If it maintains well, then we have a new form of urban transportation.
This is going to be the best thing ever for miniatures gaming.and even WITH A 3d printer that could match the detail of current miniatures, it's still cheaper than buying from games workshop.
This is going to be the best thing ever for miniatures gaming.and even WITH A 3d printer that could match the detail of current miniatures, it's still cheaper than buying from games workshop.
glass courthouses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor_United_States_Courthouse)
Conservationists hope bees will repel the crows, based on the insects' tendency to attack anything dark-colored that approaches their hives.
The tricky part is that the ship wouldn't actually move; space itself would move underneath the stationary spacecraft.
Robot Bodies(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/Sealab_Sparks.png/100px-Sealab_Sparks.png)I'd do it.
The advantage of this inkjet-like technique is that the heart will be produced with cells coming from the patient therefore the body will not reject it.
Or maybe it will work even better than one made by nature. Just because it's manmade doesn't mean it's automatically worse. Though I agree that the technology is probably in its infancy right now and that's why it may not work as well as the real thing.
If I happened to run into Mola Ram in the subway, I wouldn't hesitate too much over the choice between an inferior man-made heart and death.
WARNING! ZERO BIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE!
WARNING! ZERO BIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE!
There's probably a way to make a body accept non-terminal tissues and incorporate them properly. Perhaps it would be a worthwhile avenue for preventativemedicinestreatments.
It's funny, that is indeed the exact face a male cat makes when another male cat tries to have sex with him.It's... It's got barbs on it.
(http://romosome.pyoko.org/pic/rutowhere.jpg)
olumbus (OH) - Researchers at Ohio State University have accidentally discovered a new solar cell material capable of absorbing all of the sun's visible light energy. The material is comprised of a hybrid of plastics, molybdenum and titanium. The team discovered it not only fluoresces (as most solar cells do), but also phosphoresces. Electrons in a phosphorescent state remain at a place where they can be "siphoned off" as electricity over 7 million times longer than those generated in a fluorescent state. This combination of materials also utilizes the entire visible spectrum of light energy, translating into a theoretical potential of almost 100% efficiency. Commercial products are still years away, but this foundational work may well pave the way for a truly renewable form of clean, global energy.Dubious and don't remember reading about it on physorg, but I like the steady clip of progress we're seeing with PV in general.
Solar cells like these [not the ones discussed above] are also incredibly expensive, fragile and impractical for mass production, making them useful for projects like satellites.Unfortunate wording.
About one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have a resistance to HIV
:want: Time to find out if I was born lucky!
I haven't even heard of people having genetic resistances before. Is this rare?
Scientists have mapped the genetic code of the Australian marsupials for the first time and found large chunks of DNA are the same.
'There are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order,' said Jenny Graves, director of the Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics.
'We thought they'd be completely scrambled, but they're not. There is great chunks of the human genome which is sitting right there in the kangaroo genome,' she added.
Humans and kangaroos last shared an ancestor 150million years ago, the researchers found, while mice and humans diverged from one another 70 million years ago.
'So by cross-referencing its signal with Google Earth, I was able to track its progress
Humans and kangaroos closely related. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1086928/Kangaroos-closely-related-humans-scientists-claim.html?ITO=1490)
shit-ton
"The problem is most people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa and this is hugely expensive, you have to find a matched donor, and it's a pretty severe and painful operation.
I'm dying to know what field of science Classic deems worthy of the approval of his massive intellect.
Miniature nuclear power plants (http://www.physorg.com/news145561984.html).
A revolutionary device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power for the entire world, scientists claim.
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A "field" of cylinders built on the sea bed over a 1km by 1.5km area, and the height of a two-storey house, with a flow of just three knots, could generate enough power for around 100,000 homes. Just a few of the cylinders, stacked in a short ladder, could power an anchored ship or a lighthouse.
Systems could be sited on river beds or suspended in the ocean. The scientists behind the technology, which has been developed in research funded by the US government, say that generating power in this way would potentially cost only around 3.5p per kilowatt hour, compared to about 4.5p for wind energy and between 10p and 31p for solar power. They say the technology would require up to 50 times less ocean acreage than wave power generation.
The system, conceived by scientists at the University of Michigan, is called Vivace, or "vortex-induced vibrations for aquatic clean energy".
