Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Science & Futurism
* "Wandering Earth: rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet" (2019-05-27, by Matteo Ceriotti, lecturer in space systems engineering, University of Glasgow Glasgow UK, via spacedaily.com/reports/Wandering_Earth_rocket_scientist_explains_how_we_could_move_our_planet_999.html) [archive.is/GJnUA]
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* "Predicting properties of composite materials" (2019-05-21, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology EMPA, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521124536.htm) [archive.is/qcfIV], summary: Can the properties of composite materials be predicted? Scientists have mastered this feat and thus can help achieve research objectives faster. This leads, for instance, to better recycling techniques and electrically conductive synthetic materials for the solar industry.
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* "Toy transformers and real-life whales inspire biohybrid robot; Heart tissue and 3D printing combine to build a microscopic motor" (2019-05-15, Dartmouth College, via eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/dc-tta051519.php) [archive.fo/hKG2h]
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* "U.S., Chinese researchers transform graphene into semiconductor" (2019-05-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d3045444d35457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/f2X64]
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* "Nature inspires a novel new form of computing, using light; Researchers perform simple calculations by shining light patterns through a translucent cube" (2019-05-24, McMaster University, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190524081640.htm) [archive.is/yJ0hJ], summary: Researchers have developed a simple and highly novel form of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different facets of a polymer cube and reading the combined results that emerge.
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* "Bug-resistant: Russian new ‘quantum phone’ promises ‘unmatched’ security" (2019-05-29, rt.com/russia/460558-encrypted-quantum-telephone-for-sale/) [archive.is/t0Pac]
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* "Hydrogen-powered flying vehicle touted as California traffic tonic" (2019-05-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e3541444d35457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/sRDjK]
- image caption: Alaka'i Technologies unveiled a model of the working prototype of Skai, a hydrogen fuel cell powered multi-motor aircraft the company designed to carry up to five passengers, during an event in Newbury Park, California, U.S., May 29, 2019. /Reuters Photo
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* " ‘Increased mortality’: 1st generation CRISPR babies will likely die young, scientists warn" (2019-06-04, rt.com/news/461018-crispr-twins-china-warning-health/) [archive.is/MKWVt]
* "China gene babies’ mutation linked to higher mortality: Study; The genetic mutation given to Chinese twins last year rendering them immune to the HIV virus may significantly reduce life expectancy, scientists say in a fresh warning against human gene-editing" (2019-06-03, presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/03/597631/China-scientists-HIV-virus-life-expectancy-DNA-research) [archive.is/cABSG]
- image caption: Chinese scientist He Jiankui speaks at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018.
* "Scientists edit chicken genes to make them resistant to bird flu; Scientists in Britain have used gene-editing techniques to stop bird flu spreading in chicken cells grown in a lab - a key step towards making genetically-altered chickens that could halt a human flu pandemic" (2019-06-03, presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/03/597611/Britain-scientists-bird-flu-chicken-virus-DNA) [archive.is/avhRi]
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Space News
* "Car-sized meteor stuns southern Australia" (2019-05-27, nypost.com, via marketwatch.com/story/car-sized-meteor-stuns-southern-australia-2019-05-27) [archive.fo/qQpGZ]
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* "Ultra-small microbes exhibit extreme survival skills in Ethiopia’s Mars-like wonderland" (2019-05-27, europlanet-society.org/press-release-ultra-small-microbes-exhibit-extreme-survival-skills-in-ethiopias-mars-like-wonderland/) [archive.fo/SWAYy]
* " 'Fettuccine' may be most obvious sign of life on Mars" (2019-05-30, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774e786b544f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/hBUus]:
Rocks that look like pasta on Mars may be the most obvious sign of life, according to a study released by the University of Illinois on Wednesday.
The researchers analyzed the microbial genomes, evaluated which genes were being actively translated into proteins and deciphered the organism's metabolic needs. They also looked at Sulfurihydrogenibium yellowstonense, abbreviated as Sulfuri's rock-building capabilities.
They found that proteins on the bacterial surface speed up the rate at which calcium carbonate, also called travertine, crystallizes in and around the cables one billion times faster than in any other natural environment on Earth. The result is the deposition of broad swaths of hardened rock with an undulating, filamentous texture.
"This should be an easy form of fossilized life for a rover to detect on other planets," said UI geology professor Bruce Fouke, who led the NASA-funded study.
"If we see the deposition of this kind of extensive filamentous rock on other planets, we would know it's a fingerprint of life," Fouke said. "It's big and it's unique. No other rocks look like this. It would be definitive evidence of the presences of alien microbes."
