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Science Art: (MAPS fundraiser) ?Candy Dish? Psychedelic Synthesis Lab Art Glassware This is custom glass art from the laboratory of Sasha Shulgin, the chemist who gave us MDMA and a host of other psychoactive compounds. It’s for sale right now as part of a fundraiser for MAPS, the Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which is the outfit behind all sorts of interesting and valuable research into the stuff that the War on Drugs makes difficult to study. Things like using MDMA to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. So, unlike nearly everything else I’ve posted in this Science Art file, this piece is something you could own. It’s being auctioned on eBay with an opening bid of $1,725. And it certainly is pretty. Here’s what they say about it: This is real glassware from the laboratory of legendary chemist Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin. Sasha is credited with the popularization of MDMA in the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially for psychopharmaceutical use and the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress d
Post Date:12/05/2009 23:44:41
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Spectacular video of Venus flytraps A three-minute segment from the BBC "Life" series was posted at YouTube this week. As with most BBC offerings, it has embedding disabled, so you need to view it at this link. There's nothing "new," but the photography is worth the click. Screencaps above.One almost feels sorry for the fly. Almost.Via Neatorama.And speaking of that BBC series, there is another video clip which shows time-lapse of starfish, urchins, and worms in McMurdo Sound. Screencaps below. Click here for the video. Again, well worth three minutes of your life.
Post Date:12/05/2009 15:03:00
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The mimicry of the Superb Lyrebird Last April I posted the famous video of David Attenborough introducing the Superb Lyrebird to the world. If you've not seen it, it's worth a click, because the bird's skills are jaw-dropping.Somehow last August I missed the remix. Rectifying that now. Via Neatorama.
Post Date:12/04/2009 20:43:00
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The Leidenfrost effect Probably everyone who has cooked in a kitchen has seen this effect without knowing it had a name or a sophisticated explanation.The video above is brief and to the point. This longer and more comprehensive video -shows that the same principle applies when the person sticks his bare hand into liquid nitrogen.
Post Date:12/04/2009 19:54:00
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ScienceBlogs, National Geographic Form ‘New Partnership’ ScienceBlogs, which has ?137 bloggers around the world,? and National Geographic have formed a ?new partnership, starting today,? ScienceBlogs told its readers in a December 4, 2009, post. See ?Announcing: ScienceBlogs and National Geographic.? Technorati Tags: ScienceBlogs,National Geographic
Post Date:12/04/2009 19:03:39
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The Case For Pluto Alan Boyle is going to be at The Grove in LA tomorrow night for a book signing. I may try to make it. [Update a few minutes later] Speaking of Alan, he has a roundup of the latest prospects for fusion — cold, medium and hot — over at Cosmic Log.
Post Date:12/04/2009 13:09:10
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Wall St. Journal, others: DNA sleuths track down fish poachers In today’s Wall Street Journal Science Journal column Robert Lee Hotz provides an expansive look at the power of DNA typing to connect wild-caught game, whether fish (his focus, mainly) or bush meat to the creature from which a given filet, chop, or steady was butchered. He starts off with tuna and sushi, with pertinence not only to whether a given piece of uncooked fish is what the seller says it is, but to whether if might be from an endangered blue fin or other endangered tuna. The piece goes on to provide readers a taste for the much broader, rapid collection of DNA databases for all sort of creatures large or small and wild. Such DNA barcodes, he writes, are useful not only for helping to police the trade in endangered species, but as a tool for public health as well. They can even tell which birds are being sucked through jet engines. His enterprising, top-down look comes close on the heels of another, much narrower bit of related news inspired by a journal report and, more
Post Date:12/04/2009 13:08:04
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Vitamins: Bullshit [Science] Probable waste of money: Expensive multivitamins. Another probable waste of money: All multivitamins.
