awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Louis CK & Marc Maron
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Bon Iver- Wash
30,000 year old flower revived.
Scientists have resurrected a flower from plant tissues found frozen in Siberian permafrost, thought to be 30,000-32,000 years old. The new Silene stenophylla is healthy and fertile, and producing viable seeds.
The experiment has excited many because it proves that material trapped in the permafrost is recoverable and usable - scientists have been working to recover other species of plant and animal life from the same area, such as the woolly mammoth.
#whatcouldgowrong?
Source: USA Today
Crystals may be possible in time as well as space: Theory proposes objects in their lowest energy state can loop in the fourth dimension forever
In two new papers, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Frank Wilczek lays out the mathematics of how an object moving in its lowest energy state could experience a sort of structure in time. Such a “time crystal” would be the temporal equivalent of an everyday crystal, in which atoms occupy positions that repeat periodically in space.
Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it, or don’t have the background to ask the right questions, you’ll end up with a head full of nonsense. But if you do know how to use it, it’s an endless wealth of information. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over the past few decades, the internet is now a major driver of the growth of cognitive inequality. Caveat emptor.
In an interestingly archaeological story from the world of digital infrastructure, engineers who discovered “an unused fibre optic cable in Mongolia” were able, after putting it back into service, to “shave milliseconds” from a British firm’s internet traffic between London and Hong Kong. After all, there is “unused cabling infrastructure around the world,” like forgotten limbs awaiting future reactivation.
Source: bldgblog.blogspot.com
As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare.
But that was just the start. Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base to fly at least two dozen surveillance flights since June. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have used Predators for other domestic investigations, officials said.
In the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
(via neil-gaiman)
Source: philipkdick.com
Set Photo: Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai enjoying a smoke break during production on either YOJIMBO or SANJURO
so i guess it can be pretty stressful to live in a society that requires you to carry a sword at all times. or to work with Akira Kurosawa (a.k.a. “The Emperor”), for that matter.
i first remember seeing this amazing candid snap back in february on eric vespe’s always awesome “Behind the Scenes Pic” column on AICN, but thanks to the Tumblr forces for reminding me of its glory.
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Source: tiberius42
Reverend David A. Noebel:
“The communists, through their scientists, educators and entertainers, have contrived an elaborate, calculating and scientific technique directed at rendering a generation of American youth useless through nerve-jamming, mental deterioration and retardation.”
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“nerve-jamming mental deterioration and retardation.”
*classic.
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rthr:
“From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting roughly a second—a nasally foghorn blaring through a crackly ether. The signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a voyenni gorodok (mini military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps once every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman. ”
(via slavin)
Source: rthr
“The three 5ft-high (1.5m) robots involved in the prison trial have been developed by the Asian Forum for Corrections, a South Korean group of researchers who specialise in criminality and prison policies. It said the robots move on four wheels and are equipped with cameras and other sensors that allow them to detect risky behaviour such as violence and suicide.”
BBC News - Robotic prison wardens to patrol South Korean prison
Source: BBC
