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Transient Smartphone Blindness: Looking at Your Smartphone in Bed Could Lead to Temporary blindness

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Doctors have reported that using cellphones in the dark caused temporary blindness in two women. </div>
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In a <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1514294">New England Journal of Medicine  article titled “transient smartphone </a><u><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1514294">blindness</a></u><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1514294">”</a>, it was reported that two women, ages 22 and 40, had complained of having  recurring vision loss for to 15 minutes. They ran several medical tests  which were inconclusive. It was an eye specialist who discovered the cause of their blindness. </div>
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According to Dr. Gordon Plant of Moorfield’s Eye Hospital in London.<br />
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“I simply asked them, ’What exactly were you doing when this happened?’” He explained that both women typically looked at their smartphones with only one eye while resting on their side in bed in the dark — their other eye was covered by the pillow.<br />
“So you have one eye adapted to the light because it’s looking at the phone and the other eye is adapted to the dark,” he said.</blockquote>
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Thank goodness the problem isn’t caused by just checking your smartphone in bed, because I dislike that almost every night. The issue is having one eye on the screen and the other covered by a pillow. Where the phone eye adapts to the light by being less dilated, the pillow eye is more dilated and adapts to the dark. After the phone is switched off, the phone eye takes a while to adjust to the dark and catch up to the pillow eye, causing the feeling of temporary blindness. There wasn’t any true vision loss, but it was an effect similar to how we feel “blind” right when we go into a dark room after being outside.</div>
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The phenomenon is called <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1514294">“transient smartphone blindness”</a> and is totally avoidable if we use both eyes to check our phones in dark. Ironically, I also typed this with my smartphone in dark. Although some experts have said two cases weren’t enough to prove that one-eyed smartphone use in the dark caused the problem. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/23/smartphone-users-temporarily-blinded-looking-screen-in-bed">Dr. Rahul Khurana</a>, a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, called it a fascinating hypothesis and said he and his wife recreated the scenario but found it difficult checking their smartphone with just one eye.</div>
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Even if we eventually don't go blind through this, it's best not to look at bright screens in the dark. Good thing some smartphones come with nightmode. You sleep best in total darkness. </div>
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[<a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1514294">NEJM</a> via <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/23/smartphone-users-temporarily-blinded-looking-screen-in-bed">the Guardian</a> and <a href="http://gizmodo.com/two-women-go-blind-after-checking-phone-in-bed-1782485530">Gizmodo</a>]</div>
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Meet the Newest Elements of the Periodic Table

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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>"Hello, Helen Look broken bottle can not overflow Nile, So may all silly people suffer cholera aginst Potassium Calcium"</i> - This was my own mnemonics for the first 20 elements of the periodic table in my early high school years.</span></h2>
<i>Hello</i> (Hydrogen) <i>Helen</i> (Helium) <i>Look</i> (Lithium) <i>Broken</i> (Beryllium) <i>Bottle</i> (Boron) <i>Can</i> (Carbon) <i>Not</i> (Nitrogen) <i>Overflow</i> (Oxygen, fluorine)<i> Nile </i>(Neon) <i>So</i> (Sodium) <i>May</i> (Magnesium) <i>All </i>(Aluminium)  <i>Silly</i> (Silicon) <i>People</i> (Phosphorus) <i>Suffer</i> (Sulphur) <i>Cholera</i> (Chlorine) <i>Against</i> (Argon) <i>Potassium and Calcium </i>remain unchanged.<br />
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Back in high school we went all the way to the first 50 elements and memorized all their properties. It wasn't fun back then because sometimes we get spanked for failing to recite correctly.<br />
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Today the periodic table isn't the same as back then. New elements have been added to the periodic table. In December 2015, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row of the periodic table. On December 30, it announced that a Russian-U.S. collaboration had attained sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118. IUPAC awarded credit for the discovery of element 113 to scientists at RIKEN in Wako, Japan. Note that these elements are not naturally occurring, they were synthesized by slamming lighter nuclei into each other and tracking the decay of the radioactive superheavy elements that followed.<br />
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After a five-month review period and IUPAC approval, the names for new elements will become official. As is traditional in chemistry, the naming rights go to the discoverers. So in line with convention, the proposed names for the four elements are derived from scientists’ names and geographical locations of research institutes. </div>
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Element 113 will be called “nihonium" with chemical symbol Nh. Its name comes from the Japanese word “Nihon,” or “Land of the Rising Sun,” a name for Japan.</div>
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Element 115 is to be known as “moscovium,” shortened to Mc. It is named after the Moscow region, home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, where the element was discovered in collaboration with researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.</div>
