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The Relative Size of Things.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:53:18 GMT

The Relative Size of Things

Back in the 70s or 80s, IBM made a video called The Power of 10, which showed the relative size of things from the universe to the cell and the effect of adding a zero. In other words going from 1 meter to 10 meters to 100 meters and so on.

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Now in the age of nanotechnology, and manipulating materials on the molecular scale, it's nice to see an interactive that shows the relative size of the small things. We're talking everything from coffee beans to carbon atoms. With viruses, bacteria, red blood cells and a host of other structures in between.

Cell Size and Scale is made possible by the Genetics Science Learning Center at the University of Utah. It's so great. Go ahead and interact.

See the video below.

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SEAPLEX: Seeking the Science of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:30:16 GMT

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A thousand miles off California, the North Pacific Ocean Gyre contains one of the largest ecosystems on Earth--but it may be in danger from a deluge of accumulated plastic trash. Dubbed the "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch," the debris at the center of the North Pacific Ocean has the potential to damage marine life and alter the biological environment.

From August 2-21, 2009, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego embarked on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon exploring the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre

How much plastic is accumulating, how is it distributed, and how is it affecting ocean life? With their new results the researchers hope to provide critical, timely data to policy makers and combine Scripps' long tradition of Pacific exploration with focus on a new and pressing environmental problem.

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Chemical BPA in workers linked to sex problems

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:34:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I cannot imaging how this hazard can be eliminated from our life. It is everywhere. Look around. Clear plastic bottles or cans made from polycarbonate with bisphenol A leashing into product it contain. Before it was fragile, but chemically stable, indifferent glass. Can we afford to pay with our health (and lives, after all) for this fruit of chemical progress? It damaging everything inside a body, it's just happen to discover some of its symptoms. What was impossible to suppress already...

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Chemical BPA in workers linked to sex problems

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter, Ap Science Writer – 2 hrs 1 min ago

NEW YORK – Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that's been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday.

The men in the study experienced BPA levels about 50 times higher than those faced by typical American men, said researcher Dr. De-Kun Li. "We don't know" whether more typical doses have similar effects, he said.

BPA is used in a wide variety of consumer products, including some hard plastic bottles and metal food or beverage cans. Several makers of baby bottles recently said they had stopped using the chemical. Some 90 percent of the U.S. population carries detectable levels in the urine.

The U.S. government recently announced new funding for research into BPA's effects.

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Scalar Energy....the new Frontier of Healing/Health

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:22:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: .....the world post BigPharma medicine....EXCITING AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE.

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"Scalar-Energy and Scalar-Waves in Healing"

This video describes with simplicity and clarity the science of scalar energy - the energy that underlies the healing technologies that are at the core of the new global healing system.

It will take you on a journey of discovery, past the barriers of quantum and wave-energy physics, into a space of new awareness where "knowing" replaces "book knowledge".

It provides new insights into the controlling cause of all events and phenomena we observe in our world and in our lives in an easy to understand way, without compromising scientific accuracy.

This video has been proclaimed as a landmark video in the understanding of life energy and it is gaining acceptance as an educational aid in the teaching of enlightened science.

Online Movie Cafe

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:11:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Watch Free Movies Online - action, documentary, thriller, horror, drama, comedy, science-ficiton, martial arts and more

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Anime Japan’s Manga Hentai Wonder Festival

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:38:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wonder Festival was first held in 1985. Japanese animation was still very much a niche interest even in its home country, and the major kit manufacturers were only interested in major TV franchises.
It seems, even organizers do not foreknow, who and how many figures will decide to parade. Heroines numerous anime, video games, comics, manga,hentai with own hand created characters. Practically any figure has an erotic hentai orientation.

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Japan’s Wonder Festival

anime, video games, comics, manga,hentai

The fans who founded Wonder Festival had started running science fiction conventions in Osaka in 1981, with Daicon III, whose opening animation has become famous among anime, video games, comics, manga,hentai fans. They used the experience and contacts they gained to set up General Products, Japan’s first specialty science fiction store. Wonder Festival was a logical extension of the store. A number of the group went on to form anime studio GAINAX, creators of such hits as Evangelion, and in 1990 General Products withdrew from Wonder Festival and merged with GAINAX to focus on animation. They later fictionalized their memories of the period in Otaku no Video.

Posted by maria on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 8:14 am
Filed under News · Tagged with anime, comics, hentai, manga, video games, Wonder Festival

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Science: Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:00:37 GMT

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Comments: 45 +- Science: Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope on Sunday November 08, @04:49AM

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 08, @04:49AM

stupendou writes with this excerpt from the New York Times: "Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes." But not based on optical magnification: the article explains that Aydogan Ozcan, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering, has combined the wireless transmission abilities and imaging sensors now typical in wireless phones to make the phones capable of detecting cell abnormalities and more by capturing wave interference patterns from body fluids — like blood — and sending them on for analysis.