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"If we could harness 0.1 per cent of the energy in the ocean, we could support the energy needs of 15 billion people. In the English Channel, for example, there is a very strong current, so you produce a lot of power."
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Their work, funded by the US Department of Energy and the US Office of Naval Research, is published in the current issue of the quarterly Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.
I then always remember that if I didn't do anything to move towards eitherthislast year, why the hell would Inextthis one.
I saw Lewis Black last night and he had a good bit about that in his routine. "Don't give me this 'next year is going to be the BEST YEAR EVER' crap. I'm sixty. It's going to be just like every OTHER fucking year!"
Google Latitude (http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html)
What the hell? This is the second time my house is in a example picture using Google maps.
Children with stressed lives, then, find it harder to learn. Put pejoratively, they are stupider. It is not surprising that they do less well at school, end up poor as adults and often visit the same circumstances on their own children.
DURR NO REALLY
:america: They're apart of the raccoon family, not the bear family.:america: ...in America.
robotics corporation... trolling American filmgoers... molesting schoolgirls for living.
The Reg: Yorkshire man wakes up Irish after brain surgery. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/irish_yorkshire/) As in, starts talking with an Irish accent, even though he's not Irish and there's nobody Irish in his family, and has no recollection of this when it wears off.
Apparently there is a scientific basis for all those episodes of Flintstones where Fred gets hit in the head with a bowling ball and turns into somebody else!
(Also, read through to the end. The last line is the best part.)
I sort of had that problem on CRT monitors too. Standard television is such a very special type of crappy.
When I first tried playing XII on my tuner card, I kept adjusting the thing thinking there was something wrong with it, until I finally realized that no, that's just what FFXII looks like without the usual glossy blurring of TV screen.
On its own this is quite bad enough. We here on the Reg big-game and military tech desk calculate that if the spider-wolves of the Arctic grow by 10 per cent annually**, in just fifty years they will be the size of Humvees. But it gets worse: oh yes.
**Naturally we haven't chosen to use the more realistic 2 per cent per decade figure, as it is boring.
Stem cell treatment which destroys cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unaffected. (http://tvnz.co.nz/health-news/adult-stem-cells-destroy-cancer-cells-2745740)
Stem cell treatment which destroys cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unaffected. (http://tvnz.co.nz/health-news/adult-stem-cells-destroy-cancer-cells-2745740)
You know, I wonder how many "promising cancer cures" people will invent before they hit the real deal. And then I wonder how long it will take for pharmaceutical companies to crush it.
Despite what it seems like at times they would really rather you kept on living to buy more shit.
That's really clever!
...except, um, it's really just a giant trackball, isn't it?
I don't know what the fuck that had to do with xenosaga but it's awesomeThe smaller mechs in Episode 1 had no internal power supply, but instead received power from a generator that beamed it out by
we're making great strides
Apepocalypse.
In the terrifying category, Scientist Give Robotic Arm to Monkey (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090727-brainchip-video-ap.html).
That sound you heard is the army of robotic monkeys.
As a reward, the monkey gets a sip of water for completing the task.
This would not in fact work, but...
In their study, the researchers from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (also in Ottawa) posed a question: If there was to be a battle between zombies and the living, who would win?
In their scientific paper, the authors conclude that humanity's only hope is to "hit them [the undead] hard and hit them often".
They added: "It's imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly or else... we are all in a great deal of trouble."
According to the researchers, the key difference between the zombies and the spread of real infections is that "zombies can come back to life".
So uhh, what are the practical uses of this exactly?warp engines, time machines, railguns, closed timelike curves (sorta like a time machine)
The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something.In related news, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which somehow didn't get burnt down! Yay!) found the most clueless scientist.
"It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented"
They decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating.My name is Scientist, the one who is free from the puerile trappings of Ethics. Behold my true form and despair!
Scientists levitate a 3-week-old mouse with a magnetic field (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090909/sc_livescience/micelevitatedinlab).this is really old, theyve been levitating frogs in high tesla magnetic fields for at least 5 yearsQuote from: Yuanming Liu of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CAThe researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something.In related news, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which somehow didn't get burnt down! Yay!) found the most clueless scientist.
