Bat Guano Beats Big Mac Burgers In Nutrients And Protein


Weight for weight bat guano contains more protein and nutrients than a Big Mac.

That's right Bat Guano.

Some foods are known to contain the building blocks of life: In the body, they break down into amino acids that promote cell growth and repair. You probably know that animal products—meat, eggs and dairy—are good sources of protein. What you may not know is that you don't need to eat meat or cheese to get protein. Try Bat Guano, the other protein!

There are good sources of protein, and great sources of protein. Among the latter group is bat guano. Compared with a big mac, bat guano wins hands down (big mac 23% - bat guano 54% protein by volume). (Calories: 4124 bat guano - 6136 big mac)  If you think you might not like it served as a main or side dish, try blending it into a pesto. One person on this diet commented "I blend the guano with, toasted pine nuts, fresh mint, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese and serve over linguine," she says. "It's one of my all-time favorite meat-free meals!"

Again most foods contain a small amount of protein, but Bat Guano—is unique in that it's loaded with protein and includes all nine essential amino acids that the body needs for growth and repair, but cannot produce on its own. (Because of that, it's often referred to as a "perfect protein.") Plus, it's amazingly versatile: bat guano can be added to soup or vegetarian chili during winter months, served with brown sugar and fruit as a hot breakfast cereal, or tossed with vegetables and a vinaigrette to make a refreshing summer salad.

If you need to start on a new diet, bat guano may be your answer. 

Put down that Big Mac.

Note:  In large quantities and arid conditions a fungus may grow on bat guano.  Typically bat guano isn't considered safe for human consumption.  Eating it may be unhealthy.

Warp Drive One Step Closer - Where's Spock When You Need Him?


On April 29, NASA quietly posted an announcement: the ‘impossible’ EM Drive tested last year at the Johnson Space Center has successfully converted electricity to thrust without the need to expel any propellant. That means scientists are one step closer to an efficient drive that could propel spacecraft faster than ever before, without needing any solid fuel.

The EM Drive as presented appears to break the law of conservation of momentum: with no expulsion of propellant, there shouldn’t be anything to balance the spacecraft’s momentum during acceleration. However, Paul March, an engineer at NASA Eagleworks, posted on NASASpaceFlight.com’s forum that NASA has successfully tested the EM Drive in a hard vacuum.

In short, it works by accelerating microwaves within a closed drive cavity using the quantum vacuum, the quantum state with the lowest possible energy. In conventional scientific wisdom, this wouldn’t work – since the quantum vacuum cannot be ionized, it cannot be ‘pushed’ against to create momentum.

The EM drive was first developed in about 2001 at UK-based Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd.’s research and development program under Roger J. Sawyer. Prof. Juan Yang and Dr. Harold White also studied the drive, but none of them conducted their tests in a vacuum. Their work was met with skepticism in the scientific community, NASASpaceFlight.com said, with many physicists suggesting that the amount of thrust measured in the tests came not from within the EM drive itself but rather from natural thermal convection currents arising from the microwave heating inside the drive cavity.

March’s results have been examined to make sure the thrust didn’t come from an artifact such as thermal convection. While the results have not yet been falsified, they haven’t been detailed in an official capacity either. The question of where the thrust is coming from is still under inquiry.

However, if it proceeds to work, the EM drive could achieve thrust several thousand times stronger than that exhibited by a photon rocket. The first, most practical application would be to use EM Drive technology on the International Space Station in order to eliminate re-boost maneuvers. At present, the space station’s orbit is raised periodically by other vehicles. With the EM Drive, which would never need to be refueled, that process could be eliminated.

Beyond that, the EM Drive approaches the science fiction ideas of a warp drive. Travel between the surface of the earth and the surface of the moon could be undertaken within four hours; at present, a manned craft could make it in three days. A journey to Mars with the new drive would take 70 days one way, instead of 150 to 300 days. A trip to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, would take a relatively rapid 92 years.

A spacecraft equipped with the EM Drive could operate at 500 to 1,000 Newton/kW efficiency.

