Sapere Aude
Month: July 2015
Using a single molecule attached to an atomic force microscope as a more sensitive sensor, scientists have used a new “scanning quantum dot microscopy” method to image electric potential fields of electron shells of single molecules and even atoms with high precision for the first time, providing contact-free information on the distribution of charges. The breakthrough technique is relevant for diverse scientific fields including investigations into biomolecules and semiconductor materials.
other than 2 anxious people in brooklyn, i’ve seen no one in the streets with the device. one of them mansplained to someone that the iphone 6 has a new connector with a weird name.
No. 1: Ah! What a great way to start my day, by drinking a cup of delicious hot coffee.
No. 47: Finally, there’s the mind—the greatest prisoner of all! This is because the skull that surrounds the mind is very hard.
No. 48: It now occurs to me that this isn’t a very good idea. I should maybe wait until I have consumed 50 cups before I start having ideas.
No. 49: One day I will figure out who makes all this coffee for me
Miss? Miss?” He doesn’t sound particularly confrontational and I give him my best blank smile, hoping he has some kind of mundane procedural question.
“I don’t mean to like bother you or anything, but if you’re not busy, and a beautiful lady such as yourself is probably busy, but if you’re not busy I’d love to buy you a cup of coffee.”
Now I have to grin. This is my new favorite person in the world. What chutzpah! I’m so delighted by this guy that I almost chuck him on the shoulder. Then it hits me. He doesn’t recognize me, at all. He has no idea that I’m the person who arrested him 2 nights before.
having spent time as a juror, the US justice system is indeed a joke. no one is laughing:
there are disturbing indications that a non-trivial number of prosecutors—and sometimes entire prosecutorial offices— engage in misconduct that seriously undermines the fairness of criminal trials. The misconduct ranges from misleading the jury, to outright lying in court and tacitly acquiescing or actively participating in the presentation of false evidence by police.
it’s very exciting to live in a civilization that can do things like this. and this is just the warm-up for pluto.
a wirelessly controlled, implantable, microchip-based devices that store and release drugs inside the body over a period of years
bad adherence seems like low hanging fruit that this device will overcome.
get off my lawn! etc etc
Hayes doesn’t seem to have any of the qualities that one might equate with sell-out-a-theater stardom. He doesn’t sing or act or play an instrument or tell great jokes or even play sports exceptionally well; he just is, and that is far more than enough
Gregor J. Rothfuss 