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Featured Fiction Listen Earth Rise “ In Suscipio Eram Obscurum-In the beginning was darkness, we feel this as a truth. We must journey inward to hear the first word not that of root or seed but of cell within” -Mayragoon Fireflower, Origin Lectures: #121 Understanding our ancient memories U.T. 231343 No matter how many times he prayed pleaded begged and screamed Thomas Church could not die. Desperate scrabbling fingers and toes had early measured his kingdom of darkness. A coffin of rough p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Featured Non-Fiction Listen Part Three: Al-kimia transformed into Alchemie. As one star of Alchemy was fading another rose to the sky during Europe’s High Middle Ages. Fuelled by incoming Greek texts not seen since Roman times, and astounded by advanced Islamic texts, the Renaissance of the 12th century had begun. Kick started at the end of the Early Middle Ages by a Frenchman called Gerbert d'Aurillac, who under Roman Catholic monastic orders went to study mathematics in Spain. Once there, he was introduce ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Featured Non-Fiction Listen Part Three: Al-kimia transformed into Alchemie. As one star of Alchemy was fading another rose to the sky during Europe�s High Middle Ages. Fuelled by incoming Greek texts not seen since Roman times, and astounded by advanced Islamic texts, the Renaissance of the 12th century had begun. Kick started at the end of the Early Middle Ages by a Frenchman called Gerbert d'Aurillac, who under Roman Catholic monastic orders went to study mathematics in Spain. Once there, he was introduced ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #3 Listen Part Three: Al-kimia transformed into Alchemie. As one star of Alchemy was fading another rose to the sky during Europe's High Middle Ages. Fuelled by incoming Greek texts not seen since Roman times, and astounded by advanced Islamic texts, the Renaissance of the 12th century had begun. Kick started at the end of the Early Middle Ages by a Frenchman called Gerbert d'Aurillac, who under Roman Catholic monastic orders went to study mathematics in Spain. Once there, he was introduced ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #3 Listen Part Three: Al-kimia transformed into Alchemie. As one star of Alchemy was fading another rose to the sky during Europe's High Middle Ages. Fuelled by incoming Greek texts not seen since Roman times, and astounded by advanced Islamic texts, the Renaissance of the 12th century had begun. Kick started at the end of the Early Middle Ages by a Frenchman called Gerbert d'Aurillac, who under Roman Catholic monastic orders went to study mathematics in Spain. Once there, he was introduced ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #2 ListenPart Two: The Spagyric Arts reborn as Al-kimia 130 years after the fall of Roman Alexandria in 772CE, with Europe deep into the Dark Ages, one Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān, more commonly known as Geber or Jabir, was born in Tus, Khorasan (present day Iran). As Hermes was the father of Alchemy, Jabir would become known as the Father of Chemistry, and this is where we can find the root of the word Alchemy in the Arabic, al-kimia - the art of transformation, which up until then had b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #2 ListenPart Two: The Spagyric Arts reborn as Al-kimia 130 years after the fall of Roman Alexandria in 772CE, with Europe deep into the Dark Ages, one Abu Musa J?bir ibn Hayy?n, more commonly known as Geber or Jabir, was born in Tus, Khorasan (present day Iran). As Hermes was the father of Alchemy, Jabir would become known as the Father of Chemistry, and this is where we can find the root of the word Alchemy in the Arabic, al-kimia - the art of transformation, which up until then had bee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Featured Fiction Listen Earth Rise � In Suscipio Eram Obscurum-In the beginning was darkness, we feel this as a truth. We must journey inward to hear the first word not that of root or seed but of cell within� -Mayragoon Fireflower, Origin Lectures: #121 Understanding our ancient memories U.T. 231343 No matter how many times he prayed pleaded begged and screamed Thomas Church could not die. Desperate scrabbling fingers and toes had early measured his kingdom of darkness. A coffin of rough pine ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #1 ListenPart One: The Ancients Back in the millennia between 5000BCE - 400BCE there arose in Ancient Egypt spearheaded by their living gods and presided over by the priestly orders, a new way of looking at and understanding the world. It was the first known catalogued studies focusing not only on the composition of the world around us, but also how that knowledge could be both, utilised and preserved. Shrouded in mystery, allegoric encryption, and ritual, held forth as decrees from the god ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yvonne Vera The Fearless Taboo Queen Listen"I am against silence, the books I write try to undo the silent posture African women have endured over so many decades...” -Yvonne Vera. Yvonne was born in 1964 and raised in Zimbabwe’s second largest city Bulawayo during British colonial and then Rhodesian minority oppression. Though Yvonne was somewhat graced by her families prominent status, her father was a prosperous well connected