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      CommentAuthordchamp
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2010
     
    I'm all for pet bats. Bats are awesome. Some people I know scream like a little girl when they see a bat, though.

    Besides, the skeeter laser guy is associated with Bill Gates, and nothing he's ever done has been buggy. Right?
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    the higher register of tone is easier for the bat to hear, clearly why anyone would scream in such a way only to seem like a sniveling coward to onlookers, when in fact it is a complex and highly nuanced communication attempt on the part of the prepossessing individual :bigsmile:

    In other news: Science created modern democracy, world freedom, and pizza rolls according to some historian dude.

    Classically it is argued that religion helped too, with thinkers like Jonathan Edwards chipping in stuff, but I see Spinoza's ideals contributing more so the heck with it- note the author reviewing the book above is from The Templeton Foundation and thus churchy fruitcake is baked: China rules by science and is evil! Aristocracy! I can't read Nature! I have contacted my friends at the IAP, he will be dead soon, no worries.
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    • CommentAuthorvonahsen
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
     
    I stopped into noisebridge when I was in SF two weeks ago - it was the most awesomely nerdly thing EVAR. I soldiered a blinky led thing, it was sweet
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      CommentAuthordchamp
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
     
    When are we starting the Des Moines hackspace?
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    Awesome! Please feel free to take me along if you ever go back ... in return I might build you one of these.


    or maybe just half of a fish in a cocktail glass. The starving college student version!
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      CommentAuthorSammyD
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
     
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    yogurt desensitization? I guess people have spontaneously gotten over their pet dander allergies after repeated exposures for the same reason, it's unfortunate that such an easy fix wasn't thought of before thousands more were adversely effected from the time of the injection trials.
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    The father of Behavioral Economics speaks at TED

    I love his papers, I love his talks. I never pictured him with a crazy German accent though.
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      CommentAuthordchamp
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2010
     
    Here's your damned jetpack, so shut up already.

    Not a jetpack, it uses ducted fans. And a 2.0 L engine? My car only has a 1.8L engine.
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    Hmmmm... that is a lot of gas to be using but if you were running thousands of short errands around a city on a non-windy day the speed trade-off might actually save fuel with the copterpack?


    They should definitely make an electric model. Also one where it is impossible to suck birds into your air intake.
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    Certain microbes may make you more hungry

    or as some news outlets are declaring it: Infectobesity epidemic 2010! The fat might come first though, as NPR notes. Giving a bunch of one type of bacteria extra fuel could conceivably make more of them.
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    Soundtrack to the sun

    I shudder to think how much money may have been spent on this obviously practical "sonification process". This could be a prime ig-Nobel contender!
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    Biochemical network equivalent dynamics! This is a beautiful example of "Simplexity", so I will not be resentful that this has only been discovered after I already had to sit through several hours of lectures where the speaker had no notion of these developments and ended up drawing extremely messy and convoluted diagrams of non-existent physiomolecular relationships that now don't make any sense.

    Ilya Nemenman also demonstrates my "funny names get awarded doctorates more" hypothesis, although I am not sure if it is the reviewers unconsciously favoring them or if the property of having a strange name isolates children and pushes them invariably toward a life of science.
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    Life will find a way

    specifically shrimp
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      CommentAuthorHollisb
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
     
    Cool! I bet this is exactly what the shrimp do down there :surfing:
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2010 edited
     
    Invisibility cloak advance

    I forgot to post this news, invisible gold is easier to hide from James Bond villains.


    Edit Note: Link fixed. Damn you cut/paste buffer!
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      CommentAuthorSammyD
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
     
    only if you are very very small...
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    Or hiding A LOT of really really small samples...
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    E8 DOWN!



    Awwwww.... let's see if Lisi can play defense, this isn't the first theory mathematicians have tried to tear into pieces only to find later that they were wrong, and when you are dealing with the fundamental particles and forces of the universe there is A LOT that we still don't know
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    This thing probably tastes good.
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    Soap and toothpaste may be harmful

    Likely why the OCD don't live live longer than the rest of us....
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    Nine year old discovers new hominid species

    I too am jealous. If the next IT industry will truly be synthetic biology these finds are going to become rather important.
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    Random Matrix Theory

    whereas the writer of this article believes that RMT belies a universal constant of the entirety of existence I would counter that RMT points to a lot of mathematical and quantum-physical relations that are totally reliant on observational subjective determinacy in the drawing of distinctions between A and B. Since these are human inventions the fact that they map onto a plane like Cartesian shit just means that they are Cartesian shit, as subject to linear algebra as a sack of potatoes that I wish to label in a certain way.
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    266 degrees Fahrenheit? I dub thee "Easy-bake Oven" star! It's nearby location will allow travelers to use it to make space pottery and forge "star swords" without too much difficulty.
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    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2010 edited
     
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