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Anatomy of the Great Adderall Drought
Last May, Stephanie Lee couldn’t find a pharmacy in Atlanta that stocked Adderall, the prescription drug cocktail of amphetamine salts that helps her treat her attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. She called her local pharmacy. All amphetamine salts, as well as generic, extended release Adderall XR were nowhere to be found, thanks to a limit set on the amount of amphetamines produced every year by the federal government. Luckily, Stephanie’s insurance covered name-brand Adderall XR, so she was still intermittently able to get her prescription filled. At one point, she was trading some XR pills with her sister-in-law for amphetamine salts because pharmacies were all out. Another time, she went a month and a half without any medication at all. When the shortage began, Stephanie had just begun a new job. Today, Adderall is only legal in the United States and Canada. Everybody’s favorite focus drug For many people with ADHD, Adderall is what best manages their symptoms.
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Un tipo llamado Nick se ha hecho una pregunta a sí mismo y como la respuesta le ha parecido interesante ha decidido compartirla con el mundo. La pregunta era "¿Y si la luna fuera una bola de discoteca?". Lo sé, suena a debate de borrachos un viernes por la noche, pero el bueno de Nick trabaja en Yeti Dynamics, así que su respuesta es un hipnótico vídeo que te deja muy suave, como si Uma Thurman te hubiera dado un masaje en los pies. A la hora de representar la pregunta, Nick se ha saltado unas cuantas leyes para hacerla más interesante: convertir a la luna en una bola de discoteca a la distancia a la que está de nosotros apenas supondría cambios visuales, así que la ha colocado a 420 km de la Tierra, esto es, junto a la Estación Espacial Internacional. Vale, sí: es imposible; si la luna estuviera tan cerca colisionaría contra la Tierra atraída por la gravedad, los océanos se volverían locos y la gente entraría en pánico y saquearía tiendas de comestibles en busca de frutos secos.
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Future telescope array drives development of exabyte processing
Innovations in modern science and computer technology are strongly linked together, and astronomy has unquestionably benefited from the advances in high-powered computing systems. However, the proposed Square Kilometer Array (SKA) of radio telescopes promises to push well beyond the current computing ability of the entire planet: if it works as planned, SKA will produce over one exabyte (260 bytes, or approximately 1 billion gigabytes) every day. This is roughly twice the global daily traffic of the entire Internet, and will require storage capacity at least 10 times that needed for the Large Hadron Collider. The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) and IBM announced a collaboration today to develop the exabyte technology needed to support SKA. As the name suggests, SKA will be a connected set of millions of radio telescopes with a collecting area of approximately one square kilometer. The Square Kilometer Array is a scientific collaboration between more than 20 nations.
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10 Amazing Underground Homes - Oddee.com (underground, homes...)
With the population growing more and more each year, it was only a matter of time before people started building their homes underground like Hobbits from the Tolkien tale. Mankind started off living in caves, and now we realize that "earth homes" are actually a very eco-friendly way to live. These ten underground homes are so amazing they might make you want to set up camp underground too! Cave House in Festus, Missouri This modern and energy-efficient 15,000-square-foot home is built within a sandstone cave in Festus, Missouri. This space was previously used as a concert venue and a roller skating rink! Malator in Druidstone, Wales This contemporary home is touted as one of Wales' architectural masterpieces. "The turf roof, steel chimney and peephole doorway inevitably gave way to its local nickname as ‘the Teletubby house'. Hidden House in Lower Silesia, Poland The Underground House, Great Ormside, Cumbria, England Sedum House, North Norfolk Coast, U.K. Flower Petals in Bolton, U.K.
WƔSƎ — Über die Weisheit von Wirheiten! Oder: individuell betrachtet...
WƔSƎ — Über die Weisheit von Wirheiten! Oder: individuell betrachtet dient man selten alleine: Gruppenphänomene die eigentlich keine spürbaren mehr sind, aber als Ich-Konzepte herhalten müssen. Wenn die vernachlässigte Kraft der Natur nicht mehr über seine gebündelte Energie hinauszusehen vermag. — What You See, is What We Are! »Ɣ« gehört zur afrikanische Sprache Eʋegbe und ist ein mich berührender Buchstabe für das fühlbar nachgezeichnete Wort: Ewe. Dass das Protein diese Informationen über so viel Umweltschäden erhalten hat, kann nur an der vielfältigen Streuung der Einzelteile über Jahrtausende liegen. Gruppen fanden sich im Grunde immer mit dem Ziel, der Mächtigkeit egal welcher Natur nicht kraftlos zu erliegen. Die Streuung unterschiedlicher Ansichten zu einer friedvollen Absicht ist ein Erklärungsmodell, das mindestens genauso individuell gehalten werden will, wie die Gruppe die sich darin wiederfinden möchte. Evolution kann man das nicht mehr nennen.
P-III autopsy « Sciency stuff
For teaching a course I needed to take a closer look at a CPU. I asked around and got my hands on an old P-III Coppermine that was about to get thrown out. I’ll start with a disclaimer: I know virtually nothing about CPUs, so if I claim something to be true, it probably isn’t. The first challenge is to get the actual silicon processor chip off of the plastic bonding board. Click images for full-size. The blue part in the middle is the actual Si chip. Back side of the circuit board containing the CPU. I figured I should be able to remove the chip by heating it. A saw comes in handy sometimes... Below you can see the result. A piece of the processor chip came off. This is the piece that came off. Now the interesting part begins. This is a piece of the processor. Looking closer, we start seeing some structure inside the holes. A processor contains many layers of metal leads in order to connect the transistors at the surface of the silicon chip into useful units. Focus is on upper layer.
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