The Spiderpodium is pretty self-explanatory: It's a gadget-stand/tripod (well, an octo-pod, technically) shaped like an arthropod. Lacking much to explain, I'm going to tell you the origins of my arachnophobia. Everyone take a seat. It's about to get real. More »
February 2009 23andMe entered into clinical medical testing of DNA variants which are the exact same variants Myriad Genetics tests for. There is only ONE use for this test. That is a clinical use. When these results are obtained clinical counseling is the standard of care for delivery of these results. Not a flashy webportal......
Minimizing the seriousness of a medical test looked just as awkward by us in the first video as it should be by showing it on a blimp or at a cocktail party or highway billboard sign.....All things that Linda Avey and Anne Woj decided to have their company do....
The Sherpa Says: Misha is correct, Medical Geneticists painted themselves into a corner by harboring in the rare disease port. This allowed people who have no G-dDamn business in medicine, to play doctor at parties and on the internet!
Listen up, rich people: If you ordered an iPad, cancel it. This is the one you need, covered with 11.43 carats of diamonds, graded G/H in color, VS2/SI1 in clarity, and 100/100 in stupidity. I can imagine Steve Jobs reaction: More »
has good fire to the plugs
fuel is getting to the rail but the injectors will not pulsate
the injectors have 12 volts but will not pulsate
Dave writes, “Following my degree in Zoology, I worked in public aquariums for several years before becoming a lecturer in Animal Science, so I’ve always has a bit of a ‘fishy’ background! I’m also studying stress in marine fish for a research degree. I’ve always been fascinated by evolution, and to reflect this, I decided to get inked with a Haeckel – this is a medusa from ‘Art Forms in Nature’. Haeckel was clearly a proponent of evolution, and although his ideas weren’t 100% correct, the man could draw!
“The tattoo is courtesy of the always-brilliant Jon Nott of Guildford, Surrey (U.K.).”
Click here to go to the full Science Tattoo Emporium.
We are building a new race engine to race with 1000 cc mini sprints.
The engine is a 4 cylinder in-line dual overhead cam design. What we wish to do is change the fireing order (now 1-2-4-3) to 1&4 at the same time then 180 degrees and then 2&3 then 360 degrees and back to 1&2. This
Way to go, AT&T! It was nerve-wracking after last year's troubles, but reports are coming in that the oft-maligned network is holding up to the stress of SXSW better than expected. More »
hi everyone...
can anyone explain to me why steam us used to drive turbines at coal power staions ... i mean why not use heated CO2 , nitrogen or helium or any other gas to drive the turbine ... in a coal power station water is boiled to produce steam and it's super heated to get rid of the wat
Ladies and gents, I've finally secured new employment after several months of kicking cans but the new employer uses Pro/E Wildfire and I have never used it. I'm very good with Solidworks and I have a passing knowledge of Inventor. I am looking for a textbook/tutorial that will allow me to get up to
[This is an update to my previous post, Texas conservatives screw history, so you should read that first to get your blood to a rapid boil before reading this.]
The Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy — creationist, antireality promoter, and stander-upper to experts — was interviewed on ABC TV’s Nightline program. Give this a listen, just in case you were thinking of cutting him a break… for whatever reasons I cannot fathom.
Yes, how magnanimous of the rich white men to allow women the vote, or to give the blacks equal rights!
[If the video doesn't load for you, go to the Nightline web page and click on Thursday's listing of Texas Textbook controversy, which should be up for a few more days.]
I have been active on Twitter today mocking the new textbook standards, and a handful of people have taken me to task thinking I was mocking all Texans. That’s ridiculous; I am clearly ridiculing the ten people on the Board who rammed this revisionist nonsense through… though you may feel free to expand that to the people who support them.
And to the commenters on my original post and elsewhere defending McCarthy because there were in fact communists in America: shame on you. Seriously, shame on you. What McCarthy did — and yes, it was a witch hunt — was directly opposed to all the ideals of this nation: free speech, liberty, presumed innocence until proven guilty, and many more. He was only able to ferret out a handful of so-called communists, but even if he had been 100% successful in his efforts what he did was an abomination for anyone in this country, let alone a seated Senator in the United States Congress. He engendered fear and suspicion, a paranoia and chilling climate from which it took years to recover. He betrayed precisely what he claimed to be trying to protect, and will stand as an object lesson for future generations on what happens when our system fails so utterly.
That is, he’ll stand as that lesson for those who will listen. Clearly, some people didn’t. It’s a crying shame that this includes a majority of the Texas State Board of Education, because now it’s entirely likely the lesson will be missed by a decade’s worth of schoolchildren, too.
Tip o’ the ten gallon hat to Robert Luhn of the wonderful National Center for Science Education for the link to the ABC interview.
Question for discussion; If you are to look at a Hvac system that holds 12#'s of 410A and you determine by all readings taken that the system has lost some of its charge and is not cooling properly and you investigate and find a leaky seal at the brass fitting on the indoor Txv that was not tightene
Today is the much celebrated pi-day . Ok, perhaps it’s not that big a holiday – I don’t think Hallmark is selling any pi-day cards yet – but anyone who uses google today knows that something mathematical and geeky is being honored. I promise not to go into diatribes about calculations of the first few million digits of pi, or how many digits one needs to keep in order to calculate the radius of the universe to atomic accuracy. Instead, I merely want to relay a simple short story a colleague of mine recounted to me years ago.
Several years ago, before pi-day was famous, a student called the phone number associated with the digits in pi that appear after the decimal point, i.e., 1-415-926-5358. Apparently this is rather common now, and in fact, appears to be promoted as a mnemonic for the first 10 decimal places for those folks we need to have those numbers handy at all times. But this story happened in earlier times, back before the Bay Area split into several area codes. And, as the clever reader has already guessed, that student reached the SLAC main gate. How cool to phone pi and reach the main gate of a major national scientific research laboratory!
Alas, time and phone numbers march on, and nowadays phoning pi yields a “your call cannot be completed as dialed” message. (And I’m told that I cannot publish this post without noting that 3-14-15 will be a more accurate pi day.)
The WSJ has a discussion today of the phenomenon of the iPhone-using Microsoft employee. Apparently that time Ballmer fake-stomped an iPhone is emblematic of some (barely) real anti-iPhone sentiment in Redmond. More »
HOW DO WE CALCULATE THE EFFICIENCY OF DEAERATORS ?
I have an issue with a TWIN DISC Marine Gear Box in a very remote island location. When shifting it to forward it doesn't transmit the engine power to the propeller. I tried to service it and only at the dock with low rev's it pushes the boat forward in that position. Once in the open power lacks c
HOW I CAN SEGREGATE 1CX630 NON ARMOUR ED 11 CABLES(3-R,3-Y,3-B & 2-B) IN RISER AND ALSO WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGES FOR THIS SEGREGATION
, THIS IS IN DUBAI- UAE
This iPhone typist/possible woodpecker earns today's Holy Shit YouTube Moment of the Day Award. I'm positive I couldn't beat him on my Droid—hell, he'd put up a good fight against me on my laptop. More »
Valve problem threatens to delay April shuttle launch, Spaceflgihtnow.com
"Engineers familiar with the system said the valve cannot be directly serviced at the launch pad. If the problem cannot be resolved by indirect methods or development of an acceptable flight rationale, the only option would be to roll Discovery back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, detach it from its external tank, haul it to its processing hangar and remove the OMS pod for repairs or replacement."
