Original Post from James Berg: When you don't know something don't be ashamed. Be like the Doctor and say it loud and say it proud! doctor who gif 1.gif
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Original Post from PinkNews: Hannah Buchanan has defended the decision of Benjamin Cohen, the founder of PinkNews, to liken the treatment of gay people in Britain to the crucifixion of Christ in a Radio 4 Easter programme to be broadcast at 8:45pm tonight. Hannah Buchanan has defended the decision of Benjamin Cohen, the founder of PinkNews, to liken the treatment of gay people in Britain to the crucifixion of Christ in a Radio 4 Easter programme to be b...
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Original Post from X PRIZE Foundation: Jack Andraka's work on creating a simple test for the identification of pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancer is impressive: - His test is 168 times faster than what is currently available. - It’s 26,000 times less expensive. That’s not a typo. - And it’s potentially almost 100% accurate. Oh, and Jack's still in high school. http://www.forbes.com/sites... Jack-Andraka.jpg
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Original Post from Pete Cashmore: Did you know that 90% of data in the world today has been created only within the last two years? Check out 10 amazing data visualization projects: http://on.mash.to/XRrcAy queen.jpg
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Original Post from BC Humanist Association: Dean of FHS "dismayed and disappointed that the VRM group may have attempted to establish credibility by using SFU name." http://ow.ly/ipAUlhttp://ow.ly/ipAUl
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Original Post from Matthew Baggott: Reprint request denied, or Why we need open access: First time this has ever happened to me. Is requesting a copy of a paper directly from the author not normative in computer science? example.png
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Original Post from Erin Kane: Things look like they're generally getting better, slowly but surely! #stemwomen#scienceeveryday This report continues a series of Congressionally-mandated biennial reports, providing data on the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering educatio...
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Original Post from Alice Summers: 21st century socialism's first leader has passed 60 years, to the day, after the death of Stalin. While he was certainly a character, the Western press has almost universally been unfair to him. He was no Stalin. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lost his battle with cancer Tuesday, silencing the leading voice of the Latin American left and plunging his divided oil-rich nation into an uncertain future. “We have...
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Original Post from Victor Campos: When xkcd writes about it, you better listen! http://xkcd.com/1179/ Public Service Announcement: Our different ways of writing dates as numbers can lead to online confusion. That's why in 1988 ISO set a global standard numeric date format. This is *the* correct way to...
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Original Post from Ward Plunet: Researchers discover key to heart failure, new therapies on horizon Some 5.8 million Americans suffer from heart failure, a currently incurable disease. But scientists at Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Center for Translational Medicine have discovered a key biochemical step underlying the condition that could aid the development of new drugs to treat and possibly prevent it. The report is the first to show that an enzyme called GRK5 (G-protein coupled receptor kinase 5) can gain access to a heart cell's nucleus – its command center, where control of its genes is maintained – by way of a transport mechanism involving calcium and a protein known as calmodulin. Once calcium and calmodulin deliver GRK5 to the nucleus, the enzyme usurps control over specific genes, ultimately causing hypertrophy, in which heart cells grow larger in size. Hypertrophy is a biological hallmark of heart failure. Some 5.8 million Americans suffer from heart...
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Original Post from Break.com: Cat got your tongue? This cat is obviously angry yet not upset enough to raise its head above the water to express it audibly.
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As +Eric Hansen put it: "Never go Full Retard. Unless you're a politician, then go Full Retard every day." :P Original Post from Scott Patton: Just when I thought... It was safe to go back into the water, another idiot pops up and makes me shake my head. I'm just glad I don't live in Washington and/or I didn't vote for this chucklehead. I think I would be trying to figure out how to get a re-count - or move? #blogit He added that when citizens drive cars they are helping to pay for the roads, whereas bicyclists “need to start paying for the roads they ride on rather than make motorists pay.” Reached for comment, ...
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The myth of 'you can't prove a negative' circulates throughout the nontheist community, and it is good to dispell myths whenever we can. The real issue is the problem of induction, which is faced by b...
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Original Post from Ruchit Kaplesh: Not sure if someone already posted this... But this is too good to be missed Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - World Premiere Trailer
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Original Post from Mark Bruce: SciTech #ScienceSunday Digest 9 - 3rd Mar 2013 Brain-to-brain communication, artificial memristor brains, prosthetic implants, resetting brain circuits, flexible electronics, quantum algorithms, and others. 1. Connecting One Rat’s Brain to Another Via a Neuroprosthesis. For the first time ever researchers have demonstrated a direct brain-to-brain interface and communication between two animals, rats in this case http://www.nicolelislab.net/.... The rats together solved simple behavioural puzzles not only when occupying adjourning cages, but also when placed in different labs thousands of kilometers apart. Both animals were first trained to solve a simple problem, getting a reward when they successfully did so. Their brains were then connected via arrays of microelectrodes inserted into the area of the cortex that processes touch information; one animal served as the “encoder” animal and the other the “decoder”. Once the encoder successfully completed...
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