December 2009
155 posts
Royal Society - Trailblazing →
Three and a half centuries of Royal Society publishing.
Exercise Prevents Aging of Cells | LiveScience →
intensive exercise prevents the shortening of telomeres
November 2009
84 posts
Rational Functions →
Recounting the Rationals, part I « The Math Less... →
Networked surveillance minicopters can't be kept... →
Each robot carries a radio, accelerometer, compass and gyroscope. Thanks to the accelerometers it notices if it bumps into something, then backs off and warns fellow copters nearby of the obstacle’s…
Virtual No More « Peculiar Velocity →
Here’s one way it can get fuzzy: if there are tiny, curled up extra dimensions, then it’s possible that particles can spin around in them. But, due to the apparent absurdities of quantum mechanics,…
Polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids boost... →
a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet, helps boost the production of the brain’s stem cells -neurogenesis- and strengthens their differentiation in…
High unexpressed anger in MS patients linked to... →
People with MS (multiple sclerosis) feel more than twice as much withheld anger as the general population, but expressed anger levels are similar.
Proper use of English could get a virus past... →
Mason and colleagues dubbed their technique “English shellcode”.
Caltech: The Mechanical Universe - 49 - The Atom →
Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good... →
New research finds sexual selection to greatly enlarge the scope for adaptive speciation by triggering a positive feedback between mate choice and ecological diversification that can eventually…
LISA '09 Technical Sessions →
Turning heat to electricity - ELEKTOR electronics... →
A key to the improved throughput [40% of the Carnot limit] was reducing the separation between the hot surface and the conversion device. [black body radiation]
Delay-Tolerant Routing scott.mp3 (audio/mpeg... →
NASA’s usage and potential consumer applications.
Physics - Straightening messy correlations with a... →
ebits (entangled bits)
Edge 306- Consciousness →
“Thees [brain] hareas beegin to cohrellate.” “When a piece of information is conscious, we can do an inordinate many things with it.” “It’s not just these high areas, but you can also amplify the…
Toy molecular model - By: Michael Nielsen →
The basic idea is inspired by biochemistry. It’s to set simple rules for bonding between nearby cells to form “molecules”, and similar bonding rules for the molecules.
Search User Interfaces →
Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria... →
When cells are confronted with an invading virus or bacteria or exposed to an irritating chemical, they protect themselves by going off their DNA recipe and inserting the wrong amino acid into new…
Key Thinkers: Auguste Rodin by Elizabeth Presa... →
After failing to gain admittance to art school, Auguste Rodin worked for many years in obscurity. Yet by the turn of the 20th century Rodin dominated sculpture in France. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke,…
InfoQ: John Hughes Contrasts Erlang and Haskell →
ConnectCore Wi-MX51 - Digi International... →
The network-enabled ConnectCore Wi-MX51 is a highly integrated and future-proof System-on-Module (SoM) solution based on the new Freescale i.MX51 application processor with a high performance 600/800…
RT @jamreilly: The Secret You. BBC Science Documentary Explores Consciousness in Search of the Self. http://bit.ly/1tcPe0
RT @YahooResearch: Big Thinker Ron Graham Presents “Computers and Mathematics: Problems & Prospects” (Video) http://ff.im/-b2xZz
Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes (mp3) →
Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the... →
Outside the nervous system, the labelled cells moved just as we would expect them to; most cells were floating along with the flow of the bloodstream. Only now and again did a cell attach itself…
YouTube - Where computation and fabrication meet: Using computers to mimic biology (Zack Booth Simpson): Amorph.. http://bit.ly/tyeRz
Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the brain (w/ Video): Outside the nervous system, the labelled cells … http://bit.ly/387OP8
YouTube - Where computation and fabrication meet:... →
Amorphous computing.
EETimes.com - Novel sensor propels HP into motion sensor networks: The HP sensor can measure motions of less th.. http://bit.ly/4Gl4nS
Scientists reveal how induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic stem cells: They have distinct ".. http://bit.ly/3qWtMP
So many of the complex ideas I come across take 6-7 years to realise - hence the log₂ 100 tweet yest. HP’s sensor; yet another example.
A Natural History of the @: In the computer programming language FORTH, @ means “fetch.” [ :^) ] http://bit.ly/4drS6D
EETimes.com - Novel sensor propels HP into motion... →
The HP sensor can measure motions of less than 100 nano-Gs per root Hertz. By comparison, the gravitational pull the moon exerts on a single human being is about three micro-Gs, or thirty times the…
Scientists reveal how induced pluripotent stem... →
They have distinct “epigenetic” signatures; that is, they differ in what gets copied when the cell divides, even though these differences aren’t part of the DNA sequence.
They identified and then…
Change in Regulatory DNA Responsible for... →
The role of noncoding DNA in evolution has been hotly debated by scientists, but even as recently as last year the evidence was still spotty. That’s why one talk at the 29 to 31 October conference…
A Natural History of the @ →
In the computer programming language FORTH, @ means “fetch.” [ :^) ]
HRL’s “brain-like” microcircuitry: A novel nanoscale device was developed that can function as a synapse while .. http://bit.ly/4eLcom
Change in Regulatory DNA Responsible for Stickleback Evolution - Origins: The role of noncoding DNA in evolutio.. http://bit.ly/3SMONq
HRL's "brain-like" microcircuitry →
A novel nanoscale device was developed that can function as a synapse while matching synaptic densities of 10 billion synapses per square centimeter with an endurance of more than 100 million cycles….
GMail needs combined delete/archive and next/prev message buttons.
1% inspiration and 99% perspiration equates to the log₂ 100 = 6.6438 (7 year) itch.
Just grokked the full consequences of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Going to watch the documentary again as celebration. http://twurl.nl/2d7cuk
I’m stuck in the Wikipedia Wormhole.
Atmospheric complexity or scale by scale simplicity?: Multifractal climate prediction. http://bit.ly/1EwIut
Atmospheric complexity or scale by scale... →
Multifractal climate prediction.
Novell Pulse (Federates with Google Wave) And yes, there will be a free version. http://twurl.nl/4t0qnm
“Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls, and so on to viscosity” http://is.gd/4N9TV
If my follower count was visualised as a trend line, I could track back to when, wait… what do I care… fuck the lot of ya.
(spooky action at a distance)