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This Place Can Make YOU Feel the ABSOLUTE Freedom! A Place Without Politics, Religion or Money

Mar 22
2016

Peacefully nestled in the Viluppuram district near Puduchery, Tamil Nadu, is a township like none other. Transcending money, politics and religion, welcome to Auroville, the City of Dawn.

“Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creed, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.”

It was founded on 28th February, 1968, by Mirra Alfassa (known as “The Mother”) as a project of the Sri Aurobindo Society. Mirra Alfassa was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who held the notion that “man is a transitional being”. It was designed by Roger Anger.

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This machine can perfectly draw or write anything

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in futurism

Mar 22
2016

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This Panasonic exoskeleton is designed to run, hike, and lift large objects

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in cyborgs

Mar 22
2016

Clarius Introduces Wireless Ultrasound Transducer for Your Smartphone

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in health, mobile phones

Mar 22
2016

Clarius-ultrasound Clarius Mobile Health, a firm based outside of Vancouver, Canada, is unveiling a wireless ultrasound transducer that uses your Android or Apple iPhone as the display and control system. There aren’t many details provided by Clarius about the product, but the company expects these ultrasounds to be used for procedures such as nerve blocks and for helping to deliver needle injections. The device has yet to receive clearance from the world’s regulatory bodies.

Check out the preview video for the Clarius mobile ultrasound:

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Should You Get Paid For Your DNA?

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in biotech/medical, genetics

Mar 22
2016

Whether people with rare genetic mutations that result in important medical discoveries should be compensated is a topic of intense debate.

Scientists have seen the shockwave from a star’s collapsing core for the first time

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in military, space

Mar 22
2016

Astronomers have for the first time seen a shockwave generated by a star’s collapsing core and captured the earliest minutes of two exploding stars.

An international team of scientists found a shockwave only in the smaller supernova, a finding that will help them understand these complex explosions which create many of the elements that make up humans, the Earth and the Solar System.

“It’s like the shockwave from a nuclear bomb, only much bigger, and no one gets hurt,” says Brad Tucker from the Australian National University (ANU).

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Can Google Expand Cuba’s Censored Internet? — By David Talbot | MIT Technology Review

Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in education, internet, media & artsTagged Cuba, Diplomacy, Google

Mar 22
2016

“President Obama seems to think Google can help increase Internet access in a country that has not historically been interested in unfettered connectivity.”