Technology

For the first time ever in the history of music sales, older record sales have exceeded the sales of newer releases, as the public en masse reject modern music.  Older music outsold current releases by 4.3 million, according to a 2015 report compiled by Nielsen. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: To give some perspective, only a decade ago current music sales dominated catalogue music by over 150 million albums. The new data comes from a 2015 year-end report by Nielsen, the data company that operates SoundScan music sales statistics that in turn informs the Billboard charts.

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Source: Townhall.com

Scientists in Spain have created a “magnetic wormhole” in the laboratory which is reportedly capable of transmitting magnetic fields invisibly through space. While the manufactured wormhole does not connect two separate points in space-time and cannot answer physic’s fundamental questions, it does however connect two points in three dimensional space, albeit electromagnetically. Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have developed a spherical device capable of transferring a magnetic field from one point in space to another via a path that is magnetically undetectable.

GMO scientists are now openly talking about deliberately modifying the DNA of wild animals in order to suit human ends, saying that “genetic pollution” is a desired goal, rather than a risk.  Successful laboratory tests have confirmed the ability to perform a GE technique known as “Crispr-Cas9″ – allowing scientists to alter genes in a cell and replace it with a gene of their choice, creating a hybrid animal as a result.

U.S. public relations firm Edelman polled 33,000 people in 28 countries, and found that people trust search engine results more than any other media:

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Edelman also argues that search engines and the Internet have turned traditional power structures – and the sources of influence – on their head: