By Reuser | Published:
April 7, 2010
“If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than a half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…” -Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Required reading for Americans.
By Reuser | Published:
March 25, 2010
FORA.tv – Hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Talk “MythBusters”.
Awesome panel about mythbusters, arming robots, etc. Worth the hour if you are interested in the show.
Also posted in Technology, Videos |
By Reuser | Published:
March 22, 2010
Princeton University – A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain.
Can we end the American corn monoculture, as propped up by Federal subsidies now?
Also posted in Biology, Gravy, Hurt |
By Reuser | Published:
March 21, 2010
YouTube – The Silver Fox experiment.
“What fifty generations of silver foxes being domesticated and bred against aggressive traits has revealed to us about the long history of the domestic dog and why there is such a huge variety in traits in the various dog breeds.”
I love you, crazy Russian scientist woman! [...]
By Reuser | Published:
March 1, 2010
Somebody announces that he’s built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead. So users are going to run around screaming and say ‘Oh my God, what do we do?’
via Introduction.
Also posted in Math, Technology |
By Reuser | Published:
March 1, 2010
Antarctica Yields Relics of a Dwarf Planet from Creation of Solar System.
Awesome.
By Reuser | Published:
February 25, 2010
Eron may actually get his lifelong dream to power my garbage disposal: Nanotech May Tap Into Your Mind
Also posted in Biology, Technology |
By Reuser | Published:
February 6, 2010
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything.
Also posted in Technology |
By Reuser | Published:
February 1, 2010
Fantastic payoff for years of sustained research, and demonstrated excellence in the field. Looking forward to seeing this everywhere soon. Retrofit the R?
Rabiei’s invention isn’t the first metal foam, but she says it’s the strongest. The main weakness of existing metal foams is the varying sizes of their cells — tiny pockets of space inside [...]
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By Reuser | Published:
August 18, 2009
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show – NYTimes.com.
Also posted in Biology, Technology |
By Reuser | Published:
July 8, 2009
FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn. It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!
Also posted in Biology, Design, Economics, Hurt, Math, Personal, Politics, Rant, Stupid, Technology, Videos |
By Reuser | Published:
March 15, 2009
Gravity Probe B is about awesome…
“Imagine a snowflake, which has a fraction of a gram, slowly falling down on to the deck of a supertanker. The acceleration that the supertanker experiences from that snowflake is comparable to the sensitivity of our instrument,” he told BBC News.
More…
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By Reuser | Published:
March 9, 2009
Obama moves to separate politics and science
By Reuser | Published:
December 27, 2008
More link dump:
Winterblades history of SB – NC is in there, hidden amongst references to TAO. Thanks, Oly. SB ruled.
Cheap, self adjustable liquid lenses – For all.
More reasons not to vacation in Mexico.
GM plants are safe, says Monsanto.
Cheap fusion? Save the world? You decide.
Also posted in Biology, Design, Gaming, MMO |
By Reuser | Published:
December 19, 2008
Warning, this one is going to be large and varied, folks.
Fighting for the right to clone – It’s rough out there, in the science world. Hopefully America becomes much more science friendly, soon.
Do not fuck with Chinese shipping – Let this be a warning to you, pirates.
Worthwhile reading – On self defense ammo.
Fresh tomatoes and [...]
By Reuser | Published:
November 6, 2008
“Structures” tugging at the universe.
Also posted in Math, Politics, Rant |
Read a book to stimulate your brain, or do some Google-Fu for truly brain warming experiences.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/16/internet_stimulates_brain_more_than_books_study/
By Reuser | Published:
September 9, 2008
“Within the next five years we’ll be in a situation where the fans in your system are more likely to fail than your hard drive, and if your drive does happen to fail it’ll tell you well in advance.”
Highly in-depth article.
Admittedly, Intel is not the lowest priced, nor etc. But, they are using their minus [...]
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By Reuser | Published:
August 16, 2008
I spent one whole night watching the video to Johnny Cash’s hurt. This is it’s story.
(old but good) Do you let the transhuman AI out of the box? Some very smart people did.
NASA Workmanship Standards – Pictorial Reference.
I have this weird thing I like to do after sex… (NSFW)
Building a Container House – try [...]
By Reuser | Published:
August 2, 2008
It seems that some results were kept out of the “water on Mars” briefing until the President was briefed and there was more time to mull over the findings… Nice, right on top of the hydrogen/solar briefing below.
UPDATE: Turns out, this may not be cool at all. Presence of a poison in the soil. [...]
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By Reuser | Published:
August 1, 2008
Cheap Catalyst Could Turn Sunlight, Water Into Fuel.
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By Reuser | Published:
July 7, 2008
“Raising the Dead”
Now, with less spoilers. This is an amazing article, very well worth the read. Many people have some issues with the intro paragraph, so ignore that if you choose. Also, this dive is on youtube, but I won’t link directly, for reasons that should become self-evident.
Along the same vein, if [...]
By Reuser | Published:
June 30, 2008
Immunize them from the naturally resistant.
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