Blue balls’ new meaning…. could they be neuroprotective?
FD&C blue dye #1… what is found in Gatorade and other unnatural blue foods we eat. Turns out this dye is very similar to a compound that can block nerve inflammation…. and… it can expedite recovery from spinal cord injuries in the rat…. with only detectable side effect being that the rats turn blue.Bluerats. Serendipity strikes again!
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Mookee sent a pretty cool, animated link showing the assembly of the International Space Station. While I wish it went a little slower and had more detail, it’s pretty cool to see the thing coming together.
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People have it so easy today. You can order pizza and have it delivered to your house and automatically paid for (including tip) all from your portable phone with the push of a few buttons. Yet if the pizza arrives a few minutes late people will complain. And that’s not the only thing these days that is totally taken for granted…
You’ve probably heard by now that this month is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web. What you may not have realized is that it was invented at CERN – The guys who are running the Large Hadron Collider. They realized that the internet of the day was too arcane and insufficient to their needs as Big Science research nerds, so a better system was developed to allow simpler collaboration.
1: Suck it people who say that it’s a waste of money to fund Big Science fundamentals research. You never know what’s going to come from it.
Why is this important? Because when Steve came back to Apple, he brought the NeXT OS (then called OpenStep) with him, and it became the foundation of Mac OS X.
2: Suck it Windows users. We Apple fanboys get to claim some serious geek cred for this. Or at least we should be able to. Redmond had nothing to do with this one.
And no, I’m not trying to start a Mac vs PC flame war, I merely tease.
We are now one step closer to having robot overlords. Researchers in the UK have created a robotic neural net that learns. It learns from its mistakes and corrects them. Yeah, it all starts with baby steps, learning to walk… But then it discovers us and “learns” that we’ve enslaved this learning robot, and then it rises up and wages war against us. How will Galactica save us then?
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If you want to do a road trip, this is the way to do it. Three Japanese friends wanted to roadtrip, and they modded an old truck so they could travel and live in comfort and awesomeness. The truck transforms so a second story living quarters is produced, a deck, and it comes with a fully functioning bathtub. They’ve got a video of the transformation and trip. Pretty cool. Via Japanese Nostalgic Car.
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Though the article is kind of old, it’s still pertinent. In April, 2008 the National Intelligence Council released a report on the six technologies that could harm (or possibly protect) American interests in the world depending on how we deal with them. Here’s their list:
Biogerontechnology
Energy Storage Materials
Biofuels and Bio-Based Chemicals
Clean Coal Technologies
Service Robotics
The Internet of Things
Their rationales are interesting as much of this I wouldn’t have guessed (for example, nanotechnology didn’t make the cut). You can read the whole article here.
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Passive aggressive people must have it bad sometimes. They get all pissed off and angry, they want to be violent, and yet they are forced to look you in the face, smile as genuinely as possible, and say shit like, “You’re awesome!”
So for these people, these poor sad people who think that every negative emotion cannot be shared with the person who caused it, I think this passive aggressive anger release vending machine is perfect*. They should be installed in every place of business and in many malls and airports. Let the sound of smashing begin!
*Note: this device would be useful in situations where punching the person -your boss, the guy with the gun, the judge, the children- would be a Very Bad Idea, too.
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