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In 2006, a patent was granted to a man named Paul Stamets. Though Paul is the world's leading mycologist, his patent has received very little attention and exposure. Why is that? Stated by executives in the pesticide industry, this patent represents "the most disruptive technology we have ever witnessed." And when the executives say disruptive, they are referring to it being disruptive to the chemical pesticides industry.
What has Paul discovered? The mycologist has figured out how to use mother nature's own creations to keep insects from destroying crops. It's what is being called SMART pesticides. These pesticides provide safe & nearly permanent solution for controlling over 200,000 species of insects - and all thanks to the 'magic' of mushrooms.

This data visualization maps the statistical relationship between birth month and disease incidence in the electronic records of 1.7 million New York City patients.
"This data could help scientists uncover new disease risk factors," said study senior author Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and Columbia's Data Science Institute. The researchers plan to replicate their study with data from several other locations in the U.S. and abroad to see how results vary with the change of seasons and environmental factors in those places. By identifying what's causing disease disparities by birth month, the researchers hope to figure out how they might close the gap.
Earlier research on individual diseases such as ADHD and asthma suggested a connection between birth season and incidence, but no large-scale studies had been undertaken. This motivated Columbia's scientists to compare 1,688 diseases against the birth dates and medical histories of 1.7 million patients treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/CUMC between 1985 and 2013.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have managed to observe how different new knowledge is stored and how combinations of different pieces of this fresh information affect different parts of the brain. This is eventually used to tell the observer what the person is thinking about.
The accompanying research is published in the journal Human Brain Mapping.
University neuroscientist Marcel Just used the example of the 2013 discovery by the Smithsonian Institute of an entirely new species - an olinguito, which is a small South American carnivorous mammal. Those learning about the animal were able to immediately pickup new information for the first time, such as its habitat, diet, behaviour and so on.
"Millions of people read the information about the olinguito and in doing so permanently changed their own brains," Just explained.
"Our research happened to be examining this process precisely at that time in a laboratory setting. When people learned that the olinguito eats mainly fruit instead of meat, a region of their left inferior frontal gyrus—as well as several other areas—stored the new information according to its own code."
'It's like first man in space': Russian patient to undergo first ever head-to-body transplant http://t.co/UO0JAQpYpO pic.twitter.com/WGYCw15aAS
— RT (@RT_com) April 12, 2015A new study, reported today in Nature, has found that Saturn's outermost ring is nearly 300 times the size of the planet it orbits.
That's more than 30 per cent larger than scientists had thought.
"Nobody expected [planetary] rings to ever be this large," says lead author, Professor Douglas Hamilton of the University of Maryland.
"The textbooks all say that rings are small, located close to their planet."
Saturn's largest was originally discovered by Hamilton and colleagues in 2009, and is named after the Saturnian moon Phoebe, which is the source of the particles that make up the ring.
In the previous study the ring was detected between distances of 128 and 207 Saturn radii, but new measurements using NASA's WISE spacecraft have given the researchers a better picture and increased its size by 30 percent.
"Before we knew [the Phoebe ring] was big, but we didn't know exactly how big, and now we have that answer. It's nearly 300 times the size of the planet Saturn," says Hamilton.

Origami batteries like this one, developed by Binghamton University researcher Seokheun Choi, could one day power biosensors for use in remote locations.
Seokheun "Sean" Choi developed an inexpensive, bacteria-powered battery made from paper, he writes in the July edition of the journal Nano Energy.
The battery generates power from microbial respiration, delivering enough energy to run a paper-based biosensor with nothing more than a drop of bacteria-containing liquid. "Dirty water has a lot of organic matter," Choi says. "Any type of organic material can be the source of bacteria for the bacterial metabolism."
The method should be especially useful to anyone working in remote areas with limited resources. Indeed, because paper is inexpensive and readily available, many experts working on disease control and prevention have seized upon it as a key material in creating diagnostic tools for the developing world.
"Paper is cheap and it's biodegradable," Choi says. "And we don't need external pumps or syringes because paper can suck up a solution using capillary force."

Tyrannosaurus rex kely had a sense of smell only slightly less powerful than that of a modern house cat.
The red blood cells and collagen fibers were discovered by chance when Imperial College London's Sergio Bertazzo and Susannah Maidment were examining the buildup of calcium in human blood vessels. Bertazzo wanted to perform a few tests using electronic microscopes and ended up asking the Natural History Museum for some fossils to test his findings, according to the IB Times.
They received eight pieces, all estimated at 75 million years old.
What the pair found could prove we've consistently been looking at dinosaurs in the wrong way: it suggests that nearly every fossil science studied in the past century could contain similarly well-preserved blood and tissue samples, answering questions on dinosaur evolution, physiology, behavior, and whether their DNA could also be intact. From there on in, we're entering sci-fi territory.
The incident happened during standard testing of the Soyuz's docking system, Roscosmos press service reported on Tuesday. The spacecraft was being tested ahead of its planned return to Earth on June 11.
Our ride back to Earth Thursday, #Soyuz TMA-15M. Light for this photo was provided by the moon and stars. pic.twitter.com/qONMHQ94Za
— Terry W. Virts (@AstroTerry) June 9, 2015"Today, on June 9, 2015 at 18:32 MSK (15:32 GMT) during a scheduled testing of radio approach and docking system between the International Space Station and Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz's engines started inadvertently, which led to a slight change of ISS position," Roscosmos said.
The patent - filed in March 2013 and approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office last week - could revolutionize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as we know them, foregoing the need to refuel or recharge on land.
According to the patent, the electrically-powered drone would have a retractable tether cable that would connect to a power source. When the drone was fully charged, it would automatically fly off to continue its task, and another UAV could then take its place at the charging station.
The drone could be connected to a number of sources, including land- and sea-based power supplies. It could even be connected to moving vehicles, allowing the drone to fly while charging.
Comment: Let's all congratulate Boeing for making it easier for governments to spy on its citizens! Good job guys, no more pesky landings and refuelings to worry about.
Items like jeans, sweaters, jackets, carpets and even furniture could potentially be turned into an interactive device, to be used like a trackpad or button, according to Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), which is in charge of the development.
Project Jacquard - named after the inventor of a type of loom - was revealed during the internet giant's annual developers' conference in San Francisco on Friday.
"We are enabling interactive textiles," ATAP's Emre Karagozler said while showing off the new smart textiles. "We do it by weaving conductive threads into fabric."
Comment: "Not so smart clothes" might be a better name for this project. For more information listen to the latest Health and Wellness show on EMF Exposure to learn more about man-made sources of EMF, past study results, what you can do to measure your EMF exposure, and what steps you can take to minimize it.
Among the robot's most spectacular accomplishments is a party trick: being able to slice a runner bean lengthways.












Comment: Unfortunately these techniques will never be allowed to develop until we as a society can reign in psychopathic corporations (like Monsanto) and their psychopathic minions in the halls of academia, finance and government. We can all boycott, tweet and share articles like the above in order to help facilitate real change though.