February 2012
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First Photos of China’s 298-Million-Year-Old...
These are the first photos of some of the countless treasures found in the extraordinary 298-million-year-old forest discovered under coal mine in Wuda, Inner Mongolia, China.
The beautiful images show “the exceptional preservation of the fossil plants of the peat-forming swamp forest.” The research team has found entire plants and trees, allowing them to confirm previously...
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WatchHey Ocean! - Big Blue Wave
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Homework...you have been dented
So I spent 6 hours in the library, and got the following done:
-My MWIR short research report
-1.5 lab write ups including calculations
Now tomorrow I just need to finish a group Communications write up, 1 assignment in my organic analysis class and the other 1/2 of the lab report.
I was so annoyed that the report took so long. I had to find a detailed example of technology/uses of the IR...
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Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
theweekmagazine:
And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
Anonymous asked: oh noes, i never could understand how people could learn/do stuff at the library, have fun /:
Anonymous asked: all efforts of moving into space are combined with too much money and too high risks of human life. in the end i think it will always stay science fiction. maybe anti-gravitation technology might help (; for this teleportation dilemma, there was this cool episode of outer limits, where your mind was send as an information stream to another station into a new cloned body. your old "I" was...
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only-the-strong-will-continue asked: Since you're a fellow sci-fi nerd, which is awesome, what's your view on teleportation, do you think it could happen, and similar to Time travel, personally, Teleportation could happen, we're too technologically behind to create it though :3
Anonymous asked: yeah (: space elevators would be our only real hope, if they work. i dont know of any other technology concept. i think if you want to bring something in orbit the mass of a star ship like voyager you would need all fuel energy reserves on earth to do that.
Anonymous asked: this reminds me of the millenium gate voyager episode /:
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Science in Music #4: Electric Lights Orchestra -...
Lyrics:
2095, 2095, 2095, 2095, I love you, sincerely, Yours truly, yours truly. I sent a message to another time, But as the days unwind, This I just can’t believe. I send a note across another plane, Maybe it’s all a game, But this I just can’t conceive “Can you hear me?” I drive the very latest Hover car, I don’t know where you are, But I miss you so...
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dez-ray replied to your post: This week is becoming hectic.
Which wave region did you get?
MWIR (medium wave infrared). Its a very narrow topic. Ha! But finding good information is quite difficult.
reginula replied to your post: This week is becoming hectic.
I know how you feel, bro.
Thanks. At least others have gone through stuff like this. :S
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This week is becoming hectic.
There is just too much due and not enough time to do it.
We’re doing short presentations today on reports on the different wave regions of the IR spectrum. I wasn’t able to finish it because I realized the research I had done on it previously didn’t apply. I then had to start over last night. I hope he doesn’t pick me today.
So I still have to do that, as well as 1.5...
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Bloc Party website is now formatted on Tumblr, ... →
Follow Bloc Party’s official Tumblr blog. ^^^^
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Caught in the act: Study discovers microbes... →
The research was conducted on microbes found in a single geothermal hot spring in the Mutnovsky Volcano region of Kamchatka, Russia. Credit: Rachel Whitaker
Not that long ago in a hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia, two groups of genetically indistinguishable microbes decided to part ways. They began evolving into different species – despite the fact that they still encountered one another in...
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David Suzuki: It's time that climate-change... →
David Suzuki.
When hackers broke into an Internet server at East Anglia University in the U.K. and selectively released massive amounts of correspondence from the world’s leading climate scientists, folks at the Chicago-based Heartland Institute were quick to exploit it.
Heartland president Joseph Bast wrote: “The release of these documents creates an opportunity for reporters, academics,...
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Stronger intestinal barrier may prevent cancer in... →
A leaky gut may be the root of some cancers forming in the rest of the body, a new study published online Feb. 21 in PLoS ONE by Thomas Jefferson University researchers suggests.
It appears that the hormone receptor guanylyl cyclase C (GC-C)—a previously identified tumor suppressor that exists in the intestinal tract—plays a key role in strengthening the body’s intestinal barrier, which...
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Rolling stones could mean Mars still rocks →
Rocks sometimes fall down slopes on Mars - but why? (Image: NASA/JPL/U of Arizona)
Mars’s surface may shake with powerful quakes today, a new study suggests. If so, the planet may still be geologically active, which could be a boon to life.
Conventional wisdom holds that the Red Planet ceased all its internal rumblings and volcanic activity many millions of years ago. That’s...
