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Gilbere Forte – Sweet

2011-12-28T11:40:00.003-05:00

Dutch Scientist Created Highly Contagious Super-Influenza Virus With The Potential To Kill Half the World’s Population

2011-12-10T22:42:00.000-05:00

A Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet’s population. Now, researchers and experts in bioterrorism debate whether it is a good idea to publish the virus creation ”recipe”. However, several voices argue that such research should have not happened in the first place.
The virus is a strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be extremely contagious. It was created by researcher Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands. The work was first presented at a conference dedicated to influenza, that took place in September in Malta.
Avian influenza emerged in Asia about 10 years ago. Since then there were fewer than 600 infection cases reported in humans. On the other hand, Fouchier’s genetically modified strain is extremely contagious and dangerous, killing about 50% of infected patients. The former strain did not represent a global threat, as transmission from human to human is rare. Or, at least, it was before Fouchier genetically modified it.
Fouchier and his team used a pair of ferrets for testing because they react in similar ways as humans, when exposed to the flu virus. Researchers transmitted the deadly virus from one ferret to another, in order to make the virus more adaptable to a new host. After 10 generations, the virus has mutated allowing it to spread through air. The result was that ferrets could get sick just being near another infected animal.
A genetic study showed that new virus strain presented five mutations, and all could be also observed in nature - but only separately, not all five combined. Fouchier’s strain is as contagious as seasonal human influenza, which kills tens of thousands of people, just that, much more lethal.
Read more: DoctorTipster

Mind Tricks

2011-12-10T22:31:00.000-05:00

A pretty cool thread over at Reddit has folks listing some of their favorite mind tricks that help them become master manipulators of the universe. Peep a few down below:

Whenever you are negotiating take long…very long pauses before you ask questions. It makes people vomit the truth.

If you’re trying to find something, try looking right to left as opposed to left to right. Your eyes tend to skim over things if you search in the direction you are used to reading in, so skim the opposite way. It takes me a bit more effort to do this, but I notice more details.

I’m a paramedic. When a patient is possibly faking unconsciousness we have 2 tricks to determine if they’re really unconscious or not. First, you can lightly brush their eyelashes with your finger. Their eyes will flutter if they’re faking it. Alternatively, if they’re on their back you can lift their arm over their face and let it go. A conscious person will drop their arm away from their face.

The door-in-the-face technique. The general idea is that you ask someone for a huge favor which you’re relatively confident they’ll say no to. Then you ask them for a small favor. Subjects who initially refuse the huge favor have a much higher compliance rate on the small favor than if you just ask directly for the small favor or if you present both at once. If they end up saying yes to the huge favor, that’s also good.

If you’re in a crowded social group, restaurant, bar, party etc… and you want to know if someone is checking you out try this: Turn sideways from them (they will be either 90 degrees right or left of you), then very obviously, look at your watch (even if you don’t wear one, lift your wrist) then point at your watch and nod thoughtfully. Over acting is perfectly acceptable. If they are keeping tabs on you, even peripherally, they will have a sudden urge to know the time and will either look at their own watch, cell phone, or casually look at the various obvious places where someone would put a clock.

There’s something in sales called the Sullivan Nod. Basically when you’re asking someone something, nod up and down while you’re asking. Their mirror neurons start firing and they begin nodding and agreeing with you subconsciously. 60% of the time it works every time.

head over to Reddit for more.

ALEXANDER SPIT "REAL RSWD PT.1" FEATURING CBG

2011-11-14T23:33:00.000-05:00

Nice job sampling Az's Mo Money Mo Murder

The Foodchain – Dear Industry

2011-11-14T23:31:00.000-05:00

Kenton Dunson - Beautiful Fight

2011-11-14T23:29:00.002-05:00

Pac Div - Posted

2011-11-14T23:28:00.001-05:00

Pac Div's new LP "The Div" is available in iTunes.

Najee - Hood And A Gun

2011-11-14T23:24:00.000-05:00

How is this even possible that Najee's video has only 706 views?

Perrion - Don't Stop

2011-11-14T23:09:00.000-05:00

Heading from Harlem, NY. Perrion is one of the newest upcoming Gotham rappers.