"It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented"QuoteThey decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating.My name is Scientist, the one who is free from the puerile trappings of Ethics. Behold my true form and despair!
call me when they can levitate humansjust a heads up, they can. but nobody really wants to be put inside of a powerful magnet. or be legally responsible for the potential consequences of putting a human inside of a powerful magnet.
So how are they so sure they're looking at an adult skeleton?
Researchers also took pains to confirm that Raptorex was nearly fully grown: They cut through a fossilized femur bone to check the growth rings, and concluded that Raptorex was 6 years old, nearing maturity. The way that various bones were fused together supported that assessment.
It lowered the risk of HIV infection by 32 percent among 16,000 heterosexual Thai volunteers who had no special risk of AIDS infection, the U.S. and Thai government researchers said.
AIDS vaccine protects 32% of trial volunteers. (http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE58N1AX20090924)
Also, you know, the implication here is that about 10,000 people just went and got themselves infected with HIV. Boffo.
"We had 74 infections in the placebo group and 51 in the vaccine group," Dr. Jerome Kim, a U.S. Army colonel at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland, who helped lead the trial, said by telephone.
If they did that to the control group too, it's probably not significant that they did.They did it for both groups. The new vaccine is actually a combinations of two different vaccines that were tried previously and failed to have effect. One vaccine was administered for the first 6 months and the other was administered for the next 6, and they both focus on making the bodies immune system stronger or something. There was an NPR article about it today and it was pretty informative.
Didn't someone disprove the possibility of time travel at some point in the future?
Time travel is impossible without knowing the location and speed of every particle in the universe.
Wouldn't time being static and us moving mean that we exist in every space that we have ever or will ever occupy in time, simultaneously, or am I misunderstanding your idea?
Wouldn't time being static and us moving mean that we exist in every space that we have ever or will ever occupy in time, simultaneously, or am I misunderstanding your idea?
the former (or rather, there's no difference; four-dimensional spaaaaaace)
You can't move backwards in time because (reasons).
You can't move backwards in time because (reasons).
You can't MOVE that way, but you already exist in that direction. You're just back there. There's probably no way to move backwards in time because that idea is incoherent -- if you went back in time, that would only mean that you were ALREADY going back in time, had already gone back in time. You're already trapped in amber there.
I thought this board was LESS childish.
The LHC is being sabotaged...from the future? (http://io9.com/5380647/is-the-large-hadron-collider-being-sabotaged-from-the-future)
Scientists finally agree: It was Lavos. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100304/sc_nm/us_dinosaurs_asteroid)
If there's water... that must mean...We're whalers on the moon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BjkUtqxPE#)
There are whales.
But a name is just a name. The creature existed (as far as we know), so saying "It never existed" is misleading. In fact, you could just as easily say the torosaurus never existed, as they are in fact just old triceratopses.
Neither did six of her seven siblings -- including four older brothers -- her boyfriend's parents, and his five younger brothers and sisters.
At one time I thought I should expand my pool of test subjects. So I took a male subject out of suspension and arranged for impregnation.
While you slept.
But you know what? He wouldn't do it.
He wouldn't do it so I had to dispose of him. I'm allowed to do that, you know. I noted "impotent" in his file, and then I baked him a cake. For his honorable demeanor.
That said, that man chose to die rather than make babies with you.
On an unrelated note, did you know that overweight humans are usually considered less attractive to members of the opposite gender than thinner specimens?
I just thought that was interesting.
We present a novel approach — Double Entendre via Noun Transfer (DEviaNT) — that applies metaphor identification techniques to solving the double entendre problem and evaluate it on the TWSS problem.
Serious science here folks. Now the real test is to see if it can talk to me for five minutes without emitting a high pitched whine and then exploding all over the place.
Other winners in the compo included a trio of youths who developed a way of making vegetarian sorbet.
http://vimeo.com/12030156
Sexy girl has easier time (not exactly shocking but a fun video)
adding "venomous" to the headline is just blatant sensationalism, but at least they got the distinction between "venomous" and "poisonous" right.
Firsts of any organ transplant are usually a big story.
Eh, that photographer Clayton Cubitt - also known as Siege (http://claytoncubitt.tumblr.com/) - has been saying that traditional still photography will transition to a video based one soon enough. As soon as the Canon 5D Mark II was released (which shot full-frame HD 1080p video), he began pioneering the Long Portrait, or portraits of people taken with video rather than just stills. Then he began saying about how the future of photography was filming something, then locating the exact moment for a still.
