Star Trek Tricorder Scanner a Reality?

From the Daily Mail online comes word of a device that puts the Star Trek tricorder scanner a very real possibility! Professor Jürgen Lademann, of the Charité medical school in Berlin has developed a computer mouse sized device that measures a person’s antioxidant level between one and 10. Why you might ask? Well it seems that these levels change dramatically and measuring these changes, in as little as 30 seconds, one can assess the damage to the body from smoking or from junk food.

The device works by measure levels of antioxidants. This is done by shining a beam of light at a patience's body, collecting the reflected light and analyzing it for information on which wavelengths have been absorbed. This is far less intrusive than present methods which requires the skin to be cut and a sample taken. ( Biopsied )

Is forced vaccination Bio-Terrorism?

Consider this truly paranoid news article title: Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder

This very controversial article was sent in by Shaun Saunders and is eerily similar to his story "The Colors Twelve" that I read in episode 154. The very very dark tale describes a meeting of a shadowy organization that steers groups like WHO in an effort to create a very bleak world brought about by selective breeding and massive genocide using such techniques as vaccines that have been tailored or adulterated to cause massive fatalities. Now mind you, this story of Shaun's appeared before Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology produced contaminated bird flu vaccine!

Jane Burgermeister, an Austrian investigative journalist, has taken the very unusual step

• [she] has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder.
• She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination......
• In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death.

Wether or not you follow this line of reasoning, the article itself is an interesting insight into many ideas and of course you can not resist speculating about what kind of future might come about if something like this really took place.

And always there is Shaun just hours into the future with stories like "The Colors Twelve". That in my mind is where true Science Fiction lives

Read complete article in Natural News

Nanotechnology cancer risk found

The LA Times reports some disturbing news of health risks associated with nano-tech.

Certain types of carbon nanotubes -- microscopic graphite cylinders used in a small but growing number of Space Age applications -- could pose a cancer risk similar to that of asbestos if inhaled. Researchers found that mice injected with nanotubes quickly developed the same biological damage associated with early exposure to asbestos fibers, a known carcinogen. The nanotubes posed the greatest danger to workers who could inhale the dust-like particles during manufacturing. In finished products, the nanotubes are embedded in other material and thus pose less risk to consumers. Precautions (are) now in place in many factories, usually requiring workers to wear respirators.

Single gene deletion boosts lifespan

According to news@nature.com

Researchers have created a mutant mouse that lives longer despite eating more and weighing less — all thanks to the loss of a single protein. Without this protein, the body is less susceptible to the heart-pounding effects of the hormone adrenaline, and may become more resistant to some forms of stress. Scientists are already developing drugs to inhibit this protein, called type 5 adenylyl cyclase (AC5). Drugs that block adrenaline signalling, called beta-blockers, are known to help patients who have had heart attacks or suffer from an irregular heartbeat. As the researchers revealed in 2003, mutant mice lacking AC5 were more resistant to heart failure caused by pressure within the heart. But in the process, the research team also realised that the mutant mice lived longer than their normal counterparts.

Thanks to Shaun A. Saunders for the post

Gardner Dozois is on the mend

As I read last week, Gardner Dozois was in for bypass surgery. He had a major setback about a week ago that required surgery to install a defibrillator. However, as I am reading now, he has been steadily improving and is going or already is home.

Lunar dust 'may harm astronauts'

Scientists are investigating the possible threat posed to astronauts by inhaling lunar dust.

A study suggests the smallest particles in lunar dust might be toxic, if comparisons with dust inhalation cases on Earth apply.

Teams hope to carry out experiments on mice to determine whether this is the case or not.

Nasa has set up a working group to look into the matter ahead of its planned return to the Moon by 2020.

The health effects of inhaling lunar dust have been recognised since Nasa's Apollo missions.

Astronaut Harrison H (Jack) Schmitt, the last man to step on to the Moon in Apollo 17, complained of "lunar dust hay fever" when his dirty space suit contaminated the habitation module after an energetic foray on the lunar surface.

submitted by Shaun A. Saunders