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Experts Conclude Pfizer Manipulated Studies (Published 2008)

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The drug maker Pfizer earlier this decade manipulated the publication of scientific studies to bolster the use of its epilepsy drug Neurontin for other disorders, while suppressing research that did not support those uses, according to experts who reviewed thousands of company documents for plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the company.

Pfizer’s tactics included delaying the publication of studies that had found no evidence the drug worked for some other disorders, “spinning” negative data to place it in a more positive light, and bundling negative findings with positive studies to neutralize the results, according to written reports by the experts, who analyzed the documents at the request of the plaintiffs’ lawyers.

One of the experts who reviewed the documents, Dr. Kay Dickersin of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, concluded that the Pfizer documents spell out “a publication strategy meant to convince physicians of Neurontin’s effectiveness and misrepresent or suppress negative findings.”

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How Nikola Tesla Planned To Use Earth For Wireless Power Transfer

David BressanContributor

In 1896 Tesla was working on oscillations for wireless energy transfer. The idea was to build a steam-powered oscillator, able to create various changing frequencies. If the frequency matched the resonance frequency of a receiving device, this device should transform the mechanical oscillations back into an electric current.

In 1897 the device was ready and in 1898 Tesla supposedly managed to oscillate his laboratory at 48 E. Houston St., New York, enough, that alarmed neighbors called the police, fearing an earthquake happening. Tesla later explained the principle to reporter Allan L. Besnson, who in February 1912 published an article about Tesla’s resonator in The World Today magazine:

“He put his little vibrator in his coat-pocket and went out to hunt a half-erected steel building. Down in the Wall Street district, he found one, ten stories of steel framework without a brick or a stone laid around it. He clamped the vibrator to one of the beams, and fussed with the adjustment until he got it. Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police was called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes more and he could have laid the building in the street. And, with the same vibrator, he could have dropped the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River in less than an hour.”

The “earthquake-generator” could also be used for more peaceful applications. Tesla imagined an array of smaller devices distributed all over the planet to relieve energy from Earth and also to send energy from one spot to another. A transmitter, a device consisting of a piston vibrating inside a cylinder, transforms electric energy into vibrations. Using the rocks in the underground as sort of conductor, the vibrations are sent to a receiving device and the oscillations transformed back into electricity, to be used locally. However, the “telegeodynamics” system by Tesla never managed to get beyond the prototype.

Another vision by Tesla was more successful. He imagined using the oscillations generated by his device to study Earth. Seismic waves generated by an oscillator and projected into the underground are reflected back to a receiver by faults or different layers of rocks. Studying the reflected waves, geologists may be able to X-ray Earth (Tesla also made important contributions to modern X-ray technology). Modern seismologists still use this principle. Pulses of energy, generated by electromagnetic devices, controlled explosions or mechanical pistons, are sent deep into the underground. Geophones record the reflected signals and geologists use the collected data to generate a model of the geological structures hidden beneath the surface.

Gothic boxwood miniatures are very small Christian wood sculptures produced during the 15th and 16th centuries in the Low Countries, at the end of the Gothic period and during the emerging Northern Renaissance.^[2] They consist of highly intricate layers of reliefs, often rendered to nearly microscopic level, and are made from boxwood, which has a fine grain and high density suitable for detailed micro-carving. There are around 150 surviving examples; most are spherical rosary beads (known as prayer nuts), statuettes, skulls, or coffins; some 20 are in the form of polyptychs, including triptych and diptychaltarpieces, tabernacles and monstrances.^[3] The polyptychs are typically 10–13 cm in height. Most of the beads are 10–15 cm in diameter and designed so they could be held in the palm of a hand, hung from necklaces or belts, or worn as fashionable accessories.

