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"Genetic Adjustments Illumination Magazine Gene therapy offers hope to kids with Muscular Dystrophy" - Lit

"Stencil Street Art is a project by Katrin Winkel and Andreas Gohr. It is a 23 collection of photographies depicting streetart created using the stencil technique (sometimes called pochoirs). Most of the images were taken in Berlin, Germany but the phenomen is seen and photographed around the world." - Lit

I have been meaning to take some pics of Banksy's work, before the councils remove them, some of them have been washed/removed now. - Halil

You should...I don't know which ones you have access to but his work is interesting....you should and post them maybe - Lit

I shall try my best. - Halil

"There are a lot of psychological terms for the fact that people don't like to change their minds; "motivated reasoning", "confirmation bias", "cognitive dissonance". But you don't need academic semantics to know that trying to get somebody to see things your way is tough if they go into the argument with another point of view. You argue the facts, as thoughtfully and non-confrontationally as you can, but the facts don't seem to get you anywhere. The wall of the other person's opinion doesn't move. They don't seem to WANT it to move." - Lit

"What's going on there? Why do people so tenaciously stick to the views they've already formed? Shouldn't a cognitive mind be open to evidence...to the facts...to reason? Well, that's hopeful but naïve, and ignores a vast amount of social science evidence that has shown that facts, by themselves, are meaningless. They are ones and zeroes to your mental computer, raw blank data that only take on meaning when run through the software of your feelings. Melissa Finucane and Paul Slovic and others call this "The Affect Heuristic" , the subconscious process of taking information and processing it through our feelings and instincts and life circumstances and experiences...anything that gives the facts valence - meaning...which turns raw meaningless data into our judgments and views and opinions." - Lit

This is why I don't attempt it unless it's something really important - LANjackal

Yeah, agreed. I typically don't get in discussion where topics are close to value systems and personal beliefs, unless participants are asking directly about and appear open to consider other ideas. - Lit

"Someone may soon be able to tell what types material are in your pockets from tens, and possibly thousands, of feet away. Using terahertz remote sensing, detectors could see through walls, clothing and packaging materials and immediately identify the unique terahertz waves of the materials contained inside, such as explosives or drugs." - Lit

Cool, I remember one of my profs telling me about this when I was in undergrad - LANjackal

That's pretty cool...the public typically hears about science tech. findings a while after they have been in production (of course not always the case). - Lit

"Biotechnology offers the promise of dramatically increasing ethanol production using cellulose, the most abundant biological material on earth, and other polysaccharides (hemicellulose). Residue including postharvest corn plants (stover) and timber residues could be used, as well as such specialized high-biomass “energy” crops as domesticated poplar trees and switchgrass...." - Lit

Thanks for posting this, Hannah. - Jenny

No problem of course...I'm a strong believer in alternate fuel technologies! :) - Lit

You and me both. ;) - Jenny

"SCS loves a good cliff-side town. There’s something about them that’s romantic, daring and a little impossible. Here are five of our favorites places where no one with vertigo would want to live." - Lit

nice - Lit

"UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found a compound that preserves newly created brain cells and boosts learning and memory in an animal study. The study of this compound...appears in the July 9 issue of Cell..." - Lit

"Over a three-year period, the research team led by Dr. McKnight and Dr. Andrew Pieper, assistant professor of psychiatry and biochemistry at UT Southwestern, screened 1,000 individual molecules to see which ones might enhance the production of neurons in the adult mouse hippocampus, a region of the brain critical to learning and memory. The scientists found that one of the compounds, called P7C3, achieved this by protecting newborn neurons from dying. The researchers then administered P7C3 to "knockout" mice lacking a gene that controls the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus. Humans who lack this gene have a variety of learning disabilities, and the "knockout" rodents show related abnormalities as well as a poorly formed hippocampus. When the "knockout" mouse received P7C3, however, normal structure and function of the hippocampus were restored." - Lit

Good one. - Avinash

"The site was set up in November 1997, to pass on the best stories known about physics.With little mathematics, starting from observations of everyday life, the text presents the most fascinating aspects of things that move. It explores mechanics, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, electrodynamics, quantum theory and modern attempts at unification." - Lit