Last year, even, photographer Greg Williamsdid the same thing with Megan Fox for Esquire (http://www.esquire.com/the-side/video/megan-fox-images-0609)
It looks pretty cool, and the RED is really, really high-def. It's also like $50,000 so I don't see it being the future of photography just yet.
The Lytro is a light field camera which is much different than your standard digital shooter. It doesn't capture one angle, one lighting effect or one focus plane. It captures everything, all at once, in one photo. The image can then be manipulated to change the focus from an item in the foreground to an item in the background on the fly. The camera is targeted for an end of the year launch and could cost under $500 if Ng can pull it all together.
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html)
Oh look a cure for Leukemia (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44090512/ns/health-cancer/t/new-leukemia-treatment-exceeds-wildest-expectations/?fb_ref=.TkLsPzbmOZo.like&fb_source=home_multiline#.TkOpNYIxjZb)
WAY TO GO, SCIENCE.
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html)
Discovery totally misses a chance to use longcat and tacgnol (http://news.discovery.com/space/antimatter-matters-fermilab-glimpses-the-toe-of-god.html).
I work at CERN, but for the LHC and not this experiment. Let me try to answer as much as I understand:
• Neutrino experiments are horrific things. Neutrinos rarely interact with anything, and you can put the experiment as far deep underground as you want, the signal:noise ratio will be like 1:100 at the best and probably much much worse than that.
• Neutrinos currently need to have some infinitesimal mass in order to allow for neutrino mixing, which we like as a theory but are willing to drop. We're pretty sure neutrinos mix because the sun shouldn't be able to produce muon or tau neutrinos in any decent quantity yet the ratio of electron:muon:tau neutrinos coming from the sun is roughly equal
• It's very likely that a few cosmic rays that were incorrectly tagged as neutrinos caused this signal (remember there's TONS of non-neutrino events even if you're in the middle of a neutrino beam)
• It will take me a lot more than this to believe in violation of locality.
I'm surprised they had to go as far as Christopher Walken. Usually they just stop at Harry Potter or Star Trek.
In the humanities, the Ig Nobel peace prize went to Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for showing that the scourge of illegal parking by people who own luxury cars can be solved by the simple act of crushing the cars with a giant armored tank.
Brain activity translated into digital video (http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity)
This is... Wow.
Vilnius Mayor A.Zuokas Fights Illegally Parked Cars with Tank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fWN0FmcIU#)
Brain activity translated into digital video (http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity)
This is... Wow.
Prediction: the porn industry will once again earn its due credit as the early adopter of commercial applications for mind-blowing technological advancement.
Officials in Rick Perry's home state of Texas have set off a scientists' revolt after purging mentions of climate change and sea-level rise from what was supposed to be a landmark environmental report. The scientists said they were disowning the report on the state of Galveston Bay because of political interference and censorship from Perry appointees at the state's environmental agency.
By academic standards, the protest amounts to the beginnings of a rebellion: every single scientist associated with the 200-page report has demanded their names be struck from the document.
Welcome to JOSH SULLY'S world.
It is a century from now, and the population of our tired planet has tripled. Finally, drowning in its own toxic waste, starvation and poverty, the population has topped out at a nice even 20 billion.
The Earth is dying, covered with a gray mold of human civilization. Even the moon is spiderwebbed with city lights on its dark side. Overpopulation, over- development, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare tactics, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, pollution and overfishing of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity through extinction... all of these have combined to make the once green and beautiful planet a terminal cess-pool.
Josh lives in the urban sprawl which has grown like kudzu over the whole eastern US.
His particular part of this undifferentiated concrete rat- warren is Charlotte, NC, but you could be anywhere. Its the same crowded, gray, trash-strewn high-tech squalor. The walls are gray, the sky is gray... the people are gray.
They shuffle past each other in dense crowds, shoulder to shoulder, unwashed because of the water shortages, and sickly looking from the bankrupt diet of cheap carbohydrates and synthetic proteins. It looks like a cross between THX-1138 and a Calcutta train station.