1.  “Rosary Bead 1500–10“. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 November 2018
2. ^ Sharpe, Emily. “Good things come in small packages at the Rijksmuseum“. The Art Newspaper, 17 June 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2018
3. ^ ^a b c Suda, Sasha; Ellis, Lisa. “Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures Introduction“. Art Gallery of Ontario, 28 October 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2017

Montpelier Hill (Irish: Cnoc Mount Pelier)^[2] is a 383 metres (1,257 foot) hill in County Dublin, Ireland.^[1] It is commonly referred to as the Hell Fire Club (Irish: Club Thine Ifreann),^[3] the popular name given to the ruined building at the summit believed to be one of the first Freemason lodges in Ireland. This building – a hunting lodge built in around 1725 by William Conolly – was originally called Mount Pelier and since its construction the hill has also gone by the same name.^[4] The building and hill were respectively known locally as ‘The Brass Castle’^[5] and ‘Bevan’s Hill’,^[6] but the original Irish name of the hill is no longer know[n]

1. Discovery Series No. 50 (Map). Ordnance Survey Ireland.
2. ^ Cnoc Mount Pelier Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved: 2014-08-30.
3. ^ “Hell Fire Club”. Irish Placenames Database. Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
4. ^ ^a b Joyce, p. 125.
5. ^ “The Hell Fire Club”. dúchas.ie. Archived from the original on 11 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
6. ^ ‘The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake’ by Henry Brereton Cody – p. 122

The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875),^[1] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. The exact date of the statue’s completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s.^{[citation needed]}

^[1] Willard, Ashton Rollins (1902). History of Modern Italian Art (2 ed.). Longmans, Green & Co. p. 132.

Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya (Tibetan: དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ།, Wylie: dpal sa skya; “White Earth” or “Pale Earth”) is a Buddhistmonastery situated in Sa’gya Town (ས་སྐྱ་), Sa’gya County, about 127 km west of Shigatse in Tibet Autonomous Region.^[1]

^[1] TBRC. sa skya dgon pa. TBRC G880. New York: TBRC, 2011. 

A huge library of as many as 84,000 books on traditional stacks 60 metres long and 10 metres high at Sakya Monastery was examined in 2003. It is expected that most of them are Buddhist scriptures, although they will also include works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics and art. Some volumes may have remained untouched for hundreds of years. They are being examined by the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences.^[8]

^[8]“Ancient Lections of Tibetan Buddhism to Be Sorted out”. China Through A Lens. China Internet Information Center. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

Hercules carrying the columns of Gades; walking to right in left foreground towards some stone steps; a townscape with a round temple at right in background; from a series of twelve engravings. 1545
Engraving Production date1545

El Judaísmo reformista desde 1977 viene abogando por la aceptación de la homosexualidad y los derechos de las minorías sexuales y el judaísmo reconstruccionista considera que la negativa del gobierno estadounidense a reconocer el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo viola el derecho a la libertad de elección religiosa.^[2]

​^[2] «Homosexuality in Jewish Thought» (en inglés). Consultado el 26 de mayo de 2012.

Juan Carlos Barba@juancarlosburbuY, por favor, vacunaros. Si me he puesto así de enfermo con las dos dosis de vacuna no me quiero ni imaginar lo que hubiera sido sin estar vacunado.12:45 p. m. · 7 nov. 2021·IFTTT

Juan Carlos Barba@juancarlosburbuAyer una amiga de mi hijo, de 16 años, murió en el colegio víctima de un tromboembolismo cerebral unos días después de recibir una dosis de vacuna contra el Covid-19.12:57 p. m. · 23 nov. 2021·IFTTT

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Whoa: Scientists Turned Red Bricks Into Supercapacitors

The key is in the color.BY CAROLINE DELBERT AUG 14, 2020

The polymer, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) or PEDOT, is critical to this research—but so is simple red clay.

Let’s look at how this setup works. First is the brick itself, which is made of clay that’s red because of an age-old pigment named hematite. :

“The red color of a brick originates from hematite, a pigment first utilized by humans 73,000 years ago and serving today as a low-cost naturally abundant inorganic precursor for catalysts, magnets, and alloys. State-of-the-art energy storage materials are also produced from hematite.”

When hematite-inflected red clay is fired into bricks, it becomes uniquely fixed and microporous, which allows the nanofibers in PEDOT to snake right in. This is done through a carefully controlled chemical reaction.

