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It’s A Race To Inflate! And You’ll Always Win
Are you tripling your lung power, or is it a trick? Here’s a way to always win this trash bag inflation trick.
A big thanks to John Maverick for harnessing the power of science and turning it into a cheap bar scam. We at Scam School salute you.
http://john-maverick.com
Go learn some science - here’s more about Bernoulli’s principle:
tinyurl.com/scambernoulli
via Scam School.
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Shock Yourself To Get Better At Math
Just a quick jolt to the brain and then you’re a math wizard? It sounds too good to be true, but new research suggests electric shocks may actually help! Anthony weighs in on the latest effort to improve our mental math abilities.
via DNews Channel.
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Early developmental stages of Xenopus laevis embryos. This is a frog commonly used in biological labs, and the favorite amphibian of Nobel Prize winner John Gurdon, whose work on these embryos led to this week’s announcement of human embryonic stem cells made from somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Half a century apart, it’s all connected.
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I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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“On its own, it is a wonder, but viewed in isolation its complexity and very existence is inexplicable. Darwin’s genius was to see that the existence of something as magnificent as a blade of grass can be understood, but only in the context of its interaction with other living things and, crucially, its evolutionary history. A physicist might say it is a four-dimensional structure, with both spatial and temporal extent, and it is simply impossible to comprehend the existence of such a
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ES from SCNT: Another Human Stem Cell Milestone
Human embryonic stem cells have been created using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) for the first time. Interestingly, SCNT might be the oldest genetic reprogramming technology in our biological arsenal, but its use in creating human ES cells has proven elusive.
We’ll get to the news in a moment, but first some history. In 1958, John Gurdon made a frog from a tadpole.
“Congratulations, John, that’s how frogs are
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How To: Make Antivenom
via scishow:
Bitten by a venomous snake? There’s hope! French scientist Albert Calmette developed the first snake antivenom in the late 1890s, and did such a good job that we use his technique to this day. Antivenom works by stimulating the production of antibodies which can smother venom’s toxic effects, preventing spread and rendering them harmless. But how do you make it? Well, stay tuned to this episode of SciShow to find out.Like SciShow? Want to help support us,
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I was recently chatting with an acquaintance when they mentioned they had seen me in the local paper a while back. You were wearing goggles, right? No. Well, you did have a lab coat… No, I was actually wearing a sweater. I have had articles on my work run in the paper a couple times […]
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Technology “Relay Race” Against Cancer
May is National Cancer Research Month and to commemorate, eight researchers joined together in a technology “relay race” against cancer. This video depicts some of the technologies we’re driving across the entire continuum of cancer care and several of the researchers behind them.
via Edison’s Desk.
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New York City Heat Aurelien Guichard via Wikimedia Commons Summer in the city could get a whole lot more miserable in the coming decades, according to a new report. Warming weather could make summer in the city deadly in the next few decades, according to a study published this week in Nature Climate Change. By the 2020s, New York City will see 22 percent more heat-related deaths per year compared with 1980s, the researchers predicted. Urban centers like New York City are especially sensitive
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Science Isn’t Scary - Geek & Sundry Vlog Submission
How the magic box in your kitchen keeps your food from spoiling. Submitted for Geek & Sundry’s new vlog contest, because science is geeky too. Who wouldn’t want to watch a vlog about the Science of Geekery?
The diagram I narrate to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Refrigerator-cycle.svg
via Science Isn’t Scary.
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Fourth-year students from the Pritzker School of Medicine show off their research at the 67th annual Senior Scientific Session.
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You can see the multiple suction vortices in the tornado. I think this video may have some very high scientific value.
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People in the path of a tornado typically get only 10 minutes of warning. Why? Sixteen minutes before a tornado touched down in Newcastle, Okla., yesterday, the U.S. Storm Prediction Center sent a warning to the area. That heads-up was longer than the average warning time of 8 to 10 minutes. Why are tornado predictions so short-term, especially compared to other predictions we're familiar with, such as weather forecasts or hurricane warnings? Hurricanes and blizzards show up on satellites days
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Yesterday’s devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma is a heartbreaking tragedy, a painful reminder of nature’s destructive power. WHile your heart deals with many feelings, your head may be swimming with questions on just why these terrible twisters happen. Here’s some answers:
Learn how tornadoes are formed in the above video from Scientific American. As warm air rushes in from the Gulf of Mexico, it collides with high-altitude cold air forced down from the north. That creates a rotating
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Math Jokes Explained - Numberphile
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Some of your favourite maths jokes are dissected in forensic fashion.
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Irish Lumper Potato The Irish lumper, the breed of potato that was hit by the Irish Potato Famine pathogen, nearly disappeared. In 2008, it was bred back into existence as an heirloom potato. GOAD One of the most deadly pathogens in human history has been pinpointed. It's widely acknowledged that Phytophthora infestans, a sort of fungus-like pathogen also known as potato blight, was responsible for the mid-19th-century potato famine that reduced Ireland's population, through death and
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Archae-Facts: Would You Like Fries with That?
Welcome to Archae-Facts, the place to find bite-sized chunks of Archaeological Trivia!
Today, we examine the origin of so-called French Fries!
via Archaeos0up.
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500 Million Years of Evolution in Under 4 Minutes
I had forgotten that the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Right Here, Right Now” was essentially an evolutionary biology adventure tale.
Is it illegal to post this video on Daft Punk Day?
(via PsiVid)
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Does Hair Really Grow Faster in Summer?
You just got a haircut and now it feels like you need another one! Why is this, and is it true that your hair grows faster during the summer? To get to the root, Trace delves into the science behind hair growth, debunking classic hair myths along the way. You’ll be surprised by what he learns!
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The EF-4 Moore, Okla., Tornado, May 20, 2013 This is what real destruction looks like. The devastation wrought by the mile-wide, EF-4 tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., and south Oklahoma City yesterday is really difficult to put into words. You could start with the huge path of destruction, more than a mile wide at places, that wiped entire neighborhoods clean off the map like they were never even there. It's more difficult when you get to the two elementary schools--concrete and cinder
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I had the pleasure of attending the last month’s two day GPCR seminar series held in Boston as...
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At Scientific American’s blog network, Ashutosh Jogalekar muses about the “greatest American physicist”, eventually voting for Josiah Willard Gibbs, one of the pioneers of statistical mechanics. As both times I took StatMech (as an undergrad and in grad school), it was at 8:30 in the morning, I retain almost no memory of the subject, and…
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When I first arrived in San Antonio, Texas, it was with the intention that I would be leaving in 6 months. I had plans, plans with extended far beyond the great state of Texas. This was in November 2010. At that time I had just returned to The States after a year and a half […]
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Infected Ant Alex Wild In the jungles of Belize last January, entomologist Alex Wild noticed something odd about the trap-jaw ants passing through his outdoor insect photography class: They all had shrunken heads and swollen abdomens. A day after making the observation, Wild and his students came upon an ant with a worm bursting out of its side. Parasites were at work. Nematode worms enter the ants as larvae and grow inside the ants' body cavity, siphoning off nutrients and distorting their
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