#eco #solarenergy #parkinglot #electriccars #electricvehicles #renewableenergy #germany

#eco  #solarenergy    #parkinglot    #electriccars    #electricvehicles    #renewableenergy    #germany  

Originally shared by Jacob Perillo

Every parking lot ought to look like this! 

Shades the cars while producing free energy. Germany has created over 500,000 new jobs by pushing hard into solar and wind energy - providing incentives for everyone to install and as a result, they will be able to move forward with their plans to shut down all their nuclear power plants in the next decade.

#health

#health  

Originally shared by Pierce Arner

Oh hey, look, it's science comin' along to kick the hell out of the flu - potentially forever!

Full article here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22529-new-vaccine-may-give-lifelong-protection-from-flu.html

#ScienceSunday  
http://io9.com/5963100/rna+based-vaccine-could-wipe-out-the-flu-forever

#health #sleep

#health   #sleep  

Originally shared by Vassil Vidinsky

Craving for sleep: Hypersomnolence

"Anna Sumner’s craving for sleep began when she was an 18-year-old high school senior [...] When it followed her to college, she blamed it on stress [...] Then she spent a winter working in London. There, her excuse was the dark and dreary sky [...] Sumner needed sleep like an addict needs a fix. Sumner was almost 30 before finally confronting her problem [...] In the fall of 2005, she sought help at the Emory Clinic Sleep Center. She learned that her problem, known as hypersomnolence, was rare but not unheard of. Over the next six years, a team of doctors there analyzed the chemicals in her brain and in the brains of 31 other hypersomniacs. They fingered one mysterious substance as the culprit.
When they tried to publish their data, many experts simply didn’t believe it..."

For ScienceSunday co-curated by Robby Bowles, Allison Sekuler, Rajini Rao, Chad Haney, Buddhini Samarasinghe 

#sciencesunday   #scienceeveryday  
http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/11/22/re-awakenings/

#artificialintelligence

#artificialintelligence  

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs

Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification of promising new molecules for designing drugs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/scientists-see-advances-in-deep-learning-a-part-of-artificial-intelligence.html

some Black Friday humor..

some Black Friday humor..

#blackfriday   #startrek  

Originally shared by Kevin Staff

#BlackFriday

=)

=)

#funny     #fun   #parking  

Originally shared by TECHNICS

first I didn't see then I thought he was real.. mindblowing.

first I didn't see then I thought he was real.. mindblowing.

Originally shared by ILLUSION


Don't ignore me! The advertising campaign by UNICEF is putting Chinas 1.5 million underprivileged kids in the spotlight. 3D street art by Ogilvy & Mather.

#artificialintelligence

#artificialintelligence  

Originally shared by Machines Like Us

http://machineslikeus.com/news/computer-ai-successfully-identifies-why-abstract-art-evokes-human-emotion
http://machineslikeus.com/news/computer-ai-successfully-identifies-why-abstract-art-evokes-human-emotion

The Bristol Technology Engineering Academy

The Bristol Technology Engineering Academy

The Bristol Technology Engineering Academy will open in September 2013 and will specialise in engineering and environmental technologies. The BTE Academy is co-sponsored by the employers Airbus, GKN Aerospace, The University of the West of England and by City of Bristol College. Rolls-Royce are also an industrial supporter.


#bristol   #uwe   #technology   #engineering   #academy     #btea   #bteacademy   #airbus   #rollsroyce   #aerospace  
http://www.bteacademy.co.uk/

#artificialintelligence #art

#artificialintelligence   #art  

Originally shared by Machines Like Us

http://machineslikeus.com/news/pablo-ecasso-search-first-computer-masterpiece
http://machineslikeus.com/news/pablo-ecasso-search-first-computer-masterpiece

#health

#health  

Originally shared by arshath zameek

Don't get wet!! you'll catch a cold!

This is something that every one of us have heard and also maybe used on are children, siblings etc. But does it actually happen? do you actually catch a cold by getting wet? by sleeping with wet hair? walking in the cold?

Being cold and wet does not cause colds. Cold is caused by a virus. There are many viruses which cause the cold, but the biggest culprit is the "rhinovirus". You need to be exposed to this micro organism to get a cold! 

The infection is spread when you inhale the droplets containing the virus that are coughed out by a patient. That is why it is important to cover your mouth while coughing to prevent the virus from spreading the disease to others.  Viruses also can live on sinks, counters and other surfaces, which means you can catch a cold if you touch an object that was recently handled by someone with a cold, and then put your hands on your nose or mouth.

Going out in the cold can make you susceptible for the disease due to the humidity (which is less) of the cold weather. This causes the drying of the mucus lining of the nasal passages making the virus to easily get into your body. 

So yeah..go ahead an have an ice cream in the rain now :) 
#sciencesunday   #medicine   #microbiology     #sciencesunday  

Breast Cancers - identifying risks, optimizing screening

Originally shared by Buddhini Samarasinghe

Breast Cancers - identifying risks, optimizing screening

"Breast cancer is a complex disease, it's not simply one switch going off and you have a cancer. It's a real mix between your genetic makeup, your environment, and your other risk factors, particularly hormone risk factors, when you have your children etc"

Breast Cancer Screening initiatives have been under a lot of criticism lately in the media. See http://goo.gl/MwZDJ and http://goo.gl/6NFlG.

One of the main criticisms of screening initiatives is that of over-diagnosis; women who have a suspicious finding in their screening mammogram (which is then confirmed as cancer by a biopsy) then undergo unnecessary treatment for a cancer that is so tiny and slow growing that it would not have been a threat to the woman's health to begin with. Right now, it is extremely difficult for us to look at a cancer and predict it's future. We can't look at a fuzzy shadow on an x-ray image and say "oh it's cool, that won't be something dangerous, don't worry about it". We can't afford to take that risk because we don't know enough, so we play it safe by recommending treatment for each and every diagnosis of cancer. Sometimes, that means unnecessary treatment, but that is the lesser of the two evils.

That status quo might change soon. New Genome-Wide Association studies (GWAS) are rapidly identifying genetic risk factors that predispose women to a higher risk of cancer. Armed with this knowledge, we might one day be able to evaluate risk factors for women more accurately based on their lifestyle, genetic background (including all the newly identified gene associations) and environment. Hopefully that will then translate to more accurate screening programmes, resulting in fewer women having to undergo unnecessary treatments for cancers that are not life-threatening, and also helping to target treatments for women who are are higher risk.

Watch this excellent video from The Guardian (click the link to the article with the embedded video), featuring Professor Gareth Evans describing these Genome-Wide Association studies for breast cancer.

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For #sciencesunday curated by Allison Sekuler Chad Haney Rajini Rao Robby Bowles and myself, with special guest curator this week Tommy Leung. Add ScienceSunday to your circles for more science posts this weekend!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/oct/25/breast-cancer-family-genetics-medicine-video

^^ creative.

^^ creative.

#earrings   #creativity  

Originally shared by anu sri

Scary Earrings! ;)

and google music app is already available for download in the uk!

and google music app is already available for download in the uk! what a great surprise I had tonight when I could download it in my android for the first time :)

#googlemusic #googleplay #android #google

Originally shared by Google TV

Now playing in a country near you

Starting November 13th, Google Play music and movies will now be available on your #GoogleTV in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia. 

Play on friends.

#blood #macro #bloodcell #artery

#blood   #macro   #bloodcell   #artery  

Originally shared by Sakis Koukouvis

Amazing picture of artery and blood cells

#sciencesunday

#humor #fun #internet

#humor   #fun   #internet  

Originally shared by Jaana Nyström

#Friday