7 Useful Genetic Experiments That Are Creepy As Hell Reviving Extinct Animals Bringing back prehistoric animals has been a trope in science fiction for a very, very long time. So far, none of these efforts have come to fruition. Scientists have been trying to clone the wooly mammoth for over 10 years, and despite continuous reassurance that we're on the brink of a major breakthrough, no one's pulled it off yet. Still, though. Most recently, a scientist announced his intention to reverse-engineer a dinosaur from a modern chicken by systematically removing DNA, because that makes nothing but sense. However, scientists have succeeded in reviving the genetic material of an extinct predator called the Tasmanian tiger, a nine-foot-long giant marsupial capable of hopping on its hind legs like a kangaroo and hiding its young in a pouch, presumably to launch them out as bloodthirsty living projectiles. Otherwise known as "the saddest Sean Connery-related moment of our childhood." "This is going to rock tits." At which point it joined the Uncanny X-Men.
The 14 Best Classic Twilight Zone Episodes The Twilight Zone was such a groundbreaking series that it influenced our popular culture to a level many of us don’t even realize. From Rod Serling’s silky and smoke-filled introductions, to the inevitable twist ending, the Twilight Zone’s black and white years were doubtless its best. While many of the twists have become so well known in the ensuing years as to lost much of their sting, if you can imagine watching these broadcasts in the 60s on an old black and white set, you might just get a feel for how revolutionary it was. Here, in my humble opinion, are 14 of the best episodes of this series. Oh, and spoiler alerts. 14. Long before he was helming the Enterprise, Shatner was a legitimate actor. 13. There was some pretty seriously interesting film-making associated with the Twilight Zone, as you can see if you watch The Invaders. 12. Okay, so the science might be a bit shoddy in TZ. 11. Okay, everyone knows how this one goes. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. An episode J.J. 2. 1.
Most underrated songs by the most overrated artists. Songs for when you’re stuck in the friend zone… Requested by Big Teddy Bear · Compiled by BFFE Man, do I know the feeling. 01. The Magnetic Fields - “I’m Sorry I Love You” (69 Love Songs) 02. Badly Drawn Boy - “Disillusion” (The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast) 03. Music to find yourself and start all over again to Requested by NLJ89 · Compiled by Bathtub Drain Epiphany These tracks have gotten me through changing majors, applying for grad school, breaking up and the everyday meltdown. 01. songs to drown out the construction going on outside my dorm Requested by rawdrey · Compiled by quomodo Some of these may be headache-inducing, especially in a row, but I think musical cacophony is always preferable to construction cacophony. 01. waving from the Antarctica Requested by drSnow · Compiled by Real Gone 01. music to perform to on a lonely bed Requested by mynahBrrd · Compiled by a plebeian 01. i should be sleeping, but i’m worried about you and thinking about him Side A 01. Side B 01. 01. 01. SIDE A. 01.
Biochemistry Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of a 14-3-3 Gene-Deficient Yeast Tohru Ichimura, Hiroyuki Kubota, Takeshi Goma, Noboru Mizushima, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Maki Iwago, Kazue Kakiuchi, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Takashi Shinkawa, Masato Taoka, Takashi Ito, and Toshiaki Isobe DOI: 10.1021/bi035421i ACS Editors’ Choice Date: October 3, 2016 A Soluble, Folded Protein without Charged Amino Acid Residues Casper Højgaard, Christian Kofoed, Roall Espersen, Kristoffer Enøe Johansson, Mara Villa, Martin Willemoës, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Kaare Teilum, and Jakob R. DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00269 ACS Editors’ Choice Date: July 6, 2016 Identification of Cyanobacteriochromes Detecting Far-Red Light Nathan C. DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00299 ACS Editors’ Choice Date: July 2, 2016 c-Abl Tyrosine Kinase Adopts Multiple Active Conformational States in Solution John Badger, Prerna Grover, Haibin Shi, Shoghag B. DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00202 ACS Editors’ Choice Date: June 3, 2016 Charles J.
