Interesting talk on how to fight cancer with strawberries and red wine (and other things).
Recent Entries in Sci-Tech
A beautiful speech. Brings out the emotional atheist in me.
"It's me, Norm and Sam and Sadie's boy"
Researchers have produced human embryos containing DNA from three people, a biotechnological proof-of-principle with profound medical and ethical implications.To accomplish this, chromosomes were taken from one zygote -- the single cell formed when sperm and egg fuse -- and put into a zygote stripped of its original chromosomes, but left with its original mitochondria, which provide each human cell with energy.
As they grew, the resulting embryos contained so-called nuclear DNA -- the 25,000 genes responsible for physical and developmental traits -- from two traditional parents, and mitochondrial DNA from a third.
3-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues | Wired Science | Wired.com
Oh Apple. First it was Cisco's iPod name, now this...
"Everybody can think of an easy name like 'iPad.' It's not creative."Indeed several other companies worldwide have had the same idea.
Germany's Siemens uses the trademark "iPad" for small engines and motors.
The Swiss-based microchip maker STMicroelectronics has reportedly also registered "IPAD", short for "Integrated Passive and Active Devices."
In Canada, the Ontario-based company Coconut Grove Pads Inc. has since 2007 made a line of bra inserts and shoulder pads called the "iPad", according to an online report by the Globe and Mail daily.
Why Microsoft's Courier - their secret booklet device, of course.
Microsoft's Courier - Their secret booklet device â.¢ VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control
Actually, they list 10 things. So here's 2 for free.
No MultitaskingThis is a backbreaker. If this is supposed to be a replacement for netbooks, how can it possibly not have multitasking? Are you saying I can't listen to Pandora while writing a document? I can't have my Twitter app open at the same time as my browser? I can't have AIM open at the same time as my email? Are you kidding me? This alone guarantees that I will not buy this product.
No CamerasNo front facing camera is one thing. But no back facing camera either? Why the hell not? I can't imagine what the downside was for including at least one camera. Could this thing not handle video iChat?
Or is it warp technology? Which will win out, Star Wars or Star Trek?
They say that ideas developed about 50 years ago by a German scientist named Burkhard Heim suggest that we could use a very strong magnetic field to push spacecraft into another dimension. A dimension where the physical laws that make the speed of light as fast as anything can go don't exist.
Creeeeepy.
But, at least she's not spinning leeks...
4 great videos from melodysheep. You can download them from http://symphonyofscience.com.
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First time I've seen this outside of a Marvel comic book reference:
Cosmic rays can mutate
Charged particles zipping through space, known as cosmic rays, can mutate the otherwise manageable microbes, spurring the bugs to reproduce quicker and become more virulent, recent studies show.At the same time, exposure to cosmic rays and the stresses of long-term weightlessness can dampen the human immune system, encouraging diseases to take hold.
Interesting point. Also, it brings up a very good point referenced in the Little Brother novel: what happens when a government organization puts out its own version of ParanoidLinux in an attempt to snare those who think they need it?
It's not the "there are already too many distributions" argument that is unsettling. It is more that the project feels a like a waste of human resources -- why is it necessary to put the applications and services designed to protect anonymity, to encrypt files, to make the user nameless and faceless, all together, in one distribution? Let's think in a truly paranoid manner. Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open? It would take more effort, it would seem, for a despotic goverment to hit every last repository of every last distribution with a bogus security application.
Really? People have parties like this?
I like this version a lot better:
Now there's a party I can get behind.
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Death Valley's Little Brother