Saturday, February 11, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Hungry Venezuelans killing flamingos and anteaters for food, biologists say
Thursday, February 9, 2017
David Attenborough in planet-saving song's music video
The broadcaster and naturalist, famed for his work on BBC series such as Planet Earth and Life, stars in the video for I Will Fight, an upcoming single from composer Sarah Class to promote the work of the World Land Trust, of which he is a patron.
It features David speaking at the start and end of the song, with the rest of the video showing scenes of wildlife including apes, lions, giraffes and bears losing their habitat to land clearance...https://www.breakingnews.ie/showbiz/see-david-attenborough-in-planet-saving-songs-music-video-776028.html
Sarah Class
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Rise Of The Insect Drones
By Adam Piore
Gung Ho Vids
Image: Insects - Travis Rathbone
Five years ago, Richard Guiler and Tom Vaneck were sitting at a bar a few blocks from their office, trying to take their minds off work. For nearly a year, the two engineers had been struggling to develop a durable drone that could dodge objects, navigate inside buildings, and fly in stormy weather. They’d tried fixed-wing models, but adding enough sensors to effectively detect obstacles made them too heavy to fly. They’d tried helicopters, but the rotors kept getting tangled in branches and electrical wires. They’d even built a motorized balloon; all it took was a gentle gust of wind to blow it off course.
As they sat nursing their beers, Guiler and Vaneck watched as a fly appeared to slam into a window. Instead of breaking apart on contact as their drones did, the insect bounced off the glass and recovered. Then it did it again.
“It was an epiphany,” says Vaneck, who works for the Massachusetts research and development company Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI). “We realized if we could make a manmade system that could hit things, recover, and continue on, that’s a revolution.”
The idea of borrowing designs from nature is far from new, particularly when it comes to flight. The ancient Greeks dreamed up Daedalus, who fashioned wings for his son (which unfortunately worked a little too well). Leonardo da Vinci sketched a human-powered ornithopter. But until recently, inventors lacked the aerodynamics expertise to turn diagrams into mechanical versions of something as quotidian as a fly or a bee. As technology has advanced, scientists have decoded many of nature’s secrets. And engineers have developed the first flying, insect-inspired vehicles, opening the door to an entirely new class of machine: the microdrone.
“Nature has a several-hundred-million-year lead time on us when it comes to great design,” says Peter Singer, a fellow at the Washington, D.C.–based Brookings Institution. “The robots you know tomorrow are going to look like nothing you know today. More likely, they will look like the animals around you.”...http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/rise-insect-drones
Related: Intel's 500 Drones - Super Bowl LI - LED Light Show Amazing Technology
Cow MissingFive years ago, Richard Guiler and Tom Vaneck were sitting at a bar a few blocks from their office, trying to take their minds off work. For nearly a year, the two engineers had been struggling to develop a durable drone that could dodge objects, navigate inside buildings, and fly in stormy weather. They’d tried fixed-wing models, but adding enough sensors to effectively detect obstacles made them too heavy to fly. They’d tried helicopters, but the rotors kept getting tangled in branches and electrical wires. They’d even built a motorized balloon; all it took was a gentle gust of wind to blow it off course.
As they sat nursing their beers, Guiler and Vaneck watched as a fly appeared to slam into a window. Instead of breaking apart on contact as their drones did, the insect bounced off the glass and recovered. Then it did it again.
“It was an epiphany,” says Vaneck, who works for the Massachusetts research and development company Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI). “We realized if we could make a manmade system that could hit things, recover, and continue on, that’s a revolution.”
The idea of borrowing designs from nature is far from new, particularly when it comes to flight. The ancient Greeks dreamed up Daedalus, who fashioned wings for his son (which unfortunately worked a little too well). Leonardo da Vinci sketched a human-powered ornithopter. But until recently, inventors lacked the aerodynamics expertise to turn diagrams into mechanical versions of something as quotidian as a fly or a bee. As technology has advanced, scientists have decoded many of nature’s secrets. And engineers have developed the first flying, insect-inspired vehicles, opening the door to an entirely new class of machine: the microdrone.
“Nature has a several-hundred-million-year lead time on us when it comes to great design,” says Peter Singer, a fellow at the Washington, D.C.–based Brookings Institution. “The robots you know tomorrow are going to look like nothing you know today. More likely, they will look like the animals around you.”...http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/rise-insect-drones
Related: Intel's 500 Drones - Super Bowl LI - LED Light Show Amazing Technology
See also... Navy Fighter Jets Release Swarming Perdix Micro-Drones
Are 100,000 Abortions in Canada Not Enough? Justin Trudeau Wants $600 Million to Fund More
International Mike Schouten Feb 6, 2017
On January 23, President Trump re-enacted the Mexico City Policy, an order that ensures U.S. foreign aid will not subsidize abortion overseas. This is leadership on behalf of the voiceless. It is also the fruit of many years of hard work by American pro-lifers.
