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Ginebra y la Ciencia
Ciudad donde muchas cosas ocurrieron y mas ocurriran en el futuro.
via Jolulipa.
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Crushing Cars With a Giant Robot Hand
Whoops. Someone put Anthony in control of a 30-foot tall robot hand with the ability to lift and crush 2000 pounds.
The Hand of Man is controlled with a glove that sends commands to the hydraulic arm and fingers. Christian Ristow tells us how he built it while Anthony slowly loses himself to the evil potential of such a machine.
via DNews Channel.
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Diversity was a celebrated theme, which is fitting given the wide range of phylogenetic, environmental, and morphological variation associated with microbial species. Two standout talks in the morning of the final day of ASM had me running to the convention center at 8:15 AM in the rain, iced coffee in hand. Julian Parkhill from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute gave a fantastic presentation on studying microbial transmission on both local and global levels using genomic methods. Dr.
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Few insects so conspicuously mark the arrival of late spring in North America as Xylocopa virginica carpenter bees. Males are especially visible as they raucously guard territories around females’ wooden burrows. Because carpenter bees are common, nearly an inch long, not easily spooked, and tend to hover in place, they make ideal subjects for dramatic photographs [...]
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Telepathic Rats and a Red-lored Amazon: SciShow Talk Show #10
via scishow:
Emily Graslie of The Brain Scoop is back again to stump Hank and to tell us about some fascinating new research in the field of rat telepathy (NO JOKE). Then Jessi from Animal Wonders shares Zoe the Red-lored Amazon parrot.—Want more Emily? Check out The Brain Scoop! http://www.youtube.com/thebrainscoopLearn more about Zoe! http://www.animalwonders.org/zoe.htmlWant more animals? Check out Animal Wonders Inc. at
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Homes with dogs have more bacteria than those without -- but that's not necessarily bad news. Continue reading →
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At the Riverbanks Zoo's Kenya Cafe you can choose from "artisan sandwiches, fresh made to order salads, po' boys, veggie burgers and weekly specials." [WLTX.com]"Our goal is to get rid of the thought of zoo food..."
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I got to be on a podcast called "Science... sort of." I talk about cartoon penises and the Word War Z trailer. Check it out!
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I mentioned a while ago that I’d been invited to write about evolution for Nature’s Scitable blog network. The network …Continue reading »
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Sick Science! #144 - Salt Water Density Straw
Density can be a difficult scientific property to grasp, that’s why we like making it colorful, fun, and (most importantly) simple! The Salt Water Density Straw is the epitome of kitchen science. You’ll use materials are right in your house, and with just a bit of salt, you’ll create a colorful experience that will have young scientists understanding density in moments.
Click here to get the secret:
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In 2008, I wrote a XUL-based interface displaying a timeline (http://...freebase-and-history-of-sciences.html).
Here I've played with jquery to display another timeline:
htmlThere is no json data: everyting is stored in the HTML. The years are surrounded by a <span/> element having a css class "start/end".
javascriptWe use jquery to sort and layout each event.
CSSA basic CSS for my
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Most if not all of the readers of this blog know their basic floral parts. Generally there's a perianth in two whorls, sepals and petals, and then there's the androecium composed of a whorl of stamens, and lastly one or more pistils. But not all flowers are so constructed. So here's Calycanthus, Carolina spice bush. It has a lot of floral parts. Perhaps you've never taken one of these flowers apart, part by part to have a look see, but TPP just loves taking flowers
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Arrow of Time - Sixty Symbols
Sean Carroll on the arrow of time.
See all our videos with Sean: http://bit.ly/115AVqa
Sean’s book about the arrow of time: http://amzn.to/16FzAt8
via Sixty Symbols.
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250 miles at 60.7 m.p.g. #Prius Began above #Boone, NC #Gravity— russwilliamsiii (@russwilliamsiii) May 22, 2013
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Is Longevity a Virtue?
What happens but once may as well never have happened at all.
via Veritasium.
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Uncertain funding forecast: NIH leaders tell Senate appropriators that fiscal weather is bad but fear worse. Photo by John Fleischman
A standing-room-only crowd at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee May 15 heard the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) top brass bemoan the stagnation in the last decade of federal funding for biomedical research and plead to be spared further cuts in the fiscal year 2014 (FY14) budget.
NIH Director Francis Collins told the committee members that the
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Por: Daniel A. Romero-ÁlvarezSi te perdiste las Conferencias del Milenio de la semana anterior, aquí una reseña de la excelente presentación del PhD en Microbiología, Gabriel Trueba. El título textual de la presentación es en extremo sugerente, para comprenderlo a cabalidad, vamos a diseccionarlo, cada porción guarda el delicado secreto de un misterio clarificado.En abril de 1953 los científicos James Watson, Francis Crick, Murice Wilkins y Rosalind Franklin publicaron la estructura
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Sculpture is all about deliberation. You painstakingly chip marble from a block, or slowly assemble Lego bricks into …
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Leave a bagel on the counter for a few days, and you’ll probably notice purple splotches growing over …
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Sea Star Stomachs and Video Quality
“No video this week” she proclaimed via video.
via Alex Dainis.
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexDainis
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Pulling out an interesting little option from the 2008 Farm bill, the USDA is considering re-directing US produced sugar to ethanol production to drive up sugar prices. From what I understand, the US sugar industry is completely supported by farm … Continue reading →
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Hi everybody, Frank N. Foode™ here, with a special request. We came upon a program that you might be interested in. It’s the White House Office of Science & Technology Open Science Champions of Change – and I would like to humbly ask that you consider nominating us for it! Here is the description: On June 20, the White House will host a Champions of Change event to highlight outstanding individuals, organizations, or research projects promoting and using open scientific data […]
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Do Brain Games Really Make You Smarter?
There’s a lot of conflicting research out there about brain training games. It seems like they’re helpful, but are they actually working to improve our intelligence? Anthony wades through the research to determine the actual value of brain games.
via DNews Channel.
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Every so often there’ll be a news story like the massive decline in hedgehogs. The population is down by a third since the millennium. It’s obviously bad news but how much of a national priority should hedgehogs be? The Aspen hoverfly is down to 13 8 locations in Scotland. I can see this is a [...]Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)The post State of Nature report impresses. State of Nature itself does not. appeared first on AoB Blog.
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One way around the difficulties of traditional scientific illustration? Invent your own species, then nobody can argue with your rendering of the details. Vladimir Stankovic, a Serbian-born illustrator who now lives in Finland, regularly dreams up new species, and even … Continue reading →
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Sometimes it’s good to give up the driver’s seat - Baba Shiv
Over the years, research has shown a counterintuitive fact about human nature: That sometimes, having too much choice makes us less happy. This may even be true when it comes to medical treatment. Baba Shiv shares a fascinating study that measures why choice opens the door to doubt, and suggests that ceding control — especially on life-or-death decisions — may be the best thing for us. (Filmed at TEDxStanford.)
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