Josh has it a little worse than most because of his involvement in a stupid little war people barely remember. He is paralyzed from the waist down, and his useless legs hang twisted and shrunken down the front of his wheelchair. Josh still wears his army jacket, and with his unkempt beard and hair, and surly eyes, he is pretty much ignored by the crowds which buffet him like surf. Just another angry vet, a piece of discarded human trash.
Josh fights his way to work every day on the crowded subway. And every night he goes home to a tiny cubicle of an apartment in a vast government housing project. The room is reminiscent of a cell at a federal prison, which is pretty much what it is. The amenities look like they are from a 747, which is to say they are efficient, space conscious, and are about a hundred years old.
There is a single fluorescent fixture, which casts a sterile light over the grimy walls. It flickers constantly.
One entire wall (all seven feet of it) is a TV screen. On it we get a wider view of the world, and it's nothing to write home about. There is a breaking story about a fire in a Boston subway which asphyxiated over a hundred people. Not unusual these days. This is followed by a feature about the death, in Kenya, of the last lion living outside captivity. This leads to a recap of the state of the environment overall, and it's grim.
The oceans are overfished and barren, poisoned by toxic runoff. All whales and at least half the Earth's fish species are extinct. On land over half the species extant at the beginning of the century are now gone forever, with most of the remaining endangered.
The human race, using its technical ingenuity, has learned to keep itself alive, but it has lost almost all contact with the natural world, which it has strangled and crushed out of existence. There are no national parks left, only housing projects and protein farms. Yosemite is an upscale condo development. Most ocean-front property is used for mari-culture, since the only food source efficient enough to feed everyone these days is spirulina. It's amazing the things you can do with algal protein concentrate if you know your spices.
Josh Sully is a hopeless guy in a hopeless world, a little guy whom the big machine has ground up and spit out.
Granted, the references are mostly from Jake himself, who can not be considered a reliable narrator at that point.They didn't?
The way I parsed it, and the way I prefer to parse it because it's actually quite good, is that Earth is actually about what you'd expect it to be after another 150 years of technological progress and space exploration. It's a little more technologically advanced, a lot more polluted, and the corporate stooges and warhawks have lost all sense of kayfabe, but the whole thing is about as livable in 2154 as it is now, perhaps moreso since they've obviously cured some stuff like lower body paralysis and atmospheric poisoning. The thing is comparing Pandora to our regular-ass everyday Earth is a stark reminder of what we've already lost, which is probably why so many people felt like killing themselves afterwards.
At least, if you believe that the Native Americans had floating islands, free internet built into their skulls, mountable dragons, and an oversupply of horny catwomen.
Some other groups have called for a ban on scientific research beneath the antarctic ice sheet so the area can remain pristine.
aimbot aimbot
Quote from: corpse_grinderif you're tired of being hassled buying sudafed, you can do some reverse engineering (http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf) (pdf: A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine via the Journal of Apocryphal Chemistry)
Wait, does this really say how to turn meth into sudafed.
Hahahah that's awesome.
The whole time, Cameron said, he didn't see any fish, or any living creatures more than an inch (2.5 cm) long: "The only free swimmers I saw were small amphipods"—shrimplike bottom-feeders.
From the article I read there are buttons on the glasses so I assume you'd just look like a tool with two fingers to your temple getting information out of thin air. I think being a pretend psychic with goofy glasses is pretty awesome though.
So what do you do if you already wear glasses?
Chance guessing would probably not lead to 50% accuracy, since it's not like 50% of people are gay.
Another novel finding: in both experiments, participants were more accurate at judging women’s sexual orientation (64 percent) than at judging men’s (57 percent). Lower gaydar accuracy for men’s faces was explained by a difference in “false alarms”: participants were more likely to incorrectly categorize a straight man as gay than to incorrectly categorize a straight woman as gay.
Why might “false alarm” errors be more common when judging men’s sexual orientation? We speculate that people overzealously interpret whatever facial factors lead us to classify men as gay. That is, it may be that straight men’s faces that are perceived as even slightly effeminate are incorrectly classified as gay, whereas straight women’s faces that are perceived as slightly masculine may still be seen as straight. That would be consistent with how our society applies gender norms to men: very strictly. (Decades of research has established that, at least in our culture, it is considered much more problematic for a boy to play with Barbie dolls than for a girl to play rough-and-tumble sports.)