So how is Canada responding? Shockingly, our federal government is talking with the Netherlands and other nations to step up to the plate and raise $600 million to bail out programs run by International Planned Parenthood Federation!
Understand this correctly – Canada’s government is now actively exploring opportunities overseas to contribute even more of your tax dollars towards the killing of pre-born children...http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/06/are-100000-abortions-in-canada-not-enough-justin-trudeau-wants-600-million-to-fund-more/
Monday, February 6, 2017
One who has a cat can not be afraid of loneliness
One who has a cat can not be afraid of loneliness #cats #nicecats #animals pic.twitter.com/LKtk8AXu7B— Andrei G (@F3dotca) February 5, 2017
Donald Trump's, 'The Vicious Snake'
Donald Trumps, The Vicous Snake is going viral. Let's ensure that we don't get bitten, and reject Crooked Hillary's bad judgement #MAGA3X pic.twitter.com/g4Q4UfsGQX— Mathiasian (@Mathiasian) October 22, 2016
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In Israel, teaching kids cyber skills is a national mission
BEIT SHEMESH (AP) — In some Israeli schools, fourth-graders learn computer programming while gifted 10th-graders take after-school classes in encryption tactics, coding and how to stop malicious hacking. The country even has two new kindergartens that teach computer skills and robotics.
The training programs — something of a boot camp for cyber defense — are part of Israel’s quest to become a world leader in cybersecurity and cyber technology by placing its hopes in the country’s youth.
To that end, Israel announced this week the establishment of a national center for cyber education, meant to increase the talent pool for military intelligence units and prepare children for eventual careers in defense agencies, the high-tech industry and academia.
“You students need to strengthen us with your curiosity,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an Israeli cyber technologies expo, sitting next to high school students in a training program overseen by the defense establishment. “Your years in the security services will be golden years for the security of the nation.”
...http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-israel-teaching-kids-cyber-skills-is-a-national-mission/
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Warnings issued to motorists over snowy, icy conditions
Among the advisories listed are loose, drifting and swirling snow warnings for many stretches of Highway 1, including from Regina to Indian Head, from Regina to Moose Jaw, from Moose Jaw to Swift Current and from Swift Current to the Alberta border.
Current, Yorkton, Saskatoon, North Battleford, Prince Albert and many other areas.
Motorists are advised to take extreme caution on the roads, as conditions can change unexpectedly. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/warnings+issued+motorists+over+snowy+conditions/12849506/story.html
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Reba McEntire and her fans find faith during hard times with singer's new gospel album
By Sasha Savitsky
Reba McEntire's decision to release her first-ever gospel record could not have come at a better time for the country legend or her fans.
The Country Music Hall of Fame member is releasing "Sing it Now: Songs of Faith & Hope" on Friday, a double album of contemporary and classic gospel tunes. The singer said it was the right time for her to focus on her faith after splitting from husband of 26-year Narvel Blackstock in 2015.
"Because I needed it myself, going through two and half years of changes in my life," McEntire said. "And who better to lean on than God? And that's who I needed to be listening to. And I needed that faith, that faith strengthened, that hope."
McEntire said her fans have also found solace in the album's first single "Back To God" originally recorded by country singer Randy Houser in 2008. Without getting into specifics, the singer touched upon today's political climate under President Donald Trump.
"I'm hearing from people...about how [this song] has touched their heart and about how much we need this song at this time with all the trouble in the United States," the "Fancy" singer told Fox News. "With all the differences of opinions let's just give it back to God. It just seems to be very timely."...http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/02/01/reba-mcentire-and-her-fans-find-faith-during-hard-times-with-singers-new-gospel-album.html
RebaMcEntireVEVO
Friday, February 3, 2017
Birth control leader Margaret Sanger: Darwinist, racist and eugenicist
by Jerry Bergman
Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood, the leading organization advocating abortion in the United States today. Darwinism had a profound influence on her thinking, including her conversion to, and active support of, eugenics. She was specifically concerned with reducing the population of the ‘less fit’, including ‘inferior races’ such as ‘Negroes’. One major result of her lifelong work was to support the sexual revolution that has radically changed our society...http://creation.com/margaret-sanger-darwinian-eugenicist
Thursday, February 2, 2017
World is a giant hologram, new study reveals. Seriously?
Shelby Lin Erdman - Cox Media Group National Content Desk
It sounds like a surprise ending in a science fiction movie: The
universe is one big hologram and what we think of as reality could be
just an illusion.
But that’s the finding of a new study by a team of international researchers from the United Kingdom, Canada and Italy, among others.
The theory is similar to the science behind watching a 3-D movie. The
images have width, height, and depth, yet the film actually originates
from a 2-D screen, scientists said.
“The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a
three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as
in the hologram on a credit card. However, this time, the entire
universe is encoded," Skenderis said...http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/science/world-giant-hologram-new-study-reveals-seriously/HR6S2jNGs9jx5qP3injnwM/
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