The bacterium that controls the formation of such rocks on Earth is ancient and thrives in harsh environments that are similar to conditions on Mars, Fouke said.
The study has been published in the journal Astrobiology.
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* "Pluto may boast massive life-supporting hidden ocean and water-spewing icy volcanoes" (2019-05-31, rt.com/news/460765-pluto-hidden-ocean-life/) [archive.is/scZMH]
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* " ‘Forbidden planet’ discovered in nightmarish Neptunian desert destroys scientific expectations" (2019-05-30, rt.com/news/460673-planet-discovered-neptunian-desert/) [archive.is/WLujA]
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* "NASA’s X-ray image reveals entire sky in stunning detail" (2019-05-31, rt.com/news/460720-nasa-nicer-sky-image/) [archive.is/yCuh3]
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Ancient News
* "Fresh Study Names New Cradle of Human Civilisation; Having started with pearl millets last year, the same research group has continued their exciting journey of examining the roots of plant domestication on the African continent, but this time looking into the genomes of a wealth of wild and cultivated yams, an African staple vegetable" (2019-06-01, sputniknews.com/science/201905061074761185-study-names-cradle-human-civilisation/) [archive.is/mFLEd]:
Having investigated the domestication of African yams, a key crop in early African agriculture by means of whole-genome resequencing and statistical models, an international team of researchers has come to the conclusion that West Africa is where plant cultivation in general originated from.
The findings, with the respective abstract published on 1 May in the magazine Science Advances, infer that African yam agriculture started expanding in the Niger River basin, much like that of African rice and pearl millets studied at length in earlier research.
Previous studies found some evidence suggesting that roughly 6,000 years ago, the basin was mottled with lakes, making the entire area moister and more suitable for producing plants that humans can feed on. After the water basins dried up, it appears that people living in the region had to adapt to the new conditions by domesticating their wild food sources.
Focusing in a new effort on one of the African staples, a variety of yams, they sequenced the genomes of 167 wild and domesticated types from multiple sites in Africa.
The DNA of savannah yams were found to be similar to modern domesticated yams, while forest yams fell into two categories, one of which bore resemblance to modern crops, for instance those grown in Cameroon.
However, the second type was originally found in the wild in West Africa, on the banks of the Niger River, which is comparable to the so-called Fertile Crescent in the Middle East. The latter gave rise to the domestication of wheat, barley, lentils, oats, chickpeas and several other agricultural crops.
The first farmers apparently selected species with more robust roots that were better able to reach water, as well as more regularly shaped yams and those with a larger amount of starch in them.
The researchers thus summed up the general historic trend by suggesting that cultivated yams must have been domesticated from a forest species, D. praehensilis, the most viable plant that grew nearby the Niger, but further evolved in size and quality due to humans’ effort, as the first farmers are thought to have hybridised it with the wild savannah type finally becoming the modern cultivated sort, D. rotundata.
- image caption: Niger River in Mali
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* "Neolithic settlement site unearthed in Shandong Province, east China" (2019-05-27, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d3549544f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/nlBbV]
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* "China to commemorate 120th anniversary of oracle bone inscription discovery" (2019-06-01, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414f334d444d35457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/ytX4C]
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* "Syrian Army Recovers Archaeological Pieces Stolen by Terrorists" (2019-05-27, plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42444&SEO=syrian-army-recovers-archaeological-pieces-stolen-by-terrorists) [archive.is/iurRH]
* "Terrorists sabotage several landmarks of ancient city of Apamea in Hama countryside" (2019-05-28, sana.sy/en/?p=166396) [archive.is/XoMsS]
* "Serious Damage Detected in Historic Syrian Town of Apamea" (2019-05-28, plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42491&SEO=serious-damage-detected-in-historic-syrian-town-of-apamea) [archive.is/A4IB2]
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Science & Futurism
* "Wandering Earth: rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet" (2019-05-27, by Matteo Ceriotti, lecturer in space systems engineering, University of Glasgow Glasgow UK, via spacedaily.com/reports/Wandering_Earth_rocket_scientist_explains_how_we_could_move_our_planet_999.html) [archive.is/GJnUA]
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* "Predicting properties of composite materials" (2019-05-21, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology EMPA, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521124536.htm) [archive.is/qcfIV], summary: Can the properties of composite materials be predicted? Scientists have mastered this feat and thus can help achieve research objectives faster. This leads, for instance, to better recycling techniques and electrically conductive synthetic materials for the solar industry.
