Sapere Aude
Month: December 2006
more research is needed before this justifies becoming a wino 🙂
human dose is 150-200 mg/day, but given that many red wines contain 3-4 mg of resveratrol per liter, a comparable intake would require 50 bottles of wine per day.
2008-11-09:
A team of students have spliced genes into brewer’s yeast to increase its output of resveratrol, the same healthful chemical found in red wine.
sign me up!
transforming iowa corn silos into ice climbing walls, temperatures permitting
Briggs spends most winter nights hosing down a quartet of grain silos on a friend’s farm – and relies on the Corn Belt’s frigid temperatures to transform the water into frozen walls of ice that tower 20m straight up. “By the time he’s done, the ice encasing the outside of the silos is 1m thick in spots – and ready for the onslaught of ice climbers drawn to this strange marriage of farming and extreme sports.”
puff piece on my new office
one of the better mashups out there. now if only yt encouraged more geotagging.
Some 10% of television will be soon be watched via the internet rather than traditional broadcasts.
define ‘soon’? nevertheless, good news for the venice project. tv, good riddance.
john kasarda wants to move the airport into the center of the city. the new bangkok airport will have more traffic than all the 3 airports in NYC.
the EDGE question for 2007 is “what are you optimistic about?” last year’s “what is your most dangerous idea?” was most excellent.
converts between mab, ldif, vcard etc. useful to get addresses out of the thunderbird ghetto
python-based social network analysis. LGPL
the economist intelligence unit forecasts 2026 and 2066. the forecasts are very puny and disappointing, pretty much a linear extrapolation. this is not how it works.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 