By deviantART member MooseCake, these Futurama characters as South Park characters are not an academic exercise; they're a peek into a more perfect dimension. [deviantART via geekologie] More »
Futurama - Animation - Arts - Park - Movies
You might think you can't live without your phone and laptop, but back when men were men and things made sense, a big fucking sword was all you needed. These days, however, swords are strictly for weirdos. [ColdSteel via Geekologie] More »
Sword - Militaria - Recreation - Collecting - Edged Weapons
Good clean fun? A content analysis of profanity in video games and its prevalence across game systems and ratings. "Although violent video game content and its effects have been examined extensively by empirical research, verbal aggression in the form of profanity has received less attention. Building on preliminary findings from previous studies, an extensive content analysis of profanity in video games was conducted using a sample of the 150 top-selling video games across all popular game platforms (including home consoles, portable consoles, and personal computers). The frequency of profanity, both in general and across three profanity categories, was measured and compared to games' ratings, sales, and platforms. Generally, profanity was found in about one in five games and appeared primarily in games rated for teenagers or above. Games containing profanity, however, tended to contain it frequently. Profanity was not found to be related to games' sales or platforms." Photo: flickr/marioanima Related content:
Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Beware of Wii tennis.
Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Is Mr Pac Man eating our children? A review of the effect of video games on children.
Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Sex differences in Nintendo Wii performance as expected from hunter-gatherer selection.
There are well-known methods to extend depth of field. There are even digital cheats to extend depth of field. But imagine shooting macro photography and telephoto photography, all in perfect focus, as one image. A new camera makes it possible. More »
Photography - Arts - Techniques and Styles - Digital - Business
The last scheduled flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-132, is scheduled for May 14 at 14:20 EDT (18:20 UT). It will, as usual, bring supplies and spare parts to the space station, as well as Rassvet, a Russian Mini Research Module and docking component.
You can always get more info on the Shuttles at the NASA Shuttle Mission Pages.
I’ll note in passing that the mission commander for this flight is named Ken Ham. Happily, he’s no relation.
Sure, typos can be funny, but when a stock trader is able to cause a huge stock plunge by accidentally entering a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million" it's just plain scary. [CNBC] More »
Business - Investing - Stocks and Bonds - Equities - CNBC
My thoughts on the topic are pretty disjointed, and I can’t come up with a post that adds anything to what others have already said. And there’s still the primary documents to digest in full. So I’m going to open this post up to stray thoughts/comments (though try to keep it at least at the level of a Neandertal cognitively). Question: what other human evolution story is of the same order of magnitude in terms of significance? I think the last one of this magnitude was the Cann, et. al. “mitochondrial Eve” narrative of the mid-80s. Before that Lucy?
Keith's note: Several Three Four NASA Watch readers sent this email to me today. Looks like someone in Sen. Feinstein's office needs to learn how to use their word processing software a little better. Click on image to enlarge.
Two Three of the people who sent me this email said that they never contacted Sen. Feinstein - in any way - about NASA - or anything else. Looks like GoBoldly's fake emails are still echoing around. The annoying thing about this is that the director of GoBoldly admitted to me that this happened but the organization has not publicly apologized.
Fake Emails - Not A Good Sign (update), earlier post.
Moving on from electric cars, I prompt Adam to give his thoughts on the newest fad: 3D. The professional that he is, he takes the idea and expands it to talk about technology as a whole, and our collective insatiability. More »
AdamCarolla - United States - California - Counties - KROQ
It's not too often I get to play with military-grade weaponry, and the military is usually pretty wary about reporters handling firearms. But yesterday I traveled to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD to see the latest improvements in soldier weaponry. More »
Army - United States - Military - Government - Installations
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Can anyone describe an steper motor with its internal sketch of rotor and stator
Allison Davies has a spacesuit, and she’s not waiting for a call from NASA for a chance to wear it. In fact, she designed it herself to better haunt her sci-fi vistas. Davies’s photography is an amalgam of self-portrait, landscape, and science spoofing satire. These images suggest Davies has traveled to the far reaches of the solar system, or perhaps to the future, in order to conduct urgent but entirely mysterious experiments. All your reasonable questions—where, what and why?—will remain purposefully unanswered. Davies’s book, “Outerland”, edited by Richard Renaldi, was launched on Earth Day by Charles Lane Press.
All images courtesy Charles Lane Press.
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Ever since anthropologists figured out that early humans and Neanderthals coexisted for a span of prehistory, they’ve wondered–did the two species, you know, make friends? Now a fascinating new genetics study reveals that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did indeed interbreed, and the evidence is still to be found in the human genome.
Researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology first sequenced the entire Neanderthal genome from powdered bone fragments found in Europe and dating from 40,000 years ago–a marvelous accomplishment in itself. Then, they compared the Neanderthal genome to that of five modern humans, including Africans, Europeans, and Asians. The researchers found that between 1 percent and 4 percent of the DNA in modern Europeans and Asians was inherited from Neanderthals, which suggests that the interbreeding took place after the first groups of humans left Africa.
Anthropologists have long speculated that early humans may have mated with Neanderthals, but the latest study provides the strongest evidence so far, suggesting that such encounters took place around 60,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East [The Guardian].
The study, published in Science and made available to the public for free, opens up new areas for research. Geneticists will now probe the function of the Neanderthal genes that humans have hung on to, and can also look for human genes that may have given us a competitive edge over Neanderthals.
Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, who has long argued that Neanderthals contributed to the human genome, welcomed the study, commenting that now researchers “can get on to other things than who was having sex with who in the Pleistocene” [AP].
For a much deeper dive into these issues, head to Carl Zimmer’s post at The Loom and Razib Khan’s post at Gene Expression.
Related Content:
The Loom: Skull Caps and Genomes
Gene Expression: Breaking: There’s a Little Bit of Neandertal in All of Us
80beats: We May Soon Be Able to Clone Neanderthals. But Should We?
80beats: Crafty & Clever Neanderthals Made Jewelry 50,000 Years Ago
80beats: Did Spear-Throwing Humans Kill Neanderthals?
80beats: Rough Draft of the Neanderthal Genome is Complete!
DISCOVER: Works in Progress asks whether we rubbed out Neanderthals, or rubbed off on them
Image: Max Planck Institute EVA. The researchers hang out with their Neanderthal relation.
Maybe not a question for engineers but there seem to be so many people here that know something about everything I though i would give it a shot.
I am faced with trying to cleanse a 3 story 27 unit apartment building of cockroaches and bed bugs. The decision has to be made on a "most cost effec
Hello All members,
What is the accuracy of the promass flow meter 83 ?
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