“A 90 metric ton, 2 MegaWatt nuclear electric propulsion mission to Mars [would have] considerable reduction in transit times due to having a thrust-to-mass ratio greater than the gravitational acceleration of the Sun (0.6 milli-g’s at 1 Astronomical Unit),” White said.

The NASA Eagleworks team has yet to test the drive in a vacuum, according to the post from April 29. If the year-over-year progress continues, though, NASA could be one step closer to a fast, fuel-less space drive.

Bruce Jenner, 'Caitlyn' To Open Line Of Women's Clothing? Kim Kardashian Makes A Stand To Be There For Bruce (Caitlyn)! But Says, "Stay Away From My Glam Team!"


"I am a Woman".  Call me Caitlyn.

  • Yes, and for all intents and purposes, I am a woman,” Bruce Jenner announced to Diane Sawyer within the first five minutes of his highly anticipated “20/20” Diane Sawyer Interview, April, 2015.  

    For months, media outlets have speculated about Bruce Jenner’s life post-divorce from Kris Jenner, namely that Jenner was preparing to come out as transgender.  The announcement came after longtime speculation that the former Olympian was transitioning to female.

    “I look at women all the time and think how lucky are they that they can wake in the morning and be themselves," Jenner said. 

    Now that Bruce or Caitlyn has become transgender he's may be opening a new style of women's clothing with the transgender in mind.

    A confidential insider informed us that Bruce seems excited about a possible new venture.  Bruce said, "I'm tickled pink about this.  It's been a goal of mine to provide a fashion line for transgenders all along.   If it goes forward I'll probably corner the market."  Our source said.  

    Scores of Hollywood stars have tried their hand at designing clothing—including Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria, and even Sarah Jessica Parker. 

    It's more difficult for a celebrity to launch a clothing line. The eyes of the customers are on them.

    Soon Caitlyn may be dressing exclusively from her own clothing line.

    So what makes a fashion line successful? Attention to fine detail, quality of the material, and some serious stylistic editing.


Jenner's huge fan base won't hurt either. 

Kim Kardashian Bruce's stepdaughter recently responded to Bruce's new lifestyle and possible transgender line of clothing.

Stay away from my glam team!

On "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", Kim revealed that she told her stepdad to stay away from the team that always keeps her looking fierce and selfie-ready.

"I [told him], 'The only thing is, whatever you do, do not steal my glam team. They are mine!'".

Kim's glam team might be off limits, but the reality star will be there for him for any fashion emergency.

"I did tell him that, and I said, 'Whatever help you need, you need to look and feel your best, and if you need anything, style-wise, glam-wise, I am here to help you,'" she explained.






If Caitlyn does go through with her dream of having her own clothing line it will feature.





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    • Alex Jones And Bill Hicks, Separated At Birth?


    February 26th 2015, marked the 21st anniversary of the untimely death of comedian, writer and social critic Bill Hicks. If you’re not familiar with the late stand-up’s work, just go to YouTube, search for his name.

    Hicks ruthlessly skewered consumerism, popular culture, anti-intellectualism, politics and the hypocrisy of religion – all before his untimely death at the age of 32. While Hicks was unabashed in his disgust for modern entertainment, the Gulf War and the meddling of social conservatives, he was also something of a conspiracy theorist.

    He regularly went off on stage about the “official story” behind the JFK assassination, as well as making allusions to government mind control, CIA plots, and the botched raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Twenty years after his death – there's a theory that he didn’t die, but faked his cancer and re-emerged some time later under a new persona: conspiracy theorist and Infowars head Alex Jones.

    The idea that Hicks might have reinvented himself as Alex Jones has a few aspects going for it.

    – Hicks and Jones both spent their formative years in Texas, with Hicks’ family moving there when he was seven and Jones born in Dallas.

    – Both share a penchant for exposing perceived government plots, conspiracies and false “official stories.”

    – They have similar facial features, with ruddy cheeks, high foreheads, drooping eyes and near-identical teeth.

    – While Hicks would be 53 in 2015, and Jones is 41, Jones looks much older than he is.

    – Hicks died in 1994, and Jones first appeared on the scene just a few years later, becoming a local favorite as a radio talk show host in Austin in 1996. 

