Programmable Cells. Living Computers

This may be old news to you, maybe you'll have something to add. I remember reading about this a few years ago, how they can give a living cella positive or negative charge to run the computer. How long until they grow computers

Programmable Cells: Engineer Turns Bacteria Into Living Computers


Programmable Cells

ScienceDaily (Apr. 28, 2005) — In a step toward making living cells function as if they were tiny computers, engineers at Princeton have programmed bacteria to communicate with each other and produce color-coded patterns.
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Heres another article on creating a living computer
"US researchers have created ‘living computers’ by genetically altering bacteria. The findings of the research, published in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Biological Engineering, demonstrate that computing in living cells is feasible, opening the door to a number of applications including data storage and as a tool for manipulating genes for genetic engineering. "


Heres a more in depthPDF report on Programmable Cells

125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer

125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
Total Is About Double The U.S. Troop Death Toll In Iraq


"CHICAGO (CBS) ― An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.

In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded in the city."


WTF CHI

Indigenous Revolution

Responding to dramatic protests by indigenous groups, Peru has repealed land laws that would have allowed corporations to buy Amazonian tribal lands more easily.
(more @ Reality Sandwich)

In Search of the "God Particle"

Scientists flipped the switch on the controversial Large Hadron Collider this week. Critics say it will destroy the Earth while proponents believe it will uncover the make-up of the universe.

(more @ Reality Sandwich)

Laptops can be confiscated and searched at US border without cause

Hide your porn and terrorist activies

"In further evidence of our rapidly eroding civil liberties, the Department of Homeland Security disclosed today that US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have the right to confiscate and search a traveler's laptop or other electronic device without any suspicion of wrongdoing. The rules allow for searches of hard drives, flash drives, cellphones, iPods, pagers, and video or audio tapes, and specify that the agencies can "detain" belongings for a "reasonable period of time," (i.e., as long as they please). Additionally, the DHS can share the data found with other government agencies or private entities for translation, decryption, or (astoundingly vague) "other reasons." The DHS says the policies apply to anyone entering the country -- including US citizens -- and claim the measures are necessary to prevent terrorism. In other news, Big Brother issued a statement today guaranteeing a bonus for turning over family members suspected of crimethink to the Thought Police."
from engaget


Maybe they couldn't figure out how to use torrents to get their music and porn.

Law has proclaimed every living thing illegal… literally.

Law has proclaimed every living thing illegal… literally.
http://teleomorph.com/

DMT, “the spirit molecule,” has been shown to be part of the biochemical make-up of tens of thousands of organisms, from plants to reptiles and mammals. Current evidence points to the conclusion that it is a constituent of every plant & animal. DMT is everywhere. DMT also provides the most profound and curious psychedelic experience available when taken from an outside source. Theories as to why it is made in human bodies strongly suggest a relation with dream-states and possibly physical transition states such as birth and death. It is also involved in spontaneous mystical states and percieved phenomena such as ‘the third eye.’ DMT is illegal (schedule 1) and only one scientist has been allowed to even look at it’s effetcs in the past 40 years. …What is wrong with this picture?

The following video is interesting because it is a point of view from someone who has never experimented with DMT (other than the fact we are all already on it, so to speak). So while there are erroneous conclusions at least he isn’t weighed down with the rhapsodic impulse to language the mystery for the world that so many of the intiated have betokened.

=P

“DMT Is Everywhere. DMT is… in this flower here, in that tree over there, and in yonder animal. It is, most simply, almost everywhere you choose to look.” Alexander Shulgin

Liquid spheres

Amazing home chemistry experiment to turn water into spheres



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