Soldiers, Lake Worth Monster [feedly]

Monsters and Mysteries in America: Chupacabra, Zombie Soldiers, Lake Worth Monster
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Season 2 of Monsters and Mysteries in America premieres Sunday night, December 15 at 10/9 PM Central on Destination America. Myself and Lyle Blackburn were both filmed for the Lake Worth Monster segment of this episode. The Lake Worth Monster is near and dear to me, as it was what started my interest in Cryptozoology
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The Best Coffemaker, Fitbit Force, All the SodaStreams [Deals] [feedly]

The Best Coffemaker, Fitbit Force, All the SodaStreams [Deals]
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Do You Buy a Real Christmas Tree Or a Fake One? [feedly]

Do You Buy a Real Christmas Tree Or a Fake One?
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How the first iPhone copied everything—and the last one did too [feedly]

How the first iPhone copied everything—and the last one did too
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Something is Off About This Drawing [feedly]

Something is Off About This Drawing
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Orang Pendek Project: Footprint Cast [feedly]

Orang Pendek Project: Footprint Cast
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Did Japan Invade Roswell? [feedly]

Did Japan Invade Roswell?
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Carriers Agree to Support Cell Phone Unlocking [feedly]

Carriers Agree to Support Cell Phone Unlocking
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Gmail to Display Images Automatically, Saving You Seconds [feedly]

Gmail to Display Images Automatically, Saving You Seconds
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The Crater Lake Monster [feedly]

The Crater Lake Monster
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“Sasquatch Revealed” [feedly]

"Sasquatch Revealed"
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Instagram Direct Allows for Private Photo Sharing [feedly]

Instagram Direct Allows for Private Photo Sharing
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The Healing Power of Light [feedly]

The Healing Power of Light
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Hubble detects water plumes coming out of Jupiter moon Europa [feedly]

Hubble detects water plumes coming out of Jupiter moon Europa
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Old Russian UFO Hoax Returns--Can It be True? [feedly]

Old Russian UFO Hoax Returns--Can It be True?
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Flying Saucers, Soviet Agents, Secret Files [feedly]

Flying Saucers, Soviet Agents, Secret Files
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Facebook brings auto-playing videos to mobile devices and the web [feedly]

Facebook brings auto-playing videos to mobile devices and the web
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These cases light up when you get calls or alerts, adding some festive flare to your iPhone [feedly]

These cases light up when you get calls or alerts, adding some festive flare to your iPhone
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Fitbit CEO: Wearable technology is not one-size fits all [feedly]

Fitbit CEO: Wearable technology is not one-size fits all
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5 Ways Humans Can Cause Earthquakes [feedly]

5 Ways Humans Can Cause Earthquakes
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You're now free to iMessage about the cabin [feedly]

You're now free to iMessage about the cabin
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Night Vision Equipment Reveals UFOs over Superstition Mountains [feedly]

Night Vision Equipment Reveals UFOs over Superstition Mountains
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Ubuntu gets its first smartphone deal, comes to high-end devices in 2014 [feedly]

Ubuntu gets its first smartphone deal, comes to high-end devices in 2014
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How an Underwater Bomb in Australia Was Heard Around the World [feedly]

How an Underwater Bomb in Australia Was Heard Around the World
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First video in history to capture the Moon orbiting Earth [feedly]

First video in history to capture the Moon orbiting Earth
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Internet Giants Make Public Push for Surveillance Reform [feedly]

Internet Giants Make Public Push for Surveillance Reform
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Fitbit Flex, Your New IPS Monitor, And Also Batman [Deals] [feedly]

Fitbit Flex, Your New IPS Monitor, And Also Batman [Deals]
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Siri battles Google Now in new contest [feedly]

Siri battles Google Now in new contest
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Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner [feedly]

Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner
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Commenting on the Thylacine

Commenting on the Thylacine

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"The thylacine is not extinct. I say this without reservation. I don't suppose the thylacine (or Tasmanian tiger) remains extant, or imagine, or even hope it is; I know categorically that the thylacine exists, because I have seen it in the flesh."

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How Forensic Wizards Bring Phones Back from the Dead [feedly]

How Forensic Wizards Bring Phones Back from the Dead

Google Play Music App Update Adds SD Card Storage [feedly]

Google Play Music App Update Adds SD Card Storage

How Sand Ate a Pirate City During an Earthquake [feedly]

How Sand Ate a Pirate City During an Earthquake
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Bots Make Up 61.5 Percent of Web Traffic [feedly]

Bots Make Up 61.5 Percent of Web Traffic
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Bot traffic was on the rise in 2013, with approximately 61.5 percent of all website traffic produced by "non-human entities," according to a report from Incapsula
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Commenting on the Thylacine

Commenting on the Thylacine
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"The thylacine is not extinct. I say this without reservation. I don't suppose the thylacine (or Tasmanian tiger) remains extant, or imagine, or even hope it is; I know categorically that the thylacine exists, because I have seen it in the flesh."

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