Winston Churchill on Aliens: 1939 Essay Discovered

Winston Churchill was known for his leadership during World War II, but a newfound essay on alien life reveals another side of him, one that was deeply curious about the universe. 

"I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures," he wrote in the newly uncovered essay, "or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time."

Besides being prime minister of the United Kingdom during the tumultuous years of World War II, the British statesman was also a prolific writer and proponent of science. In fact, he was the first prime minister to have a science advisor. Those traits converged in the newfound 11-page essay about the search for alien life, discovered at the Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri. It was first written in 1939 and was slightly revised in the late 1950s. [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]-read more

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First of all, what is cognition? Cognition has to do with how a person understands the world and acts in it. It is the set of mental abilities or processes that are part of nearly every human action while we are awake.

Cognitive abilities are brain-based skills we need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex. They have more to do with the mechanisms of how we learn, remember, problem-solve, and pay attention, rather than with any actual knowledge. For instance, answering the telephone involves perception (hearing the ring tone), decision taking (answering or not), motor skill (lifting the receiver), language skills (talking and understanding language), social skills (interpreting tone of voice and interacting properly with another human being).

Cognitive abilities or skills are supported by specific neuronal networks. For instance memory skills rely mainly on parts of the temporal lobes and parts of the frontal lobes (behind the forehead).

In the table below, you can browse through the main brain functions involved in cognition. You will also find brain teasers that will help you exercise the cognitive abilities described. I hope you enjoy it…and have fun!-read more

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GM hens help build 'frozen aviary' in Edinburgh

Genetically-modified hens that can lay eggs from different poultry breeds are helping scientists set up a "frozen aviary" to conserve rare birds.

The aviary acts like a seed bank for poultry, storing primordial stem cells that produce eggs destined to hatch male or female offspring.

The Edinburgh University team have collected more than 500 samples from 25 different breeds.

The cells are held in a freezer at -150C and will be viable for decades.

The researchers at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute want to preserve rare poultry breeds that may be resistant to infections such as bird flu or have desirable traits such as high meat quality.

The first step was to create the GM hens capable of laying eggs from multiple different rare breeds, which include the colourfully-named "rumpless game", "Scots dumpy", "Sicilian buttercup", and "Old English pheasant fowl".-read more

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G Rim collection of death masks of Victorian crooks - including a notorious serial killer - found in shed

M acabre collection of death masks of Victorian crooks is up for sale.

The grim hoarde was discovered in an outbuilding of a rural home during a routine valuation by a shocked auctioneer .

Two of the dead heads have been identified as Benjamin Courvoisier, a London serial killer 50 years before Jack the Ripper , and coachman Daniel Good, who mutilated his pregnant mistress.

And one of them was even once covered in lipstick and rouge as the owner’s young daughter had unwittingly decided to practice doing her make-up on a dead convicted criminal.

In total, nine heads were discovered in the shed of a property near Penrith, Cumbria. They have now sold for almost £40,000 at auction.-READ MORE

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EU Parliament Committee Votes To Give Robots Rights (And A Kill Switch)

Foreseeing a rapidly approaching age of autonomous artificial intelligence, a European Parliament committee has voted to legally bestow electronic personhood to robots. The status includes a detailed list of rights, responsibilities, regulations, and a “kill switch.”The committee voted by 17 votes to two, with two abstentions, to approve a draft report written by Luxembourg MEP Mady Delvaux, who believes “robots, bots, androids and other manifestations of artificial intelligence” will spawn a new industrial revolution. She wants to establish a European Agency to develop rules for how to govern AI behavior. Specifically, Delvaux writes about how increased levels of autonomy in robot entities will make usual manufacturing liability laws insufficient. It will become necessary, the report states, to be able to hold robots and their manufacturers legally responsible for their acts.

Sounding at times like a governmental whisper of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, the report states, “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”

The rules will also affect AI developers, who, according to the report, will have to engineer robots in such a way that they can be controlled. This includes a “kill switch,” a mechanism by which rogue robots can be terminated or shut down -read more

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Stump of tree that Braveheart William Wallace was tied to found at Lidl branch

A tree that Scotland’s Braveheart freedom fighter William Wallace is said to have been chained to by English soldiers has been found behind a Lidl store.

For nearly a year, experts have been examining two chunks of oak in order to find out if they really came from the same tree named in a local legend.

The chunks were found at the site of the former Gourock Ropeworks, Inverclyde, and from a tree thought to have stood in the grounds of the Holy Family Church.

