January 2012
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redneckwithguns asked: As a college student working towards his BS in Cell Biology (with dreams of med school!) what would your advice be to those of us that are terrible at looking up research articles? I can describe Sanger-Coulson sequencing or the isolation of mature mRNA in my sleep but trying to find research articles relevant to what is being worked on in lab (which is one of my assignments this semester for...
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Swallowed by a whale — a true tale? →
Ben Shattuck looks into real-life Jonah-esque accounts of getting eaten by sperm whales, and uncovers both maritime terror and interesting cetacean anatomy lessons:
If, I’ll pretend for a moment, you were swallowed, it would happen like this: You would first be chewed. Sperm whales’ teeth are 8 inches long – longer than most blades in your knife drawer. Then you would be gulped to the fauces,...
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iamgrady asked: What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
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8bitian reblogged your video: (Random) Canadians Send Lego Man Into Space The…
To be fair, some of my old coworkers sent a Peep to…a few years ago:
It’s true, they did.
I love Peeps. Sugar-coated sugar. mmm.
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becausefuckthat asked: Is it even _theoretically_ possible for time travel to exist, without resorting to overly artificial and theatrical rules governing it? If yes, how does one resolve things such as the Grandfather Paradox?
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lostgloves asked: do you listen to any science podcasts? i have the 'science 360' app from NSF and there's a really great variety of topics from wide array of sources. would you have any recommendations for particular podcasts?
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Who’s coming to SXSW?
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wolframalpha replied to your post: So, what IS the average velocity of an unladen…
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+average+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow%3F
Just click on the link. Well played!
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The State of Science in America →
President Obama presents his State of the Union address tonight. At RealClearScience, Alex Berezow and Ross Pomeroy offer these thoughts in advance:
Despite the frequently expressed perception that the U.S. is declining in the world, in reality our scientists continue to perform the world’s most cutting-edge research. Just this past year, an American shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for...
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rosedigioia asked: So, what IS the average velocity of an unladen swallow?
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robohemian asked: Can you explain science like your "The Second" post. How do scientists prove that counting radiation from Caesium is an accurate way to measure time? I'm always baffled by these extraordinary claims because I have no clue how they come to these conclusions. Help Science Guy!
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corner-of-the-forest reblogged your photo: The difference between chimps and humans. (by Dan…
.. hehe techically..we have the exact same amino acids in our DNA as chimpanzees. Right? O_o
We don’t have any amino acids IN our DNA. But our DNA codes for the same amino acids and we use the same twenty to build our proteins as everything other living thing on Earth*.
*except for in some...
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What's a Second?
Random fact for today:
As a unit of time, a second used to be defined as
1/31,556,925.9747 of the length of the year 1900 at January 0
But is now defined as
“the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom”
So there ya go. It looks like this:
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steelandgranite asked: Jtotheizzoe, why is your blog so fucking awesome? Can I have some awesome?
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Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Sets Sights on... →
“Mr. Thrun told the crowd his move was motivated in part by teaching practices that evolved too slowly to be effective. During the era when universities were born, “the lecture was the most effective way to convey information. We had the industrialization, we had the invention of celluloid, of digitial media, and, miraculously, professors today teach exactly the same way they taught a...
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