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“Context over dogma” as BMW like to put it …

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Take a look at this demo called Phun — damn, I wish we had these learning tools when I was doing my O-level. By the way its a free download… physics lessons the best way possible!

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Radioactive condoms - Sterility guaranteed!
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This sounds like from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, but apparently by observing the quantum state of the universe, we are unwillingly playing dice, and forcing multistate quantum systems to one state, thus setting the outcome of a quantum event!
Just observing the dark energy in the 1998 supernova explosion might have speeded up the decay of the universe…
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I always said the universe is a fun place to be in…

Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind turbines don’t scale down well—there’s too much friction in the gearbox and other components. “With rotary power, there’s nothing out there that generates under 50 watts,” Frayne says.
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Reference article on EcoGeek

Consisting of very low tech methods which work.

A catalytic reaction spliting water into HHO gas to be tranformed back into water by a hydrogen fuel cell!
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in short: somebody claims he made free, constant supply of energy that will change history.

from http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8713

McCarthy explained to Silicon Republic that Orbo technology works on the basis that occurrences in magnetic fields do not happen instantaneously, and are therefore not subject to time in the way that, say, gravity is…

“It’s too good to be true but it is true,” said McCarthy, “It will have such an impact on everything we do.”

“The only analogy I can give is if you had absolute proof that God wasn’t real,” said McCarthy.

The Orbo will also be viewable live on the internet from 6pm this evening(4.7.2007) at www.steorn.com/orbo/demo, with four webcams focused on the machine 24 hours a day. http://www.astream.com/live/steorn/camera4.html

Update: Steorn had to cancel tonight’s event “due to technical difficulties.”

Have you ever wondered what will happen to our planet etc. in 3+ billion years?

Take a glimpse here:

http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/

A not so commonly known fact with aging is that as we age and are blasted with daily sounds we loose ’sensors’ in our ears. Refered as presbycusis, here is an interesting Hack:

The Young people’s channel

Rising out of the Andalusian countryside like a gigantic obelisk, a 40 story concrete tower surrounded by fields of photovoltaic panels…

Just in case you got nothing better to do check this out….
If you’re drunk in a bar and see this happening you might understand the physics behind it