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The proposed name for element 117 is “tennessine,” after the home state of Oak Ridge, Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee. It will bear the symbol Ts.</div>
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Element 118 will be named oganesson, or Og, after Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian, who contributed to the discovery of several superheavy elements.</div>
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Tech Miracles: 25 Year Old lived Without a Heart for More than a Year

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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">25 Year Old Stan Larkin had his heart removed in 2014 after he and his older brother, Dominique, were diagnosed with familial cardiomyopathy, a genetic condition that’s known to cause heart failure without warning. The heart condition is one of the leading causes of death in otherwise healthy athletes.</span></span></h2>
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Stan Larkin lived for 555 days through an artificial heart he wore as a backpack while waiting for a transplant. His older brother didn't have to wait too long like Stan. Dominique got a transplant after using the artificial heart for few weeks.</div>
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According to the surgeon behind the transplant, Jonathan Haft, from the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Centre. </div>
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They were both very, very ill when we first met them in our intensive care units. We wanted to get them heart transplants, but we didn't think we had enough time. There's just something about their unique anatomic situation where other technology wasn't going to work.</blockquote>
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The artificial hearts, known as a SynCardia device, weighs about 13.5 pounds and is connected to the vascular system, pumping oxygenated blood throughout the body. Rather than stay in the hospital, Larkin used the wearable Freedom® portable driver to keep the artificial heart going.</div>
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Stan amazed doctors with just how far he was able to push the envelope, even enjoying the occasional game of pickup basketball while carrying around his artificial heart.</div>
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Larkin got his donor heart in May this 2016 and has now fully recovered from the procedure.</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160603072131.htm" target="_blank">"From a heart in a backpack to a heart transplant."</a> ScienceDaily. </b></div>
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How Well Do You Know Basic Science Concepts Compared to Americans? Take this Simple Test

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While surfing the net, I came across this <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/content/chapter-7/chapter-7.pdf">report</a> by <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/">The National Science Foundation</a> (NSF)  of how well the American public knows basic science concepts. It turns out, not so well. In fact, one in four people are convinced that the sun orbits the Earth. </div>
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You can also know where your basic science skills stand compared to other Americans by answering the 10 questions from the NSF. It's easy I got a perfect score you can too <br />
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1) The center of the Earth is very hot. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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2) Continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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3) Does the Earth go around the sun, or does the sun go around the Earth?</div>
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4) All radioactivity is man-made. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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5) Electrons are smaller than atoms. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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6) Lasers work by focusing sound waves. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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7) The Universe began with a huge explosion. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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8) It's the father's gene that decides if the baby is a boy of girl. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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9) Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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10) Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. TRUE or FALSE?</div>
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<b>1. The center of the Earth is very hot.</b></div>
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<b>TRUE.</b></div>
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It's really, really hot. It's about 6,000 degrees Celsius (10,832 degrees Fahrenheit). The discovery of Earth's inner core is attributed to Dr. Inge Lehmann, who was a seismologist in the 1920s. She studied at a progressive school in Copenhagen, which dared to assume that women could match men in intellectual capabilities.</div>
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About 16% of your fellow Americans answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>2. Continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move.</b></div>
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<b>TRUE.</b></div>
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Alfred Wegener must have been awesome at building puzzles. He noticed in the early 1900s that the Atlantic coastlines seemed to match up, like a puzzle. This led him to theorize that perhaps all the landmasses were at one time connected. He caught a good deal of flack for this crazy hypothesis, but it turned out to be true. Later work by Henry Hess on seafloor spread supported Wegner's idea aboutPangaea.</div>