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* "Toy transformers and real-life whales inspire biohybrid robot; Heart tissue and 3D printing combine to build a microscopic motor" (2019-05-15, Dartmouth College, via eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/dc-tta051519.php) [archive.fo/hKG2h]
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* "U.S., Chinese researchers transform graphene into semiconductor" (2019-05-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d3045444d35457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/f2X64]
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* "Nature inspires a novel new form of computing, using light; Researchers perform simple calculations by shining light patterns through a translucent cube" (2019-05-24, McMaster University, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190524081640.htm) [archive.is/yJ0hJ], summary: Researchers have developed a simple and highly novel form of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different facets of a polymer cube and reading the combined results that emerge.
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* "Bug-resistant: Russian new ‘quantum phone’ promises ‘unmatched’ security" (2019-05-29, rt.com/russia/460558-encrypted-quantum-telephone-for-sale/) [archive.is/t0Pac]
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* "Hydrogen-powered flying vehicle touted as California traffic tonic" (2019-05-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e3541444d35457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/sRDjK]
- image caption: Alaka'i Technologies unveiled a model of the working prototype of Skai, a hydrogen fuel cell powered multi-motor aircraft the company designed to carry up to five passengers, during an event in Newbury Park, California, U.S., May 29, 2019. /Reuters Photo
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* " ‘Increased mortality’: 1st generation CRISPR babies will likely die young, scientists warn" (2019-06-04, rt.com/news/461018-crispr-twins-china-warning-health/) [archive.is/MKWVt]
* "China gene babies’ mutation linked to higher mortality: Study; The genetic mutation given to Chinese twins last year rendering them immune to the HIV virus may significantly reduce life expectancy, scientists say in a fresh warning against human gene-editing" (2019-06-03, presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/03/597631/China-scientists-HIV-virus-life-expectancy-DNA-research) [archive.is/cABSG]
- image caption: Chinese scientist He Jiankui speaks at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018.
* "Scientists edit chicken genes to make them resistant to bird flu; Scientists in Britain have used gene-editing techniques to stop bird flu spreading in chicken cells grown in a lab - a key step towards making genetically-altered chickens that could halt a human flu pandemic" (2019-06-03, presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/03/597611/Britain-scientists-bird-flu-chicken-virus-DNA) [archive.is/avhRi]
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Space News
* "Car-sized meteor stuns southern Australia" (2019-05-27, nypost.com, via marketwatch.com/story/car-sized-meteor-stuns-southern-australia-2019-05-27) [archive.fo/qQpGZ]
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* "Ultra-small microbes exhibit extreme survival skills in Ethiopia’s Mars-like wonderland" (2019-05-27, europlanet-society.org/press-release-ultra-small-microbes-exhibit-extreme-survival-skills-in-ethiopias-mars-like-wonderland/) [archive.fo/SWAYy]
* " 'Fettuccine' may be most obvious sign of life on Mars" (2019-05-30, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774e786b544f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/hBUus]:
Rocks that look like pasta on Mars may be the most obvious sign of life, according to a study released by the University of Illinois on Wednesday.
The researchers analyzed the microbial genomes, evaluated which genes were being actively translated into proteins and deciphered the organism's metabolic needs. They also looked at Sulfurihydrogenibium yellowstonense, abbreviated as Sulfuri's rock-building capabilities.
They found that proteins on the bacterial surface speed up the rate at which calcium carbonate, also called travertine, crystallizes in and around the cables one billion times faster than in any other natural environment on Earth. The result is the deposition of broad swaths of hardened rock with an undulating, filamentous texture.
"This should be an easy form of fossilized life for a rover to detect on other planets," said UI geology professor Bruce Fouke, who led the NASA-funded study.
"If we see the deposition of this kind of extensive filamentous rock on other planets, we would know it's a fingerprint of life," Fouke said. "It's big and it's unique. No other rocks look like this. It would be definitive evidence of the presences of alien microbes."
The bacterium that controls the formation of such rocks on Earth is ancient and thrives in harsh environments that are similar to conditions on Mars, Fouke said.
The study has been published in the journal Astrobiology.
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* "Pluto may boast massive life-supporting hidden ocean and water-spewing icy volcanoes" (2019-05-31, rt.com/news/460765-pluto-hidden-ocean-life/) [archive.is/scZMH]
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* " ‘Forbidden planet’ discovered in nightmarish Neptunian desert destroys scientific expectations" (2019-05-30, rt.com/news/460673-planet-discovered-neptunian-desert/) [archive.is/WLujA]
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* "NASA’s X-ray image reveals entire sky in stunning detail" (2019-05-31, rt.com/news/460720-nasa-nicer-sky-image/) [archive.is/yCuh3]
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Ancient News
* "Fresh Study Names New Cradle of Human Civilisation; Having started with pearl millets last year, the same research group has continued their exciting journey of examining the roots of plant domestication on the African continent, but this time looking into the genomes of a wealth of wild and cultivated yams, an African staple vegetable" (2019-06-01, sputniknews.com/science/201905061074761185-study-names-cradle-human-civilisation/) [archive.is/mFLEd]:
Having investigated the domestication of African yams, a key crop in early African agriculture by means of whole-genome resequencing and statistical models, an international team of researchers has come to the conclusion that West Africa is where plant cultivation in general originated from.
