Solar Physicists finally get the message: Landscheidt was right after all Posted: June 14, 2011 by tallbloke in Astrophysics, climate, Solar physics, solar system dynamics After years of pooh poohing Theodor Landscheidt’s methods, work and predictions, mainstream solar physics has made an announcement of the strong possibility of a protracted solar minimum with consequences for… Read More »
Carl Smith in 2007 using JPL data and his own programming skills plotted the Angular Momentum of the Sun. This graph I believe is the Rosetta stone of solar science. Carl’s original graph did not have the green arrows, but instead he displayed red arrows when the curve reached zero. (both Carl & Landscheidt concentrated… Read More »
Human-made climate change is, by its nature, difficult for the average person to witness since it is a fabricated lie by the ultra rich as a method to tax and corral the unwashed masses. Even if you lived for a century, you may not physically notice two extra degrees of warmth or have the capacity… Read More »
Let insiders easily cash in stock options, as Enron did, and you risk seeing executives abandon a failing company. Encourage contractors to sacrifice quality to cut costs and you might cause problems like those that led the U.S. Justice Department to phase out privately run prisons. Source: For Showing How Contracts Work Best, 2 Economists… Read More »
How Can We Defy Aging?Many anti-aging studies are being conducted nowadays with the hope of discovering new methods of finding out which substances can halt the progress of aging in the body. Recently one study has shown that a vitamin, nicotinamide riboside, can stop the aging process in body organs.Nicotinamide riboside is a substance that… Read More »
Elysium isn’t the only pterostilbene vendor. In fact, ChromaDex also offers pterostilbene for supplements separately from Niagen. How excited should we be about all this? If I were a middle-aged mouse, I’d be ready to spend some of the nickels and dimes I’d dragged off the sidewalk to try NR supplements. Even before Sinclair’s paper,… Read More »
Much of the book is devoted to explaining why we can’t turn to the experts for guidance, or at least, why we should expect no more from them than from parents or grandparents. As one of the world’s leading developmental psychologists, Gopnik is in a position to state, with authority, that no one knows what’s… Read More »
The other clowns in the news need to both defeated by a libertarian when even the church is publishing that they both suck! Catholics who can’t in good conscience vote for either major presidential candidate are well within their rights to pick a third option, says Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska. Source: Bishop Conley:… Read More »
Two officers were killed and a third was injured responding to a reported disturbance at a residence in Palm Springs a city in the desert in California. Police said Felix fired through a closed door without provocation as Palm Springs officers attempted to resolve a domestic disturbance call Saturday. Two officers — one a new… Read More »
Methionine- Restricted Diet… Who needs it?By Brenda Davis | Articles, Diet and Disease, General Nutrition | 27 November 2015image_print Methionine is an essential amino acid — one of the building blocks of protein that cannot be produced by the human body so must come from our food. It is one of two sulfur-containing amino acids… Read More »
Mechanisms and methods of methonine restriction Life Extension Benefits of Methionine Restriction by Ben Best CONTENTS: LINKS TO SECTIONS BY TOPIC METHIONINE BASICS METHIONINE RESTRICTION EFFECTS METHIONINE RESTRICTION FOOD DATA METHIONINE RESTRICTION DIET HEART MUSCLE METHIONINE I. METHIONINE BASICS Methionine is the only essential amino acid containing sulfur. Methionine is the precursor of the other… Read More »
She was proud to be a vegan and wanted her son to live like she did. But her family members said she took her food choices too far — her diet became a danger, in their eyes, something closer to an obsession than a healthy lifestyle. “She was going to live on water and sunlight,”… Read More »
Anyone who has spent any time on the gridiron — even at a young age — likely knows the typical punishments a coach will dole out if his rules aren’t followed. There are “suicides,” a grueling running exercise in which participants have to run to the 20-yard line, touch it, then run back to the… Read More »
Psychologists say being unable to find a job can change your personality Some eyebrow-raising research presented at a recent conference suggests that young men without college degrees are staying out of the workforce for one major reason: They can live with Mom and Dad and play video games all day. According to the research, which… Read More »
A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit alleging the firm’s CEO Marissa Mayer led a campaign to purge male employees and replace them with women. Misandry at work by the man haters again! A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit accusing CEO… Read More »
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. Source: Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence – sources
a 1989 study of chronic users showed a maximum detection window of 25 days at a sensitivity of 20 ng/mL. Yet he points out that only one subject tested positive after 14 days, and it took an average of just 9.8 days before cannabinoid levels were no longer detectible. And while a 1984 study testing… Read More »
When Comey, the director of the FBI decided not to charge Hillary Clinton, it looks like it had more to do with money than motive. Source: New Scandal: Hillary Caught Paying Off FBI Director? – Liberty News Now
“Having a plan could be the difference between life and death.” An axe, life vest, and helmet……. Source: Hurricane Matthew leaves 11 dead in destructive march toward U.S.
