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Finally! Checkmate atheists and vegetarians!

by Abdul Alhazred » Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:23 pm

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:mrgreen:

Meat-Shaped Stone And Jadeite Cabbage
Amusing Planet

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What makes this piece of art so special is that the rock naturally looks...

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Blueberry muffin.

Does that make me a barbarian?

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Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:19 am
The latest in TVs

by Anaxagoras » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:12 pm
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Has the TV finally been perfected? Look at these beauties:

LG's 55-inch OLED TV packed with 3D bells, smart TV whistles

The main thing about...

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was also shot using the Ultra Panavision lenses, but used with a digital camera with a 65mm sensor rather than film....
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Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:51 pm
Advances in prosthetics

by Pyrrho » Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:39 am

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Implantable electrodes

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Anaxagoras' dream (sounds like a book title :mrgreen: ):

Details:

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Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:15 am
Been playing DOOM since it first came out and finally getting bored?

by Abdul Alhazred » Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:28 pm

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:lmao:

‘Doomba’ turns your Roomba’s cleaning maps into Doom levels
The Verge

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Well done.

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Fri Dec 28, 2018 5:34 pm
On the way to Pluto at last!

by Abdul Alhazred » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:33 pm
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From Space Daily

NASA's New Horizons 3-billion-mile-plus mission to the outer solar system finally got underway Thursday when the half-ton...

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New Horizons is not quite done yet!
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Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:32 am
What (allegedly) happened on the space station the recently sprung a leak.

by Abdul Alhazred » Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:00 pm
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I wonder if it's true.

On the one hand, plausible.

On the other hand, this is the Russian side of the story and you know how they are.

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The GROUND CREW was upset by the bathroom lady? Plot thickens!!
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Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:29 pm
Interesting early (but not the earliest) phonographs

by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Dec 25, 2018 2:36 pm

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The first phonographs simply amplified the sound vibrations of the needle with a big megaphone.

But might there not be a better way?

Such as...

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↑ Interesting. Swiss EPFL developed a turntable cartridge using a rounded glass fiber (instead of the usual diamond needle) to read the – hopefully...

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Tue Dec 25, 2018 10:47 pm
Randomized controlled trial on parachutes vs placebo

by Pyrrho » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:35 pm

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Design Randomized controlled trial.

Setting Private or commercial aircraft between September 2017 and August 2018.

Participants 92 aircraft...

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Clearly, more research is needed. Perhaps a double-blind randomized controlled trial with a much larger study population.

However, in the interest...

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Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:44 pm
Academic scientists' dropout

by Witness » Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:24 am

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'Dropout' rate for academic scientists has risen sharply in past 50 years, IU study finds

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Half of the people pursuing careers...

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Cannot agree with you. Let's leave it at that.

Not a problem. You made a good case. We simply have a difference of opinion who deserves more...

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Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:27 am
Dark Matter and Dark Energy

by Bruce » Wed May 25, 2011 10:06 am

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Dark Matter:

In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is matter that is inferred to exist from gravitational effects on visible matter and...

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From the article, to get a grasp of the weird situation. F g is the gravitational force, a the acceleration:

The middle picture is especially...

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Sat Dec 08, 2018 1:28 am
What Lister is doing these days

by Rob Lister » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:32 pm

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Now that I'm officially unemployed retired jobless, I spend my days watching chess.

And this

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Yeah I've been watching chess too ever since I started that thread. Just came across a Youtube video one day and kinds got sucked in. I hadn't really...

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Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:38 pm
Cold Fusion Yet Again

by Rob Lister » Tue May 21, 2013 11:47 pm

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And again this should be in the frauds and scams forum but technically it is technology so ...
(Newser) – This is either bombshell, world-changing...

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So, quantum stuff?

Doesn't sound practical for energy generation on a large scale.

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Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:28 pm
Predatory journals recruit fake editor

by Witness » Tue Apr 04, 2017 1:37 am

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Thousands of academic journals do not aspire to quality. They exist primarily to extract fees from authors. These 'predatory' journals exhibit...

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Pointing the Finger at Colleagues

Scholar's article said his colleagues were publishing in predatory journals. Now he's banned from campus....

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Thu Nov 29, 2018 1:39 am
Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism

by Bruce » Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:48 pm

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One hour long, but well worth every second to watch.

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Ancient pocket watch.

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Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:29 am
The Streisand clones.

by Abdul Alhazred » Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:36 pm

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Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog. For $50,000, You Can Clone Yours.
The New York Times

Synopsis: Pretty much what the headline says.

But you know...

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Update: Barbra Streisand and her clones haven't had any pub lately and don't feel like paying for it.

Barbra Streisand and her clones need some...

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Wed Oct 31, 2018 3:27 pm
Right to repair

by Witness » Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:02 am
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Apple Tells Lawmaker that Right to Repair iPhones Will Turn Nebraska Into a ‘Mecca’ for Hackers

Apple is inventing new and interesting arguments...

