new milk knowledge Post Source: slog.thestranger.com Posted: Dec 04 2008 22:33:50
First, Science Magazine is both impressed and disgusted by the clever chemistry behind melamine finding its way into infant formula: A weeks-long investigation into China’s tainted milk scandal has left scientists astonished by the technical sophistication of those who used melamine to adulterate food products. Chinese investigators, meanwhile, are puzzling over the precise mechanisms of ...... [Show More]
ael nanolapiz Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Dec 03 2008 22:00:02
Hoy en día es común escuchar esta palabra, “Nano” que significa, pequeño, miniatura, y es que unos investigadores nipones de la Universidad de Osaka, desarrollaron una herramienta que es capaz de escribir unos trazos tan pequeños como la del tamaño de un solo átomo.
Esta es una nueva noticia nanotecnológica, y en esta ocasión ha sido publicado el pasado día 17 de Octubre en ...... [Show More]
Click below for your weekly dose of the Fritzwire — chock full of meetings, reports, events, and jobs (yes, jobs).
It’s like the PEN NewsBlast, only daily (and with more crazy formatting).
Or, check out the cover of the new Vanity Fair.
Fritz Edelstein
Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM
To:
fritzwire @lists.aac rao.org
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The following is a guest weblog by Dr. Lianhong Gu of the Terrestrial Water - Carbon Cycles Group Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory:
Forests typically have lower albedo than other land surface types. This has led to the popular view that planting trees may worsen global warming (see Trees may warm the Earth , Snowy forests ‘increase warmingR...... [Show More]
Using an odd experimental setup in which research subjects were fitted
with augmented-reality goggles that showed video from cameras
strapped to other people (or mannequins), neuroscientists say that you can be fooled into experiencing another humanoid body as your own.
And not just in a fluffy, philosophical way: The subjects experienced measurable physiological changes, as reported ...... [Show More]
Liberman and Trope suggest an underlying similarity in all of our mental operations that are not dealing with the here and now: People directly experience only themselves here and now but often consider, evaluate, and plan situations that are removed in time or space, that pertain to others’ experiences, and that are hypothetical rather than real. People thus transcend the present and ment...... [Show More]
digital embryos Post Source: freereadingsonline.com Posted: Dec 01 2008 17:43:01
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have developed a novel microscopy technique to generate "digital embryos," 3D visualizations of early embryonic development down to the position of individual cells and the division of those cells. Their first big success, published recently in the journal Science, is a reconstruction of the first 24 hours of a Zebrafish embryo&r...... [Show More]
“Você sente que a sua Vida está fugindo do controle?
“Deixe-me falar do meu deus.”
“A culpa é dos pingüins assassinos que controla o mundo.”
“Está tudo conectado!”
Existem pesquisas que sugerem que a percepção de falta de controle pessoal faz as com que pessoas percebam padrões inexistentes ao seu redor. Além disso, sentir-se fora do contr...... [Show More]
Science has conceded the error: More than one lab has in fact shown that cell phone radiation can cause DNA breaks. Back in August, reporter Gretchen Vogel claimed that Hugo Rüdiger at the University of Vienna medical school was the only one (see September 3 , below). Now, Vogel allows that a team from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, had previously observed DNA breaks in ce...... [Show More]
millerurey redo Post Source: www.answertheskeptic.com Posted: Dec 01 2008 10:00:31
By Fazale Rana, Ph.D.
It never ceases to amaze me what turns up when I clean out our garage: forgotten stuff that brings back memories, and occasionally, old things that still have value.
And this is exactly what some former students and associates of the late origin-of-life researcher Stanley Miller discovered when they cleaned out his lab after his death . Old vials from lef...... [Show More]
I am obsessed with VH1’s The Pickup Artist . In this show, master pickup artist Mystery teaches hopeless young men how to pick up women, often with cringe-inducing results. The tactics are familiar to anyone who has read The Game by Neil Strauss.