businessman and her uncle a former local football star and manager of a top hotel. Together th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution in Action ListenThe general theory that humans have essentially stopped evolving has never sat well with me. For why should that be the case, what could have told our DNA to stop adapting to its situation, like it has been doing since the first strand of DNA ever evolved in the first place? From the University of Utah comes a study which not only suggests that humans are indeed still evolving, but have actually been doing so at an accelerated rate since the advent of farming and the end of the last ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The radio wave Wizard John Kanzius Listen When John Kanzius a retired radio station owner and self taught radio and TV engineer developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2004, he underwent the traditional chemotherapy sessions.'I noticed young kids losing their smiles, losing their hair, and I said to myself: today's chemotherapy is cruel. There's gotta be a better way to cure cancer.' -John KanziusWith his extensive background in radio engineering John set out to see if he could somehow apply this knowledge in the treatment of c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Organic Gardening: Crop Rotation ListenThe concept and practise of crop rotation is not a new one there are ancient Roman, African and Asian archaeological references to its practice and theory. But it was not until 8 - 13 CE during the global Muslim Agricultural Revolution (MAR), that it became well known and widely introduced into global farming practises. It is only with the fairly new advent of inorganic pesticides and fertilisers that crop rotation lost favour and was mistakenly replaced. There is however a return to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Macerations Listen Maceration derives from the Latin word maceratus: to soften, and is perhaps, apart from enfleurage and SCCD both very intensive preparations, the gentlest and one of the easiest ways to extract chemical compounds from herbs for home use. Maceration contains within it two preparations, but is technically chemically defined as, the preparation of an extract by soaking the containing material in an organic solvent. Taken like this maceration would thereby include infusions, decoctions ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Infusions Listen Introduction to Home Herbal Preparations The world of herbs and their healing qualities is a most fascinating one, herbs being primarily any soft stemmed plants that humans use for medicinal, culinary and other purposes, but may include especially medically woody stemmed plants too e.g. the Bay tree. By far the most common way we prepare and consume herbs is to add small prescribed quantities so indicated in recipes in the preparation of our daily meals. For more on culinary he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Essential Oil Extraction Listen Essential Oils are the volatile chemical compounds contained within plants. Volatile because they are contained within sometimes delicate structure and oils which have very low boiling points. If not sealed either within the plant or in a bottle volatile the oils will escape into the environment. Essential oils are generally used externally for a multitude of therapeutic treatments. Although in strictly speaking, the term essential oil is in reference to the aromatic value of the o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Tinctures Listen When herbs contain non-water soluble chemical compounds, larger amounts to be processed or long term storage is required then the next step from Infusions and Decoctions is Tinctures. This is achieved through the use of an alcohol water mix so what the water does not manage to extract the alcohol usually does. It is important to note that only grain (ethanol) alcohols should be used, the resultant tincture is mostly for human consumption and so never use wood (methanol) alcoho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Decoctions ListenWhile Infusions are generally for soft or fresh plants that easily render their compounds to its gentle process. When dealing with tough or woody plants, roots, stems and seeds it is generally necessary to take the next step up in extraction preparation and that is Decoctions. Although like Infusions and water Macerations the governing factor is whether or not the chemical compounds contained within the herb are water soluble or not. For the most part water is considered a Universal S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Self-assembled Nano-circuit boards with DNA Origami and Carbon Nanotubes Listen Just when Moore’s Law seemed to be hitting a sponge wall of 45nm, IBM inconjunction with Paul Rothemund have paved the way right down to a possible 2nm or 2 billionths of a meter. Now if that wasn’t enough to have even the mildest of technophile’s wonder at the possible increase in processing speed and power that could ensue. There’s something for the SF enthusiast too, because this avenue of research could lead to the first commercial organically self-assembled nano circu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloud Computing: A perfect storm gathering Listen There is a perfect storm gathering in the computing world, a storm that is set to scour present day computing into a strange and foreign