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About 17% answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>3. Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?</b></div>
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<b>THE EARTH GOES AROUND THE SUN.</b></div>
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Copernicus is often credited with this discovery in the 1500s, but it was actually a claim made as early as 200 BC by Samos.</div>
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About 26% answered this question incorrectly. Sigh.</div>
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<b>4. All radioactivity is man-made.</b></div>
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<b>FALSE.</b></div>
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Radioactivity is the result of the decay of an unstable atom. Radioactive materialsare all around us and have always existed. Humans have also made a few, like Einsteinium.</div>
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Radioactivity was discovered byHenri Becquerel in the late 1800s by accident when he was researchingphosphorescence. Becquerel went on to become a Nobel Laureate.</div>
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About 28% answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>5. Electrons are smaller than atoms.</b></div>
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The discovery of subatomic particles has been a group effort. The latest piece of the puzzle has been the discovery of the Higgs boson. Electrons were discovered by J.J. Thomson in the late 1800s, and because they are a subatomic particle, it's safe to say that they're smaller than an atom.</div>
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About 47% answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>6. Lasers work by focusing sound waves.</b></div>
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<b>FALSE.</b></div>
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The first laser was made by Theodore Maiman in 1960. Interestingly, he built it because he just thought it was cool. Maiman has said, "A laser is a solution seeking a problem." We now use lasers for everything from scientific applications to printing.</div>
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About 53% answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>7. The universe began with a huge explosion.</b></div>
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The Big Bang Theory took root in the 1920s with the help of Georges LeMaitre, who laid the theoretical groundwork based on Einstien's Theory of Relativity. However, he had no data to back up his theories, just the mathematical model that it was possible, so most scientists ignored him.</div>
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Even Einstein wasn't on board with this new idea just yet, but by the end of the 1920s, Edwin Hubble added the data to support this idea. Hubble observed that galaxies that were further away were moving faster than those closer to use supporting the idea of an <a href="http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_expansion.html">expanding universe</a>.</div>
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About 61% answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>8. It's the father's gene that decides if the baby is a boy of girl.</b></div>
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Sorry, ladies. This one is always up the the guy. In 1902, geneticist Walter Sutton discovered the sex chromosomes. Not all animals determine sex by the same biological mechanism. Some organisms have a completely different system, and this threw a wrench in convincing the scientific community that the X and Y chromosomes determined the sex of a baby. However, this got sorted out by E.B. Wilson, who discovered two major mechanism of sex determination that accounted for all species.</div>
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About 37% answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>9. Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria.</b></div>
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<b>FALSE.</b></div>
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Viruses are one of the strangest and most awesome things. I say things because they're not living, but rather just a piece of DNA or RNA floating around in a protective shell looking to break into your body and take over you cells. Dmitri Ivanovsky was the first to discover these alien-like infectious agents in 1892 while looking to solve the mystery of infected tobacco plants in the Ukraine. Because viruses hijack host cells, they are not able to be attacked by drugs like antibiotics. To do so would mean that your own cells would be targeted for destruction.</div>
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About 49% answered this question incorrectly.</div>
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<b>10. Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.</b></div>
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<b>TRUE.</b></div>
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There's so much evidence on this one that it could be a book. In fact, there already are thousands. Thoughts and ideas about the evolution of humans began in the scientific community in the 1700s with Georges-Louis Leclerc. Over time, the idea was ruminated on by many scientists, but Darwin's seminal work On the Origin of Species gave it traction. Darwin knew that his proof of evolution would cause such an uproar that he was silent about his data for more than 20 years. He only published it because Alfred Russel Wallace found the same evidence and was about to publish his work. Darwin may have wanted to avoid controversy, but not at the expense of infamy.</div>
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Nikola Tesla-The World's finest Inventor?

