Brave idiot transhumanist pioneer self-implants a computer into his arm — video included
by James Plafke
ExtremeTech
November 1, 2013
With a retail Google Glass on the horizon, and the modern man and woman being glued to their smartphones 24 hours a day, the world is moving ever closer toward literally being attached to their mobile devices. Tim Cannon, a biohacker in the German town of Essen, implanted a small computer and battery inside his arm — without the help of a doctor or even anesthesia.
We’ve seen do-it-yourself tech implants before, such as the guy who shoved magnetic headphones into his ears, and the artist who implanted an RFID chip into his hand to store an animated GIF. This time around, Tim Cannon went much further, and installed a computer chip sealed in a box with a wirelessly chargeable battery into his forearm. As you can see from the above image, Cannon won’t be able to sneak the implant past airport security. Rather than having a doctor perform the procedure — or even using some kind of anesthesia — Cannon had a fellow biohacker, Steve Haworth, jam the rig underneath his skin.
Built by Cannon’s company Grindhouse Wetware, the subdermal implant — dubbed the Circadia 1.0 — won’t turn Cannon’s forearm into Leela’s Wristlojackimator, but instead will read and record his biometric data and send it off to any Android-powered mobile device. In true (bio) hacker fashion, the Circadia is fully open source, and users can manipulate the data however they wish.
At the moment, this model of the Circadia can only gather basic biometrics, such as body temperature, but it can transfer the data in real-time via Bluetooth. The device also features three LED lights that not only act as status indicators, but illuminate Cannon’s forearm tattoo from underneath his skin — obviously the best use for a subdermal LED.
What You Don’t Know About Coffee may Pleasantly Surprise You
by Paul Fassa
Natural Society
August 16, 2013
Once upon a time, quitting coffee was a prerequisite for establishing a healthy diet and adopting a healthier lifestyle. Lately, though, several recent research studies into coffee drinking have discovered that coffee health benefits are actually some you won’t want to miss. Everything in moderation.
At first, I suspected the pro-coffee studies were simply from funded front groups within various sectors of the coffee industry. But eventually I started seeing some names I trust carrying the same news.
However, the negative health effects of excess coffee consumption, which varies from individual to individual, remain. Thus posing the dilemma of balancing both positive and negative health effects if we prefer drinking coffee to abstaining completely.
VIDEO — How To Prepare Your Community for Disaster
We Are Change
October 28, 2013
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MUST READ — Nanoparticles Are in Our Food, Clothing and Medicine — And No One Knows for Sure How Dangerous They Might Be
by Heather Millar
Alternet
February 23, 2013
Inside nanotechnology’s little universe of big unknowns.
This article first appeared at Orion Magazine under the title “Pandora’s Boxes.” You can enjoy future Orion articles by signing up to the magazine’s free trial subscription program.
A pair of scientists, sporting white clean-suits complete with helmets and face masks, approach a prefab agricultural greenhouse in a clearing at Duke University’s Research Forest. Inside are two long rows of wooden boxes the size of large horse troughs, which hold samples of the natural world that surrounds them—the pine groves and rhododendron thickets of North Carolina’s piedmont, which at this moment are alive with bird song.
Looking a lot like the government bad guys in E.T., the two men cautiously hover over a row of boxes containing native sedges, water grasses, and Zebra fish to spray a fine mist of silver nanoparticles over them. Their goal: to investigate how the world inside the boxes is altered by these essentially invisible and notoriously unpredictable particles.
The researchers are part of a multidisciplinary coalition of scientists from Duke, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Howard, Virginia Tech, and the University of Kentucky, headquartered at Duke’s Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT), that represents one of the most comprehensive efforts yet to measure how nanoparticles affect ecosystems and biological systems.
So far the questions about whether nanoparticles are an environmental risk outnumber the answers, which is why the Duke scientists take the precaution of wearing clean-suits while dosing the boxes—no one’s sure what exposure to a high concentration of nanoparticles might do. Among the few things we do know about them are that they sail past the blood-brain barrier and can harm the nervous systems of some animals.
The regulation of nanoparticles has been recommended for more than a decade, but there’s no agreement on exactly how to do it. Meanwhile, the lid has already been lifted on nanotechnology. The use of man-made nanoparticles has spread into almost every area of our lives: food, clothing, medicine, shampoo, toothpaste, sunscreen, and thousands of other products.