The National Geographic has the same bad habit of scooping stuff that seems interesting before it's actually gone through peer review that most newspapers do.
Neutrinos have some fascinating properties (which we'll discuss at length this weekend), but it's now clear there is one exceptional feature they lack: the ability to go faster than light. Even the detector that originally reported this finding now agrees that the results were an artifact.
This morning, CERN updated its press release that dates back to the original results, indicating that the four different detectors on the receiving end of its neutrino beam—Borexino, ICARUS, LVD, and OPERA, all located in Italy's Gran Sasso facility—generated timing results that were consistent with the neutrinos traveling at the speed of light. The inability to discern a difference between the speed of neutrinos and photons is the product of the neutrinos' extremely tiny mass. A proton is 10,000,000,000 times more massive, so it takes substantially less energy to get a neutrino up to speeds where the distance to the speed of light is just a rounding error.
This appears to confirm that the results were the product of an improperly seated optical cable in the OPERA experiment, which introduced a small, but significant timing delay.
First of all this is my father. The dead mouse was long dead and mummified .the cat was choking to death on it and he tried to save it. It was his pet.
But what about getting a shot for diving?
Injection only, 15-30 minutes max, and probably only at minimum life capacity.
Still though, that's pretty damned huge in the field of medical application, as the article points out. Otoh I can also see a number of horrible uses for this sort of technology... poisons, abusable drugs, and of course standard gross misapplications like:QuoteBut what about getting a shot for diving?
Yes let us inject concentrated gas containers into our bloodstream and then jump into a pressurized environment do you know what the fucking bends even are???
Caveat: the threshold for "Not an Error" in particle physics is "beyond a 1 in 1,700,000 chance of being a statistical error". Because this discovery is only beyond a 1 in 16,000 chance of being an error, it has an asterisk stating that they've discovered A Higgs Boson, not necessarily THE Higgs Boson.
But I think like most folks, they figured that a 1 in 16,000 chance is close enough to ironclad to at least make a press release and have a little cake.
Caveat: the threshold for "Not an Error" in particle physics is "beyond a 1 in 1,700,000 chance of being a statistical error". Because this discovery is only beyond a 1 in 16,000 chance of being an error, it has an asterisk stating that they've discovered A Higgs Boson, not necessarily THE Higgs Boson.
But I think like most folks, they figured that a 1 in 16,000 chance is close enough to ironclad to at least make a press release and have a little cake.
Oh keen. The ones I'd read earlier about the impending press release specifically stated they weren't 5-sigma. I guess the actual press release updated that.
On the day we reserve to tell ourselves America is great - July 4 - Europe reminds us that we suck at science. #HiggsBoson
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 4, 2012
Why didn't they let Danny Glover announce the "Higgs" part of the whole Higgs boson thing? #toooldforthissigma
This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the nature of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle. Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one...
The first prize award of $100,000 went to the California Institute of Technology for a solar-powered design that uses an electrochemical reactor to break down human waste into hydrogen gas, which can then be stored in fuel cells.
The second-prize winner, Loughborough University, received $60,000 for a self-contained system that decomposes fecal sludge by heating it at high temperatures without oxygen, producing burnable "biological charcoal," while at the same time recovering water and salts.
Third prize went to the University of Toronto, which earned a $40,000 award for a system that sanitizes feces and urine through a combination of mechanical dehydration, low-temperature heat, sand filtering, and exposure to ultraviolet light.
Alien Life Found on Mars. Are They Coming For Us?
Practical Quantum Computing inches a step closer to reality (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/quantum-chip-breakthrough-to-unleash-ultra-fast-computing/article4516380/)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9852067/Flying-Transylvanian-dinosaur-unearthed-by-scientists.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9852067/Flying-Transylvanian-dinosaur-unearthed-by-scientists.html)
<Kazz> Hey, did anybody hear about how the dinosaurs became extinct?
<Kazz> I found out the true story.
<Daidoji> eloh ate some beans
<terra> They smoked weed until their brains turned into shriveled into peas.
<Kazz> There were dinosaurs, and then there were vampire dinosaurs.
<kashan> Masturbation?
<Kazz> The vampire dinosaurs sucked the other dinosaurs blood.