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Let’s take a look at what Nikola Tesla — a man who died broke and alone — has actually given to the world.  For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of the planet in ways that perhaps no man ever has.<br />
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Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.<br />
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Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal "mad scientist". His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. He lived most of his life in a series of New York hotels, through his retirement. Tesla died on 7 January 1943. His work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.<br />
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Incredible Memory</h4>
Tesla read many works, memorizing complete books, and supposedly possessed a photographic memory.He was a polyglot, speaking eight languages: Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin.: Tesla related in his autobiography that he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. During his early life, Tesla was repeatedly stricken with illness. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions. Often, the visions were linked to a word or idea he might have come across; at other times they would provide the solution to a particular problem he had encountered. Just by hearing the name of an item, he would be able to envision it in realistic detail. Tesla would visualize an invention in his mind with extreme precision, including all dimensions, before moving to the construction stage, a technique sometimes known as picture thinking. He typically did not make drawings by hand but worked from memory. Beginning in his childhood, Tesla had frequent flashbacks to events that had happened previously in his life.<br />
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Sleep habits</h4>
Tesla claimed to never sleep more than two hours. However, Tesla did admit to "dozing" from time to time "to recharge his batteries."<br />
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During his second year of study at Graz, Tesla developed a passion for (and became very proficient at) billiards, chess and card-playing, sometimes spending more than 48 hours in a stretch at a gaming table.On one occasion at his laboratory, Tesla worked for a period of 84 hours without sleep or rest.Kenneth Swezey, a journalist whom Tesla had befriended, confirmed that Tesla rarely slept. Swezey recalled one morning when Tesla called him at 3 a.m.: "I was sleeping in my room like one dead ... Suddenly, the telephone ring awakened me ... [Tesla] spoke animatedly, with pauses, [as he] ... work[ed] out a problem, comparing one theory to another, commenting; and when he felt he had arrived at the solution, he suddenly closed the telephone."<br />
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Relationships</h4>
Tesla never married; he said his chastity was very helpful to his scientific abilities.However, toward the end of his life, he told a reporter, "Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work ..." There have been numerous accounts of women vying for Tesla's affection, even some madly in love with him.Tesla, though polite and soft-spoken, did not have any known relationships.<br />
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Tesla was asocial and prone to seclude himself with his work.However, when he did engage in a social life, many people spoke very positively and admiringly of Tesla. Robert Underwood Johnson described him as attaining a "distinguished sweetness, sincerity, modesty, refinement, generosity, and force." His loyal secretary, Dorothy Skerrit, wrote: "his genial smile and nobility of bearing always denoted the gentlemanly characteristics that were so ingrained in his soul." Tesla's friend, Julian Hawthorne, wrote, "seldom did one meet a scientist or engineer who was also a poet, a philosopher, an appreciator of fine music, a linguist, and a connoisseur of food and drink."<br />
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A look at some of his inventions </h3>
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1. Alternating Current</h4>
This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World’s Expo in Chicago.  A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be produced and distributed.  The division can be summarized as one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by General Electric) had been working on was costly over long distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required converter (called a commutator).  Regardless, Edison and his backers utilized the general “dangers” of electric current to instill fear in Nikola Tesla’s alternative: Alternating Current.  As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations.  Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Tesla’s attempt to offer safety at a lower cost.  Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own body to produce light.  This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse) feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla’s inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla’s system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era.<br />
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2. Light</h4>
Of course Nikola Tesla didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed.  Tesla developed and used fluorescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry “invented” them. At the World’s Fair, Tesla took glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists’ names, in effect creating the first neon signs.  However, it is his Tesla Coil that might be the most impressive, and controversial.  The Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing frequencies as a transmitter.  All that is needed on the other end is the receiver — much like a radio.<br />
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3. X-rays</h4>
Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Nikola Tesla researched the entire gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography, which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of which Tesla played a central role.  X-rays, like so many of Tesla’s contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world devices to augment our innate perception of existence.<br />