The findings, with the respective abstract published on 1 May in the magazine Science Advances, infer that African yam agriculture started expanding in the Niger River basin, much like that of African rice and pearl millets studied at length in earlier research.
Previous studies found some evidence suggesting that roughly 6,000 years ago, the basin was mottled with lakes, making the entire area moister and more suitable for producing plants that humans can feed on. After the water basins dried up, it appears that people living in the region had to adapt to the new conditions by domesticating their wild food sources.
Focusing in a new effort on one of the African staples, a variety of yams, they sequenced the genomes of 167 wild and domesticated types from multiple sites in Africa.
The DNA of savannah yams were found to be similar to modern domesticated yams, while forest yams fell into two categories, one of which bore resemblance to modern crops, for instance those grown in Cameroon.
However, the second type was originally found in the wild in West Africa, on the banks of the Niger River, which is comparable to the so-called Fertile Crescent in the Middle East. The latter gave rise to the domestication of wheat, barley, lentils, oats, chickpeas and several other agricultural crops.
The first farmers apparently selected species with more robust roots that were better able to reach water, as well as more regularly shaped yams and those with a larger amount of starch in them.
The researchers thus summed up the general historic trend by suggesting that cultivated yams must have been domesticated from a forest species, D. praehensilis, the most viable plant that grew nearby the Niger, but further evolved in size and quality due to humans’ effort, as the first farmers are thought to have hybridised it with the wild savannah type finally becoming the modern cultivated sort, D. rotundata.
- image caption: Niger River in Mali
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* "Neolithic settlement site unearthed in Shandong Province, east China" (2019-05-27, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d3549544f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/nlBbV]
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* "China to commemorate 120th anniversary of oracle bone inscription discovery" (2019-06-01, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414f334d444d35457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/ytX4C]
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* "Syrian Army Recovers Archaeological Pieces Stolen by Terrorists" (2019-05-27, plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42444&SEO=syrian-army-recovers-archaeological-pieces-stolen-by-terrorists) [archive.is/iurRH]
* "Terrorists sabotage several landmarks of ancient city of Apamea in Hama countryside" (2019-05-28, sana.sy/en/?p=166396) [archive.is/XoMsS]
* "Serious Damage Detected in Historic Syrian Town of Apamea" (2019-05-28, plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42491&SEO=serious-damage-detected-in-historic-syrian-town-of-apamea) [archive.is/A4IB2]
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* "Confusion over new Russian Orthodox Church in Westeros (no, really)" (2019-05-28, rt.com/news/460489-russian-church-westeros-confusion/) [archive.is/gYdjF] [begin excerpt]: Västerås is a city of some 120,000 people in central Sweden, some 100 kilometers west of the capital Stockholm. It is one of the oldest cities in that Scandinavian country, and apparently has a large enough population of Russian Orthodox faithful to merit the construction of a new temple. [end excerpt]
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Curiata
* "Unique, massive emerald crystal discovered in Russian Urals" (2019-06-02, rt.com/business/460860-unique-massive-emerald-russia/) [archive.is/y836O]
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* "Scientists discover genes that could hold answers to mysteries of our evolution" (2019-05-28, rt.com/news/460464-genes-human-unique-chimps/) [archive.is/OLaCB]
* "Ancient star explosions unleashed APOCALYPTIC storms and caused humans to WALK UPRIGHT – study" (2019-05-28, rt.com/news/460479-star-explosion-humans-walk-upright/) [archive.is/pYut7]
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* "Study finds river valleys shape genetic landscape of Han Chinese" (2019-05-28, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e3059544f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/8K3tT]
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* "World’s shortest man alive" (2019-05-28, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e3555544f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/FG0X6]
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* "Scientists Baffled by Striped Maple Plant Switching Sex Multiple Times; The higher death rate of the female striped maple will put the number of trees in these populations into decline over the long-run" (2019-05-30, telesurenglish.net/news/Scientists-Baffled-by-Striped-Maple-Plant-Switching-Sex-Multiple-Times-20190530-0005.html) [archive.is/XgOgb]
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