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Saturday, June 30, 2018
Northrop Grumman says it has made corrective actions to keep NASA's James Webb telescope on track
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Nasa's Hubble spots massive cluster of 10 billion-years-old stars
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New York City reports 1st West Nile virus case of year in Manhattan resident, Virus makes earliest appearance
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CDC warning swimmers to beware of waterborne illnesses
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The Sky In July: Don't Miss The 'Blood Moon' And Mars' Closest Approach In 15 Years
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UiTM First Varsity To Build, Launch Nano-Satellite
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The Crew 2 review
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NASA's Hubble spots massive cluster of 10 billion-years-old stars
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CDC warning swimmers to beware of waterborne illnesses
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Regional; Jahi Mcmath Dies In New Jersey At Age 18
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Mars rover threatened by unprecedented storm
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UiTM first varsity to build, launch nano-satellite
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Neanderthal Brains To Be Implanted in Robots to Create Cyborg Cavemen
While “Neanderthal Cyborg Cavemen” would be a great name for a band, it sounds like a bad thing to create in a lab which is on a college campus filled with kids tired of playing beer pong. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine where researchers are using Neanderthal DNA (bad idea number one) to grow Neanderthal mini-brains (bad idea number two) that they plan to connect to robotic bodies (a bad idea hat trick) to test the Neanderthal mini-brains’ ability to learn (a good movie idea but still a bad idea in general). What could possibly go wrong? (Say this four times quickly.)
“We’re trying to recreate Neanderthal minds.”
At a recent UCSD conference called Imagination and Human Evolution, USCD geneticist Alysson Muotri explained why he thought creating Neanderthal organoids (another great band name) using human stem cells combined with Neanderthal DNA into brains the size of peas (ironic?) that they called Neanderoids (a good nickname for the band’s drummer).
Muotri’s research team used the NOVA1 gene which is nearly identical in humans and Neanderthals and has been linked to autism and schizophrenia. While they would like to grow larger than peas, the Neanderthal brains are stuck at “pea” because they have no blood supply and depend on nutrients fed to them by humans. Well, that’s a relief.
“It is possible that in the future we could grow a bigger organoid. We are working on this by creating bio-printed artificial blood vessels inside them.”
Uh-oh.
The Neanderthal mini-brains are already paying off. Muotri found that Neanderthal neurons make less synaptic connections, which in humans is an indicator of autism and a necessary part of developing socialization. To test this, the researchers plan to hook the Neanderoids to crab-like robots to see if they can learn how to move them around. Then they will put them together with AI robots to see what happens.
This sounds like a Neanderthal Facebook or a Neanderthal political town meeting. What could possibly go wrong? Simon Fisher, a geneticist who heads the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands and has genetically engineered mice to have a mutated human gene linked to speech disorders (what could possibly go … never mind), is evaluating the research and has this to say:
“It’s kind of wild.”
Kind of wild? Creating cyborg Neanderthal cavemen? That’s an understatement.
Do they have a strong lock on the door?
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California pediatrician placed on probation for exempting child from all vaccines
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It Was The Water, FDA Says Of Romaine E. Coli Outbreak That Killed Five
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Mosquitoes found with Eastern equine encephalitis virus
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There might be poop in the water you're swimming in so please don't swallow it, CDC says
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Jahi McMath, Who Doctors Declared Brain Dead 5 Years Ago Sparking Court Battle with Her Mom, Dies
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Owner of a Wauwatosa pain clinic is charged as part of a nationwide opioids crackdown
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Flight attendants have higher cancer rates, and this doctor thinks he knows why
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Ghost Hunter Wielding Shotgun, Sword, and Bible Breaks Into Haunted ‘Welles House’
Given the chance, most of us would try to be ghost hunters. We can all admit that the idea of kicking down the door to a haunted house, shotgun in one hand, bible in the other, ready to go toe-to-toe with whatever evil phantasm lurks behind the plywood-sealed doors is pretty cool. Maybe you’re wearing a long duster, maybe you have a holy necklace passed down through the generations. Maybe your grandfather gave you the necklace on your thirteenth birthday and said “When the time comes, you’ll know what to do.” Or maybe, like 33-year-old Anthony Parker of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, you’ve got a pry-bar and a Crown Royal bag filled with shotgun shells.
According to the Citizen’s Voice, Mr. Parker was arrested in the early morning of Wednesday June, 27 for breaking into the infamous and allegedly haunted “Welles house” in Wilkes-Barre. Police were called to the scene by a witness who reported someone prying the plywood off the back door of the haunted house. When they arrived, the police found Parker with a 24 inch sword on his back, bladed brass knuckles and a pocket knife in his pocket, the hilarious-yet-useful Crown Royal bag of shells, and a bible. Parker denied that he had a shotgun on him, but police found a pistol-gripped shotgun stashed behind the Welles house. When questioned about his motives for the attempted break-in, Anthony Parker said he was there “to look for ghosts.”
Did he learn nothing from Ghostbusters? You need more gadgets than a Crown Royal bag full of buckshot.
If any haunted house warranted bringing an arsenal and pretending to be John Constantine, the Welles house fits the bill. The house garnered the nickname “Pennsylvania’s Amityville Horror” In the 1970’s, and apparently lived up to the name. Built in 1860 by Augusts C. Laning, the property at 49 South Welles st has been the subject of many alleged hauntings and paranormal events: spots of blood appearing on walls, mysterious scratches showing up on residents’ arms, a tin box discovered bricked up in the basement containing human molars and chicken bones in the shape of a cross. In the 1800’s a man walking by the house allegedly dropped dead, which may have been a heart attack, but any heart attack in front of a haunted house is a spooky heart attack.
Anthony Parker, the amateur ghost hunter in the most literal sense, was charged with defiant trespassing, possessing instruments of a crime, weapons possession, possessing an offensive weapon and prowling at night time. His bail is set at $25,000.
Definitely a job for the ol’ sword and shotgun combo.
You’ve got to give him credit. Most would-be ghost hunters might take a camera, maybe a talisman of some sort if they’re really serious, never even considering they might get into a shooting war with the ghosts. Not Anthony Parker, he was armed to the teeth and ready for war from beyond the grave. Of course most, if not all of his weapons would be absolutely useless against incorporeal entities. Next time, Anthony, bring a magic sword.
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