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4. Radio</h4>
Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day.  However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patent in 1943, when it was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to Marconi.  Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in 1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light Association.  In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents  US 645576, and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi’s financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Nikola Tesla.<br />
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5. Remote Control</h4>
This invention was a natural outcropping of radio. Patent No. 613809 was the first remote controlled model boat, demonstrated in 1898.  Utilizing several large batteries; radio signals controlled switches, which then energized the boat’s propeller, rudder, and scaled-down running lights. While this exact technology was not widely used for some time, we now can see the power that was appropriated by the military in its pursuit of remote controlled war. Radio controlled tanks were introduced by the Germans in WWII, and developments in this realm have since slid quickly away from the direction of human freedom.<br />
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6. Electric Motor</h4>
Nikola Tesla’s invention of the electric motor has finally been popularized by a car brandishing his name.  While the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this summary, suffice to say that Tesla’s invention of a motor with rotating magnetic fields could have freed mankind much sooner from the stranglehold of Big Oil.  However, his invention in 1930 succumbed to the economic crisis and the world war that followed. Nevertheless, this invention has fundamentally changed the landscape of what we now take for granted: industrial fans, household appliances, water pumps, machine tools, power tools, disk drives, electric wristwatches and compressors.<br />
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7. Robotics</h4>
Nikola Tesla’s overly enhanced scientific mind led him to the idea that all living beings are merely driven by external impulses.  He stated: “I have by every thought and act of mine, demonstrated, and does so daily, to my absolute satisfaction that I am an automaton endowed with power of movement, which merely responds to external stimuli.”  Thus, the concept of the robot was born.  However, an element of the human remained present, as Tesla asserted that these human replicas should have limitations — namely growth and propagation. Nevertheless, Nikola Tesla unabashedly embraced all of what intelligence could produce.  His visions for a future filled with intelligent cars, robotic human companions, and the use of sensors, and autonomous systems are detailed in a must-read entry in the <a href="http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/ft.aspx?id=1451-48690603163V" target="_blank">Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2006 (PDF)</a>.<br />
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8. Laser</h4>
Nikola Tesla’s invention of the laser may be one of the best examples of the good and evil bound up together within the mind of man.  Lasers have transformed surgical applications in an undeniably beneficial way, and they have given rise to much of our current digital media. However, with this leap in innovation we have also crossed into the land of science fiction.  From Reagan’s “Star Wars” laser defense system to today’s Orwellian “non-lethal” weapons’ arsenal, which includes laser rifles and directed energy “death rays,” there is great potential for development in both directions.<br />
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9 and 10. Wireless Communications and Limitless Free Energy</h4>
These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite — what good is energy if it can’t be metered and controlled?  Free?  Never.  J.P. Morgan backed Nikola Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text.  This represented the world’s first wireless communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy around them.  Essentially, the 0’s and 1’s of the universe are embedded in the fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed.  Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge.  But we know the ending to that story . . . until now?<br />
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Nikola Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions that remain unreleased.  A look at his <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yvwev4" target="_blank">hundreds of patents</a> shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer. <br />
Tesla was not a savvy businessman and suffered financially, despite his achievements. He lost financial backing from Morgan, who felt he couldn’t profit from Tesla’s wireless electricity concept, and sold his assets to make up for dual foreclosures on Wardenclyffe. The property was later sold to a film processing company. In 1917, the U.S. government demolished Tesla’s partially completed tower because it worried German spies would use it to intercept communications during World War I.<br />
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For additional information visit <a href="http://releaseteslasresearch.weebly.com/">http://releaseteslasresearch.weebly.com/</a><br />
Link to FBI's Declassified Nikola Tesla files: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/76666455/FBI-Declassified-Nikola-Tesla-Files-Otkriveni-FBI-tajni-dosije-o-Nikoli-Tesli-Pages-1-249">http://www.scribd.com/doc/76666455/FBI-Declassified-Nikola-Tesla-Files-Otkriveni-FBI-tajni-dosije-o-Nikoli-Tesli-Pages-1-249</a><br />
<a href="http://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/nikola-tesla-part-01-of-01-1/view">http://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/nikola-tesla-part-01-of-01-1/view</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/10-inventions-of-nikola-tesla-that.html" target="_blank">Source</a><br />
Additional Sources: <a href="http://energy.gov/articles/top-11-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla">http://energy.gov/articles/top-11-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla</a><br />
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Science Nikola Tesla-The World's finest Inventor?