According to local legend, Wallace was chained to the tree in 1305 after his capture by the English before being transferred to London, where he was hanged, drawn and quartered.

The segments of tree were examined by tree specialist Dr Coralie Mills - one of just three -read more

Man trip over 36 ft erect phallus in Dorset.

 Aman managed whilst walking to trip over a 36 ft erect phallus of Cerne Abbas Giant 180 ft chalk carving and tumbled down the steep slope at night.The man was rescued by local fire and rescue and taken to ambulance to get first aid.-http://www.druidry.org/library/library/cerne-abbas-giant-dorset-england

House of Commons debates seagull menace

Have you ever been accosted by a seagull while eating a snack at the seaside?

The problem has become so bad that it has been the subject of a debate at Westminster.

MPs heard that Largs in North Ayrshire is one town that has been badly affected by the marauding birds.

Our reporter Huw Williams has been to find out how people there are dealing with the problem.watch video

Foreign accent syndrome

Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are perceived as a foreign accent^[1] that is different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin.

Foreign accent syndrome usually results from a stroke,^[1] but can also develop from head trauma,^[1] migraines^[2] or developmental problems.^[3] The condition was first reported in 1907,^[4] and between 1941 and 2009 there were sixty-two recorded cases.^[3]

Its symptoms result from distorted articulatory planning and coordination processes and although popular news articles commonly attempt to identify the closest regional accent, speakers suffering from foreign accent syndrome acquire neither a specific foreign accent nor any additional fluency in a foreign language. Despite an unconfirmed news report in 2010 that a Croatian speaker had gained the ability to speak fluent German after emergence from a coma,^[5] there has been no verified case where a patient's foreign language skills have improved after a brain injury. There have been a few reported cases of children and siblings picking up the new accent from someone with foreign accent -wiki link

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Giant dog manages to get trapped after roof jump and has to be coaxed down in an unusual way

An adventurous dog took his walkies to a new height by jumping onto his roof.

Pyrenean mountain dog Ollie was stranded on the 30ft high rooftop while his owners out on a shopping trip.

A shocked neighbour spotted the giant fluffy white dog tottering around on the slate roof instead of his mountain breeding.-read more

Say yes to wheelchair.

From April 6th 2017 any taxi who refuses a wheelchair user will face a 1,000 pounds fine and hit with penalties if charge more.The  covers wheelchair accessible taxis and private hire taxis .

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Alice's Bear Shop is a Teddy Bear and Doll Hospital, situated in Lyme Regis, a beautiful, Dorset, seaside town.

We are proud to offer you our beautiful collection of Heirloom, jointed Teddy Bear and Calico Rag Doll making Kits and Patterns. Created using the very best partners we can find and offering you a product that is as green as we can make it while still being affordable. 

We are also very pleased to offer you our gorgeous, organic and wonderfully ethical clothing range, EarthPositive®. You can choose from a large selection of colours and sizes.

Ethically created with People, Play and the Planet in mind. read more

Deadman's Island: Six things you wanted to know

The remains of dozens of people who were buried more than 200 years ago are being slowly exposed on an island in Kent.

Horror stories have been handed down the generations about the mysterious site, known as Deadman's Island, so the BBC's Inside Out South East programme took a boat across to investigate whether any of the rumours were true.

Lots of people have since been talking about it on social media sites.

Here are the answers to six things you wanted to know.

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1. Where is Deadman's Island and who owns it?

It lies at the mouth of The Swale, opposite the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, off the north Kent coast.

The uninhabited mudbank is owned by Natural England, who lease it to two people.-read more and see video

Deep Thought' - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy dream computer - to be realised by British scientists

British scientists have taken the first steps towards building a real-life version of Deep Thought, the supercomputer programmed to solve the "ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

The team has come up with the first practical blueprint for constructing a giant quantum computer, a thinking device capable of rapidly providing answers to problems that would take an ordinary computer billions of years to solve.

A proof-of-concept early prototype is planned within two years at the University of Sussex.

For many years, people said that it was completely impossible to construct an actual quantum computerProfessor Winfried Hensinger, University of Sussex

But the ground-breaking modular design could theoretically pave the way to a machine as large as a football field with undreamed of levels of computing power.

While Deep Thought's solution to the meaning of life was "42", the Sussex scientists hope their creation will prove a lot more useful than the supercomputer in Douglas Adams's comic space opera.-read more