landscape. One that could potentially see everyday home and business computing become a virtually inescapable cloud utility service like electricity or water. Except this utility service would be global and ultimately run by giants like Google, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Amazon etc. There are many elements to the coming storm amongst them are Clo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The great divide in 3D CGI between real-time rendering and pre-rendering Listen Letter to the Editor Financial Times ref: Alan Cane’s article “Will we be able to tell reality from artificial imagery?” FT Europe 30th Jan 2008. Sir, Whilst Alan Cane poses some interesting questions about the narrowing divide between real and artificial imagery and how this might affect our future society, in his article "Will we be able to tell reality from artificial imagery". I think he underestimates the fundamental divide between the real-time 3d rendering processes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Valter Longo Vs Death: Biogerontology ups the ante for Immortality Listen The Tree of Life, the Philosopher’s Stone, the Holy Grail; throughout human history the myth and legend of immortality and extended life has been a common cross cultural theme. Yet one that has always stayed obscured mysterious and decidedly out of reach, that is until now and the advent of genetic Biogerontology. At the University of Southern California, Dr Valter Longo not only looks Death in the eyes daily but they play high stakes poker together. And on the line is nothing el ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I'll see you in Budapest Listen “I know I shall return Return, return My wanderings will end I'll be there again In my beautiful country. No faraway lands lure me No glimmering cities I am free of temptations. Finally I am home I know Finally, finally My wanderings are over At last I am here.” -Ancient Magyar folk song First named Aquincum, Budapest has been long been a Capital. One that has flourished through adversity with diversity, blossoming over 2300 years into a thriving metro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #1 ListenPart One: The Ancients Back in the millennia between 5000BCE - 400BCE there arose in Ancient Egypt spearheaded by their living gods and presided over by the priestly orders, a new way of looking at and understanding the world. It was the first known catalogued studies focusing not only on the composition of the world around us, but also how that knowledge could be both, utilised and preserved. Shrouded in mystery, allegoric encryption, and ritual, held forth as decrees from the god ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yvonne Vera The Fearless Taboo Queen Listen"I am against silence, the books I write try to undo the silent posture African women have endured over so many decades...� -Yvonne Vera. Yvonne was born in 1964 and raised in Zimbabwe�s second largest city Bulawayo during British colonial and then Rhodesian minority oppression. Though Yvonne was somewhat graced by her families prominent status, her father was a prosperous well connected businessman and her uncle a former local football star and manager of a top hotel. Together they w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution in Action ListenThe general theory that humans have essentially stopped evolving has never sat well with me. For why should that be the case, what could have told our DNA to stop adapting to its situation, like it has been doing since the first strand of DNA ever evolved in the first place? From the University of Utah comes a study which not only suggests that humans are indeed still evolving, but have actually been doing so at an accelerated rate since the advent of farming and the end of the last ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The radio wave Wizard John Kanzius Listen When John Kanzius a retired radio station owner and self taught radio and TV engineer developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2004, he underwent the traditional chemotherapy sessions.'I noticed young kids losing their smiles, losing their hair, and I said to myself: today's chemotherapy is cruel. There's gotta be a better way to cure cancer.' -John KanziusWith his extensive background in radio engineering John set out to see if he could somehow apply this knowledge in the treatment of c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Organic Gardening: Crop Rotation ListenThe concept and practise of crop rotation is not a new one there are ancient Roman, African and Asian archaeological references to its practice and theory. But it was not until 8 - 13 CE during the global Muslim Agricultural Revolution (MAR), that it became well known and widely introduced into global farming practises. It is only with the fairly new advent of inorganic pesticides and fertilisers that crop rotation lost favour and was mistakenly replaced. There is however a return to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Macerations Listen Maceration derives from the Latin word maceratus: to soften, and is perhaps, apart from enfleurage and SCCD both very intensive preparations, the gentlest and one of the easiest ways to extract chemical compounds from herbs for home use. Maceration contains within it two preparations, but is technically chemically defined as, the preparation of an extract by soaking the containing material