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Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers
Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat — the device that purports to use cold fusion to generate massive amounts of cheap, green energy — has been verified by third-party researchers, according to a new 54-page report. The researchers observed a small E-Cat over 32 days, where it produced net energy of 1.5 megawatt-hours, or ‘far more than can be obtained from any known chemical sources in the small reactor volume.’
The age of loneliness is killing us
What do we call this time? It’s not the information age: the collapse of popular education movements left a void filled by marketing and conspiracy theories. Like the stone age, iron age and space age, the digital age says plenty about our artefacts but little about society.
Forget Facebook, Abandon Instagram, Move To A Village
In the parts of the world that we cover in our blog, many people live in villages. Villages have their problems, to be sure. There may not be a doctor or clinic nearby. Girls may not be able to go to school. Clean water might be a long walk away.
Amazing Resonance Experiment!
Cymatics (from Greek: κῦμα “wave”) is the study of visible sound and vibration, a subset of modal phenomena. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste, or liquid. Different patterns emerge in the excitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency.
On-demand vaccines possible with engineered nanoparticles
University of Washington engineers hope a new type of vaccine they have shown to work in mice will one day make it cheaper and easy to manufacture on-demand vaccines for humans. Immunizations could be administered within minutes where and when a disease is breaking out.
Does Sustainability Make Business Sense?
The liberal consensus is that “green” should be good for business. But what if that’s not always true? Charles Eisenstein confronts the real inconvenient truth.
Santa Cruz Group Scrutinizes Powerful Psychedelic
The slow-growing rainforest shrub Tabernanthe iboga has sacred roots in Central and West Africa. Literally. Chewed in small doses, the root stimulates alertness-a godsend for the Pygmies, or anyone whose survival depends on hunting while being hunted.
New Open Source Platform Allows Anyone To Hack Brain Waves
For most people how the human brain works remains a mystery, let alone how to hack it. Engineers Joel Murphy and Conor Russomanno aim to change this by putting an affordable, open-source brain-computer interface kit in the hands and minds of everyone.
Here’s An Updated Tally Of All The People Who Have Ever Died From A Marijuana Overdose
With recreational pot now for sale in Colorado and widespread confusion over a recent satirical story that jokingly claimed 37 people had already died of a marijuana overdose, we figured it might be about time to update our weed death count.
