Month: May 2015

Quantum Life

the “quantumness” passes from one generation to the next via quantum entanglement. So each individual and its descendants share a powerful bond since entangled particles effectively share the same existence.

Immune system cloaking

Researchers has come up with a way to reduce immune-system rejection of implantable devices used for drug delivery, tissue engineering, or sensing. Previous research found that smooth surfaces, especially spheres, are better — but counterintuitively, larger spheres actually work better at reducing scar tissue. “We realized that regardless of what the composition of the material is, this effect still persists, and that made it a lot more exciting because it’s a lot more generalizable”.

Criminal lawyers

The New Mexico Law Review just published an issue dedicated entirely to Breaking Bad. It features 8 articles that analyze the illegal acts committed on the show, their real-world parallels, and the consequences attached. Some of the greatest legal minds in New Mexico (and the country) came together to examine how Walter White would look to a jury, how the war on drugs affects peripheral citizens like Skyler, and whether Heisenberg could have stayed legit by fighting for his stake in Grey Matter in the courts.

Thames Floating Cottage

Have you ever dreamed of dozing off as you sail along one of the UK’s busiest water highways in an eclectic bright blue cottage replete with a lawn, wisteria over the door and an apple tree? For 5 days and nights, this dream will come to life in the shape of Nick and Steve Tidball’s floating residence for Airbnb.

CSI Cyber

cop shows are some of the dumbest material tv has to offer, and this one is among the worst.

I only 2 short months, CSI: Cyber has quickly become one of the most magnificently absurd police procedurals being aired by a major television network. To be fair, its problems are mostly a matter of circumstance: It’s actually just about as brain-dead as any other CSI series, but this go-round comes off especially bad since it was ostensibly designed specifically to follow technology-related fictional crimes. As a result, the gap between the content of the show and the knowledge it is supposedly built upon is much more dramatic than any other major Jerry Bruckheimer undertaking of the past few decades.

Electrical angiogenesis

The pulses stimulated angiogenesis — the process by which new blood vessels form — increasing blood flow to the damaged area and resulting in wounds healing significantly faster.

Spying stats

The intelligence services in the US had 10Ks of domestic targets in 2014. They don’t know / specify how many people that translates to.

Women in Disaster Movies

now it makes sense.

Berkeley Pseudoscience

the granola nutcases strike again. and this:

City staff had assistance from Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Harvard in drafting the ordinance

i really wonder what compelled lessig to go along with this nonsense.

Waymo debuts

a person in a wheelchair chasing a duck with a broomstick. In circles. In the middle of the street. “This is not something we likely would have anticipated”