    – Both love music.

    Additionally, they both spent a large amount of time talking about the Waco incident, with Jones campaigning to get the Branch Davidian church rebuilt.

    – The two never appear to have met, but share a connection in Hicks’ childhood friend and collaborator Kevin Booth, who would go on to become a cameraman for Jones.

    So did Hicks reinvent himself as Alex Jones? 

    The idea of Bill Hicks faking his death and returning as Alex Jones started when someone noticed their physical similarities and shared belief in conspiracies. After all, plenty of other celebrities are thought to have faked their death – why not one more?

    Hicks was only 32 at the time of his death, had been performing in comedy clubs half his life. He’d been on Letterman, released two albums, opened for the band Tool, toured the US extensively and was a major star in England. He spoke of transitioning into something major before his death.

    So is Alex Jones actually Bill Hicks after a little surgery? Only Bill Hicks or let's say Alex Jones knows for sure.



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    Microsoft's New Tool Will Guess Your Age. Give Or Take 50 Or 60 Years.


    Microsoft's New Tool Will Guess Your Age.  Give Or Take 50 Or 60 Years.

    Think you look young for your age? Microsoft has a new tool that could either give you an ego boost or -- more likely -- burst your young-at-heart bubble.

    The How-old.net tool, unveiled at the company’s Build 2015 conference, lets users either upload a photo, use a stock photo, or do a Web search for photos. It then analyzes the faces in the shots and takes a guess at the ages.

    The tool is far from 100 per cent accurate – beards and facial stubble seem to throw it off, for example – but it generally lands in the right age ballpark.

    At least for the most part. Twitter users have been having fun over the last day pointing out how very wrong the tool's guesses can be.



    According to one of Microsoft’s blogs, the tool was developed while company engineers were “playing around” with new face detection software. They asked a few hundred people to try the tool out and tell them what they thought and were taken aback by how many people responded.

    "…We were expecting perhaps 50 users for a test but – in the end – got over 35,000 users and saw the whole thing unfold in real time," the bloggers write.

    Astronauts Are To Be Dumbed Down On Their Way To Mars - Exclusive Report


    Dumbing down is a deliberate diminution of the intellectual capacity of individuals.

    Conspiracy theorists might suggest that there is a plan and goal by the federal government to condition astronauts.

    A new study, just published in Science Advances, finds that the smartest humans who will be chosen to go to Mars may not remain smart by the time they reach their destination.

    Space may be largely empty, but it’s filled up with invisible charged particles traveling at nearly the speed of light. Earth’s magnetic field deflects these particles, but space travelers will inevitably be exposed to such radiation. And the new study predicts that it will cause rapid and permanent damage to the brain.

    In the study, the researchers from the University of California, Irvine and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, subjected mice to radiation similar to the gamma cosmic rays that humans will be exposed to on their way to Mars. After six weeks of exposure to the radiation, which was made up of charged oxygen and titanium atoms, mice were given cognitive tests.

    When compared to mice who were not exposed to radiation, the irradiated mice performed far worse. On being shown familiar objects, these mice weren't interested. They also lacked curiosity towards new objects.

    These observations can be only be explained by the changes that occurred in brains of the irradiated mice. The researchers found that the radiation had hacked at the branches originating from neurons. These branches, and the connections they form, are vital to the proper functioning of the brain. Losing them has been associated with Alzheimer’s disease in humans.

    Space radiation is so harmful because its high-energy particles leave tracks of damage in cells and tissue that are difficult for the body’s repair system to fix. This occurs because the ionized particles are like bullets inside of bullets: Once the big bullet manages to enter cells or tissue, it causes further damage by firing off many more smaller bullets.

    Over the period of many months, which is what a Mars mission would require, humans would suffer from similar cognitive deficits. Short trips, say to the Moon, should be safer.

    Staying cognitively sharp to face any unexpected situation during a space mission is a matter of life or death, especially when any communication with the Earth will have increasing delays introduced by the growing distance between the spacecraft and our terrestrial home. This study was the first to test the effects of space radiation on cognition in such detail.

