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A team of researchers with Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria has developed an ultrathin solar cell for use in lightweight and flexible applications. In their paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the group describes how they created their solar cells and then tested them with miniature aircraft.

For engineers working with solar cells, two major goals are increasing the amount of electricity that can be harvested from a single cell, and making cells thinner and lighter while still producing the same amount or even more electricity as thicker cells. In this new effort, the research team has found a way to produce a solar cell that is just three micrometers thick, yet is still 12 percent efficient.

To create thinner cells, scientists have turned to new materials, one of which is organolead halide perovskites. They are direct band semiconductors and thus absorb light more efficiently than…

The following video playlist was submitted to CopBlock.org via the submission tab. The person chose not to have his name shared but wanted to let the readers here know about a scary yet educational playlist on YouTube. It seems corebass420 – on YouTube – created a 700+ video playlist of police brutality since 2000. From cops using excessive force, breaking the law, or committing cold-blooded murder, it appears this playlist has the worst of the worst

It didn’t come in a bag, though. 😉

So Mooch is collecting data on our kids. Why should we be surprised? A little loss of our privacy here, a little less freedom there, and pretty soon we have lost it all. Question, will all of this data of our kids be stored in the great new data center in Utah? Here we go:

NEW ALBANY, Ind. – The grumbling in New Albany cafeterias isn’t coming from students’ stomachs. It’s from parents.

How To Make Soap:

Cold Process Method

Ingredients:
*Soap making pot (stainless steal pot is the best)
*Measuring beakers or cups;
*Kitchen scales;
*Thermometer (long ones used to check milk heat for coffee frothing  is perfect);
*Essential or Fragrant oils ;
*Olive Oil (use canola or rice bran as substitute);
*Coconut Oil (use palm or cocoa butter as substitute)
*Lye Solution (Sodium Hydroxide mixed with distilled water);
*Flowers, Resins, Herbs;
*Colors: henna, sandalwood, saffron, clay, juice, coffee, cornmeal, cocoa powder can produce natural colors.
*Goggles and long gloves for safety.

1. Measure out all the soft oils (olive/canola or rice bran oil) and measure all your hard oils (coconut/palm and or cocoa butter) separately. 3/3 ratio is best = 1/3 Olive, 1/3 coconut oil and 1/3 palm.

2. Place solid oils into pot and slowly melt whilst stirring continuously – reach 40-45 degrees using thermometer.

3. Place olive oil (kept at room temperature) in…

Today, Mercury the messenger moves into romantic, delightful Libra. Mercury is a smooth operator in Libra and puts us in a much gentler frame of mind than we’ve been in since Mercury moved into critical Virgo on August 7th. Libras are bridge builders, whether its merging people or ideas. When Mercury travels through Libra our communication seeks ways to find peace and agreement.

Mercury in Libra gives a flair for knowing what to say, the savoir faire to say it gracefully, and an easygoing air of assurance that one’s words will be well received.-Leyla Rael

Here is where the harmonizing and balancing energies of Venus soothes, beautifies, and lends a soft glow to our speech, thought and communication. Since Libra is ruled by Venus, our thoughts turn to pleasure, romantic pursuits, the arts, or whatever appeals to our senses. It’s a time of romance, love notes, poetry and passion..for…

Moon is in Aquarius as of earlier today August 27.

The mood is definitely lighter and we have the ability to be detached, cool, and observe everything from a higher perspective. Aquarius is the sign of eccentricity, electrical energy, independence and revolution. You need to be with your tribe yang. 

INSPIRATIONAL DAILY CARD 

AQUARIUS , INFINITE DREAMS TAROT by Mary Pat Lynch

KEYWORDS: New projects, fresh ideas, team work, intellectual expansion,

Two awkward inconjuncts from Moon to Jupiter and sun may have had us jitterbugging around.
Mercury enters Libra today and it’s all about social networking, talking about our relationships review with Venus in Leo and our need to have peace, balance, harmony and grace in our lives.
Moon opposes Mars in Leo tonight PDT so party on dudes and then opposes Venus, Retro dudettes, early a.m. EDT and PDT. A night of detached passions. Otherwise a rather light Friday is ahead.

Rest…

Friendships & Recovery

“It’s not always easy to know how to help a friend who’s struggling with depression.”

“It turns out that just being there for that person might be the best thing that you can do, according to a new British study.”

“Research from the Universities of Manchester and Warwick, published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Academy, suggests that being around people with healthy moods can play a major role in the recovery of individuals with depressive symptoms, ranging from low mood to clinical depression. Spending time with people who are depressed, however, doesn’t make a healthy person any more likely to become depressed themselves.”

“In other words, good moods may be contagious — but bad ones aren’t.”

“There is a lot of evidence that people influence each others’ mood,” Dr. Thomas House, an applied mathematician at Manchester and the study’s lead author, told The Huffington…

This week a deranged man murdered two young journalists on live TV.  News stories reveal that the killer, Vester Flanagan, had a long history of paranoid and narcissistic behavior.  In his 20s he apparently worked as a ‘high-paid companion‘ who posted online photos of himself posing and flexing for the camera.  His bosses recommended that he seek medical treatment for his frequent threatening and aggressive behavior.  He felt that co-workers were constantly harassing him without any evidence to substantiate his claims.

News sources give his birth data as October 8, 1973 in Oakland, California, time unknown.  Here is a chart set for Noon with Solar Sign Houses.

Noon chart (time unknown), Solar Sign houses.

An outstanding feature of this chart in Mercury in Scorpio opposite Mars Rx in Taurus.  Mercury is without essential dignity in Scorpio, and Mars is in detriment in Taurus. Scorpio at its worst is a…