February 2012
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“If not for the piracy of privacy, Facebook wouldn’t exist. Nor would Twitter....”
– Reuters Deputy Op-Ed Editor Paul Smalera on the “Piracy of Online Privacy” (via reuters)
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“It all started, her mother said, when Janice was 6 and picked up a book at the...”
– Janice Voss, Shuttle Astronaut and Scientist, Dies at 55 - NYTimes.com (via bonnerj)
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Tech show provides platform to the disabled
Taha Haaziq is blind, but his disability never stopped him from following his dreams. He teaches Indian classical music and even provides lessons on popular internet-based video-calling software Skype.
He also works with National Association for the Blind (NAB), Goa, as a computer trainer. “I am blind but that doesn’t stop me unless I stop myself,” he said. The lanky Goan...
“Photons have no ticking time at all, which means, as far as they are concerned,...”
– Neil Degrasse Tyson (via junglebrother)
“As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become...”
– Commander Data’s definition of friendship (via doitlikeahipster)
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The XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment →
anticharm:
(arXiv.org) Published: 8 February 2012. The XENON dark matter project searches for nuclear recoils from WIMPs scattering off xenon nuclei. This is an article outlining initial experimental runs.
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Lasers plus a crushing magnetic field may make...
iheartchaos:
Fusion is awesome stuff, but currently it isn’t efficient in that it takes way too a whole hell of a lot of energy to end up with less than you had to begin with. But with the magic of a magnetic field and “lasers”, scientists could sustain a fusion reaction long enough to get an actual energy return. Hooray!
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“Politics is far more complicated than physics.”
– Albert Einstein (via amcarder)
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Watchfvlr:
Electronic Tattoo Monitors Brain, Heart and Muscles
Elastic electronics offer less invasive, more convenient medical treatment
Imagine if there were electronics able to prevent epileptic seizures before they happen. Or electronics that could be placed on the surface of a beating heart to monitor its functions. The problem is that such devices are a tough fit. Body tissue is soft and...
“Evolution is cleverer than you are.”
– Orgel’s Second Rule.
Orgel’s rules are a set of axioms attributed to the evolutionary biologist Leslie Orgel.
(via scipsy)