    According to the lead scientist of the study, Charles Limoli, there is no way to fully escape high-energy particles. Trying to carry effective shields is currently prohibitively expensive—the heavier the shielding equipment, the more rocket fuel you need.


    Brian Williams Scandal Widens With More Exaggerations - What We Weren't Told


    Exclusive news on Brian Williams.

    An NBC investigation into the reporting of suspended anchor Brian Williams has found additional instances of exaggerations and embellishments, CNN and the Washington Post reported Saturday.

    CNN quoted an unnamed person with knowledge of the internal investigation, which is not yet complete. The Post also quoted an unnamed person familiar with details of the probe, saying it turned up additional instances of embellishing. A representative for NBC could not immediately be reached for comment.

    Williams was suspended from his position as NBC News' chief anchor in February after he retracted a story about coming under enemy fire in Iraq while on a reporting tour in 2003.

    NBC has launched an internal investigation, reportedly led by the head of the network's investigative unit, into Williams' reporting. After veterans criticized Williams' account of the helicopter incident, news outlets challenged his reporting during Hurricane Katrina.

    According to the CNN report, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke was briefed on the latest findings from the internal investigation Thursday in New York, suggesting the network is close to coming to a decision about Williams' future. He has been suspended for six months without pay.

    Some of Williams' latest embellishments are: 

    (1) On the morning of Friday, March 11th, 2011 Williams failed to check in according to normal procedures. Someone suggested that they thought they overheard him mentioning to a fellow employee that  he had a ingrown toenail or something else wrong with his foot first thing in the morning when they greeted him. Later he was seen by various NBC on air staff to be walking without any issues. 

    (2) On the day of Monday, May 6th, 2013 Williams stated to a fellow employee that it was his birthday. After some research it was discovered through company records that it was actually the day before.  

    (3) On the day of Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 Williams borrowed a tissue or two from a fellow employee's desk but he didn't let anyone know! Security cameras had recorded the whole incident.

    (4) On the date of Tuesday, March 25th, 2013 Williams committed another falsehood when he appeared on David Letterman show and stated that he only had a vague interest in music. Everybody knows Mr. Williams loves music!

    Mr Williams' has been contacted and has stated, "No comment" to these latest allegations.

    Additional instances of exaggerations and embellishments will be released later.

    Beaver Families Work Together To Build A Dam Larger Than Hoover Dam! In Fact It Can Be Seen From Space.


    Image from space of dam.

    Beaver families join forces and build a dam larger than the Hoover Dam. 

    This woodland construction is actually the world's biggest beaver dam. It is so big that it spans twice the width of the Hoover dam.

    This massive beaver dam in Alberta, Canada can be seen from space. At 2,790 feet long (more than twice the size of the Hoover Dam), it's quite impressive.

    Beavers are famously busy, and they turn their talents to reengineering the landscape as few other animals can. Felling and gnawing trees with their strong teeth and powerful jaws, they create massive log, branch, and mud structures to block streams and turn fields and forests into the large ponds that beavers love.

    Domelike beaver homes, called lodges, are also constructed of branches and mud. They are often strategically located in the middle of ponds and can only be reached by underwater entrances. These dwellings are home to extended families of monogamous parents, young kits, and the yearlings born the previous spring.

    Beavers are among the largest of rodents. They are herbivores and prefer to eat leaves, bark, twigs, roots, and aquatic plants.

    These large rodents move with an ungainly waddle on land but are graceful in the water, where they use their large, webbed rear feet like swimming fins, and their paddle-shaped tails like rudders. These attributes allow beavers to swim at speeds of up to five miles an hour. They can remain underwater for 15 minutes without surfacing, and have a set of transparent eyelids that function much like goggles. Their fur is naturally oily and waterproof.

    There are two species of beavers, which are found in the forests of North America, Europe, and Asia. These animals are active all winter, swimming and foraging in their ponds even when a layer of ice covers the surface.


    The Hoover Dam is 1,244 ft long


    Remote Viewing With Google's Cardboard Virtual Reality Viewer - Travel Anywhere For Free! Available Now.


