Russia is demanding that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia was spray-painted
what a great way to troll russia (who is pretty much asking to be trolled hard these days)
Month: November 2014
Duck typing
since someone will inevitably ask
DNA bricks
A research team team used their “DNA–brick self–assembly” method, which was first unveiled in a 2012 Science publication when they created more than 100 3D complex nanostructures about the size of viruses. The newly–achieved periodic crystal structures are more than 1000x larger than those discrete DNA brick structures, sizing up closer to a speck of dust, which is actually quite large in the world of DNA nanotechnology.
NYC Off-Shore Parks
All de Blasio has to do to make it happen is channel his inner Bloomberg
The cosmos is aligned
The probability that these alignments are simply the result of chance is less than 1%. there is a missing ingredient in our current models of the cosmos
Robots are mundane
as usual, state of play. don’t draw the wrong conclusions just because your cul-de-sac isn’t robot-dominated yet.
The Illuminati go official
wat. this shit freaked me out when i was 14. what’s going on?
The name of the Illuminati is often misused. Many profit-seekers continually create accounts and aliases under the names of our ranking members in an attempt to mislead those who are loyal to our organization. If you are contacted by an individual claiming to represent us, but who does not fit the criteria below, please report them so that appropriate measures may be taken.
Dying at work
several 100 elderly Americans perish from heart attacks or pulmonary embolisms while stocking shelves or delivering PowerPoint presentations each workday
Streaming rates
how is there a factor 600 difference in these rates? i have no idea what a “fair” remuneration for artists is, but clearly neither does anyone else.
Interspecies fishing
wow. reminds me of the uplifting of dolphins
They have been reported to exist in Australia, India, Mauritania, Burma, and the Mediterranean, but the best known are in Brazil. In parts of southern Brazil, human fisherman have been cooperating with dolphins for many generations. If fishermen clap just the right way, dolphins will herd fish into the desired areas of fishermen, in muddy lagoon areas. The dolphins perform a distinctive kind of dive to signal to the humans it is time to cast the net for the fish. Only some individual dolphins are able (willing?) to do this well, perhaps the others belong to the 47%. The dolphins which cooperate with the fisherman are also more social, more socially connected, and more cooperative with other dolphins
Gregor J. Rothfuss 