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Superbugs from space offer new source of power →
Bacteria normally found 30km above the earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity.
Bacillus stratosphericus – a microbe commonly found in high concentrations in the stratosphere orbiting the earth with the satellites – is a key component of a new ‘super’ biofilm that has been engineered by a team of scientists from Newcastle University.
Isolating 75...
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Boiled-to-death penguins are back from the brink →
(Image: John van den Hoff)
The boiling of millions of penguins on a remote Antarctic island triggered one of the first international wildlife campaigns. A century on, DNA analysis proves it has been a success. Now, Macquarie Island’s king penguins must face rampaging rabbits.
A hundred years ago, New Zealand blubber merchant Joseph Hatch made his fortune on Macquarie by boiling 3...
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Anonymous asked: Aeeeeeeheeeem (; Google/Wiki stochastic :) That's cute though you seem not to be aware about it. Out final exams should have been included stochastic, analysis, and vector algebra, but the first was cut out because of some random circumstances.
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badwithbowsandarrows replied to your post: I was so glad we didn’t have to do stochastics in our final exams =)
Maybe they’re talking about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St… ? I can’t see how someone could misspell statistics that badly hahaha.
I wasn’t aware of the term. My apologies to the anonymous if you were referring to stochastics and not statistics.
My bad.
Anonymous asked: I was so glad we didn't have to do stochastics in our final exams =)
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mezzodical replied to your post: Got my statistics midterm back
bahhahaha a stats teacher WOULD say something like that. x) but anyways WHOOOOOO!
Yeah, I wasn’t too surprised. Just a little annoyed. :P
mapmeoblivion replied to your post: Got my statistics midterm back
Congrats!
Thanks. :D
kittenberry replied to your post: Got my statistics midterm back
Congrats! Your stats...
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Got my statistics midterm back
Got 81%! :D
But according to my stats teacher something like that is a ‘sucky mark’ because the median was about 93%. I do admit I made a couple of dumb mistakes, but I’m still pretty happy.
I’m just ecstatic that I got a B in a math course’s midterm.
I can’t remember the last time that has happened.
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Warmer Planet Could Be Dominated by Mosquitoes,... →
Two mammal-eating “transient” killer whales photographed off the south side of Unimak Island, eastern Aleutian Islands, AlaskaImage: Robert Pittman/Alaska Fisheries Science Center
The distribution of wildlife on Earth is changing with the climate, making conditions more favorable to odd species such as trumpeter swans, beetles, marmots, albatross, killer whales and white-tailed...
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franzboas replied to your post: Updated list of music I’ve seen live
hjskahdksjhfjkshfjkasf blind pilot (and the decemberists who put on a great live show omg)
My Dad loves the Decemberists so every time he sees them in town he decides to see them and invite me (I think they’re pretty good too). Blind Pilot was at one of their shows. They really blew me away. :)
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Updated list of music I've seen live
I thought I would compile a list out of interest, and to keep track. The bolded artists are those that I went to the concert for. The others are guest bands or others at the venue.
54-40 (first concert ever)
Arcade Fire
Bloc Party
Blind Pilot
Bombay Bicycle Club
Calexico
The Darcy’s
The Dears
The Decemberists (x2)
Deerhunter
Fruit Bats
Handsome Furs
Hot Hot Heat
Jethro...
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reginula replied to your photo: Photos from the concert! Short synopsis: 1. Lucy…
It’s good to know you had a nice time.
Thank you. It was fun. :)
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The New Enlightenment Age: Astronomy,... →
as·tron·o·my
the study of objects and matter outside the earth’s atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties
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as·tro·phys·ics
a branch of astronomy dealing especially with the behavior, physical properties, and dynamic processes of celestial objects and…
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Off to the concert!
Heading off to eat supper and go to the bombay bicycle club concert. I’ll report back later tonight for how it went.
I have a few posts queued, so enjoy them in my absence. :)
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“He [Rick Santorum] is a staunch opponent of abortion, even in the case of rape....”
– John Oliver on Rick Santorum, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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Monkey Business →
anticapitalist:
When most people think of economics, they probably conjure images of inflation charts or currency rates rather than monkeys and marshmallows. But economics is increasingly being recognized as a science whose statistical tools can be put to work on nearly any aspect of modern life. That’s because economics is in essence the study of incentives, and how people — perhaps even...