Wireless Homopolar Motor strange phenomenon

Most amazing strange phenomenon - simple wireless homopolar motor! Homopolar motor with no battery wire. Build your own fastest. Are you tired of stupid experiments? 

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MIT engineers develop new glucose-powered implantable medical device

MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brainimplants of the future, which could help paralyzed patients move their arms and legs again.

The fuel cell, described in the June 12 edition of the journal PLoS ONE, strips electrons from glucose molecules to create a small electric current. The researchers, led by Rahul Sarpeshkar, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, fabricated the fuel cell on a silicon chip, allowing it to be integrated with other circuits that would be needed for a brain implant.

The idea of a glucose fuel cell is not new: In the 1970s, scientists showed they could power a pacemaker with a glucose fuel cell, but the idea was abandoned in favor of lithium-ion batteries, which could provide significantly more power per unit area than glucose fuel cells. These glucose fuel cells also utilized enzymes that proved to be impractical for long-term implantation in the body, since they eventually ceased to function efficiently.

The new twist to the MIT fuel cell described in PLoS ONE is that it is fabricated from silicon, using the same technology used to make semiconductor electronic chips. The fuel cell has no biological components: It consists of a platinum catalyst that strips electrons from glucose, mimicking the activity of cellular enzymes that break down glucose to generate ATP, the cell's energy currency. (Platinum has a proven record of long-term biocompatibility within the body.) So far, the fuel cell can generate up to hundreds of microwatts - enough to power an ultra-low-power and clinically useful neural implant.

"It will be a few more years into the future before you see people with spinal-cord injuries receive such implantable systems in the context of standard medical care, but those are the sorts of devices you could envision powering from a glucose-based fuel cell," says Benjamin Rapoport, a former graduate student in the Sarpeshkar lab and the first author on the new MIT study.

Rapoport calculated that in theory, the glucose fuel cell could get all the sugar it needs from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that bathes the brain and protects it from banging into the skull. There are very few cells in the CSF, so it's highly unlikely that an implant located there would provoke an immune response. There is also significant glucose in the CSF, which does not generally get used by the body. Since only a small fraction of the available power is utilized by the glucose fuel cell, the impact on the brain's function would likely be small.

A team of researchers at Brown University, Massachusetts General Hospital and other institutions recently demonstrated that paralyzed patients could use a brain-machine interface to move a robotic arm; those implants have to be plugged into a wall outlet.

Mimicking biology with microelectronics

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What next after the Higgs?

What next after the Higgs? Scientists use huge telescope buried 8000ft under South Pole to hunt for ANOTHER mystery particle

• World's biggest telescope to hunt for mysterious 'neutrinos'
• Particles could help explain origin of universe
• Mega-detector built 8,000ft under ice near South Pole
• Machine took 10 years to build

Scientists are using the world's biggest telescope, buried deep under the South Pole, to try to unravel the mysteries of tiny particles known as neutrinos
The discovery could shed light on how the universe was made.
The mega-detector, called IceCube, took 10 years to build 8,000ft below the Antarctic ice.
At one cubic km, it is bigger than the Empire State building, the Chicago Sears Tower - now known as Willis Tower - and Shanghai's World Financial Center combined.

The final Digital Optical Module (DOM) descends down a bore hole in the ice as it is deployed in the IceCube array, the world's largest neutrino observatory, built under the Antarctic tundra near the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

The IceCube array uses strings of sensors taht are lowered down deep boreholes in the ice. The IceTop has two layers of detectors just below the surface. The Eiffel Tower is depicted, bottom right, to show the detector's size

WHAT ARE NEUTRINOS - AND WHY ARE WE LOOKING FOR THEM?

Very little is known about neutrinos, but they are believed to carry information about the birth of our galaxy and the mystery of black holes.

Physicists think that they are born when violent cosmic events, such as colliding galaxies or distant black holes, occur at the very edges of the universe.
Able to travel billions of light years through space without being absorbed or deflected either by magnetic fields or by atoms, these mysterious high-energy particles could provide answers to some of the most fundamental questions about the universe.

Designed to observe neutrinos, which are emitted by exploding stars and move close to the speed of light, the telescope is attracting new attention in the wake of last week's discovery of a particle that appears to be the Higgs boson - a basic building block of the universe.
‘You hold up your finger and a hundred billion neutrinos pass through it every second from the sun,’ said Jenni Adams, a physicist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who works on IceCube.
IceCube is essentially a string of light detectors buried in the ice through hot water drilling. When neutrinos, which are everywhere, interact in the ice, they produce charged particles that then create light, which can be detected.
The ice acts as a net that isolates the neutrinos, making them easier to observe. It also protects the telescope from potentially damaging radiation.
‘If a supernova goes off in our galaxy now, we can detect hundreds of neutrinos with IceCube,’ Adams told reporters at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Melbourne.
‘We won't be able to see them individually, but the whole detector will just light up like a massive fireworks display.’