These are the basics of the Mystery Method . First, have an opener ready before you enter the bar. An opener is a line that earns you entry int...... [Show More]
This is too much fun. Want to get rid of the stereotype of scientists as stuffy or nerdy? Check out the “Dance Your PhD Contest” where real scientists create a dance based on their PhD thesis.
Here is a contestant dancing her thesis about pulsating stars. Check for more examples on You Tube, or at the links below.
DNLee at Urban Science Adventures also did a wonderful dance. Sh...... [Show More]
iiii i ph.d i Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Nov 30 2008 15:31:47
Ετοιμ άζετε το διδακ τορικ ό σας; Μήπως το έχετε ήδη κάνει και θυμάστε την παρου σίασή του, πόσο ψυχρή και βαρετή ήταν; Μήπως θυμάστε ακόμα το τρακ που είχατε; Γιατί να επανα λαμβά νετε τον συνηθ ισμέν ο τρόπο παρου σίαση ς της ε...... [Show More]
disorder Post Source: www.progressdaily.com Posted: Nov 30 2008 00:05:06
A series of experiments by Kees Keizer, Siegwart Lindenberg , & Linda Steg (” The Spreading of Disorder “; methodology .pdf file here ) suggest that signs of vandalism, litter and low-level lawbreaking increase the number of people who are prepared to litter and steal.
The first experiment was conducted in an alley that is frequently used to park bicycles. The researchers...... [Show More]
Here’s yet another idea that gets the Intelligent Design and creationist crowd excited. The Habitable Zone. It’s the zone around a star in which the temperature is right for liquid water and relatively mild temperatures. Move the planet a bit closer to the star and it will be too hot to support life. Move it farther back and the planet with freeze to an icy ball, too cold for living th...... [Show More]
Not sure how this one slipped past us, but last month Science magazine challenged its readers to translate their PhD research into an interpretive dance and post their moves on YouTube. Thirty-six videos were submitted and last week the winners were chosen.
It’s not exactly “news” at this point (hat tip to Slashdot for pointing it out), but if you’ve ever w...... [Show More]
Shared by David
Jag kör med SL Access sedan i måndags trots att jag känner till bristerna. Händer det något är det SL:s problem i första hand.
Science har en intressant liten nyhetsartikel om datasäker hetsforska rna som hackade RFID-kortsystemet MIFARE Classic, det som skulle ha blivit SL Access och som tills nyligen användes i bland annat Londons tunnelbana och i Göteborgs l...... [Show More]
Six weeks ago, the Gonzo Scientist challenged researchers around the world to interpret their Ph.D. research in dance form, film the dance, and share it with the world on YouTube ( Science , 10 October, p. 186). By the 11 p.m. deadline this past Sunday, 36 dancesR 11;includi ng solo ballet and circus spectacle–had been submitted online ....... [Show More]
My impression is that this is a particularly strong year for machine learning graduates. Here’s my short list of the strong graduates I know. Analpha (for perversity’s sake) by last name:
Jenn Wortmann . When Jenn visited us for the summer, she had one , two , three , four papers. That is typical 212;she 217;s smart, capable, and follows up many directions of res...... [Show More]
James Evans in Science’s abstract
Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print—scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or peruse—e lectronica lly available journals may portend an ironic change for scien...... [Show More]
Dancing Scientists Invade YouTube -- Bohannon 2008 (1120): 2 -- ScienceNOW : “Six weeks ago, the Gonzo Scientist challenged researchers around the world to interpret their Ph.D. research in dance form, film the dance, and share it with the world on YouTube ( Science , 10 October, p. 186). By the 11 p.m. deadline this past Sunday, 36 dances—including solo ballet and circus spe...... [Show More]
A report published today in the journal Science helps to reveal more about the possible effects of climate change on global sea level. According to the 2007 4th Assessment Report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ice shelf breakup is a major contributor to global sea level rise:
“Taken together, the ice sheets in Greenland and
Antarctica have very likel...... [Show More]
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