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Follow up:
New copyright exemptions let you legally repair your phone or jailbreak voice assistants

The US Copyright Office has made it legal to...
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Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:38 am
Drug cocktail almost doubles lifespan of worms

by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:36 pm

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Drug cocktail almost doubles lifespan of worms
Science Daily

A team of researchers led by Principal Investigator Dr Jan Gruber from Yale-NUS...

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Mice are probably a lot closer to humans than worms as far as most recent common ancestor, but even research results in mice rarely work the same way...

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Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:25 am
A new exponential mathematics for digital data compression

by xouper » Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:32 pm

That's the title of a kindle book I just got for free on amazon.

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1 in Mathematics Research :shock:

No guarantee...

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Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:32 pm
Turns out we DID come from monkeys! (spotted over by Shermerland)

by Abdul Alhazred » Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:50 am

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Sun Sep 23, 2018 5:29 pm
What a snippy bunch of broads! No I'm not being sexist, because ...

by Abdul Alhazred » Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:40 pm

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THIS. IS. SCIENCE. DAMMT! :mrgreen:

Competitive reputation manipulation: Women strategically transmit social information about romantic rivals...

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You know, that totally agrees with what I already thought I knew.

You can learn a lot about human mating behavior just by watching nature...

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Fri Sep 21, 2018 4:14 pm
One in the eye for Pluto denialists!

by Abdul Alhazred » Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:36 pm

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Finally some sanity! :coolspecs:

Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, experts say
Science Daily

Abstract: The reason Pluto lost its planet...

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That's funny.

I hate to get pedantic in nitpicking a joke, but I don't think NASA had anything to do with it, for the record. It was the...

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Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:39 am
Hurricane season 2018

by Pyrrho » Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:49 am
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Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:51 am
Record Glider Flight

by shuize » Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:01 pm

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On Sept. 2, the sleek Perlan 2 glider carried two pilots to 76,100 feet, or more than 14 miles, over the El Calafate region in southern Argentina.

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False Flag!

--J.D.

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Sun Sep 09, 2018 9:20 am
Robotic sailboat crosses the Atlantic

by Witness » Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:18 am

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Robot boat sails into history by finishing Atlantic crossing

All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North...

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Unmanned vessel. Derelict. Claim it.

Rob would know. He knew all things nautical. He was like Popeye. :cry:

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Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:18 pm
Oldest blockchain

by Witness » Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:21 am

The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995

This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record....

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Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:21 am
Guess along about which social science studies will replicate

by Abdul Alhazred » Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:20 am

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Guess along about which social science studies will replicate
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Teaser:
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My general heuristic is the following:
If the study implies...

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Back when I was a tad just starting in my doctoral program ... hang on, gotta pee

I'm back, where was I? Oh yeah ...

Anyway one had to take a...

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Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:54 am
Triassic pterosaur

by Witness » Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:43 am

For once not a coast dweller, but from an oasis in the midst of more than 2 million square kilometers of desert with sand dunes.

Article: .

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Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:43 am
Why is it so hot?

by Witness » Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:59 am
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Present situation:

For the US:

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In a few months you'll be bitching about how cold it is. :p
Good heavens, I already had to put a t-shirt on! :poutpout:
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Sat Aug 11, 2018 3:03 am
Lord Nelson

by ed » Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:38 am

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No, not that one, idiot, the Brit one. :x

Just finished a book about Trafalgar wherein His Lordship whupped the asses of the froggies and Spanish....

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Was not like he was a rear-admiral. . . .

--J.D.

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Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:27 am
Fields medals

by Witness » Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:21 am

Former refugee among winners of Fields medal – the 'Nobel prize for maths'

Caucher Birkar grew up on a farm near the Kurdish city of Marivan in...

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Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:34 pm
Fake Journals

by Witness » Sun Jul 22, 2018 2:54 am

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400,000 Scientists All Over the World Have Been Published in Fake Journals

Journalists investigated widespread fraud within the scientific...

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I Got a Hoax Paper Published About How Politicians Wipe Their Butts
Real Clear Science

I had what seemed like rather a good idea a few weeks...

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Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:33 pm
Quantum from Algebra

by Witness » Sun Jul 22, 2018 4:11 am

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For the mathematically minded, an article I found interesting (a tad journalistic in some parts) about Octonions (or Cayley's Octaves as they are...

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P. – S.

Details: Brougham Bridge . 8)

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Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:56 am
Colored X-Ray

by Witness » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:30 am

A father and son tandem from New Zealand has introduced the first ever colored x-ray scanner adapted from technology used in finding the Higgs...

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Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:30 am
Trinity Anniversary

by sparks » Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:08 pm

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Yep. It's today. They tested a version of Fat Man (how ironic) 72 years ago this day at 5 something in the AM. Did we even have DST yet?

This maybe...

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Not to mention all who were lining up on the West Coast in prep for the invasion.

Ah well, another year on. (Tomorrow) Watching The Day After...