Artist's impression of a 'Cerenkov light cone' passing through the IceCube telescope, left. IceCube will encompass AMANDA (yellow cylinder), right, a smaller neutrino detector. The coloured dots show where the passage of a neutrino has been detected by the modules as it passes through the array

Scientists are attempting to track the particles to discover their points of origin, in the hope that will give clues on what happens in space, particularly in unseen parts of the universe known as dark matter.
Before IceCube was completed in 2010, scientists had observed just 14 neutrinos. With the huge new instrument, paired with another telescope in the Mediterranean, hundreds of neutrinos have been detected.
So far, all of those have been created in the earth's atmosphere, but IceCube scientists hope to eventually detect those from space.
‘Neutrinos ... will point back to where they came from,’ Adams said.

Read more: DAILY MAIL

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Comment trouver les mots clés les plus recherchés sur Google ?

Pour ceux qui désirent savoir quels sont les mots clés les plus recherchés sur Google, il existe un moyen très simple d'y parvenir. Ces informations peuvent être très utiles pour les webmasters puisque des mots clés utilisés dans vos sites Internet dépend votre nombre de visiteurs. Alors voici comment savoir quels mots sont indispensables dans les titres de vos sites et blogs.

Étapes de réalisation

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The Great Life.

En premier lieu, il faut entrer les mots clés suivants dans votre moteur de recherche Google : 'google trends'.
Ce sont ces mots clés qui vous donneront accès au site spécialisé de Google.

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Cliquez sur le premier lien qui apparaît dans les réponses et une page nommée 'Google trends Lab' s'ouvre déjà avec les 'Today's Hot Trends (USA) '. Ce sont les mots clés les plus recherchés sur Google aux USA.

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Faites maintenant une première recherche avec n'importe quel mot clé qui vous intéresse et la page qui s'ouvre vous donnera accès à beaucoup d'autres options.

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Sur cette nouvelle page, vous pouvez connaître les mots clés les plus recherchés dans le monde, en France, en Espagne, en Italie, en Chine ou n'importe quel pays. C'est ici que cela commence à devenir très intéressant puisque vous pouvez connaître et cibler les mots clés que vous utiliserez sur vos sites ou blogs afin de toucher un maximum d'internautes. Les possibilités sont infinies puisqu'il est aussi possible de connaître les mots clés les plus recherchés dans des catégories très précises.
Pour les plus ambitieux, les graphiques que livre Google Trends sont très intéressants puisque cela permet de voir presque en temps réel la baisse ou la hausse de certains mots. Utile pour les sites ou blogs nécessitant une mise à jour très réactive.

Source : Comment fait on !

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Le Top 5 des mots les plus recherchés aux Etats-Unis en 2008

Le Top 5 des mots les plus recherchés aux Etats-Unis en 2008

Qui a dit que les américains n'avaient pas de vocabulaire? Si c'est le cas, nos amis de chez l'Oncle Sam se soignent et cherchent à maîtriser perfaitement les termes clés de l'actualité... Ainsi, le dictionnaire en ligne gratuit Merriam-Webster qui recense 125 millions de pages vues par mois et 10 consultations par seconde a rendu public son palmarès 2008 des mots les plus recherchés.

Top five des "mots que les Américains ont entendus et lus tous les jours en 2008 et dont ils ne sont pas sûrs de connaître l'exacte définition":

Number 1: "Bailout" (plan de sauvetage)

Terriblement d'actualité, ce terme se réfère bien sûr au contexte économique - les Etats-Unis sont officiellement entrés en récession hier - et au plan de 700 milliards de dollars proposé par le secrétaire au Trésor américain, Henry Paulson, destiné à sauver les banques de la faillite.

Henry Paulson, secrétaire au Trésor U.S. Son plan de sauvetage des banques 
a véritablement été au centre des préoccupations sémantiques des Américains en 2008.