Regulatory structures, both here and abroad, are completely unprepared for this onslaught of nanoproducts, because nanoparticles don’t fit into traditional regulatory categories. Additionally, companies often shield details about them by labeling them “proprietary”; they’re difficult to detect; we don’t have protocols for judging their effects; and we haven’t even developed the right tools for tracking them. If nanotechnology and its uses represent a frontier of sorts, it’s not simply the Wild West—it’s the Chaotic, Undiscovered, Uncontrollable West.
Gone to Pot! Giant Marijuana Plants All Over California!
Before It’s News
October 27, 2013
By Dan Rather
The old expression about everything being bigger in Texas just got trumped by what’s happening in California. In my career as a reporter, I’ve been on more than a few drug raids and seen my fair share of marijuana plants. But nothing prepared me for what’s growing in northern California. As Mendocino Sheriff Tom Allman describes them, they’re “super-mega-steroid marijuana plants. We followed Sheriff Allman along on a raid near Ukiah where deputies had just discovered more than a hundred plants the size of giant Christmas trees, some reaching 15 feet high. It’s the latest trend in pot farms, or what are increasingly looking like pot plantations! So how’d they get so big? Sheriff Allman says it’s a combination of genetic modification, fertilizers, pesticides, California’s ideal growing climate and water, lots of water.
While the super plants we found in an illegal growing operation were in Mendocino County, they’re popping up all over the state, and much of the time on public land where illegal large-scale cultivation of marijuana is destroying local ecosystems. And, increasingly, it’s not locals who are farming the pot plants. Allman told me that Latin American, even European syndicates, have moved in to the back woods where they are growing far from prying eyes. This is a multi-billion dollar business and those who I spoke to used words like “crisis” and “out of control” to describe what’s going on here. Think about this — illegal marijuana farms in northern California are actually sucking the mighty Eel River dry, and that’s threatening the native salmon population.
While the diversion of water from rivers is a big concern, the use of toxic pesticides — some banned long ago in the U.S. — to keep anything and everything away from crops is also troubling. These pesticides are poisoning wildlife and contaminating the water supply. We also discovered that these chemicals show up in marijuana that’s not only headed for the black market, but in supplies due to be sold in California’s medical dispensaries.
Fukushima Fraud and Corruption: Japanese Organized Crime Involved in Recruitment of “Specialized Personnel”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
October 25, 2013
What prevails is a well organized camouflage. The public health disaster in Japan, the contamination of water, agricultural land and the food chain, not to mention the broader economic and social implications, have neither been fully acknowledged nor addressed in a comprehensive and meaningful fashion by the Japanese authorities.
The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. In the words of renowned novelist Haruki Murakami:
“This time no one dropped a bomb on us … We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.”
Several Global Research reports and background articles have outlined the dangers of Worldwide radiation resulting from the Fukushima disaster.
This disaster is now being sustained and aggravated by the incompetence of TEPCO as well as political camouflage by the Abe government.
Fukushima and the Yakuza
There is another dimension: The coordination of the multibillion dollar Fukushima decontamination operation relies on Japan’s organized crime, the Yakusa, which is actively involved in the recruitment of “specialized” personnel for dangerous tasks.
“The complexity of Fukushima contracts and the shortage of workers have played into the hands of the yakuza, Japan’s organized crime syndicates, which have run labor rackets for generations.” (Reuters, October 25, 2013)
The Yakuza labor practices at Fukushima are based on a corrupt system of subcontracting, which does not favor the hiring of competent specialized personnel. It creates an environment of fraud and incompetence, which in the case of Fukushima could have devastating consequences. The subcontracting with organized crime syndicates is a means for major corporations involved in the clean-up to significantly reduce their labor costs.
ACTION ALERT — Fluoridation-Free Ottawa – next meeting is October 30, 2013 (7PM)
Fluoridation-Free Ottawa
September 27, 2013
When: Wednesday, October 30, 2013-08-22 [Potent News editor’s note: I assume that “2013-08-22” is a typo…]
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Basement lounge, north corridor, 170 Booth St, corner of Albert St.
Ring 2000 to enter the building for the meeting.
Please attend: come and see significant progress in our battle to end fluoridation in Ottawa and help us with our plans to end it.
Please bring a friend.
Donations accepted to defray cost of renting meeting room.
Parking is available on the west side of Booth St., also on Primrose St.
north of the apartment and there are some visitor parking spaces in the
apartment’s parking lot. Wheelchair accessible.
Become a contributing member; annual dues are only $20
Fluoridation is unproven, unsafe, unnatural, unnecessary and unethical.
Fluoridation is also grossly unlawful using an unregulated and unapproved chemical: it does not even have a DIN as all medicines should have.
Water is for everyone: fluoride is not.
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