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Author: Gerald Celente

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Mixing science and booze a good lure

The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has cracked the code on drawing millennials into the museum. Once each month, the institute hosts Science After Hours, an adults-only party with booze. Events are themed: One month you might get an education in the science of bootlegging alcohol; during the next, it’s the science of animation company Pixar....

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Special message: Make the most of your Trends subscription

Over the past two years, the Trends Research Institute has greatly expanded our content offerings, now delivering to you our forecasts and trends analyses with greater depth and immediacy.  As a reminder, your Trends Journal subscription includes all of these powerful, timely and essential features: Trends Journal, available each quarter in both print and digital formats,...

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Learn a second language? Nope. Emoji instead

The Oxford Dictionary announced that its “Word of the Year” for 2015 was the “Tears of Joy” emoji. That’s correct: a yellow cartoon smiley face with blue tears emerging from the eyes is the word of the year. Emoji are ubiquitous these days. The emoji evolved from emoticons, those primitive computer keystrokes indicating emotions like...

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“Celente, Roberts, Null” video

Global master forecaster Gerald Celente is joined by geopolitical powerhouse Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and natural-healing icon Gary Null in a riveting, enthralling five-hour video filmed in front of a live audience and released recently by the Trends Research Institute at this link. “Celente, Roberts, Null” brings together three fearless and powerful analytic thinkers in a...

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Going with the flow

While solar and wind get the glamour in alternative energy, the US Department of Energy isn’t neglecting the power of water. It’s investing $10.5 million in projects that will refine technologies able to make electricity from ocean currents, tidal swells and the flow of rivers. Meanwhile, the Ocean Renewable Power Company has connected its water-power...

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Leapfrogging the grid proves profitable

First cell phones, now electricity. The companies Enel Green Power and Powerhive have partnered in a privately funded venture to build $12 million in solar-powered mini-electric grids for 100 villages in Kenya. The venture will bring electricity to about 90,000 people. TRENDPOST: Decentralized power systems are allowing undeveloped areas, especially in the Third World, to...

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Lose the bad attitude through science

A simple computer-based training program may be able to rewire the brains of persons who are depressed, react hotly to emotionally charged information, or “always see the glass as half-empty,” according to researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The team flashed images that cause negative emotions – sad people, traumatic events – on...

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It’s real, only better

New ventures are ginning up technologies that insert virtual objects into a person’s view of the real world. In the old movie, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”, actors and cartoon characters inhabited the same world. Now – thanks to startups such as Magic Leap, Pixvana, 8i and Jaunt – you could have R2-D2, unicorns, personalities from...

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New tool to defeat brain cancer

Glioblastoma, the virulent form of brain cancer that killed Ted Kennedy in the span of a year, has a helper. A protein called NF-kB is a tonic for the malignant cells, energizing them to proliferate at high speed. After discovering this link, scientists at the Salk Institute also discovered a protein and peptide that hamper...

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Wall Street/Main Street disconnect grows

Happy 2016! World equity and commodity markets welcomed in the new year with a record-breaking crash. By now, most will have forgotten how bad it was; many more never heard it when it happened.  In the first week of trading, the Dow Jones made history, falling a whopping 6.2 percent. The Standard & Poor’s 500...