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Who said Germans are OK to go to space? Especially the ones that look like this:
LOL! OK, OK, I’m just kidding!
Found this article posted on the German Aerospace Center site to be quite interesting.
Look at that! There is medicine, plasma engineering and physics, biotechnology, radiation research, etc etc etc. These guys are doing everything! Quite cool, if you ask me.
Personally, I’ve never really “looked up to the stars”… But perhaps I should. There are some quite fascinating phenomena that take place when you remove gravity from the equation. I’ve done a little bit of work on Coulomb crystals where the lattice sites were simply too tiny to feel the gravity. Too bad I have been looking elsewhere for cookies and am generally neglecting that initial effort. In space, however, even cows are weightless…
Anyway, read it and enjoy! Here are a few lines:
Plasma crystal research
The very first scientific experiment that was carried out on the ISS commenced in March 2001. This was a series of experiments that is still continuing today to research plasma crystals by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching (Co-ordinator: G. Morfill). This involves micro-particles arranged so that they are floating in a plasma at room temperature. The lattice-shaped arrangement can be used as an experimental model system for the atomic structure of a solid. Thus scientists can examine in detail the melting of a solid using individual particle movements in terms of time and space. Under certain conditions they are also able to analyse flowing liquids and gases at elemental micro particle level.
She has visited St. Thomas’s Abbey in the Czech Republic, where Gregor Mendel discovered the law of genetic inheritance after he crossed sweet pea plants in the monastery garden. She has had a beer at the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, where, in 1953, two young scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick announced that they had “found the secret of life” after discovering the double-helix structure of DNA. And she has gone looking for the birthplace of modern biotechnology, a deli in Honolulu, where the Cohen-Boyer experiment, which used bacterial plasma to clone large amounts of DNA, was said to have occurred (she determined that it did, in fact, take place in a deli, but the deli is no longer there).
This is a nice story about Dr. Diana Bianchi published in The Boston Globe.
Quite impressive. As a developing scientist I need to modify the way I think and channel it more toward the logic and lifestyle used by people like her.
In a way, really, even with this blog I am doing something similar — I am recording my own findings in the field not related to my own. Sometimes I, too, get ideas and execute experiments based on completely unrelated things I read in the news… We’ll see where I will endup…
Back to the story, however, well… You should give it a read-through yourself and decide.
You must see this presentation. It is a scientific breakthrough.
According to an article on MSNBC, rats appear to have some capability to think and reflect on the acquired knowledge…
Where is this world coming to now?? I mean if this is how it’s going to be we’re all domed!
“Imagine, for instance, that you’re a student going into a classroom to take an exam,” Crystal said. “You will often have some idea how well you’re going to do on the test. You know before you answer the questions whether you know or don’t know the answers. This pretty complex form of cognition, known as metacognition, is at the heart of the human condition.”
Increasingly, evidence of metacognition is found in rhesus monkeys and other primates, but little research has been done on it in other mammals. Crystal and his colleague Allison Foote decided to push the limit and see if rats were capable of it.
This is rather interesting, especially thinking of animal rights and the related issues — can we really treat animals almost as inanimate objects? Do they “feel”? How, if so?
This could potentially open many new doors in science…
I’m curious to see where this research will endup.
All bibles should come with this warning!!
Actually, I find it slightly offensive that there is a bible at EVERY hotel room I go to… I was just at a fairly shitty hotel… Matter of fact, the absolute worst hotel I have ever been to… and… A BIBLE!
Whatever the case, funny pic:
Ok. I have no comments. This, to me, is f..ing stoooooopeed.
Oh, common!
The same virus that causes cervical cancer is the principal cause of throat cancer, according to a new study.
The research also suggests that unprotected oral sex is a major reason people are contracting throat cancer - not just smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, as previously believed.
Well, just read this article for yourself: “Oral sex can lead to throat cancer“.
N’joy
LOL
Could yours be the perfect invention to aid U.S. combat soldiers in Iraq? Have you created a vaccine that could possibly rid the world of one of its deadly diseases? Do you think that you could possibly be the next Bill Gates? Perhaps your ideas or inventions are not as grand as these, but you need a little assistance with funding your idea and making your dream a reality. If the answer is yes, then the federal government may be able to help you.
Basically, SanDiegoSource publishes an article reminding us all about www.sba.gov/sbir
Yeah, for real, it’s THAT EASY! All you have to do is wish it and you’ll have millions of federal funding. For real!
Yeah, RIGHT!
Here, have this for starters
Overdosage can cause palpitations, insomnia, pruritus, heart pain, decreased sexual potency, vomiting, hemorrhagic diathesis, headache and epistaxis. Ingestion of large amounts can be fatal. Massive overdosages can cause hypertension.
LOL! Never knew this about Ginseng. Always thought it very nice, no matter the amount.
Really, think about it, just as your mother told you, too much of a good thing is a bad thing…
Read this short article at HealthScience.
Of course, check out more at Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginseng
Ha ha!
NewsNet5.com publishes a short article titled “How Sanitizer Tests Are Conducted“. I love the outcome of the finding, just love it:
- Lucky Hand Sanitizer — showed little to no reduction of bacteria count after use.
- Sani-Doo Hand Sanitizer — showed little to no reduction of bacteria count after use.
- April Bath & Shower Hand Sanitizer –- showed little to no reduction of bacteria count after use.
- American Red Cross -– showed significant reduction of bacteria count after use.
- Purell — showed significant reduction of bacteria count after use.
- “Pure” Generic Hand Sanitizer — showed little to no reduction of bacteria count after use.
- Family Dollar Generic Hand Sanitizer -– showed little to no reduction of bacteria count after use.
- Target Generic Hand Sanitizer — showed significant reduction of bacteria count after use.
- CVS Generic Hand Sanitizer — showed significant reduction of bacteria count after use.
- Walgreens Generic Hand Sanitizer — showed significant reduction of bacteria count after use.
- Rite Aid Generic Hand Sanitizer — showed some reduction of bacteria count after use.
- Personal Care Hand Sanitizer — showed little to no reduction of bacteria count after use.
LOL! So, there’s only a few that actually work, huh? Wow… who allows these products on the market??? I thought FDA is supposed to be keeping a watchful eye on this kind of stuff, no? Anybody?? We’re not talking about Acinetobacter here!! Just about dirty hands… well, hands washed with cleaning products…
Hmm… strange… Oh well…
Interesting. I would like to know the response of those vendors whose products failed. Actually, this article gives me a good idea for setting up my own test of my own technology. Head-on comparison with alcohol, cleaning products, soap, etc.
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