Sapere Aude
Month: May 2007
Infrastructure wise the whole festival was horrible. They honestly were serving hot sausages and burgers only, along with sponsored cigarettes (WTF?) to those poor kids with no friends who were spending the day alone in a lounge chair with their laptops on their knees. I think the “organizers” of the “festival” should have to apologize to Steve Wozniak for talking him into a keynote.
zurich geeks need to step up their game it appears
These strange tales hint at what was, until quite recently, an underappreciated facet of our nature. Humans, it seems, can hibernate.
2014-03-27: Using torpor to improve ER survival odds
We’ve always assumed that you can’t bring back the dead. But it’s a matter of when you pickle the cells
2014-05-09: Torpor is more common than we thought
For a long time, there was no evidence that primates could hibernate. A species of Madagascan lemur was shown to practise regular bouts of torpor. “If you look at the lemur and look at us, we share 98% of our genes. It would be very strange if the tools of hibernation were all packed into that 2% difference.”
2020-06-13: Rats have it too
2 research groups had markers in the brains of rats which they used to identify the neurons that triggered torpor. They then just activated those neurons to turn on the torpor state. Torpor is a weaker version of suspended animation. However it is 2x as efficient as sleeping or resting.
2023-05-25: Perhaps induced via ultrasound
In response to a series of 3.2-megahertz pulses, the rodents’ core body temperatures dropped by about 3°C. The mice cooled off by shifting body heat into their tails—a classic sign of torpor—and their heart rates and metabolisms slowed. By automatically delivering additional pulses of ultrasound when the animals’ body temperatures began to climb back up, the researchers could keep the mice in this torpid state for up to 24 hours. When they silenced the minispeakers, the mice returned to normal, apparently with no ill consequences.
Below you will see all these various components as they are applied to our own Photos Application. It should be noted that none of these pages are mandatory but the more you include in your application the richer the experience becomes (for example, no one’s going to install your app called “Lefty” that is only a left nav link)
kudos for allowing such deep integration.
who are all these people wasting away 5h of their life every day in front of the TV?
We signed up for the “Underground Menu”, advertised as “No holds barred, no deviations” and running to as many as 26 courses. The chef Simon Rogan is possibly the most innovative chef in the UK, pushing forward concepts and ideas in molecular gastronomy more than anyone except Ferran Adria. It’s safe to say that I was more excited about this meal than anything I’ve eaten since the Fat Duck. This was “Charentais melon, horseradish, smoke”. It’s an elaborate inversion of the expected ingredients. The green ball is not melon, but actually a perfect sphere of horseradish cream, with a crisp coat, similar to a chocolate truffle with a liquid center. It was floating in melon juice/foam, dressed with drops of red salmon oil.
Molecular gastronomy at its best.
encouraging to see more and more such books come out. about time
a salon focussed on philosophy
those were the latest in street fashion in harlem today
a wayward comet hurtled into Earth’s atmosphere 13 ka ago, where it fractured into pieces and exploded in giant fireballs. Not only did this scatter nanodiamonds across the northern hemisphere, it led to immense wildfires that scorched North America in the aftermath, killing large populations of mammals and bringing an abrupt end to early human culture. A scientist behind the theory states quite bluntly that the entire continent was on fire.
2021-03-30: Not conclusive, but interesting to ponder.
Did impacts and airbursts from multiple fragments of a disintegrating comet cause the onset of the Younger Dryas global cataclysm 13 ka ago? After 10 years of acrimonious scientific controversy around the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), an important new book by eminent geologist Dr James L. Powell answers this question in great depth and sets the record straight with a resounding YES.
Titled “Deadly Voyager: The Ancient Comet Strike That Changed Earth and Human History”, this thoroughly researched and eminently readable study systematically demolishes all the criticisms of the YDIH that have been made over the years by scientific opponents.
Of particular note is Powell’s careful dismembering of several studies which claimed that the evidence on which the YDIH is built is “irreproducible” – a damning criticism in science and one that opponents of the YDIH often gleefully repeat as though the claim is an established and unquestionable fact that “debunks” the hypothesis.
What is this, then? A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail.
only in america
a good way to laugh without wasting money
Early in the museum, the visitor is given advice on the proper mind frame to have for your visit: “Don’t think, just listen and believe”. They also rejoice in knowing that they will repopulate the earth after the flood with some more…… you guessed it: HOT INCEST ACTION!!!
Gregor J. Rothfuss 