in an organic solvent. Taken like this maceration would thereby include infusions, decoctions ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Infusions Listen Introduction to Home Herbal Preparations The world of herbs and their healing qualities is a most fascinating one, herbs being primarily any soft stemmed plants that humans use for medicinal, culinary and other purposes, but may include especially medically woody stemmed plants too e.g. the Bay tree. By far the most common way we prepare and consume herbs is to add small prescribed quantities so indicated in recipes in the preparation of our daily meals. For more on culinary he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Essential Oil Extraction Listen Essential Oils are the volatile chemical compounds contained within plants. Volatile because they are contained within sometimes delicate structure and oils which have very low boiling points. If not sealed either within the plant or in a bottle volatile the oils will escape into the environment. Essential oils are generally used externally for a multitude of therapeutic treatments. Although in strictly speaking, the term essential oil is in reference to the aromatic value of the o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Tinctures Listen When herbs contain non-water soluble chemical compounds, larger amounts to be processed or long term storage is required then the next step from Infusions and Decoctions is Tinctures. This is achieved through the use of an alcohol water mix so what the water does not manage to extract the alcohol usually does. It is important to note that only grain (ethanol) alcohols should be used, the resultant tincture is mostly for human consumption and so never use wood (methanol) alcoho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Decoctions ListenWhile Infusions are generally for soft or fresh plants that easily render their compounds to its gentle process. When dealing with tough or woody plants, roots, stems and seeds it is generally necessary to take the next step up in extraction preparation and that is Decoctions. Although like Infusions and water Macerations the governing factor is whether or not the chemical compounds contained within the herb are water soluble or not. For the most part water is considered a Universal S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Self-assembled Nano-circuit boards with DNA Origami and Carbon Nanotubes Listen Just when Moore�s Law seemed to be hitting a sponge wall of 45nm, IBM inconjunction with Paul Rothemund have paved the way right down to a possible 2nm or 2 billionths of a meter. Now if that wasn�t enough to have even the mildest of technophile�s wonder at the possible increase in processing speed and power that could ensue. There�s something for the SF enthusiast too, because this avenue of research could lead to the first commercial organically self-assembled nano circuit board ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloud Computing: A perfect storm gathering Listen There is a perfect storm gathering in the computing world, a storm that is set to scour present day computing into a strange and foreign landscape. One that could potentially see everyday home and business computing become a virtually inescapable cloud utility service like electricity or water. Except this utility service would be global and ultimately run by giants like Google, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Amazon etc. There are many elements to the coming storm amongst them are Clo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The great divide in 3D CGI between real-time rendering and pre-rendering Listen Letter to the Editor Financial Times ref: Alan Cane�s article �Will we be able to tell reality from artificial imagery?� FT Europe 30th Jan 2008. Sir, Whilst Alan Cane poses some interesting questions about the narrowing divide between real and artificial imagery and how this might affect our future society, in his article "Will we be able to tell reality from artificial imagery". I think he underestimates the fundamental divide between the real-time 3d rendering processes e.g. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Valter Longo Vs Death: Biogerontology ups the ante for Immortality Listen The Tree of Life, the Philosopher�s Stone, the Holy Grail; throughout human history the myth and legend of immortality and extended life has been a common cross cultural theme. Yet one that has always stayed obscured mysterious and decidedly out of reach, that is until now and the advent of genetic Biogerontology. At the University of Southern California, Dr Valter Longo not only looks Death in the eyes daily but they play high stakes poker together. And on the line is nothing else ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I'll see you in Budapest Listen �I know I shall return Return, return My wanderings will end I'll be there again In my beautiful country. No faraway lands lure me No glimmering cities I am free of temptations. Finally I am home I know Finally, finally My wanderings are over At last I am here.