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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Thu Nov 29, 2018 12:58 pm

Hairspray does

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 29, 2018 1:01 pm

His wig may be flammable, so you may be on to something.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:15 pm

This was a tremendously heartbreaking paragraph:
But extinction is not the only tragedy through which we’re living. What about the species that still exist, but as a shadow of what they once were? In “The Once and Future World,” the journalist J.B. MacKinnon cites records from recent centuries that hint at what has only just been lost: “In the North Atlantic, a school of cod stalls a tall ship in midocean; off Sydney, Australia, a ship’s captain sails from noon until sunset through pods of sperm whales as far as the eye can see. ... Pacific pioneers complain to the authorities that splashing salmon threaten to swamp their canoes.” There were reports of lions in the south of France, walruses at the mouth of the Thames, flocks of birds that took three days to fly overhead, as many as 100 blue whales in the Southern Ocean for every one that’s there now. “These are not sights from some ancient age of fire and ice,” MacKinnon writes. “We are talking about things seen by human eyes, recalled in human memory.”

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:18 pm

But now you can see all that stuff on your UHD 4K OLED TV so...win?

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Postby Tomas » Wed Dec 05, 2018 11:06 am

Science! :)

Peer-reviewed! THREE authors!!!! :D :D

https://academic.oup.com/icvts/advance- ... 21/5219001

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Dec 05, 2018 11:37 am

I thought for sure that was going to be the paper on penguin poop.

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Postby count2infinity » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:05 pm

GPS tracking of wolves from different packs:

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Story is here: https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/ ... erries-not

That's incredible to me.

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Postby dodint » Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:12 pm

Very cool.

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Postby tifosi77 » Sat Dec 08, 2018 11:11 am

Doctors Aren’t Sure How This Even Came Out of a Patient
Somehow, a man coughed up an intact blood clot shaped like a lung passage.
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Georg Wieselthaler, a transplant and pulmonary surgeon at the University of California at San Francisco, says the unnamed patient was initially admitted to the intensive-care unit with aggressive end-stage heart failure. Wieselthaler quickly connected the patient’s struggling heart to a pump designed to help maximize blood flow through the body. But this type of ventricular-assist device comes with its own risks. “You have high turbulence inside the pumps, and that can cause clots to form inside,” Wieselthalers says. “So with all these patients, you have to give them anticoagulants to make the blood thinner and prevent clots from forming.”

These anticoagulants themselves can lead to trouble. In a healthy person, oxygen-starved blood leaving the heart travels an intricate network of capillaries through the lungs for an oxygenating pit stop by the airways. Usually, if small fissures occur in this network, the body’s clotting agents show up to slap some circulatory duct tape on them until they heal. But for someone taking anticoagulants, the body can’t efficiently patch things up if any part of this tight blood-vessel network is breached, and things can spiral out of control.

In Wieselthaler’s case, blood eventually broke out of his patient’s pulmonary network into the lower right lung, heading directly for the bronchial tree. After days of coughing up much smaller clots, Wieselthaler’s patient bore down on a longer, deeper cough and, relieved, spit out a large, oddly shaped clot, folded in on itself. Once Wieselthaler and his team carefully unfurled the bundle and laid it out, they found that the architecture of the airways had been retained so perfectly that they were able to identify it as the right bronchial tree based solely on the number of branches and their alignment.
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Postby Gaucho » Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:31 pm

:shock: :? :scared:

It is sort of cool, though.

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Postby count2infinity » Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:32 pm

Damn, nature. You scary.

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Postby NTP66 » Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:32 pm

That is so damn cool.

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:55 am

MIT invents method to shrink objects to nanoscale using basic lab equipment

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/17/us/m ... ium=social

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:49 am

I'll be more interested when they can make it go the other way...

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:55 am

I'll be more interested when they can make it go the other way...
TWSS.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:57 am

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:58 am

I'll be more interested when they can make it go the other way...
TWSS.
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thats what they all said :oops:

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:45 am

Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe

https://www.physics-astronomy.org/2018/ ... er_19.html

How do physicists not go mad?

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:53 am

Because they already are?

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:56 am

Maybe.

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Postby Kaiser » Wed Dec 26, 2018 10:53 am

Unless they provide some of the math this guy used, this is the cosmic equivalent of saying water is dry.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Dec 26, 2018 11:14 am

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.08834.pdf

There's the paper itself... It's from 2016, and this article just found it in 2018? Also, the article says the dude is at Indiana University. That's where he did his Ph.D. and a bit of work after his Ph.D. He's currently at New Haven University and has been since 2013.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:16 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/scie ... gence.html

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
Tellingly, AlphaZero won by thinking smarter, not faster; it examined only 60 thousand positions a second, compared to 60 million for Stockfish. It was wiser, knowing what to think about and what to ignore. By discovering the principles of chess on its own, AlphaZero developed a style of play that “reflects the truth” about the game rather than “the priorities and prejudices of programmers,” Mr. Kasparov wrote in a commentary accompanying the Science article.

The question now is whether machine learning can help humans discover similar truths about the things we really care about: the great unsolved problems of science and medicine, such as cancer and consciousness; the riddles of the immune system, the mysteries of the genome.

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