Meek Mill featuring T.I., Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Birdman, Swizz Beatz & DJ Khaled – I’m a Boss Remix

2011-11-09T10:53:00.002-05:00

Food for Thought

2011-10-31T20:20:00.000-04:00

DJ Premier – Regeneration f. Nas & The Berklee Symphony Orchestra

2011-10-27T18:00:00.000-04:00

RE:GENERATION is a feature length documentary that explores the history of music through the eyes of five modern DJ/Producers. The extremely talented DJs embark on a musical odyssey to create a cutting edge electronic track inspired by one of five traditional musical genres: Jazz, R&B, Country, Classical and Rock. In addition to Skrillex working with The Doors, the project, which is actually co-produced by the Grammys, brought in DJ Premier to produce a classical track with Nas and the Berklee School of Music Orchestra; Pretty Lights, who produced a country song with Leann Rimes and Ralph Stanley; the Crystal Method, who traveled to Detroit to record an R&B track with Martha Reeves; and Mark Ronson, who collaborated with Erykah Badu, members of the Dap Kings and Trombone Shorty for a jazz tune in New Orleans. The documentary will premiere in early 2012 and will most likely be a big part of the Grammys next year.

Wondrous!

Skotch Davis – Skotchtastic

2011-10-27T17:43:00.000-04:00

First track off Skotch’s upcoming project, On My Grizzly 2: Skotch Tape 2

Using Black children as guinea pigs

2011-10-27T17:41:00.001-04:00

Beware of deals offering free or cheap housing for families with young children. They could be part of an experiment to see if lead paint will make your kids retarded (something like Soulja Boi).

Here's Socialist Worker on a lawsuit filed against the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.

The suit alleges that beginning in 1993 and until 1999, Kennedy Krieger, which is affiliated with the prestigious Johns Hopkins University, moved Black families with children between the ages of 1 and 5 into apartments subsidized by the state, telling them that they were "lead safe."
However, the apartments allegedly contained lead dust and paint that put the children at great risk. Kennedy Krieger is accused of not informing parents of the risk of lead exposure and providing no medical care to children in the study.
Lead exposure is especially harmful to children; it can cause serious and permanent health problems, including learning disabilities and behavioral disorders.
These allegations have drawn comparisons to the infamous Tuskegee Experiment conducted by the United States Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972, in which hundreds of poor African American men were misled in order to study the affects of syphilis if left untreated.
Subjects in the study were not told they had syphilis; the government "deliberately denied treatment to the men with syphilis and they went to extreme lengths to ensure that they would not receive therapy from any other sources."
Many of the subjects died of syphilis, several passed it on to their wives, and many of their children were born with congenital syphilis, which can cause a host of serious health problems, including deformities, brain damage, seizures and death. The men were denied treatment for decades, even after penicillin was introduced as an effective treatment for syphilis in the 1940s.

SKOTCHTAPE - "THE DIPLOMATS" EPISODE 4

2011-10-19T16:19:00.001-04:00

ASAP Rocky - Out Of This World

2011-10-19T09:11:00.000-04:00

Asher Roth & Chuck Inglish – In the Kitchen

2011-10-19T08:13:00.001-04:00

Asher Roth & Chuck Inglish - In The Kitchen from ILLROOTS.com on Vimeo.

Action Bronson & Statik Selektah featuring Nina Sky – Cocoa Butter

2011-10-19T08:08:00.000-04:00

T.I. featuring Pharrell – Hear Ye Hear Ye

2011-10-19T08:01:00.002-04:00

ILL BILL & VINNIE PAZ (HEAVY METAL KINGS) - OATH OF THE GOAT

2011-10-17T21:59:00.000-04:00

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Ill Bill – Let It Go f. Q-Unique

2011-10-17T21:56:00.000-04:00

DOWNLOAD: Ill Bill – Let It Go f. Q-Unique

Immortal Technique & David Banner at #OccupyWallStreet

2011-10-17T21:50:00.000-04:00

When the fuck is Tech dropping his new album?

Phil Ade – College Girl

2011-10-17T21:46:00.000-04:00

DOWNLOAD: Phil Ade – College Girl

Smoke DZA – He Has Risen

2011-10-17T21:32:00.002-04:00

Kooley High - Skyview feat. King Mez

2011-10-17T21:19:00.000-04:00