Not really news, but I haven’t yet seen such a simple description.

Meet Uniview, the most feature-rich astronomical visualization and universal data exploration platform on the market, yet simple enough to get you started with doing live presentations in museums, science centers, large scale theaters and fulldome planetariums in no time.
So, lets have a look at the know universe:

could not embed this one so head over to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/8392111.stm
and here a more detailed report from physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news178976346.html
“A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.”

Researcher from the University of Tokyo invented a paint that resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stm

The mass media has started its hysteria, although many high-ranking officials doubt the swine flu panic and the vaccine. And when the government and the Bundeswehr (Army) orders a different vaccine for themselves than for the public we should start to look who is actually profiting from the mass immunisation:
The ARTE documentary “Profiteure der Angst”:

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“Inside Bill Moorier’s Head [abstractnonsense.com] is a relatively simple online brain MRI image viewer that allows for the interactive exploration of a collection of medical MRI brain images.”
here is the link
via information aesthetics

just as a quick note:
I really like the ability to browse my hard disk with the os x finder in column view via arrow keys. But what s really annoying: you can’t open a file with the enter key. Instead, this key is allocated with the functionality to rename the specific file. So what you [...]

Awesome video of a NASA experiment at the space station. Wave propagation is investigated at free floating water spheres:

Australian Centre for Visual Technologies developed VideoTrace, a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence.

So we all agree on, that the current ways of our society are far form being just and sustainable and that a change has to come. Featuring Jacque Fresco, know from  an earlier post on splittingtimes about the Zeitgeist: Addendum movie, this documentary gives an insight into his works and his vision of a possible [...]