    Google's Virtual Reality Cardboard Viewer
    Use It For A Remote Viewing Experience!



    Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using subjective means, in particular, extrasensory perception (ESP) or "sensing with mind".





    Remote viewing is a mental faculty that allows a perceiver (a "viewer") to describe or give details about a target that is inaccessible to normal senses due to distance, time, or shielding. For example, a viewer might be asked to describe a location on the other side of the world, which he or she has never visited; or a viewer might describe an event that happened long ago; or describe an object sealed in a container or locked in a room; or perhaps even describe a person or an activity; all without being told anything about the target -- not even its name or designation.

    From this explanation, it is obvious that remote viewing is related to so-called psi (also known as "psychic" or "parapsychological") phenomena such as clairvoyance or telepathy. Whatever it is that seems to make it possible for human beings to do remote viewing is probably the same underlying ability that makes such things as clairvoyance work. 

    What do you need for this remote viewing virtual reality experience? You'll only need to get Google's Cardboard Virtual Reality Viewer!

    You need one image going into one eye and a different image going into the other – it’d be good if the mental images changed once in a while – and that’s basically it. Google Cardboard brings that to you with only a smartphone, a couple of lenses (not provided), and cardboard (and some magnets and rubber bands). 

    At a recent conference in San Francisco Google handed out unfoldable packages that assembled – via Velcro and some tearing on the dotted line – into fully functional remote viewing 3-D displays upon adding an Android phone and a Cardboard-compatible app.

    Like an old-school stereoscope, the Cardboard uses visual imagery (like a x-ray device) in front of each eye to focus a user’s eyesight to two evenly-sized windows, creating the effect of remote viewing a 3-D image. In this case, though, those windows are each half of a smartphone’s screen. The Cardboard app offers exploration of Google Earth,  virtual environments, and remote viewing.  The setup uses the smartphone’s movement sensors to explore a virtual remote viewing interface, and a metal ring paired with a magnet clinging to the side of the device moves up and down, allowing users to click by triggering a phone’s magnetometer (normally used to measure the phone’s orientation compared to the Earth’s magnetic field).

    Google also has do-it-yourself instructions with equally simple materials online.

    Besides using the device for remote viewing one can create their own apps—including a Minecraft-like game and a roller coaster simulation—with the help of the VR Toolkit. The toolkit is intended to help with perspective changes, head tracking, and movement in order to optimize apps for 3-D.

    With Google's Cardboard VR Viewer you'll soon be an expert at remote viewing and gaining direct knowledge about inaccessible targets – about people, places, things, or events in the past, present, or future. 

    Tattooed Arms? Apple Watch Users Beware


    If you have a tattooed wrist your ability to monitor your health may be in jeopardy according to apple watch users.    We caution those who may be interested in apple products. 



    It may be impossible to get any heart rate reading at all -  says Apple that's if you have arms filled with tattoos.

    If you need another reason to rethink getting that sleeve tattoo, Apple just gave you one: the Apple Watch doesn't work so well when worn on a tattooed wrist. A few days after the smartwatch's launch, users on Reddit, Twitter, and other social media channels are reporting that the Watch loses connection and reports inaccurate heart rate results when placed over tattoos. 
    Such an issue could quickly prove annoying, since Apple Watch requests a security PIN almost immediately after it detects it has left an owner's wrist. Here, that's happening while it's still securely strapped on. iMore has already conducted some pretty thorough tests and found that yes, Apple's watch can run into significant problems on inked customers.
    Dark, solid colors seem to give the sensor the most trouble — our tests on solid black and red initially produced heart rate misreadings of up to 196 BPM before failing to read skin contact entirely.
    Tattoos with lighter colors seemed to give Apple Watch less trouble, only leading to heart rate readings that were slightly off the mark. As for patterned tattoos, iMore's tests showed no errors, but this can obviously vary wildly depending on a specific tattoo design.

    Apple warns of potential problems on its website, but doesn't specifically mention tattoos.