Hauschka Gets The Most Out Of 88 Keys Listening to a piece by Hauschka can be deceiving: What sounds like an ensemble of musicians and instruments is just one man, performing at one piano. His real name is Volker Bertelmann, and he hails from Dusseldorf, Germany, where he works with his "prepared piano." He wrests disruptive sounds from the instrument's 88 keys by outfitting the strings or mallets with objects such as ping-pong balls, aluminum foil and leather. His new album is titled Foreign Landscapes, and he recently visited NPR's studios to demonstrate his craft. Resting on the strings of NPR's grand piano are bottle caps, a plastic necklace, a bell and marbles — basically the makings of a dollar store. Each item on the piano produces a different variation on the traditional piano sound. "They create a whole carpet of sounds underneath the tones that the hammers create," Hauschka tells Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
Vortex Cannon Demolishes House « Wonderment Blog Jem Stansfield from BBC's Bang Goes the Theory has "put scientific theory to the test" with his Vortex Cannon. Filmed at 1300-fps, you can see the cannon knock down three different houses made of straw, stick, and brick with an explosive vortex ring. The vortex ring that comes out is not smoke, however. After detonating the explosive gas mixture of acetylene and oxygen, "one of the most dangerous gas mixes in the world," the ring forms from the pressure drop inside the vortex. Stansfield's cannon is probably too big for the average do-it-yourselfer, but Edwin Wise from Make Magazine has a few garage-friendly vortex cannons - the Tub Thumper, Barking Tube, and Big Bad Boom Cannon. Get the full PDF instructions or see Kipkay in action below, building Wise's first two vortex cannons.
1ℓimit – Faucet Design by Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh & Yan... One Liter Limited 1ℓimit faucet looks more like an elegant test tube inverted on top of a tap. The glass tube holds exactly one liter of water, sufficient for a quick handwash. News: New Microscope Produces Dazzling 3D Movies of Live Cells High-speed imaging with the Bessel beam plane illumination microscope reveals the ever-changing surface of a HeLa cell, with long, thin projections called filopodia continually extending and retracting. Video: Laboratory of Eric Betzig/Janelia Farm A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light—similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners—to peer inside single living cells, revealing the three-dimensional shapes of cellular landmarks in unprecedented detail. Liang Gao, Thomas Planchon and Eric Betzig display their new Bessel beam plane illumination microscope at HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus. A major goal of biologists is to understand the rules that control molecular processes inside a cell. There's no other technique that comes close to imaging as long with such high spatial and temporal detail. Eric Betzig They then set out to image as fast as possible.
Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5 This document has been marked as wrong, obsolete, deprecated by an improved version, or just plain old. From The Low Beyond. ©1996-©2001 by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. All rights reserved. The address of this document is The short version: If computing speeds double every two years,what happens when computer-based AIs are doing the research? Computing speed doubles every two years. Two years after Artificial Intelligences reach human equivalence, their speed doubles. Six months - three months - 1.5 months ... Plug in the numbers for current computing speeds, the current doubling time, and an estimate for the raw processing power of the human brain, and the numbers match in: 2021. But personally, I'd like to do it sooner. 1: The End of History It began three and a half billion years ago in a pool of muck, when a molecule made a copy of itself and so became the ultimate ancestor of all earthly life. In less than thirty years, it will end.
Bacteria hijack an immune signaling system to live safely in our guts Our immune system operates under the basic premise that "self" is different from "non-self." Its primary function lies in distinguishing between these entities, leaving the former alone while attacking the latter. Yet we now know that our guts are home to populations of bacterial cells so vast that they outnumber our own cells, and that these microbiota are essential to our own survival. As a recent study in Nature Immunology notes, "An equilibrium is established between the microbiota and the immune system that is fundamental to intestinal homeostasis." How does the immune system achieve this equilibrium, neither overacting and attacking the symbiotic bacteria nor being lax and allowing pathogens to get through? Like many stories of immune regulation, this one is a tale of many interleukins (ILs). IL-22 is produced by the subset of T cells defined by their expression of IL-17, known as TH17 cells, as well as by innate lymphoid cells.