Let’s take a look at what Nikola Tesla — a man who died broke and alone — has actually given to the world. For better or worse, with credit...

Oxford Professor Wins $700,000 for Solving 300-year-Old Math Equation

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 Andrew Wiles, a professor at Oxford University, was awarded the prestigious Abel prize, by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for his “stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.”<br />
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In the mid-17th century, French mathematician Pierre de Fermant said that for any three whole numbers, a, b and c, the equation an + bn = cn could not be satisfied by any whole number n greater than 2. For example, something like “x³ + y³ = z³” simply would not be possible. And after formulating his theorem in a handwritten note in the margins of a book in 1637, he wrote “I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” And since then, a mathematical proof of this theorem was missing, that is, up until now.<br />
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The prize is worth 6 million Norwegian kroner (around $700,000) and it should be delivered on May 24 by Prince Haakon, heir to the throne of Norway. Wiles, who bears the title of Knight of the British Empire, said his history with the theorem began over half a century ago, when he was only ten years old. He would have found the theorem while skimming through a book and since then was determined to demonstrate it. The mission, however, was quite a difficult one, no wonder it wasn’t done in over 350 years. The proof was completed after seven years of intense work on what came to be a 200-page file.<br />
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Five Innovations Set To Change The Energy Industry

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The Energy sector has been hit by another flood of innovation and we should now amplify the open doors exhibited by the onset of enormous information and brilliant frameworks. The production of Smart Grids with in-built digital intelligence is transforming the way energy is generated, distributed, managed, and stored. Shrewd arrangements are driving proficiency and have brought about the formation of the 'prosumer model': where clients both create and expend energy.<br />
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The fate of energy will progressively depend on advanced knowledge and the utilization of information examination, which will serve to create a more effective utilization of assets. Smart detecting innovation responds and speaks with the earth, enhancing execution and enhancing proficiency. There are five savvy arrangements which are changing the energy industry and driving the open doors for development:<br />
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Smart Grids and Demand Response models</h3>
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Smart Grids show practically speaking how computerized insight is changing the business and driving energy effectiveness. Smart Grids are controlled by Demand Response (DR) models, which empower a constant examination of client interest patterns. The computerized insight coordinated into these models permits them to self-sufficiently respond to energy request and modify dispersion as needs be.<br />
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For instance, if at one point of the day, the DR model distinguishes a low interest for energy, it will bring down the sum it is appropriating. DR models empower smart grids to control request all the more productively and circulate energy all the more adequately. The capacity of this model to adjust to our necessities shows how huge information can add to energy investment funds. DR models are set to change how we deal with our power/electricity, with a normal speculation of $10 billion (£7 billion) in DR programs by 2020, as they offer nations some assistance with reaching their outflow targets whilst adding to giving cleaner and more proficient energy amid crest times.<br />
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Prosumers and microgrids</h3>
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Individuals are progressively delivering their very own greater amount energy by means of renewable means, for example, sun powered boards and wind turbines. The formation of microgrids is empowering individuals to detach themselves from the force matrix and work self-governingly off their own neighborhood energy era, offering them more autonomy. The establishment of sun powered boards, for instance, gives the mortgage holder restrictive control over their home-created sunlight based energy  and the ability to choose whether to devour it or food it once again into the lattice. Shrewd frameworks and microgrids decrease costs whilst being all the more ecologically neighborly. The purposes of force era and utilization are set to develop much closer, with 20 million private prosumers anticipated in North America alone by 2020.<br />
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Smart meters</h3>
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Smart meters permit a two path correspondence between the purposes of era and utilization. Remote innovation empowers keen meters to drive data about energy utilization, for example, meter readings, to the supplier. The supplier can then respond to these and advance era. This will diminish expenses furthermore useful for the earth as less energy is superfluously squandered. The tremendous worldwide development in brilliant meters is obvious of their potential and how they are driving energy productivity. Toward the begin of 2015, there were 510 million shrewd meters introduced all around; this number is set to increment to 980 million before the end of 2020 and 450 million of these will be in China.<br />
