Gems from Science

[curiousa2z]

heh, speaking of trekkies...


http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/06-impatient-futurist-good-news-universal-translator

 

[Fuddlemiff]

A wittily and informatively written article. I think I'd miss having an excuse to learn other languages, though. It's not so much the communication aspect that I enjoy (I have enough trouble with that in my native language), but it's fun to pronounce foreign words.

 

[curiousa2z]

I was trying to describe TOS to a Korean kid who has never seen any Star Trek franchise or film, and who, mystifyingly, remained unenthralled.
I pity that child.

 

['Gear]

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/61742-ibm-touts-quantum-computing-breakthrough

 

[curiousa2z]

ALSO, quick historical thingy:

On this day in 1953, Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.

 

['Gear]

http://www.wired.com/magazine/tag/forgetting-pill/

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

None of this matters, we're all gonna die soon.

Http://gawker.com/5889065/there-is-a-bat-flu-and-were-all-gonna-die-gwyneth-paltrow-likely-first

 

[Cassie]

SPACEBATS WITH THE FLU!

 

[curiousa2z]

oh, just NOW it occurs to them to question the ethics of this technolgy???
Bitches, Please!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17208667

 

['Gear]

oh, just NOW it occurs to them to question the ethics of this technolgy???
Bitches, Please!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17208667

"He said there had a long history of altering the brain from trepanning - drilling holes in the skull - thousands of years of ago to surgical lobotomies."

He said: "It became apparent there were a number of side effects which were seriously harmful."

"People have become much more cautious about intervening in the brain."

LOL

 

[curiousa2z]

where's that barf smily that FBI used the other day?

 

[FBI parte due]

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic0352250

Hey baby, wanna come back to my place and exhibit aggregation phenomena in aqueous solution?

 

[FBI parte due]

[YOUTUBE]DR80Huxp4y8[/YOUTUBE]

TL;DW: what happens when a white blood cell decides to kill another cell in the human body.

 

[Cassie]

The universe is in us. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is AWESOME.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...fact_will_turn_your_universe_inside_out.html?

 

[Cassie]

[YOUTUBEHD]4xKRBkBBEP0[/YOUTUBEHD]

 

[curiousa2z]

here are the details:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/03/07/science-solar-storm.html


keep Space Monkey in tonight!

 

[curiousa2z]

^and of course it will be overcast here.

 

[curiousa2z]

goddammit. Nietzschean.

 

[curiousa2z]

SO DID ANYONE SEE THE LIGHT SHOW LAST NIGHT?


of course I did not. Bully for snow! Hip Hip Hoorah!

 

[whisky]

Nope, total cloud cover.