"For most of us, or perhaps all of us, it's impossible to imagine a world consisting of more than three spatial dimensions. Are we correct when we intuit that such a world couldn't exist? Or is it that our brains are simply incapable of imagining additional dimensions—dimensions that may turn out to be as real as other things we can't detect?" - Lit

"The mathematics used in superstring theory requires at least 10 dimensions. That is, for the equations that describe superstring theory to begin to work out—for the equations to connect general relativity to quantum mechanics, to explain the nature of particles, to unify forces, and so on—they need to make use of additional dimensions. These dimensions, string theorists believe, are wrapped up in the curled-up space first described by Kaluza and Klein..." - Lit

"Mouseless is a project by Pranav Mistry of the MIT Fluid Interfaces Group. He calls it an "invisible computer mouse" that creates the feeling of using a mouse without actually having a physical device. This is achieved via an infrared beam and sensor, which will help detect the hand's position. So all that's left for the user to do is move a cupped hand as if it were holding a mouse and the system will detect its movement and clicks." - Lit

Yeah, I know - Lit

"Scientific genius and visionary inventor Nikola Tesla is born at the stroke of midnight in the unassuming village of Smiljan, in what’s now Croatia. He wastes little time in revolutionizing the world through foundational developments in electromagnetism, electrical current, wireless power and communications, weaponry, robotics, computer science, mass media and much more." - Lit

:) - Lit

Hany...here is throwing you one #Lits_music - Lit

it seems so :) but there's always another side of the moon ;) - Hany Ethan

"They also showed a notable increase in Noggin, a beautifully named brain protein that acts as a BMP antagonist. The more Noggin in your brain, the less BMP activity exists and the more stem cell divisions and neurogenesis you experience." - Lit

"Nerves have a maximum speed limit of about 180 feet per second, said Maxwell Donelan, the study’s lead author. “It makes sense that in a large animal, like an elephant, messages have a longer way to travel,” he said. Dr. Donelan believes that large animals may have to compensate for this handicap by thinking ahead, and avoiding risky situations. “That’s what we want to study next,” he said. “It could be that the nervous systems of large animals have evolved to become excellent predictive machines.”" - Lit

"Suppression, while clearly valuable in some situations (no laughing at funerals, please), has social costs that are all too familiar to those who know its cold touch. In one 2003 Stanford study, researchers found that people instructed to wear a poker face while discussing a documentary about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made especially stressful conversation partners."...this and some other interesting finds. - Lit

"After violence tears apart communities in Kyrgyzstan, a brittle calm settles in." Report from Alisher Navoi Street - Lit

:( - Eivind

Violence is sad for all those who are victims of the violence...UNICEF is particularly interested in children. :( - Lit

GREAT!! So authentic... :) - eskitenekekutu

Emotional #Lits_music - Lit

yeap - eskitenekekutu

"You, could do anything that you want to. You could do anything..." good tune - Lit

just perfect! - Hany Ethan

@Hany, glad you like it... #Lits_music - Lit

"There is much about the human condition, I believe, that suggests that we are virtuous beings, quite capable both of acknowledging our capacity for wrongdoing and of moving in the direction of the good. But ours is often a virtue deferred, awaiting the passage of time to come into being. Hence the idea of "moral lateness."" - Lit

Wonderful photographs! Love the colors. - Avinash

LUZcertera para los grises, buen encuadre - Marta Graupera Sanz

Yeah, they are pretty good. - Lit

Madagaskar stone forest - Lit

"Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast." :) - Lit

His sounds like Nickelback :) - eskitenekekutu

@Hannah :) i get it - eskitenekekutu

you really are not the intellectual you claim to be. personal attacks and blocks only demean you. I have an audience that is much larger and more influential then you do. should I want to they will come here. people don't like your opinions. your little elitist party can be flooded. - The Black Book

@Black Oh, no...I am so scared of all those strong and powerful people you threaten me with (sarcasm)...To anyone who solicits anti-people of any country or anti-science, or supports others who solicit this, I want nothing to do with you and will do my best to make it so. - Lit

So, personal attacks and blocks demean those who use them? And flooding other's pages with sophomoric nonsense and petty threats does....... what, exactly? - Logan Melzer

Lol, his words are meaningless... - Lit