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(via xkcd: Marie Curie)
The second-to-last panel strikes me as especially writer-pertinent.
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Inside the world of test tube meat with The New Yorker’s Michael Specter: “There is something inherently creepy about [growing meat in labs.] But there is something more inherently creepy about the way we deal with the animals that we eat. … They live a horrible life and they often die quite cruelly. So the idea of being able to eliminate some of that is extremely exciting for a lot of people.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llecp1V0jG1qd9dz2o1_500.jpg)
Inside the world of test tube meat with The New Yorker’s Michael Specter: “There is something inherently creepy about [growing meat in labs.] But there is something more inherently creepy about the way we deal with the animals that we eat. … They live a horrible life and they often die quite cruelly. So the idea of being able to eliminate some of that is extremely exciting for a lot of people.”
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Science wins today: a pen that allows the drawing of actual, functional circuits
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nypl:
Toilers in the Westinghouse Lamp Division Research Department perform the firsts tests on “the largest mercury vapor lamp ever built” in this photo from our 1939-40 World’s Fair collection.
More than 60 years later, some similar research and development went on right in our own Science, Industry and Business Library, when Ground-Lab co-founder, Justin Downs, was developing another record-breaking lamp.
While we’re sure his work is just as brilliant, if not more, than that in the photo above… we can’t be sure that his goggles were quite as awesome.
Go behind the scenes of his work in this week’s Check Out, our Huffington Post Column.
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FINISH LINE At 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles — the final flight for the Space Shuttle Program. (Photo: Kim Shiflett / NASA)
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The mystery of one of the most convincing pieces of UFO evidence has been solved.
(via huffingtonpost)
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Purkinje Neurons
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Scientists ‘See’ YouTube Videos in the Mind
What if what you saw with your eyes could be interpreted in a brain-scanner? Well, that just happened. Check it out:
Gallant’s coauthors acted as study subjects, watching YouTube videos inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine for several hours at a time. The team then used the brain imaging data to develop a computer model that matched features of the videos — like colors, shapes and movements — with patterns of brain activity.
“Once we had this model built, we could read brain activity for that subject and run it backwards through the model to try to uncover what the viewer saw,” said Gallant.
Subtle changes in blood flow to visual areas of the brain, measured by functional MRI, predicted what was on the screen at the time — whether it was Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau or an airplane. The reconstructed videos are blurry because they layer all the YouTube clips that matched the subject’s brain activity pattern. The result is a haunting, almost dream-like version of the video as seen by the mind’s eye.
(via ABC News)
(via theweekmagazine)
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