Eyes and Fingerprints: How Governments Are Using Biometric Data to Keep Track of You

Eyes and fingertips contribute to what makes us who we are, but when reduced to numbers, they transform a person into a biometric data point for governments to observe. Keep reading >>

Dream Recording Device ‘Possible’ Researcher Claims

Writing in the journal Nature, researchers said they have developed a system capable of recording higher-level brain activity.

“We would like to read people’s dreams,” says the lead scientist Dr Moran Cerf.

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New 350 Foot Crop Circle

It appeared overnight, a mysterious snake-like crop circle weaving across a wheat field in Wiltshire.

The 350ft-long installation is marked out of a field near the 200-year-old Alton Barnes White Horse chalk figure.

Dubbed a Venus ‘sunfish‘, the circle is thought to capture the ‘transit of Venus‘, an astronomical phenomenon which began last week and will continue until the beginning of July.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165517/Crop-circles-capture-transit-Venus-phenomenon-planet-passes-Earth-Sun.html#ixzz1z7rrbnzL

What Does It Mean for a Civilization to be a Million Years Old?

We thought it would be interesting to revisit Carl Sagan’s great question: “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old … an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque.”

 

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