Sapere Aude
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The Scythians take some of this hemp-seed, and throw it upon the red-hot stones; immediately it smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed; the Scythians, delighted, shout for joy, and this vapour serves them instead of a water-bath
these are 2.4 ka old, and were described by herodotus
the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge will be 380m long, 6m wide and feature a transparent glass floor, floating 300m above the canyon.
I’m wondering if the other boroughs will also get denser over this period. There is a lot of unused land that could house residents instead of forcing them ever farther into the suburbs.
They took a little Dom Pérignon, some cabernet sauvignon from the Napa Valley estate Screaming Eagle, and 63 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, one of the most coveted–and expensive–French pinot noirs being made today. DRC, as collectors like to call it, runs as much as $25000 a bottle
the hijinx in the wine snobbery world always crack me up, since it is well-established that you can’t tell the difference between these hyper-expensive wines and reasonable ones
Humans and baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, last shared an ancestor 1 ga BP. Despite the evolutionary gulf, human genes can substitute for 47% of the genes essential for yeast survival
Now we can take easy to obtain blood samples, and make the main cell types of neurological systems in a dish that is specialized for each patient. Until now, no one’s had the ability and required technology to actually test different drugs to find something that targets the peripheral nervous system, and not the central nervous system, in a patient-specific manner
Constructing a device where the active elements are only a single molecule which has been the ‘holy grail’ of molecular electronics, represents the ultimate in functional miniaturization that can be achieved for an electronic device.
why males? why do so many complex organisms have a whole sex which does not bear offspring? One hypothesis is that males are good for purging genetic load via sexual selection. On a genetic level all individuals carry deleterious mutations, which they pass on to their offspring. But, because of sample variance in transmission, there will be a distribution of outcomes in any given set of offspring. By chance some individuals will exhibit a higher load of deleterious alleles, while others will carry fewer alleles. If this load is correlated to traits which are visible to the opposite sex, then excess load every generation can be purged through reproductive skew
I took all 474MB of Linux C code and trained several LSTMs. The code looks really quite great overall. Of course, I don’t think it compiles but when you scroll through it feels very much like a giant C code base. Notice that the RNN peppers its code with comments here and there at random. It is also very good at making very few syntactic errors
researchers developed a thin, clear nanocellulose paper made from wood flour and infused it with biocompatible quantum dots — tiny semiconducting crystals — made out of zinc and selenium. The paper glowed at room temperature and could be rolled and unrolled without cracking. The researchers are currently developing papers that emit other colors than blue.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 