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- Computer Successfully Pretends to Be Human
- Breakfast is NOT the Most Important Meal of the Day, New Studies Show
- One of the Most Haunting Questions: Who Built the Moon?
- Russian Scientists Plan to Rebuild Tesla's Wireless Electricity Tower
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Posted: 23 Jun 2014 09:30 PM PDT
Vladimir Veselov, computer software developer and Eugene Demchenko, software engineer, have created the first computer that fooled humans into thinking they were speaking to a 13 year old boy.
The University of Reading (UR) said that 33% of participants in a 5 minute online conversation with “Eugene Goostman” were tricked into believing this computer was actually a real-life teenager. Strikingly, this feat means that Veselov and Demchenko successfully created a computer program that passed the Turing Test. In 1950, Alan Turing wrote a paper entitled Computing Machinery and Intelligence that asked the question: “Can machines think?”  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:30 PM PDT
Contrary to popular belief, breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. In fact, omitting breakfast, as part of an intermittent fasting schedule, can have many important health benefits, from improving your insulin/leptin sensitivity to helping your body more effectively burn fat for fuel.
Longer bouts of fasting have also been shown to have potent health benefits, including the regeneration of your immune system, as demonstrated in recent research. In the past, it was believed that skipping breakfast might hinder weight loss, or even make you gain weight, but recent research demonstrates there’s no truth to this theory. [1] As noted by David Allison, senior investigator of the featured study and director of the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center:   |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:00 PM PDT
Many New Dawn readers will know of British writer Christopher Knight from his first book The Hiram Key, which he co-authored with Robert Lomas and published in 1996.
Quickly becoming a best seller, The Hiram Key was acclaimed a classic in the field of alternative history, going on to influence a generation of researchers among them The Da Vinci Code’s Dan Brown. In the last ten years Knight has written six books, four with Robert Lomas and two, including his latestWho Built the Moon?, with Alan Butler. In Who Built the Moon?, Knight and Butler raise some fascinating and challenging questions, foremost:  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT
By many accounts, the iconic inventor Nikola Tesla was years ahead of his time. His ideas for a worldwide wireless communications system, and a wireless energy transmission technology, never got the traction they perhaps may have deserved during his lifetime, and but now, over a century later, two scientists are retracing his steps and plan to build a prototype of his Wardenclyffe tower using modern materials and advanced electronics.
The Planetary Energy Transmitter project seeks to crowdfund $800,000 in donations in order to build the Tesla Tower prototype, and to continue Tesla's research into wireless energy transmission and reception, which is intended to demonstrate the viability and efficiency of the technology. If the prototype functions as intended, and further research into wireless power reception plays out as well, the Tesla tower and wireless receivers could "allow transmission of large amounts of energy via ground to any kind of distances - instantly, safely and without losses."  Read Entire Article »  |
