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Sustainable space exploration will require appropriate interplanetary supply-chain management. Unlike Apollo, where everything was carried along, future exploration will have to rely on a complex supply-chain network on the ground and in space. The primary goal of the Interplanetary Supply Chain Management and Logistics Architectures (IPSCM&LA) project is to develop a comprehensive SCM framework and planning tool for space logistics.
by making them stick to gene-engineered red blood cells, and therefore taking them out of commission.
a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings.
the internets are wonderful
best sun pictures bar none
after 4 years of intensive collaboration, 18 leading mathematicians and computer scientists from the US and Europe have successfully mapped E8, one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics.
math is moving towards high energy physics style collaboration
2007-11-15:
keep in mind that this is just a theory, it has no experimental support, and it might be wrong. I think it’s got a shot, which is why I work on it, but it’s still just a developing theory. So don’t go crazy, people; but yes, it is pretty damn cool. This is an all-or-nothing kind of theory – it’s either going to be exactly right, or spectacularly wrong. I’m the first to admit this is a long shot. But it ain’t over till the LHC sings.
2008-10-14: it’s all about the E8
So why do artists look at pictures — especially non-abstract pictures — differently from non-artists? Vogt and Magnussen argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces.
not just look different, but they see the world differently
men fixate on any visible genital areas in photos — even animals’ crotches come in for a good eyeballing.
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debunking all the crap people believe these days
When talking amongst ourselves we should also be more careful what words we use. Otherwise we might slip when talking to the public, and say we believe something when we mean something quite different from the everyday usage of the term — and the trouble begins. If scientific belief is set against other beliefs, what differentiates it from them — are we not then just arguing matters of faith?
no more “we believe” and other words that confuse the unwashed
scientific illiteracy strikes again
Gregor J. Rothfuss 