• New evidence that fat cells are not just dormant storage depots for calories

  Scientists are reporting new evidence that the fat tissue — far from being a dormant storage depot for surplus calories — is an active organ that sends chemical signals to other parts of the body, perhaps increasing the risk of heart attacks, cancer, and other diseases. They are reporting discovery of 20 new hormones and other [...]

• Supercomputing on a cell phone

  Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed software that can simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels — on an ordinary smartphone. Although the current version of the software is for demonstration purposes, the work could lead to applications that let engineers [...]

• Personalized energy systems for heating, cooling, and powering cars

  MIT researchers have developed a new concept of personalized energy systems, in which individual homes and small businesses produce their own energy for heating, cooling and powering cars. “Our goal is to make each home its own power station,” said study leader Daniel Nocera, Ph.D of MIT. “We’re working toward development of ‘personalized’ energy units that [...]

• Apple TV Is the One You Date, Google TV Is the One You Marry

  Google TV and Apple TV, introduced Wednesday, both aim to redefine the home entertainment experience by creating a seamless system for viewing movies, videos, and music from various sources on a TV.

• Google’s Earth

  “In Google, we are at once the surveilled and the individual retinal cells of the surveillant, however many millions of us, constantly if unconsciously participatory,” opines novelist William Gibson. ”We are part of a post-geographical, post-national super-state, one that handily says no to China. Or yes, depending on profit considerations and strategy. But we do not [...]

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

People are picking and choosing their religious ideals and beliefs from a variety of religions, customizing their own personal belief system, - resulting in what he terms "designer religion."

A glossary of words originating from feudal history.

Since 1978, the nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation has been working to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of nontheists. Members include freethinkers from all 50 states, Canada, and other countries. The Foundation monitors abuses of the separation of state and church, taking lawsuits and officially complaining about such abuses.

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

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.

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Located in Virginia Beach, VA, Atlantic University offers a graduate program in transpersonal studies that is designed specifically for adults interested in exploring the self in a liberal learning context. This program is unique in that it introduces the student to the multiple dimensions of holistic living and encourages the process of personal growth. The degree program is available as a distance-learning program which may include limited residential experiences. The interdisciplinary nature of the program provides students with a variety of learning experiences as well as exposure to alternative methods of education.

The Tesseract, a look into 4-dimensional space

This web server comprises a complete repository for Fuzzy Logic and NeuroFuzzy applications. It contains free simulation software, case studies, and product information.