"Osteocalcin junkie" just doesn't have the same ring to it:
Bone, not adrenaline, drives fight or flight response
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-bone-a...-response.html
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"Osteocalcin junkie" just doesn't have the same ring to it:
Bone, not adrenaline, drives fight or flight response
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-bone-a...-response.html
I, for one, welcome our playful rodent overlords.
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-09-scie...yful-rats.html
I realize that this is a review article and that a lot of the details (i.e., experimental design and results) aren't mentioned. But as it's written, it makes no sense...you can't draw conclusions from the results mentioned. I would be curious to read the primary papers on these studies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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This kinda stuff has been known forever. When I did my postdoc, we had problem with the animal techs giving toys to some of rats or mice and not others, resulting in potentially altered responses doing behavioral tests.Quote:
Originally Posted by reckless toboggan
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The Ignobels are out
Apparently wombats poop cube shaped deposits, and someone spent time trying to figure out how
https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/13/...material-ever/
MIT scientists accidentally create the blackest material ever
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Before MIT developed what it called the "blackest black" material to date, Surrey NanoSystems claimed that title with its original Vantablack low-temperature carbon nanotube discovery. Surrey's material was capable of absorbing 99.96 percent of light, although its scientists claim the company's second generation concept could be even darker than that (even if spectrometers can't apparently measure it). That hasn't stopped BMW coating one of its cars in it, though.
"There are optical and space science applications for very black materials, and of course, artists have been interested in black, going back well before the Renaissance," Wardle says. "Our material is 10 times blacker than anything that's ever been reported, but I think the blackest black is a constantly moving target. Someone will find a blacker material, and eventually we'll understand all the underlying mechanisms, and will be able to properly engineer the ultimate black."
Woulda been useful in Kubric's 2001, A Space Odyssey. The monolith wasn't black enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by reckless toboggan
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"How much more black could it be? The answer is none, none more black."Quote:
Originally Posted by reckless toboggan
Friend has seen some (art) pieces done with Vantablack. His comments were in the line of "surreal, mind boggling and no-way". Looking forward to see stuff live as that said individual has been around the bend and has been the holder the 'Understater of the Year Award' for several years in a row.Quote:
Originally Posted by reckless toboggan
There are some crazy Vantablack GIFs out there:
https://giphy.com/gifs/black-vantabl...-x1N45QSTE2VFu
https://giphy.com/gifs/fool-aluminiu...-Yhj0J7u8r5Zew
https://giphy.com/gifs/compilation-v...-Qg3wmXNApjOco
Yep. But live...different ballgame. Apparently people get really strong dissonant feelings/symptoms when looking at the thingies. Brain just cant compute what you are not seeing in front of you. #mindfuckQuote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
And, apparently people are so atavistically prone to poke that blackness so BMW decide to keep the vanta X6 behind the scenes at Frankfurt car fair, with very explicit orders to keep those sticky digits in the pants...
I don't doubt that for a second.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meathelmet
Wasn't there an old man who fell in a 6 foot deep hole in the floor painted with vantablack? Because he couldn't see it was a hole or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meathelmet
You can buy something that's really close to vantablack for a surprisingly reasonable price, but you don't get a lot and it's really fragile from what I've read. I've seen people use it for building cameras or other sensors
That would be a paradox if any...Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
The Ramans do everything in threes...
A Second Interstellar Object May Be Streaking through Our Solar System
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-solar-system/
Wake me up when they make a reddest red.Quote:
Originally Posted by reckless toboggan
Cool :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by MultiVerse
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Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
https://calgaryherald.com/news/world...6abf383dd6/amp
Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating a extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA’s planet-hunting telescope.
https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpr...y=80&strip=all
Alien life* discovered in Mono Lake: https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0926141715.htm
* - Not really, but it might as well be.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scien...ars-colony/amp
Scientists find way to travel across ‘very distant points in space’ in a split second
A WORMHOLE could allow space travel to the most distant regions of the universe in an instant and now a recent scientific paper has outlined a way to actually build on these anomalies of physics.
I knew we'd figure that shit out. What's next?
The gathering of black holes, evidently. Thirty eight thousand trillion miles to get to the closest seems a little far and we need two. Maybe start building? IDK. Climate change > universe change...details.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Kinda get the impression there is more to that story, even if it is just a theory; unfortunate that site's a bit thin.
https://youtu.be/XSD7-TgUmUY
Sorry for the blackest backhole wormhole drift but I never knew glasses could help the colour blind.
Very cool science indeed
Why did the female orgasm evolve? Experiment supports theory
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/f...bits-1.5250834
#science
Amino acid precursors found in Cassini data from Enceladus' plumes
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-compou...ce-grains.html
I found out I was colorblind when I was like 28 years old lol. I really want to get some of those glasses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenny Satch
In middle school/high school I remember these kinds of maps always really fucking with me, and I just assumed they were terrible for everyone else too.
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Those glasses are cool shit. I took the color blindness test on the enchroma site just now and came back with normal vision but some of them were pretty tough. https://enchroma.com
A good friend of mine is a child psychologist who mostly works with kids in state custody and other "troubled" youth. Among his many heartbreaking stories are the ones about kids who struggled terribly with reading and were bullied by peers and dismissed as dipshits by adults because of it. Then they get into the system, someone finally gives them a basic eye exam and it turns out the reason they couldn't read is because their vision is so terrible they couldn't physically read the words.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian
My results are "strong protan" aka classic red-green colorblindness.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
There has been a little research into the belief that protans can decipher camouflage better than those with normal vision. Growing up hunting with my dad and cousin, I was always the first to spot animals on a distant hillside.
Loved those books. Almost time to read again now that my memory is going to shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by MultiVerse
New rechargeable batts for night ski missions.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/firs...HWYF0.facebook
I want some. But need prescription too. Do I really want to spend $500 on glasses?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Monochrome is no way to go through life.Quote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
My daughter has eye dysfunction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Public school got so bad 6 years ago, we pulled her out of public school. It was shitty time. She's bright, but eye articulation gives her headaches.
3 years ago, her eyes and ocular processing started coordinating better. So she could actually read a little.
She wanted to try again so she's rejoined school after being called a retard, stupid and suffering rejection from everyone outside the family.
So she's working hard, every night to catch up, still gets headaches and visual dysfunction after stress.
She just got a 100 on her history test, first one in 6 years.
Dude, this is really tough. I feel for you and her. Good luck to her, hopefully it just keeps getting better. And awesome news on the progress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Keep it up Busterclan. While it may not seem like a big thing to others, putting yourself in that bright child's head, craving for the brightness, and fighting for it, is a noble task. She'll kick ass at Reed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Younger Dryas climate cooling may have been caused by a platinum meteorite: https://qz.com/africa/1723888/scient...800-years-ago/
Man I love reading about that shit. So fascinating. People experienced the cataclysm and the aftermath.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
https://www.edsonleader.com/health/s...7292a9032e/amp
Science discovers we have an ‘inner salamander’ and can regrow cartilage in our joints
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Scientists have discovered that humans have an innate or “salamander-like” ability to regenerate cartilage, which could lead to treatments for diseases such as osteoarthritis — and possibly provide a starting point for human limb regeneration.