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Critical Analysis Of Data Concerning Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Free-Cell Proliferations And Fermentations Assisted By Magnetic And Electromagnetic FieldsNew Magnetic Resonance Technique Could Revolutionise Quantum Computing Mathematicians Reinvent The Beer Widgetarxiv:1102.5604 "Selection for smaller brains in Holocene human evolution"The cited decrease in human brain volume with the progress of civilization has an obvious origin: Government, management in general, rewards stupidity. Organized cultures overall punish cleverness as insubordination to authority. Inner Cities (slums) breed abundantly, often with generous external subsidies. The Gifted breed poorly. Cf: the opening riff of otherwise undistinguished movie <I>Idiocracy</I>.I weep for my species. [Read the full article] See here: The Argus II can restore limited vision to people blinded by degenerative eye disease. Credit: Second SightAfter more than two decades of research and development, the first retinal prosthesis has received European approval for clinical and commercial use. People blinded by degenerative eye disease will have the option of buying an implant that can restore their vision at least partially."It marks the beginning of an era in which sight will be restored at ever more astonishing levels," says Robert Greenberg, president and CEO of Second Sight, the California company that developed the device.Walter Wrobel, CEO of Retina Implant AG of Reutlingen, Germany, a startup that is carrying out trials of a similar device in several countries, says the approval is an exciting development for hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from diseases like retinitis pigmentosa. [Read the full article] In 2001, a team of physicists from IBM and Stanford University in Silicon Valley revealed that they had built a remarkable computer capable of exploiting the strange rules of quantum mechanics to process information.This quantum computer was designed to factorise numbers, a problem that conventional computers have particular trouble with. The team proudly demonstrated it by finding the two prime factors of the number 15 (3 and 5, in case you were wondering).That was an impressive feat. It was possible because a quantum object can exist in two states at the same time, representing a 0 and 1 simultaneously. This kind of superposition allows one quantum object to compute with 2 bits simultaneously, two quantum objects to compute with four bits simultaneously, eight quantum objects to compute with 256 bits and so on.The IBM/Stanford had just seven qubits at its disposal. [Read the full article] 
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