June 9th, 2013
*Queue Star Trek music *
Researchers have been able to teleport information from light to light at a quantum level for several years. In 2006, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute succeeded in teleporting between light and gas atoms. Now the research group has succeeded in teleporting information between two clouds of gas atoms and to carry out the teleportation — not just one or a few times, but successfully every single time.
WE are on our way to teleporting and becoming even lazier than we have ever been! Just kidding. We are nowhere near that. This is a fasciniating idea though that might take me off my reading of a
precision vise I was looking at.
The results are published in the scientific journal, Nature Physics.
“It is a very important step for quantum information research to have achieved such stable results that every attempt will succeed,” says Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the research center Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.
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June 9th, 2013
Most animals that reproduce internally do so through the use of a penis. Birds on the other hand, it has been shown that they have lost theirs in an evolutionary process. No need for a night of heavy blanco tequila and a back alley doctor for this one.
It turns out that land fowl, which have only rudimentary penises as adults, have normally developing penises as early embryos. Later in development, however, the birds turn on a genetic program that leads their budding penises to stop growing and then wither away.
“Regulation of the balance between cell proliferation and cell death is essential for controlled growth and development,” said Martin Cohn of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Florida, Gainesville. “Too much cell division or too little cell death can lead to overgrowth or mis-regulated growth, as in cancer. If the balance is tipped in the other direction, deficient cell division or excess cell death can lead to underdevelopment or even absence of a tissue or organ.
“Our discovery shows that reduction of the penis during bird evolution occurred by activation of a normal mechanism of programmed cell death in a new location, the tip of the emerging penis.”
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June 7th, 2013
You can’t really do a lot of marketing without a BIG stack of business cards. Even though there are many intuitive ways to plan a marketing plan, you almost always still need a business card. It just has everything you need to say on it and it is perfect for handing over to anyone who might be interested in your kind of service.
There is no need to spend a ton on them anymore either. Getting business card printing online lowers the cost tremendously, and you get a lot more for your money. Making your marketing budget go a lot further than it normally would to let you try some new things you couldn’t afford otherwise.
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May 21st, 2013
If you are looking for bugles there isn’t much better place to look that for Bugles at WWBW. Bugles are the instrument you most associate with the Funeral March I suppose, but they surely have many other glorious uses in the woodwinds family. The funny thing is that if you look them up in Google these days you have to basiclaly go to page 2 to find anything relevant. All you will find before that are articles about the Bugles chips. Weird how they took over Google over something that is actually useful.
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May 7th, 2013
Cicadas are some of the more interesting insects in the U.S. due to their uniqueness to the rest of the world. Emerging in 15 broods across the U.s. every 13-17 years so there is usually some place in the U.S. that is overrun by cicadas at least once a year. They aren’t exactly rare, but thye have many different rituals in the U.S. certainly more rare than the silver eagle coins.
Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.
Scientists even have a horror-movie name for the infestation: Brood II. But as ominous as that sounds, the insects are harmless. They won’t hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplings or young shrubs. Mostly they will blanket certain pockets of the region, though lots of people won’t ever see them.
“It’s not like these hordes of cicadas suck blood or zombify people,” says May Berenbaum, a University of Illinois entomologist.
They’re looking for just one thing: sex. And they’ve been waiting quite a long time. more
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April 16th, 2013
The fossils of found in 2008 had a mix of traits of both man and ape that allowed it to walk upright long distances, as well as scurry up trees. Discovered in cave near Johannesburg in 2008, the fossils of a species named “Australopithecus sediba” have given researchers clues about the evolution of man and which traits in our ancestors fell by the wayside.
Standing about 1.3 meters (4 ft) tall, sediba had a narrow rib cage similar to apes but a flexible spine more similar to that of a human. Its long arms and powerful torso helped in climbing, according to the research published in the journal Science. iolo.com
Sediba’s small heel resembled a chimpanzee’s and it walked with an inward rotation of the knee and hip on slightly twisted feet with a flat-footed gait that would have helped it cover ground, the researchers said.
“It is the perfect compromise of something that has the need to walk on the ground efficiently for long distances. At the same time, it is a very capable climber,” said Lee Berger, project leader at the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute in South Africa.
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April 16th, 2013
One of the biggest problems in mind in America right now is the lack of education in both math and science compared to the rest of the world. Not only are we way behind, but it is something that will continue to set us behind on the world stage as more and more students go through inferior curriculum. This article about how Texas is rethinking its testing, curriculum standards made me cringe.
What is going on here? We are ALREADY behind the world and now they want to make school even easier? Lower the standards of our students before they can go out into the workforce, or onto college? This makes me sick. It’s not the subjects and the curriculum that is tough. IT’s the lack of quality teaching standards, and having no accountability for pushing kids onto their next years. This is absolutely disgusting to me to read news stories such as this. It makes me incredibly sad for the kids that will not be afforded the opportunity to learn. They aren’t even afforded the opportunity to keep up with most of the world now, but we are going to set them even further back? How are they going to be able to understand things like nc property tax appeals when they aren’t even able to get through Algebra I in high school?
The standardized testing I can see being a bit of a silly thing as it just is unfair in many circumstances. What bugs me is the lines about lowering the math subjects such as Algebra II as being too hard for them to complete. This has much more to do with not being able to run a program once they build it, however. Administrators are great at coming up with ways that might work, but 3 years later they want to throw it all out because they want to move onto something new.
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April 13th, 2013
One of the least thought about accessories to your guitar playing has to be guitar cases. While it’s much easier to lug around an electric guitar in the soft electric guitar cases, it’s hard to beat the feeling of pulling a guitar out of one of the hard acoustic guitar cases. You feel like a classic guitarist every time you flip those metal clamps up and hear that “snap”. Then the old classic smell that comes from your wooden guitar. I guess I’m just asap like that.
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March 30th, 2013
The usual time it takes for us to get to the International Space Station is upwards of 2 whole Earth Days. The crew’s Soyuz capsule parked itself at the station’s Poisk module at 10:28 p.m. EDT (0228 GMT Friday), just five hours and 45 minutes after launch.
All previous station crews, whether flying aboard NASA’s now-retired space shuttles or on Russian Soyuz capsules, took at least two days to reach the station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 250 miles above Earth.
“The closer the station, the better we feel. Everything is going good,” the cosmonauts radioed to flight controllers outside of Moscow as the Soyuz capsule approached the orbital outpost, a project of 15 nations.
Much easier trip for them rather than sitting in the cramped capsule for 2 days. Helps make anyh of their science experiments much easier, and more reliable as well. Not to mention that they can probably spend a couple hours of their 5.5 month mission checking out the sights for some print postcards to send home.
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March 16th, 2013
Looking for the best pa system certainly is a lot easier than it was many years ago where you basically had to look in catalogs, or go talk to some scheister at the local electronics store. *cough*any Radio Shack*cough*. Charging you for their “help”, which basically measured up to them trying to convince you to buy something that is being sold for a 50% mark up from a big chain store.
Now you can just pull up a website and look at the best PA system for YOU based on many different things. You can sort the best PA systems, read customer reviews, and get technical details without having t ask some guy that depends on your commission rather than just getting you the best PA system for your needs.
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