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Turn Your Desk Into a Pharmaceuticals Factory

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“The Week’s Chris Gayomali frets that ‘[t]oday’s primitive psychedelics and artificial mood-boosters may be just the beginning’ once 3D printing transforms chemical engineering. The Customs Minister from the land o’ hobbits, Maurice Williamson,  worries on Radio New Zealand, ‘If people could print off … sheets of Ecstasy tablets at the party they’re at at that time, that just completely takes away our border protection role in its known sense.’  Cronin, among  others, suggests that  controlling the ‘chemical ink’ is the key to preventing DIY recreational chemistry with 3D printers. But much current research uses bathroom sealant as the ink, and that’s not the easiest material to restrict.”

http://reason.com/archives/2013/08/29/turn-your-office-into-a-pharmaceuticals

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Taxpayers funding study of link between marijuana, domestic violence

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“The National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is granting $1.86 million to the University of Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions to investigate the drug’s link to aggression.  The study will run from 2013 to 2017 and will follow couples in which one or both partners use marijuana to determine whether its use ‘results in affective, cognitive, or behavioral effects consistent with partner aggression.’  NIDA has a $1.05 billion budget for 2013 and has publicly acknowledged that it does not fund research into the potential benefits of medical marijuana.”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/taxpayers-funding-study-of-link-between-marijuana-domestic-violence/

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Eating whole fruit lowers diabetes risk, but drinking fruit juice raises it

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“People who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits, especially blueberries, grapes and apples, reduced their risk of type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent compared to those who ate less than one serving per month.  On the other hand, those who consumed one or more servings of fruit juice each day saw their risk of the disease increase by as much as 21 percent.  ‘Fluids pass through the stomach to the intestine more rapidly than solids even if nutritional content is similar,’ says the paper.  ‘For example, fruit juices lead to more rapid and larger changes in serum [blood] levels of glucose and insulin than whole fruits.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/30/eating-whole-fruit-lowers-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-but-drinking-fruit-juice-boosts-risk-study/

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Harvard Study: No Correlation Between Gun Control and Less Violent Crime

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“The authors of the study conclude that the burden of proof rests on those who claim more guns equal more death and violent crime; such proponents should ‘at the very least [be able] to show a large number of nations with more guns have more death and that nations that impose stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide).’ But after intense study the authors conclude ‘those correlations are not observed when a large number of nations are compared around the world.’ In fact, the numbers presented in the Harvard study support the contention that among the nations studied, those with more gun control tend toward higher death rates.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/27/Harvard-Study-Shows-No-Correlation-Between-Strict-Gun-Control-And-Less-Crime-Violence

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Radio wave-treated water could change agriculture as we know it

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“A groundbreaking new Irish technology which could be the greatest breakthrough in agriculture since the plough is set to change the face of modern farming forever. The technology – radio wave energised water – massively increases the output of vegetables and fruits by up to 30 per cent. Not only are the plants much bigger but they are largely disease-resistant, meaning huge savings in expensive fertilisers and harmful pesticides. Extensively tested in Ireland and several other countries, the inexpensive water treatment technology is now being rolled out across the world. The technology makes GM obsolete and converts excess CO2 into edible plant mass.”

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/wave-goodbye-to-global-warming-gm-and-pesticides-29525621.html

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Ambient Backscatter Energy Harvester

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Ambient Backscatter Energy Harvester

“Ambient Backscatter transforms existing wireless signals into both a source of power and a communication medium. It enables two battery-free devices to communicate by backscattering existing wireless signals. Backscatter communication is orders of magnitude more power-efficient than traditional radio communication. Further, since it leverages the ambient RF signals that are already around us, it does not require a dedicated power infrastructure as in RFID.”

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Energy harvester that creates power from ambient vibrations comes to market

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“MicroGen’s energy harvester, dubbed Bolt, provides power like a battery — but uses a very different means to get there. Housing a piezoelectric microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inside the casing pictured above, the unit creates energy from vibrations in the surrounding environment. Ambient vibrations cause a flap on the device (pictured below) to move back and forth, which in turn creates a current that dumps energy in to either a capacitor or a thin rechargeable battery next to the flap. The Bolt requires a source vibrating at around 120Hz in order to charge, and an LED on the outer casing will blink to let you know it’s full.”

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/155102-energy-harvester-that-creates-power-from-ambient-vibrations-finally-comes-to-market

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Smart dust: A complete computer that’s smaller than a grain of sand

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“Nobody’s ever written a Star Trek episode about the world’s smallest microchip, only about the world’s smallest computer. Now, a team from the University of Michigan has built not just a very small microchip, but a whole functioning computer, and it’s less than a cubic millimeter in size. Called the Michigan Micro Mote, or M3, this tiny computer features processing, data storage, and wireless communication. Researcher Pabral Dutta thinks it will be the ‘next revolution in computing.’  The technology works with a very low-powered and low-range wireless standard to broadcast its latest state every few minutes.  To power the M3, researchers fitted it with a tiny solar cell.”

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155771-smart-dust-a-complete-computer-thats-smaller-than-a-grain-of-sand

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France announces e-cigarette ban, then French study finds e-cigarettes harmful

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“French Health Minister Marisol Touraine announced in May that the ban on smoking in public places would be extended to cover electronic cigarettes, and that they would be subject to the same controls as tobacco.  The move has sparked outrage among sellers and users of the battery-powered devices which contain liquid nicotine that is turned into a vapor when inhaled. Ms Touraine said: ‘The e-cigarette is not an ordinary product. We need to apply the same measures as there are for tobacco. That means making sure it cannot be smoked in public places, that its sale is restricted to over 18s and that firms are not allowed to advertise the products.'”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2402108/E-cigarettes-harmful-cigarettes-cause-cancer-claims-study.html

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UW Researcher Moves Another Human’s Finger with his Thoughts

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UW Researcher Moves Another Human’s Finger with his Thoughts

“Many new studies have shown that people can control things — like video games or a cursor on a screen — only with their thoughts, but a new project takes this to the next level: people controlling other people with their thoughts.  A new study by University of Washington researchers created the first human-to-human brain interface that is noninvasive. It allowed the thoughts of one researcher to manipulate movement of another. The study used electroencephalography (EEG) — which is used to record brain activity noninvasively from the scalp — and transcranial magnetic stimulation, which is a noninvasive way of delivering stimulation to the brain to obtain a response.”

http://www.dailytech.com/UW+Researcher+Moves+Another+Humans+Finger+with+his+Thoughts/article33259.htm

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