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Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:08 pm
Dinosaur hide

by Witness » Sat May 13, 2017 4:35 pm

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The Canadian specimen literally defies words, in more ways than one. As this article went to press, museum staff were finalizing the creature’s...

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Update: details on the find.

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Sat Jul 14, 2018 3:10 am
10 million patents

by Anaxagoras » Wed Jul 04, 2018 6:21 am

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I actually heard this a few days ago, but it's not very old news yet.

The United States Patent Office recently issued its 10 millionth patent, last...

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July 31, 1790, and issued to Samuel Hopkins for a process of making potash, an ingredient used in fertilizer.
Hemp was used for cordage (rope)...

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Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:59 am
It's not nice to fool around with Mother Nature

by Pyrrho » Fri May 04, 2018 10:56 am
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PUNA, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Residents in Puna's Leilani Estates subdivision fled with little more than the clothes on their backs Thursday...

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Tells you something about the state of journalism is the story is the internet freaks .

Very self-referential.
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Mon Jun 18, 2018 12:55 pm
Man Caused Moon to Warm 1.8 degrees F.

by Rob Lister » Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:05 pm

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Calibrate your skeptometers before reading this ...

Scientists have finally figured out the reason behind a small but noticeable uptick in the...

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We measure Freedom here.

--J.D.

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Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:57 pm
hyperloop

by Rob Lister » Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:05 pm
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Inside the Hyperloop: the pneumatic travel system faster than the speed of sound

It is called “The Hyperloop” and, according to the designer, it...

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To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels. Unlike flying cars, tunnels are...
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Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:47 am
Spector

by Witness » Wed May 23, 2018 12:43 am

Details:

Alas, seems stuck at the prototype stage. :(

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Wed May 23, 2018 12:43 am
You don't mind if I change your mind?

by Witness » Fri May 18, 2018 4:21 pm

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Machines designed to change humans

Yes, this can be a scary topic: machines designed to influence human beliefs and behaviors. But there’s good...

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ed: It will be for advertising in general and not primarily politics.

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Sat May 19, 2018 11:04 pm
Someone producing CFCs on the sly?

by Anaxagoras » Thu May 17, 2018 4:26 am

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Apparently this is the evidence:

Concentration of CFC-11 in the Northern (red) and Southern (blue) Hemispheres compared to projected decline (gray...

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Apparently this is the evidence:

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Concentration of CFC-11 in the Northern (red) and Southern (blue) Hemispheres compared to projected decline...

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Thu May 17, 2018 11:58 am
Who is the bot?

by Rob Lister » Wed May 09, 2018 12:24 am

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Turing Test be damned, this is impressive.

At this year’s Google I/O developer’s conference in Mountain View, Google demoed a very natural-sounding...

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Picked up on /.
If a Duplex realizes it's talking to another Duplex, will it go into 56K modem mode and just talk electronically?

Or will it be...

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Thu May 10, 2018 3:05 pm
The Genetic Engineering Thread

by Anaxagoras » Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:08 am

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I think we're about to enter a new era. Sort of like the Internet and smart phones and Google ushered in a new era in the 90s and aughts, we are...

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Nixon had access to Pepto. And he still looked like he was full of shit.

Go figure.

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Thu May 03, 2018 6:00 pm
DNA and big data and the Golden State Killer

by Rob Lister » Fri Apr 27, 2018 10:49 am

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The Golden State Killer raped and murdered victims all across the state of California in an era before Google searches and social media, a time when...

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Until it becomes mandatory.

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Sat Apr 28, 2018 7:20 pm
Thruster evaluation : NASA to be trusted ?

by 99guspuppet » Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:07 am
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A electromagnetic thruster concept has been lurking about since about 2001. Developed by Roger Shawyer , the claim was it did not require propellant....

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Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics
Frontiers of Propulsion Science

Marc G. Millis; Eric W. Davis

Frontiers of Propulsion Science is the...
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Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:54 am
Deorbiting space junk

by Rob Lister » Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:53 pm
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Happened across this

Lockheed Martin seeks to clean up space junk

The title says enough to get the gist without infringing on the copyright of an...

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Vonn Neumann machines that uses the junk for raw material. What could possibly go wrong?
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Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:44 pm
Bionics

by Rob Lister » Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:43 pm

Active bionics making a profound difference. One brand new user remarks while trying the bionic legs for the very first time,
Oh my god, I can't...

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Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:18 am
James Watson (yes that one) gets a new gig

by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:28 pm

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:coolspecs:

DNA Nobel Laureate James Watson Joins Shenzhen Research Center
China Money Network

James Watson, the Nobel laureate who...

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Very good chance, if they're just now breaking ground, that he'll have stuffed it before the place opens.

Quite all right.

He gets a job for life,...

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Tue Mar 27, 2018 6:14 pm
Future Natural Disasters

by Pyrrho » Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:58 pm

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Mount Etna is sliding toward the ocean.

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The great rift valley is, itself, a sign of splitting that's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years at least. The crack is just a symptom...

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Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:44 pm

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