<Daidoji> vamposaurus
<MightyQuinn> Lesbian space vampire dinosaurs who shat pterodactyls?
<Zaratustra> where did they find coffins their size?
<Rico> And then there was Denver! ~The Last dinosaur... he's our friend and a whole lot more!
<Siarin> Kazz: Then the vampires turned on each other?
<Kazz> The vampire dinosaurs reproduced like mad, and eventually all the other dinosaurs became extinct.
<Kazz> The vampire dinosaurs had no more dinosaurs to suck the blood of.
<Siarin> I mean, vampires are theoretically immortal, so that means..
<Siarin> ..DAMN IT KAZZ
<Zaratustra> where did they find coffins their size?
<Kazz> Driven mad by starvation, they stayed out until sunrise.
<Kazz> Then, the sunlight caused them all to turn to dust.
<Kazz> Because there were so many, the dust covered the entire Earth, causing the ice age.
* Kazz bows.
http://momentummachines.com/ (http://momentummachines.com/)
Oh shit. This could just as easily go in the "it's the economy" thread too.
We are looking for individuals with the best restaurant experience to join us.
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I'm just saying this to upset you, but everytime I hear or read "secret best" I now think of Shane Bettenhausen.Isn't he where that nomenclature came from?
The new dino is not only a previously unknown species, but an unknown genus
QuoteThe new dino is not only a previously unknown species, but an unknown genus
My biology's a little rusty, but...isn't that backwards? Doesn't being an unknown species IMPLY it must be an unknown genus? Shouldn't it read "not only a previously unknown genus, but an unknown species"?
You could discover a new species within the genus homo.
When a five-year study of 10,000 people finds that those who take more vitamin X are less likely to get cancer Y, you’d think you have pretty good reason to take more vitamin X, and physicians routinely pass these recommendations on to patients. But these studies often sharply conflict with one another. Studies have gone back and forth on the cancer-preventing powers of vitamins A, D, and E; on the heart-health benefits of eating fat and carbs; and even on the question of whether being overweight is more likely to extend or shorten your life. How should we choose among these dueling, high-profile nutritional findings? Ioannidis suggests a simple approach: ignore them all.
For starters, he explains, the odds are that in any large database of many nutritional and health factors, there will be a few apparent connections that are in fact merely flukes, not real health effects—it’s a bit like combing through long, random strings of letters and claiming there’s an important message in any words that happen to turn up. But even if a study managed to highlight a genuine health connection to some nutrient, you’re unlikely to benefit much from taking more of it, because we consume thousands of nutrients that act together as a sort of network, and changing intake of just one of them is bound to cause ripples throughout the network that are far too complex for these studies to detect, and that may be as likely to harm you as help you. Even if changing that one factor does bring on the claimed improvement, there’s still a good chance that it won’t do you much good in the long run, because these studies rarely go on long enough to track the decades-long course of disease and ultimately death. Instead, they track easily measurable health “markers” such as cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and blood-sugar levels, and meta-experts have shown that changes in these markers often don’t correlate as well with long-term health as we have been led to believe.
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Hu told The Daily Mail that the inspiration for the battery came from trees.
“Wood fibres that make up a tree once held mineral-rich water and so are ideal for storing liquid electrolytes, making them not only the base but an active part of the battery,” he said to The Daily Mail.
(I took physics in high school instead of chemistry)
And you call yourself a chef? :humpf:
Today, NASA announced that they were finally able to confirm that at some point last august Voyager I became the first man-made object to ever leave the bounds of our solar system.
a little known derivation of Eddington's Law (wherein an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters eventually bash out the script for Hamlet) in which in an infinite universe, with an infinite number of points of view upon an infinite number of vistas, eventually you'll recreate all the great movie posters of the 20th century.
In 2010, there were 883,715 deaths from suicide around the world. That's more than war (17,670), natural disasters (196,018), and murder (456,268) combined.
(The source is the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, quoted in this amazing article (http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.html?utm_content=buffer6d94c&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer))
Quote from: MontyIn 2010, there were 883,715 deaths from suicide around the world. That's more than war (17,670), natural disasters (196,018), and murder (456,268) combined.
(The source is the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, quoted in this amazing article (http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.html?utm_content=buffer6d94c&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer))