I wonder what kind of tools they are using when they bomb my car.
When I was reporting about an attempt to map Redwood National Park with LIDAR, a flock of seagulls flew behind the Aero Commander plane that I was photographing. They were flying in a formation that looked like a giant bird:
http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/10/birds.jpg
I love showing that to people. I am so glad that I caught it on film. Unfortunately, I missed the best shot of all time. I was standing on the side of the road with a camera in my hand when some guy pulled up to a stop light and proceeded to smoke some weed through an apple.
But will it blend?
Seriously, I would love to know if a sheet of this plastic can stop bullets or at least slow them down enough to let kevlar catch them. It would be a great backing for kevlar, but not as breathable as I would like. Perhaps it could be used to lightly armor vehicles.
P.S. I put the hick in vehicle.
In your wired interview, you said, "Over the years the site has developed something of a personality. There are certain subject matters that we're going to discuss and there are certain subjects we're not going to discuss. We're going to cover what's happening with Linux, who's building new technology and what companies are taking your right away to play with that technology. There aren't a lot of websites that are focuses. Everybody tries to be everything and no one does one thing that they're really good at."
Would you agree that it is time for slashdot to find some new focal points, like systems biology, and bring them into the mainstream?
I have always been impressed by scientists from Iran and Pakistan. One of my closest friends in graduate school is from Pakistan as was one of my mentors.
Also worthy of note:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/irans_superconc.html
Students from the University of Tehran made concrete that is far stronger than anything designed by American engineers.
Mad props to Jay Sappington for telling that story.
Douglas Adams was a prophet. We should worry about keeping satellites from banging into each other first. Traffic management in orbit is a priority, the moon is currently an empty parking lot.
Committees that draft standards should be an IP free zone for engineers from rival companies to intelligently plot out the best possible interoperability between products. The second businessmen walk into the room, figuratively, it becomes a battlefield. The alternative is unilateralism, which results in a lot of disappointed customers when their products go unsupported.
Harry Shearer, host of le show, made some jokes about an evil google. He said, "You know our corporate slogan? We want to take one word out, and it isn't evil."
This topic is so ripe for jokes and brilliant science. I am fascinated by the potential to verify my generalizations about cities. Riverside, California has a reputation for being a haven for meth labs. This would be a great way to verify that. The wastewater near my college is probably so tainted that you could get high off of it.
When I first read this, I thought it said "Mars Simulation in Attic". I can certainly picture some of my friends having a 100 day sleepover party in their grandmother's attic while wearing star trek pajamas and plastic communicator badges.
It is one thing when someone writes a crackpot book with bogus science. What really bothers me is when an executive at a large scientific research company spews nonsense in order to impress investors. Such is the case with Advanced Cell Technology. In this case, Robert Lanza aggressively sends press releases to everyone he knows in the media. The reporters don't bother to fact check properly. He told the press, "We've also tested these cells in animals for the first time, and it turns out that they have incredible reparative potential." The nature methods paper that he is referring to is much less optimistic, "they localized to the site of injury in the damaged vasculature and appeared to participate in repair... Our data suggest that hES-derived blast cells could be important in vascular repair."
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The Journal of Visualized Experiments has been in operation for a while and is awesome. There are several Science YouTube sites. I want want one that is geared toward organic synthesis and materials synthesis.
You Tube has not just democratized film production, but also increased the value of advertisements. With high quality viral advertising like this, I actually feel that the video deserves my attention. With television ads, I often feel that they invade my attention and are unworthy of it.
Anything that comes from a government lab should be in the public domain unless it was developed for military purposes. If our tax dollars were spent to build it, it is ours. Patent protection costs so much that the expenditures often counterbalance the licensing revenue.
You might like watching this video of nuclear transfer in mouse oocytes.
http://www.jove.com/Details.htm?ID=116&VID=132
Pretty groovy, I think.
On a side note, I take the findings of most stem cell scientists with a grain of salt. There is just too much hype and unlike molecular level sciences, it can be very hard to reproduce experiments.
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So much great science could come from sifting through old peer reviewed literature and picking up where old scientists left off.
I would like to see Tony Soprano's crew regulate on The McAfee Gang
This would be alarming if I did not expect them to stall randomly anyway.
I wonder what kind of tools they are using when they bomb my car. When I was reporting about an attempt to map Redwood National Park with LIDAR, a flock of seagulls flew behind the Aero Commander plane that I was photographing. They were flying in a formation that looked like a giant bird: http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/10/birds.jpg I love showing that to people. I am so glad that I caught it on film. Unfortunately, I missed the best shot of all time. I was standing on the side of the road with a camera in my hand when some guy pulled up to a stop light and proceeded to smoke some weed through an apple.
Vanilla Ice to Japan: Drop that zero and get with the hero.
The appendix: a wretched hive of scum and villany.
But will it blend? Seriously, I would love to know if a sheet of this plastic can stop bullets or at least slow them down enough to let kevlar catch them. It would be a great backing for kevlar, but not as breathable as I would like. Perhaps it could be used to lightly armor vehicles. P.S. I put the hick in vehicle.
In your wired interview, you said, "Over the years the site has developed something of a personality. There are certain subject matters that we're going to discuss and there are certain subjects we're not going to discuss. We're going to cover what's happening with Linux, who's building new technology and what companies are taking your right away to play with that technology. There aren't a lot of websites that are focuses. Everybody tries to be everything and no one does one thing that they're really good at." Would you agree that it is time for slashdot to find some new focal points, like systems biology, and bring them into the mainstream?
I have always been impressed by scientists from Iran and Pakistan. One of my closest friends in graduate school is from Pakistan as was one of my mentors. Also worthy of note: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/irans_superconc.html Students from the University of Tehran made concrete that is far stronger than anything designed by American engineers. Mad props to Jay Sappington for telling that story.
Douglas Adams was a prophet. We should worry about keeping satellites from banging into each other first. Traffic management in orbit is a priority, the moon is currently an empty parking lot.
Committees that draft standards should be an IP free zone for engineers from rival companies to intelligently plot out the best possible interoperability between products. The second businessmen walk into the room, figuratively, it becomes a battlefield. The alternative is unilateralism, which results in a lot of disappointed customers when their products go unsupported.
On news that ozzies have cracked our codes, sales of veggimite tripled.
Harry Shearer, host of le show, made some jokes about an evil google. He said, "You know our corporate slogan? We want to take one word out, and it isn't evil."
When I was a sexy young actress on Melrose Place wearing a pyramid hat helped me memorize my lines.
These would be a great accessory for a John Kerry speech.
Oh no! I just bought a mechanical bull from the same company.
This topic is so ripe for jokes and brilliant science. I am fascinated by the potential to verify my generalizations about cities. Riverside, California has a reputation for being a haven for meth labs. This would be a great way to verify that. The wastewater near my college is probably so tainted that you could get high off of it.
When I first read this, I thought it said "Mars Simulation in Attic". I can certainly picture some of my friends having a 100 day sleepover party in their grandmother's attic while wearing star trek pajamas and plastic communicator badges.
It is one thing when someone writes a crackpot book with bogus science. What really bothers me is when an executive at a large scientific research company spews nonsense in order to impress investors. Such is the case with Advanced Cell Technology. In this case, Robert Lanza aggressively sends press releases to everyone he knows in the media. The reporters don't bother to fact check properly. He told the press, "We've also tested these cells in animals for the first time, and it turns out that they have incredible reparative potential." The nature methods paper that he is referring to is much less optimistic, "they localized to the site of injury in the damaged vasculature and appeared to participate in repair... Our data suggest that hES-derived blast cells could be important in vascular repair."
The Journal of Visualized Experiments has been in operation for a while and is awesome. There are several Science YouTube sites. I want want one that is geared toward organic synthesis and materials synthesis.
You Tube has not just democratized film production, but also increased the value of advertisements. With high quality viral advertising like this, I actually feel that the video deserves my attention. With television ads, I often feel that they invade my attention and are unworthy of it.
As we read this, some restaurant in Los Angeles is preparing to offer pan seared baby siberian mammoth with macadamia crusted Hawaiian octosquid.
Carlos Slim should use his money to build schools in Mexico and pay adults as well as children to attend.
Anything that comes from a government lab should be in the public domain unless it was developed for military purposes. If our tax dollars were spent to build it, it is ours. Patent protection costs so much that the expenditures often counterbalance the licensing revenue.
You might like watching this video of nuclear transfer in mouse oocytes. http://www.jove.com/Details.htm?ID=116&VID=132 Pretty groovy, I think. On a side note, I take the findings of most stem cell scientists with a grain of salt. There is just too much hype and unlike molecular level sciences, it can be very hard to reproduce experiments.