Former president Jimmy Carter, who disclosed in 2015 that he had advanced melanoma, was treated with surgery, radiation and an immunotherapy drug. In December, he said his cancer had disappeared. (Elise Amendola/Associated Press) The idea of using the body’s immune system to fight cancer has been around for a century, but only in the past… Read More »
Driven by technological progress, human life expectancy has increased greatly since the nineteenth century. Demographic evidence has revealed an ongoing reduction in old-age mortality and a rise of the maximum age at death, which may gradually extend human longevity. Together with observations that lifespan in various animal species is flexible and can be increased by… Read More »
Source: Next Big Future: Research towards enabling minds as healthy and productive as twenty year olds in people who are 60-80
Source: Next Big Future: Stem cells delivered via Skin gun can reduce second degree burn treatment from 3 to 4 weeks to days
Source: Next Big Future: New Alloy Is As Light As Aluminum, As Strong as Titanium Alloys
Source: Next Big Future: Titanium-gold alloy that is four times harder than most steels
Source: Next Big Future: Transparent Spinel aluminum for transparent armor, next generation lasers, ruggedized smart phones and tablets
Source: Next Big Future: Microbiome impacts tissue repair and regeneration
Source: Next Big Future: Toxic air pollution nanoparticles discovered in the human brain and could be a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease
Source: Next Big Future: Ten percent have immune systems that ignore HIV and thus the immune system is saved and AIDS does not develop
Source: Next Big Future: US Army says Ground Warfare is on the cusp of being fundamentally transformed to become intensely lethal
Source: Next Big Future: Current Review of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions aka Cold Fusion by the US Naval Sea Systems Command
Source: Next Big Future: Towards pills that can mimick many of the benefits of exercise
Source: Next Big Future: Towards pills that can mimick many of the benefits of exercise
Source: Next Big Future: DARPA funds seven teams to modulate nerves to treat disease
Skeletal muscle secretes several bioactive proteins from within the cell into extracellular fluid. The secretion of several proteins, whose levels increase in response to exercise, can mediate exercise-induced benefits such as metabolic improvement, anti-inflammation, and muscle hypertrophy. We recently found a novel muscle-secreted protein SPARC which may be fundamental for the colon cancer prevention mechanism… Read More »
Putative Effects of Extreme Physical Activity on the Brain and Cognitive FunctionDespite the positive effects of moderate physical activity on the brain, a number of studies have linked extreme exercise to disruption of cellular, metabolic, and hormonal processes and, in turn, to adverse neurological sequelae and cognitive dysfunction. Here, we review cellular mechanisms by which… Read More »
Figure 4. Schematic representation of mechanisms by which increased physical activity leads to improved cognitive function. The figure depicts the two compartments alongside the blood brain barrier and the bidirectional relationship of BNDF between central and peripheral compartments. For instance, muscles, liver, and immune cells in the periphery impose a significant influence on the brain,… Read More »
BDNF is synthesized in the periphery by vascular endothelial cells, T-cells, B cells, monocytes (Kerschensteiner et al., 1999; Nakahashi et al., 2000) and skeletal muscles (Mousavi and Jasmin, 2006). Once released, BDNF can cross the BBB bi-directionally (Pan et al., 1998), resulting in a direct relationship between BDNF levels in plasma and the brain (Karege… Read More »
These data unequivocally demonstrate that human irisin exists, circulates, and is regulated by exercise. Source: Detection and Quantitation of Circulating Human Irisin by Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Cell Metabolism
A myth or an myokine Source: Does Irisin or FNDC5 exist in human circulation?
A new study finds that exercise releases a hormone that helps the body shed fat and keeps it from forming. researchers at the University of Florida Health has learned more about how the hormone irisin helps convert calorie-storing white fat cells into brown fat cells that burn energy. The investigators also discovered that irisin—which typically… Read More »
Sex doesn’t end as you age, so keep on using “it.” Source: Use It Or Lose It: How Age, Hormones, And Masturbation Predict Sexual Health
This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes. Our analysis Source: The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining by Michael Lovenheim, Alexander Willen :: SSRN
The Costs of Teacher Collective BargainingBy Rick Hess on October 4, 2016 9:10 AMChicago’s teachers are on the verge of striking—for the third time since 2012. Median teacher pay in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is over $78,000 a year. CPS spends another $27,500 per teacher on benefits. And CPS is offering its teachers an 8.7… Read More »
Just weeks after ITT Tech’s demise, The Department of Education removed recognition from ITT’s accreditor. Source: Department of Education ITT accreditor ACICS – Business Insider
Why do so many Americans feel dissatisfied about the economic state of their nation? One simple chart offers a lot of insight. Economists measure standards of living in many ways. Among the most common is to look at the change in the value of goods and services produced by a country, adjusted for inflation and… Read More »
The researchers found that the people with Crohn’s disease had significantly higher levels of two types of bacteria, called Escherichia coli and Serratia marcescens, and one fungus, called Candida tropicalis, compared with their healthy relatives and the other people in the study who did not have the disease, according to the study, published Sept. 20… Read More »
An estimated 180,890 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. The disease will also take the lives of 26,120 patients. But according to a new 10-year study conducted on more than 1,500 men in the United Kingdom, those who are diagnosed may want to hold off on starting aggressive treatment right away.Typically,… Read More »
After three months, more than a third of study participants grew back more than half of their lost hair Source: Arthritis drug Xeljanz may help with the hair loss condition alopecia – CBS News
A hangover-free future is once again being promised, this time courtesy of a controversial former drug czar. The Independent reports David Nutt—who was fired by the British government after claiming horse riding was more dangerous than ecstasy—developed about 90 compounds of something he’s calling “alcosynth” and is testing out two for wide-scale alcohol replacement, which… Read More »