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Thinking About God Calms Believers, Stresses Atheists
Aug 6th
Thinking about God can help relieve anxiety associated with making mistakes.
…Interestingly, atheists reacted differently. When they were
unconsciously primed with God-related ideas, their ACC increased its
activity. The researchers suggest that for religious people, thinking
about God may provide a way of ordering the world and explaining
apparently random events and thus reduce their feelings of distress….
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Quantum Networks Advance with Entanglement of Photons
Aug 6th
A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials.
…Quantum networking applications such as long-distance communication and distributed computing would require the nodes that process and store quantum data in qubits to be connected to one another by entanglement, a state where two different atoms become indelibly linked such that one inherits the properties of the other.
“In quantum computing and quantum communication, a big question has been whether or how it would be possible to actually connect qubits, separated by long distances, to one another,” says Lukin, professor of physics at Harvard and co-author of a paper describing the work in this week’s issue of the journal Nature. “Demonstration of quantum entanglement between a solid-state material and photons is an important advance toward linking qubits together into a quantum network.”
Quantum entanglement has previously been demonstrated only with photons and individual ions or atoms.
“Our work takes this one step further, showing how one can engineer and control the interaction between individual…
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20 Bizarre Things You Can Actually Rent (Infographic)
Aug 5th
Who knew you could rent wives, pets, islands, cell phones, celebrities, and so much more?
…At The Daily Green we’re no strangers to things you should rent instead of buy. Continuing in that spirit (and with a dash of humor), today we take a colorful look at some more bizarre things that you can rent (but may not necessarily want to in some cases). As always, if you do end up renting one of these things, make sure it’s covered by your renters insurance.Source: Renters Insurance
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AIG’s making money but when will it pay back the government?
Aug 5th
As American International Group gears up to announce its latest quarterly performance on Friday, the elephant in the middle of the room is staying put. When will the insurance giant — now a shell of its former self — repay the $102 billion it still owes American taxpayers?
…The government decided to bail out AIG when the company was on the verge of collapse in September 2008. So far, the government has given out $136.5 billion in loans and direct payments, of which AIG (AIG, Fortune 500) still owes $102 billion. AIG rejected a deal earlier this year that could have helped the company cut its debt to taxpayers in half. Two months ago, talks to sell its Asian insurance unit AIA to British insurer Prudential (PUK) collapsed after the two companies haggled over a $30 billion price tag. On Friday, analysts think AIG will likely say it’s on track to raise a significant amount of cash from an initial public offering of AIA in the fall, but they don’t expect AIG to throw out any estimates as to how much it might raise through an IPO.Still, the IPO is clearly plan B for AIG. David Merkel, head of Aleph Investments, a money management firm, said AIG is unlikely to raise any more than $30 billion through an IPO. Merkel used to work for AIG as a life actuary about 20 years ago. The AIA…
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Naomi Campbell Testifies She Received Stones [Video]
Aug 5th
Supermodel Naomi Campbell received what she called “dirty looking stones,” which prosecutors believe were blood diamonds, from two men allegedly working for former Liberian presiden…
…t keep the stones, but gave them to a friend, whom she didn’t immediately name. Campbell says she asked the friend to auction the stones off in a charity to raise funds for impoverished children.
Campbell was given the stones at night following a 1997 dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela, CNN reports. The supermodel said she was asleep when two men knocked on her door. She opened the door, and they handed her a pouch, saying,…
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Google, Verizon Said to Have Deal on Web Traffic
Aug 5th
Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. reached a deal on how to handle Internet traffic, striking their own accord on policy being weighed by U.S. officials, two people briefed by the companies said today.
…T Inc. and other companies on rules proposed by Chairman Julius Genachowski to regulate how phone and cable companies handle Web traffic such as Google s YouTube videos. Regulations or legislation that result would bind Google and Verizon as well.
We ve been working with Google for 10 months to reach an agreement on broadband policy, said Verizon spokesman David Fish. We are currently engaged in and committed to the negotiation process led by the FCC.
Nothing to Announce
Google has nothing to announce at this point, said Mistique Cano, a Washington-based spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
The two companies have become business allies through Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, which is co-owned by Verizon. Mobile phones that use software from Google, owner of the largest Internet search engine, helped Verizon s profit this year.
New York-based Verizon s earnings beat estimates last month after its wireless unit introduced phones running on Google s Android software, including Droids from…
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367mph bus
Aug 5th
A motoring enthusiast has built a bus capable of hitting more than 350mph.
…Mr Stender’s creation, which he has dubbed ‘The School Time Jet-Powered School
Bus’, also fires out 80 foot flames from the back creating massive clouds of
smoke.Mr Stender, 43, said: “I built the bus for two reasons. The first is to
entertain people because, come on, it’s a jet bus.“The second, is to keep kids off drugs. Jets are hot, drugs are not.
“The entire vehicle was custom built by myself. There’s no way the
original bus could have withstood the speeds that I take it to.“We do a lot of displays at schools and we are trying to show them
there’s more to life than sitting in front of computers.Mr Stender, whose mechanical skills are entirely self taught, said he has a
passion for making things go fast.He said: “I bought it just as an old school bus, but I have to say only
about five percent are original parts.“Actually a lot of it is hand-crafted and the types of metals used would
be more at home on an aircraft.“There’s still some bus left on it, a little bit on…
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Books vs. E-Books (INFOGRAPHIC)
Aug 5th
Does one have to win?
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Small Business and Hard Facts (Infographic)
Aug 5th
Collectively, America’s largest employer is small business. Small businesses in the U.S. employ more than half of the private workforce in the country and are the primary exporters
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