    But when you consider how Apple Watch gets those heart rate readings, this problem shouldn't be very surprising. Here's how the company explains the technology:
    Blood is red because it reflects red light and absorbs green light. Apple Watch uses green LED lights paired with light‑sensitive photodiodes to detect the amount of blood flowing through your wrist at any given moment. When your heart beats, the blood flow in your wrist — and the green light absorption — is greater. Between beats, it’s less. By flashing its LED lights hundreds of times per second, Apple Watch can calculate the number of times the heart beats each minute — your heart rate.
    This approach is one shared by other fitness bands including Fitbit's Charge HR and the Microsoft Band. The ink from a tattoo can dramatically complicate things for these devices in ways that natural human skin pigmentation never would. On the same page where it offers technical details on the heart rate sensor, Apple also says, "For a small percentage of users, various factors may make it impossible to get any heart rate reading at all." 

    Riding Lawn Mowers And Testicular Cancer - Caucasian Men Take Notice


    You may need a medical check up after reading this.

    Evidence suggest a direct link between riding lawn mowers and testicular cancer in Caucasian men.

    Workers operating riding mowers face serious safety issues including testicular cancer. Their employers need to make sure that the equipment in use is designed and maintained with safety in mind. Finally, the employers must ensure that mowing operations are performed safely.

    Scientists have found several risk factors that make someone more likely to develop testicular cancer. Even if someone has one or more risk factors for this disease, it’s impossible to know for sure how much that risk factor contributes to developing the cancer. Risk factors for testicular cancer include:

    * An undescended testicle
    * Family history of testicular cancer
    * HIV infection
    * Carcinoma in situ of the testicle
    * Having had testicular cancer before
    * Being of a certain race/ethnicity
    * Body size
    * Previous lawn mower riding experiences

    Guidelines discussed below are based on safety principles.

    Employers Must Ensure Equipment Safety

    Use and maintain all available safety equipment. Pay particular attention to the following points:

    Inspect mowers to ensure that operator presence systems and all safety features are always in place and operable. Keep riding mowers in good working order.

    Mower operators should use a standard checklist to do a general inspection of the equipment before use. For example, the checklist should include checking the tire pressure and checking for missing or damaged guards, etc.

    Experienced service personnel should inspect riding mowers for the necessary safety features and overall maintenance at least annually. Only qualified personnel should service and repair riding mowers.

    Definition

    A riding mower is a self-propelled vehicle operated by a person in a seated position.  It is designed for cutting grassy areas such as residential lawns, golf courses, cemeteries and parks.

    Riding mowers are distinct from agricultural and industrial tractors, which are designed as utility machines for multiple uses with a variety of implements and attachments.  

    While it is essential to have the proper safety equipment in place on riding mowers, you should think of that step as just the beginning of your safety program.

    Skin cancer and testicular cancer

    We all know that too much sun exposure could lead to an increased risk of skin cancer, but could it also spell trouble for testicular cancer in Caucasian men? Research out of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Oxford in England has revealed that a gene associated with the skin’s tanning mechanism could increase a white male’s chance of developing testicular cancer.

    It appears that this particular variant could help protect light-skinned individuals from UV skin damage, like burning or cancer, by promoting the tanning process, but it permits testicular stem cells to grow in the presence of DNA damage, when they are supposed to stop growing.

    White males have the highest odds of having testicular cancer. The high frequency of this in light skin individuals may explain why testicular cancer is so much more frequent in people of European descent than those of African descent.

    While there has been an identified twofold to threefold increased risk of cancer development in white males, there was some good news. Risk of cancer development could also explain why testicular tumors are successfully cured through chemotherapy treatments.

    Note

     Ride your lawn mower with this in mind.  Riding lawn mowers can cause testicular cancer. Especially when your out in the sun.  All Caucasian males should take notice of this medical warning and monitor their time and use of riding lawn mowers.

    When you have a health check, your doctor will talk to you about your medical history, your family’s history of disease and your lifestyle. Your diet, weight, how much you exercise and whether or not you smoke will also be discussed.

     If you have high-risk factors, such as a family history of a disease, it may be more likely that you will develop a particular disease. Regular check-ups may help your doctor pick up early warning signs. 
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