Post Date:12/04/2009 09:24:46
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Jonah Goldberg on the Climate-Change Industry In the Houston Chronicle, Jonah Goldberg has two points we’d like to, well, point out: First, the climate change industry is shot through with groupthink (or what climate scientist Judith Curry calls ?climate tribalism?). Activists would have us believe that the overwhelming majority of real scientists agree with them while the few dissenters are all either crazed or greedy ?deniers? akin to flat-earthers and creationists. These e-mails show that what’s really at work is a very large clique of scientists attempting to excommunicate perceived heretics for reasons that have more to do with psychology and sociology than physics or climatology. Second, the climate industry really is an industry. Climate scientists make their money and careers from government, academia, the United Nations and foundations. The grantors want the grantees to confirm the global warming consensus. The tenure and peer-review processes likewise hinge on conformity. That doesn’t necessarily mean c
Post Date:12/04/2009 08:27:54
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Hot, medium and cool fusion LLNL Click for video: Learn more about nuclear fusion and the science behind the National Ignition Facility. Is nuclear fusion the ultimate energy source, or the ultimate pipe dream? Millions upon millions of dollars are being spent to find out which answer is the right one. For some technologies, the answer could come sooner than later. For others, it may be later rather than sooner. The easiest way to access fusion power is to go outside on a sunny day: Nuclear fusion is the reaction that powers the sun, by crushing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms and converting the small blips of extra mass into energy. Hydrogen bombs, tested by the world's armed forces but never used on the battlefield, do the same thing. For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out how to harness the fusion reaction to generate electrical power. A key milestone would be passing the "break-even" point, at which a controlled fusion reaction produces more energy than it consumes. Research aiming&n
Post Date:12/03/2009 16:59:00
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Liquid/Solid Surface Forces If you put a drop of water on a surface and then tilt the surface slightly, the drop will deform a bit, but not slide. With a steeper tilt, it will slide. This is the kind of thing that scientists find fascinating.The way things slide is very important at the nanoscale, where even small frictional forces can be important in the workings of machinery. Recently, I read an article on how liquid droplets slide on surfaces. The researchers did a rather cool experiment, made some interesting observations, and... I think they may have come to the wrong conclusion.To test how a droplet slides under a variety of sideways and downwards forces, they put the droplet in a centrifuge. To watch it, they added a wireless camera to the centrifuge rotor. Simple, clever, elegant.They found that as the downward force increased, it took more sideways force to make the drop slide. This is (at least superficially) similar to the way solid objects slide. But they also found that, if the drop is hanging upside
Post Date:12/03/2009 16:09:42
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Doctors Abandon President Obama October 6th, 2009, President Obama stages an event at the White House to promote his health care plan. A California physician, Dr. Alice Chen, was one of dozens of doctors invited to the White House on Monday to hear President Obama urge them to "fan out across the country" and work for health care reform. "Nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do," Obama said. "And so if you're willing to speak out strongly on behalf of the things you care about and what you see each and every day as you're serving your patients all across the country, I'm confident we are going to get health reform passed this year." Fast-forward to December 3rd and we see yet another state association of doctors rejecting Obama's health care plan. The state's largest doctors group is opposing healthcare legislation being debated in the U.S. Senate this week, saying it would increase local healthcare costs and restrict access to care for elderly and low-income patients. The
Post Date:12/03/2009 10:14:32
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Flying carp approaching the Great Lakes I believe I've posted this topic before, but the Star Tribune ran an updated article today, excerpted below:CHICAGO - Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi River ? an unprecedented step that could disrupt the movement of millions of tons of iron ore, coal, grain and other goods. The dispute could become an epic clash of competing interests: commerce, environmentalists and fishermen... Environmentalists fear the fish, which consume up to 40 percent of their body weight daily in plankton, could starve out smaller and less aggressive competitors and cause the collapse of the $7 billion-a-year Great Lakes sport and commercial fishing industry...The carp ? which can grow to 4 feet long and 100 pounds and are known for leaping out of the water when boats are near ? were imported by Southern fish farms but escaped into the Missis
Post Date:12/03/2009 08:45:00
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Mann?s Mad Money Michael Mann By Paul Chesser Since watching the Climategate scandal explode a week before Thanksgiving, debris from the mushroom cloud has rained upon the earth, and there are hints that some folks (other than me and my fellow climate realists) are getting curious about how the alarmists are funded. It used to be the narrative of the formerly mainstream media, when they deemed it worthy to include perspective from the “skeptic” side, always came with a “financed by Big Oil” disclaimer — whether it was true or not. Meanwhile the warmists’ financial gain from the game was irrelevant in the media’s eyes. It’s been widely reported in the blogosphere about the millions of dollars in grants that East Anglia CRUnit director Phil Jones collected for his climate modeling, but so far I haven’t seen much detail about his fellow email correspondents. What about ‘em? Inarguably the next-largest culprit is Michael Mann, Mr. Nature Trick, wh
Post Date:12/03/2009 08:41:21
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Houston fingerprint lab plagued with errors, two-year backlog Stunning news this week out of Houston PD about errors and possible misconduct in their fingerprint analysis unit: First an audit showed errors and problems in more than half of 548 randomly selected cases, now the Houston Chronicle is reporting that the fingerprint unit is the focus of a criminal probe; two of the three analysts on the hot seat have been with the department since the '70s. Reports the Chron:Because the audit found workers often overlooked fingerprints or wrongly determined fingerprints weren't able to be analyzed, authorities are re-reviewing more than 4,000 violent crime cases involving fingerprints from the last six years. They're also trying to work through a 6,000-case backlog that dates back two years and includes violent and property crimes. After disclosing the results of the audit Tuesday, authorities emphasized that no cases have been found in which suspects have been wrongly identified because of faulty fingerprint analysis. They have declined to release the
Post Date:12/03/2009 08:19:00
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CSIRO scientists hit the waves virtually Australian scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have created virtual ocean waves over twenty meters tall in order to test how different types of oil and...
Post Date:12/03/2009 08:05:00
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A shifting mode Here's the source. The fact that there's been so much change since 1990 is what is striking to me.
Post Date:12/03/2009 00:02:00
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Post Date:12/02/2009 23:45:00
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