� -Ancient Magyar folk song First named Aquincum, Budapest has been long been a Capital. One that has flourished through adversity with diversity, blossoming over 2300 years into a thriving metropoli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Organic Gardening: Crop Rotation The concept and practise of crop rotation is not a new one there are ancient Roman, African and Asian archaeological references to its practice and theory. But it was not until 8 - 13 CE during the global Muslim Agricultural Revolution (MAR), that it became well known and widely introduced into global farming practises. It is only with the fairly new advent of inorganic pesticides and fertilisers that crop rotation lost favour and was mistakenly replaced. There is however a return to or inn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The radio wave Wizard John Kanzius When John Kanzius a retired radio station owner and self taught radio and TV engineer developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2004, he underwent the traditional chemotherapy sessions.�I noticed young kids losing their smiles, losing their hair, and I said to myself: today's chemotherapy is cruel. There's gotta be a better way to cure cancer.� -John KanziusWith his extensive background in radio engineering John set out to see if he could somehow apply this knowledge in the treatment of cancer. J ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution in Action The general theory that humans have essentially stopped evolving has never sat well with me. For why should that be the case, what could have told our DNA to stop adapting to its situation, like it has been doing since the first strand of DNA ever evolved in the first place?From the University of Utah comes a study which not only suggests that humans are indeed still evolving, but have actually been doing so at an accelerated rate since the advent of farming and the end of the last ice age ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yvonne Vera The Fearless Taboo Queen "I am against silence, the books I write try to undo the silent posture African women have endured over so many decades...� -Yvonne Vera.Yvonne was born in 1964 and raised inZimbabwe�s second largest cityBulawayoduring British colonial and then Rhodesian minority oppression. Though Yvonne was somewhat graced by her families prominent status, her father was a prosperous well connected businessman and her uncle a former local football star and manager of a top hotel. Together they were both p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #1 Part One: The AncientsBack in the millennia between 5000BCE - 400BCE there arose in Ancient Egypt spearheaded by their living gods and presided over by the priestly orders, a new way of looking at and understanding the world. It was the first known catalogued studies focusing not only on the composition of the world around us, but also how that knowledge could beboth, utilised and preserved. Shrouded in mystery, allegoricencryption, and ritual, held forth as decrees from the gods, Alchemywa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Alchemy changed the World #2 Part Two: The Spagyric Arts reborn as Al-kimia130 years after the fall of Roman Alexandria in 772CE, with Europe deep into the Dark Ages, one Abu Musa J?bir ibn Hayy?n, more commonly known as Geber or Jabir, was born in Tus, Khorasan (present dayIran). As Hermes was the father of Alchemy, Jabir would becomeknown as the Father of Chemistry, and this is where we can find the root of the word Alchemy in the Arabic, al-kimia - the art of transformation, which up until then had been called the S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Featured Fiction Earth Rise�In Suscipio Eram Obscurum-In the beginning was darkness, we feel this as a truth. We must journey inward to hear the first word not that of root or seed but of cell within� -Mayragoon Fireflower, Origin Lectures: #121 Understanding our ancient memories U.T. 231343No matter how many times he prayed pleaded begged and screamed Thomas Church could not die. Desperate scrabbling fingers and toes had early measured his kingdom of darkness. A coffin of rough pine that needled deep befor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Featured Non-Fiction How Alchemy changed the World #2Part Two: The Spagyric Arts reborn as Al-kimia.130 years after the fall of Roman Alexandria in 772CE, with Europe deep into the Dark Ages, one Abu Musa J?bir ibn Hayy?n, more commonly known as Geber or Jabir, was born in Tus, Khorasan (present dayIran). As Hermes was the father of Alchemy, Jabir would becomeknown as the Father of Chemistry, and this is where we can find the root of the word Alchemy, in the Arabic, al-kimia - the art of transformation, which u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Macerations Maceration derives from the Latin word maceratus: to soften, and is perhaps, apart from enfleurage and SCCD both very intensive preparations, the gentlest and one of the easiest ways to extract chemical compounds from herbs for home use. Maceration contains within it two preparations, but is technically chemically defined as, the preparation of an extract by soaking the containing material in an organic solvent. Taken like this maceration would thereby include infusions, decoctions, tinctur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Infusions Introduction to Home Herbal PreparationsThe world of herbs and their healing qualities is a most fascinating one, herbs being primarily any soft stemmed plants that humans use for medicinal, culinary and other purposes, but may include especially medically woody stemmed plants too e.g. the Bay tree. By far the most common way we prepare and consume herbs is to add small prescribed quantities so indicated in