2: "(to) Vet" (vérifier)

Ce verbe qui signifie également "apporter des soins vétérinaires" se réfère ici au processus de vérification auquels sont soumis les candidats aux plus hautes responsabilités exécutives avant que leur nomination ne soit soumise au vote du Sénat. L'équipe du président élu Barack Obama a procédé récemment à la vérification de l'irréprochabilité morale de son prochain attorney general (ministre de la justice), Eric Holder. Une telle transparence démocratique dans le processus de nomination paraît très exotique pour nous, Français. Notre régime monarcho-présidentiel ne prenant pas la peine de vérifier les diplômes de sa Garde des Sceaux ou si le directeur de cabinet de sa Ministre au Logement n'occupe pas abusivement un logement HLM...

3: "Socialism" (socialisme)

Les américains se sont-ils passionnés pour la laborieuse désignation du Premier Secrétaire du Parti Socialiste français au congrès de Reims pour s'intéresser subitement à la définition de ce mot diabolisé depuis le maccarthysme? Of course not. Il semblerait qu'enfin, nos amis yankees cherchent à connaître la réelle définition de ce mot, utilisé à tort et à travers par les opposants au plan Paulson qui s'insurgeaient contre la nationalisation des banques menacées de faillite.

4: "Maverick" ( franc-tireur, éléctron libre)

Voilà un mot rigolo, difficilement traduisible en français. Son origine est liée au baron Samuel A. Maverick, pionnier texan du XIXe siècle qui avait la particularité de ne pas marquer ses moutons. Ce mot a été utilisé pendant toute la campagne présidentielle américaine pour définir le candidat républicain malheureux John McCain. Celui-ci s'est en effet distingué des néo-conservateurs dominant le parti républicain pendant toute sa carrière par des positionnements "centristes" (pro-choix par exemple). Ce qui était alors son plus grand défaut est devenu son argument clé pour se désolidariser de la politique execrée du président sortant,George Bush.

5: "Bipartisan" (bi-partisan)

Cet adjectif, en référence à la situation politique bipolaire des Etats-Unis, est utilisé pour désigner une commission ou un groupe de travail où Républicains et Démocrates sont équitablement répartis. C'était le cas de la commission chargée de valider le plan Paulson.

Dans un genre beaucoup plus léger, rappelons que le mot "cassoulet" a enregistré un pic d'interrogations sur Google et fait l'objet d'une création de fiche Wikipédia après que l'équipe du petit journal de Yann Barthès sur Canal+ ait brandi une pancarte "cassoulet" sur Times Square le soir de l'élection... >

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SEVEN SECRETS To a Great Life

By Kathy Gates

A great life doesn’t happen by accident. A great life is the result of

allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want

your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start

setting up your life to support success and ease. A great life is the result

of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just

what comes next. Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style,

and start creating your own great life today!

We can change our life to the best .... by simple steps

1. S – Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life.

People often misinterpret what simplify means. It’s not a way to remove work

from your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy

and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here.

In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours

first.

2. E – Effort. A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a

great life requires that you make some adjustments. It may mean

re-evaluating how you spend your time, or choosing to spend your money in a

different way. It may mean looking for new ways to spend your energy that

coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward

your best effort.

3. C – Create Priorities. A great life is the result of creating

priorities. It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing

that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and

money you have in a way that’s important to you. Focus on removing the

obstacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your

priorities.

4. R – Reserves. A great life is the result of having reserves – reserves of things,

time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need

- not 6 months living expenses, but 5 years worth; not 15 minutes of free time, 1 day.

Reserves are important because they reduce the

fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you

really want instead of what the fear decides for you.

5. E – Eliminate distractions. A great life is the result of eliminating

distractions. Up to 75% of your mental energy can be tied up in things that

are draining and distracting you. Eliminating distractions can be a difficult

concept to many people, since they haven’t really considered that there is

another way to live. Look around at someone’s life you admire. What

do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them

how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are

more important to you.

6. T – Thoughts. A great life is the result of controlling your thoughts so

that you accept and allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to

you! Your belief in the outcome will directly dictate how successful you

are. Motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to achieve them.

Believing there is a solution to the same old problems you encounter year

after year is vitally important to creating a life that you love. Whatever

you think and believe, you create. Listen to what you’re telling yourself,

and adjust that voice if you need to.

7. S – Start! A great life is the result of starting. There’s the old

saying everyone’s familiar with “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a

single step.” In order to even move from the couch to the refrigerator, you

have to start. There’s no better time to start than today. Don’t wait for a

raise, or until the kids get older, or the weather is better. Today, right

now, is the right day to start to take a step in the direction of your

heart’s desires. It’s what you do TODAY that will make a difference in your

life tomorrow.

Kathy Gates is a Personal Life Coach who believes that “Life Rewards Action”

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