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Energy storing bricks for stationary PEDOT supercapacitors

• Hongmin Wang, 
• Yifan Diao, 
• Yang Lu, 
• Haoru Yang, 
• Qingjun Zhou, 
• Kenneth Chrulski & 
• Julio M. D’Arcy 

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Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 3882 (2020)

Fired brick is a universal building material, produced by thousand-year-old technology, that throughout history has seldom served any other purpose. Here, we develop a scalable, cost-effective and versatile chemical synthesis using a fired brick to control oxidative radical polymerization and deposition of a nanofibrillar coating of the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT). A fired brick’s open microstructure, mechanical robustness and ~8 wt% α-Fe₂O₃ content afford an ideal substrate for developing electrochemical PEDOT electrodes and stationary supercapacitors that readily stack into modules. Five-minute epoxy serves as a waterproof case enabling the operation of our supercapacitors while submerged underwater and a gel electrolyte extends cycling stability to 10,000 cycles with ~90% capacitance retention.

Storing energy in red bricks

By Talia Ogliore  August 11, 2020

The red pigment in bricks — iron oxide, or rust — is essential for triggering the polymerisation reaction. The authors’ calculations suggest that walls made of these energy-storing bricks could store a substantial amount of energy.

Tesla’s electro-mechanical oscillator is a steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893.^[1][2] Later in life Tesla claimed one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in 1898, gaining it the popular culture title “Tesla’s earthquake machine“.

Tesla’s oscillator is a reciprocating electricity generator. Steam would be forced into the oscillator, and exit through a series of ports, pushing a piston up and down that was attached to an armature, causing it to vibrate up and down at high speed, producing electricity. The casing’s upper chamber had to withstand pressures of 400 psi and temperatures exceeding 200 °C. Some versions used air trapped behind the piston as an “air spring”, increasing efficiency. Another variation used electromagnets to control the frequency of the piston’s oscillation.

Tesla developed many versions of the oscillator and looked on it as a possible replacement for inefficient reciprocating steam engines used to turn generators, but it was superseded by the development of highly efficient steam turbines. Tesla also used the highly regular tunable oscillation of the device to set frequency in his high frequency electrical and wireless transmission experiments.^[1] There are also claims it had a physiological effect on people subjected to its vibrations in that it acted as a laxative causing people to immediately run to the bathroom afterwards.^[3]

In 1935 at his annual birthday party/press meeting a 79-year-old Tesla related a story where he claimed a version of his mechanical oscillator caused extreme vibrations in structures and even an earthquake in downtown New York City.^[4] Reporter John J. O’Neill‘s biography of Nikola Tesla includes a version of this story (date of the telling not given).^[3]

One version of the story has Tesla experimenting with a small version of his mechanical oscillator at his laboratory on 46 East Houston Street near the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo. Tesla said the oscillator was around 7 inches (18 cm) long and weighing one or two pounds, something “you could put in your overcoat pocket”. At one point while experimenting with the oscillator, he alleged it generated a resonance in several buildings, causing complaints to the police. As the speed grew, he said that the machine oscillated at the resonance frequency of his own building and, belatedly realizing the danger, he was forced to use a sledgehammer to terminate the experiment, just as the police arrived.^[5] Other versions have Tesla smashing the device before the police arrive and have multi-ton equipment in the basement moving around. Another version has Tesla clamping an oscillator to a building under construction and causing it to vibrate so violently the steelworkers working on it left the building in a panic.^[6]

At the 1935 party Tesla also claimed the mechanical oscillator could destroy the Empire State Building with “Five pounds of air pressure” if attached on a girder and that he expected to earn $100 million from the oscillator within two years.^[4]

1.  W. Bernard Carlson (7 May 2013). Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. Princeton University Press. pp. 181–185. ISBN 1-4008-4655-2.
2. ^ Reciprocating Engine, U.S. Patent 514,169, February 6, 1894.
3. ^ ^a b Judy Wearing (2009). Edison’s Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-On-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops From Great Inventors. ECW Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-55490-551-5. nikola tesla oscillator claim earthquake.
4. ^ ^a b rexresearch.com – Nikola TESLA – Mechanical Oscillator
5. ^ Prodigal Genius, John J. O’Neill, pp. 162–164
6. ^ Marc Seifer, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla – 1998 – page 1799

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