recipes in the preparation of our daily meals. For more on culinary herbs see a prev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Essential Oil Extraction Essential Oils are the volatile chemical compounds contained within plants. Volatile because they are contained within sometimes delicate structure and oils which have very low boiling points. If not sealed either within the plant or in a bottle volatile the oils will escape into the environment. Essential oils are generally used externally for a multitude of therapeutic treatments. Although in strictly speaking, the term essential oil is in reference to the aromatic value of the oils alone ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Tinctures When herbs contain non-water soluble chemical compounds, larger amounts to be processed or long term storage is required then the next step from Infusions and Decoctions is Tinctures.This is achieved through the use of an alcohol water mix so what the water does not manage to extract the alcohol usually does. It is important to note that only grain (ethanol) alcohols should be used, the resultant tincture is mostly for human consumption and so never use wood (methanol) alcohols, isopropyl a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Herbal Preparations: Decoctions While Infusions are generally for soft or fresh plants that easily render their compounds to its gentle process. When dealing with tough or woody plants, roots, stems and seeds it is generally necessary to take the next step up in extraction preparation and that is Decoctions. Although like Infusions and water Macerations the governing factor is whether or not the chemical compounds contained within the herb are water soluble or not. For the most part water is considered a Universal Solvent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Self-assembled Nano-circuit boards with DNA Origami and Carbon Nanotubes Just when Moore�s Law seemed to be hitting a sponge wall of 45nm, IBM inconjunction with Paul Rothemund have paved the way right down to a possible 2nm or 2 billionths of a meter. Now if that wasn�t enough to have even the mildest of technophile�s wonder at the possible increase in processing speed and powerthat could ensue. There�s something for the SF enthusiast too, because this avenue of research could lead to the first commercial organically self-assembled nano circuit boards.In 2006 P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloud Computing: A perfect storm gathering There is a perfect storm gathering in the computing world, a storm that is set to scour present day computing into a strange and foreign landscape. One that could potentially see everyday home and business computing become a virtually inescapable cloud utility service like electricity or water. Except this utility service would be global and ultimately run by giants like Google, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Amazon etc.There are many elements to the coming storm amongst them are Cloud Computing, D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The great divide in 3D CGI between real-time rendering and pre-rendering Letter to the Editor Financial Times ref:Alan Cane�s article �Will we be able to tell reality from artificial imagery?�FT Europe 30thJan 2008.Sir, Whilst Alan Cane poses some interesting questions about the narrowing divide between real and artificial imagery and how this might affect our future society, in his article "Will we be able to tell reality from artificial imagery". I think he underestimates the fundamental divide between the real-time 3d rendering processes e.g. computer games a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Valter Longo Vs Death: Biogerontology ups the ante for Immortality The Tree of Life, the Philosopher�s Stone, the Holy Grail; throughout human history the myth and legend of immortality and extended life has been a common cross cultural theme. Yet one that has always stayed obscured mysterious and decidedly out of reach, that is until now and the advent of genetic Biogerontology. At theUniversityofSouthern California, Dr Valter Longo not only looks Death in the eyes daily but they play high stakes poker together. And on the line is nothing else but the ext ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I'll see you in Budapest �I know I shall returnReturn, returnMy wanderings will endI'll be there againIn my beautiful country.No faraway lands lure meNo glimmering citiesI am free of temptations.Finally I am home I knowFinally, finallyMy wanderings are overAt last I am here.�-Ancient Magyar folk songFirst named Aquincum,Budapesthas been long been a Capital. One that has flourished through adversity with diversity, blossoming over 2300 years into a thriving metropolis embodying the rich mettle of community and famil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SuperBugs Vs Michael McArthur ThevillageofColneyjust outsideNorwichCity, inNorfolkEnglandis home to the John Innes Centre (JIC), and the JIC is home to Dr. Michael McArthur and Professor Mervyn Bibb head of the JIC Department of Molecular Biology. Together they have achieved a possible solution to the rise in SuperBugs or super germs that are increasingly fatally resistant to current antibiotics. But not only that, as if that wasn�t good news enough the actual application could be the world�s first approved and consiste ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website