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Digital Ants Protect Computers

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:33:43 GMT

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New Biomimicry in Digital Security - Ants Swarm to Protect Computers

Science Daily reports that biomimicry is playing a key role in upcoming computer security technology. By looking at the way ants call for backup and overpower invaders through sheer quantity of soldiers, security experts have devised a "digital ant" that will help human operators more quickly spot threats to computer systems.

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Ants inspire new computer antivirus software

Scientists have studied the behaviour of ants to develop a new generation of antivirus software for computers.

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Computer science professor Errin Fulp works with graduate students Brian Williams (center) and Wes Featherstun (far right), who worked this summer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developing a new type of computer network security software modeled after ants.

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Science Tattoo Emporium

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:15:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Scientists who have tattoos of their science.

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Duygu writes, “I am a developmental biologist by training.

However, I have been an evolution enthusiast and also an activist for educating public about the theory of evolution for a long time. I could not imagine a better tattoo: Darwin’s finches arranged to look like a butterfly…I got it in 2009–Darwin’s 200th anniversary and On The Origin of Species‘ 150th anniversary.

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All Creatures Great And Small

The Three Faces of Life

Let the Stars and the Ink Guide You Home

A Million Ankles And You’ve Got A Laptop

The Imaginary Vortex

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Pandora’s Viruses

A Sea of Uranium

LSD Redux

Top Predators of the Past

Old Four Lobes

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Jellyfish

Hidden Biology

A Trilobite

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Dromeosaur

The Periodic Table

Carnivore Skull

Bugs, Etc.

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Einstein v. Newton

Galileo

Cephalopod

Mobius Strip

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The Guardian of the Genome

Tropical Newton

Eye of Newt, Oil of Meteorite

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:58:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Penis enlargement was not an option to men merely fifty years ago. Thanks to modern science, the manufacturing revolution and ancient herb lore, it is a reality today. Many products are available on the market that use an all-natural approach to male enhancement. Read on to learn more about the basic facts.

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Penis enlargement was not an option to men merely fifty years ago. Thanks to modern science, the manufacturing revolution and ancient herb lore, it is a reality today. Many products are available on the market that use an all-natural approach to male enhancement. Read on to learn more about the basic facts.

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African Muslim with 'violent genes' gets sentence cut

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:34:55 GMT

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An Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour — the first time that behavioural genetics has affected a sentence passed by a European court. But researchers contacted by Nature have questioned whether the decision was based on sound science.

A court in Italy has cut a prisoner's jail term because he has genes associated with aggressive behaviour.Ingram Publishing

Abdelmalek Bayout, an Algerian citizen who has lived in Italy since 1993, admitted in 2007 to stabbing and killing Walter Felipe Novoa Perez on 10 March. Perez, a Colombian living in Italy, had, according to Bayout's testimony, insulted him over the kohl eye make-up the Algerian was wearing. Bayout, a Muslim, claims he wore the make-up for religious reasons.

“There's increasing evidence that some genes together with a particular environmental insult may predispose people to certain behaviour.”

Pietro Pietrini
University of Pisa

Tags: genetics, science, law, sentencing, racism, eu, islam

Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:42:15 GMT

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Diet Coke and Mentos

what exactly happens when you drop a Mentos into a solution of Diet Coke?

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Briggs-Rauscher Reaction

The Briggs-Rauscher reaction is a well known example of oscillating chemical reactions, also known as chemical clocks because the periodicity can be used to tell time. What's going on in the beaker is actually quite a complex set of chemical reactions.

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Gummy Bear and Molten Potassium Chlorate

Here's what happen if you drop a Gummy Bear (which is mostly sugar), to a tube of molten potassium chlorate:

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Burning Salts

Quick: what color is fire?

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Ferrofluid

Ferrofluid, a colloidal mixture of nanoscale magnetic particles in a solvent, reacts to magnetic field in an awesomely bizarre way.

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Healthcare Provision Seeks To Embrace Prayer Treatments

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:49:49 GMT

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Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.

The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) with the support of Democratic Sens. John F. Kerry and the late Edward M. Kennedy, both of Massachusetts, home to the headquarters of the Church of Christ, Scientist.

The measure would put Christian Science prayer treatments -- which substitute for or supplement medical treatments -- on the same footing as clinical medicine. While not mentioning the church by name, it would prohibit discrimination against "religious and spiritual healthcare."

But critics say the measure could have a broader effect, conferring new status and medical legitimacy on practices that lie outside the realm of science.

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Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology(IIST jobs) Professor Recruitment 2009 (www.iist.ac.in

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:17:41 GMT

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Thiruvananthapuram - Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology(IIST jobs) Professor Recruitment 2009 (www.iist.ac.in)

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:48:40 GMT

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