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Virtual Power Plants</h3>
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Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) permit distinctive energy sources to be incorporated into a halfway controlled system. The computerized insight of this focal system can screen and control energy dispersion. It permits the VPPs to convey energy from more than one force source when interest is at its crest. This is crucial because of the ascent of renewable ebergy, which does not as a matter of course create power twenty-four hours a day; for instance, sun based energy must be caught amid the day thus another force asset is expected to adjust this out. VPP arrangements are taking force accumulation to another level and in addition taking weight off helpless systems, expanding the unwavering quality of lattices to fulfill our energy needs.<br />
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The Internet of Buildings</h3>
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The idea of the 'internet of Buildings' shows how imaginative energy arrangements will at last have the capacity to be conveyed over an entire savvy city. Advanced arrangements will empower energy to be shared crosswise over structures in the framework, which will enhance energy dispersion, use, and effectiveness. The incorporation of IT into smart energy grid will exhibit how conveyance and utilization will be enhanced through intuitive matrices.<br />
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Empowered by the computerized change of the energy segment, we will see a future where social development will incorporate renewables into smart grids and make solid and clean energy. Social advancement gives colossal chances to organizations, buyers, and society. It will urge every one of the three to put resources into manageable arrangements which will lessen expenses and improve their control over their energy utilization, whilst helping the earth and making the world a more sustainable place.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.itproportal.com/2016/03/05/five-technologies-set-to-transform-the-energy-industry/" target="_blank">Itproportal</a>

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AI and Robots Threaten to Unleash Mass Unemployment, Scientists Warn

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Talk about Science fiction becoming reality. Hope we it doesn't boil down to "War of the Machines". LOL<br />
On a serious note, Scientists have warned that rapid strides in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics threatens the prospect of mass unemployment, affecting everyone from drivers to sex workers.<br />
According to Senior computer scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, intelligent machines will soon replace human workers in all sectors of the economy.<br />
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“We are approaching the time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task,” said Moshe Vardi, computer science professor at Rice University in Texas. “Society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?"</blockquote>
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“AI is moving rapidly from academic research into the real world,” said Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University. “Computers are starting to ‘hear’ and ‘see’ as humans do . . . Systems can start to move and operate among us autonomously.” He said companies such as Google, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft were scaling up investments in AI systems to billions of dollars a year. </blockquote>
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Wearable Translator that Allows You Speak Any Language

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A Japanese company, <a href="http://logbar.jp/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Logbar</span></a>, manufactured a device that promises to be a great revolution in intercultural communication. The device is called <a href="http://iamili.com/" target="_blank">ili</a>.  It is a voice translator that translates in real time everything that you say or hear. The point of this sleek device is to be an on-the-go translator and allow people to communicate in an easy way regardless of the language they speak.<br />
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The product launch is expected later this year. The initial languages available are Japanese, Chinese  and English, but they plan to expand into many other languages in the future.<br />
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The problem seems so big, it may be hard for you to imagine that anything you do can really help at all. But it will. Here are some changes you can make in your life to help prevent global warming:</div>
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<li>Plant trees</li>
<li>Start a seed bank (keep the seeds of many varieties of plants stored away safely)</li>
<li>Switch every light in your house to an energy-saving bulb</li>
<li>Reduce, reuse, recycle</li>
<li>Wear a sweater instead of turning up the heat in your house</li>
<li>Wear lighter clothing when it’s hot instead of turning on a fan</li>
<li>Turn lights, computers and all your chargers off and unplug them when they’re not in use</li>
<li>Only do full loads of laundry</li>
<li>Take shorter showers</li>
<li>Skip the car ride and use your bike, or walk or take the bus</li>
<li>Don’t buy bottled water; drink tap water, and filter it if you like</li>
<li>Eat lower on the food chain (less meat) and eat fewer processed foods</li>
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Knowledge is power. Change can only happen if all of us read about, listen to and discuss what’s happening in the world today</div>
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