• How to see through opaque materials

  A new experiment conducted by researchers at the City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution (ESPCI) has shown that it's possible to focus light through opaque materials and detect objects hidden behind them, provided you know enough about the material. They produced a numerical model called a transmission matrix, which includes over 65,000 numbers describing the way that a material scatters light in a layer of material. They could then use the matrix to tailor a beam of light specifically to pass through the layer and focus on the other side. Alternatively, they could measure light emerging from the opaque material, and use the matrix to assemble of an image of an object behind it. (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news187274527.html)

• A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory

  Sensecam, which contains a digital camera and an accelerometer to measure movement, can be used for life-logging and as a memory aid for people with Alzheimer's and other memory disorders. (Microsoft Corporation) (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/health/09memory.html?ref=science)

• Speed Reading of DNA May Help Cancer Treatment

  Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a way to monitor the progress of a patient's cancer treatment using a new technique for rapidly sequencing, or decoding, large amounts of DNA. It uses mitochondrial DNA as markers of cancerous cells, based on the finding that more than 80 percent of cancers had mutations in their mitochondrial DNA. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/science/09gene.html?ref=science)

• How to build a superluminal computer

  Superluminal (faster-than-light) hyprcomputers could be created by taking advantage of the nonlocal phenomenon (instant changes to a distant entangled particle), say Volkmar Putz and Karl Svozil at the Vienna University of Technology. For example, light traveling through a vacuum can be made to spontaneously form into an electron-positron pair--an entangled pair--which then recombine to form a photon again. This process happens instantaneously, allowing the photon to effectively "jump" across space. (Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24903/)

• Google Public Data Explorer lets you create dynamic charts and maps

  Google's new Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. You can create dynamic, interactive mash-up line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts that can be embedded in Web pages. The visualizations are dynamic, so you can watch them move over time, change topics, highlight different entries and change the scale. (Source: )

According to Maslow, there are general types of needs (physiological, safety, love, and esteem) that must be satisfied before a person can act unselfishly. He called these needs "deficiency needs." As long as we are motivated to satisfy these cravings, we are moving towards growth, toward self-actualization. Satisfying needs is healthy, blocking gratification makes us sick or evil. In other words, we are all "needs junkies" with cravings that must be satisfied and should be satisfied. Else, we become sick.

The Tesseract, a look into 4-dimensional space

NUINTELLGENCE: is an Artificial Intelligence tool that offers customers the ability to hybridize Heuristic Search, Genetic Algorithms, Optimization, Neural Networks and Case-Based Reasoning.

Maybe I shouldn't have had the cable turned off last week?

MIThril, the next generation research platform for context aware wearable computing.

The Electronic Magazine of the Living Universe Foundation Dedicated to human colonization of the galaxy

A Theory of Everything? Some physicists believe string theory may unify the forces of nature.

Amorology is the science of love. The physical world is no more than the manifestation of our thoughts. It is our thoughts that are real, not their illusory expressions.

The nuts and bolts of understanding what makes people tick and how you can use them

The Hermetic Library is the creation of Al Billings and is his attempt to find a place to host his creations and those of others that would not otherwise be available. These creations are, by and large, of a spiritual focus but not the areas of spirituality that you will generally see within the mainstream of American culture.