March 2011
79 posts
“Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it...”
– -Sai Baba (via bdubs85)
Gulp!
Dye slows ageing and Alzheimer's protein formation... →
A COMMON dye used to identify the tangles of proteins that accompany ageing also helps to prevent protein misfolding - one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.
When Gordon Lithgow at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, and colleagues grew the soil-dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans in agar plates soaked in thioflavin T - a dye used to visualise ...
send an email to your future self →
Usually, it’s the future self that reflects back on the past. At FutureMe, you write a letter to your future. And then they do a little bending of the space-time continuum and deliver it for you. It’s kinda cool to surprise your future self with a letter from the past. Some words of inspiration. A swift kick in the pants. Or just thoughts on where you’ll or what...
Banjo ,bluegrass and memes: If Tumbr Engineers →
redjeep:
littlerunnergurl:
desertnurse:
nighttimestephanie:
dirtyredbird:
for Chelle
Think of another line of work for the Tumblr engineers and what their impact would be on that profession.
If they made donuts police everywhere would starve.
Your turn.
If…
If Tumblr Engineers made keyboards……
tHEY Ni...
“What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realise I have spent whole...”
– Yoshida Kenkō, Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), c. 1330, Donald Keene, trans. (via ontheborderland)
Extract from ‘The philosophical origins of Tumblr’ volume 1 ;)
New Estimate for Alien Earths: 2 Billion in Our... →
Roughly one out of every 37 to one out of every 70 sunlike stars in the sky might harbor an alien Earth, a new study reveals.
These findings hint that billions of Earthlike planets might exist in our galaxy, researchers added.
These new calculations are based in data from the Kepler space telescope, which in February wowed the globe by revealing more than 1,200 possible alien worlds, including...
Physicists create heaviest form of antimatter ever... →
A newly created form of antimatter is the heaviest and most complex anti-thing ever seen. Anti-helium nuclei, each containing two anti-protons and two anti-neutrons, have been created and detected at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Upton, New York.
Anti-particles have the opposite electrical charge to ordinary matter particles (anti-neutrons, which are electrically neutral, are...
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.”
– Albert Einstein (via dougstumblr)
Nuclear crisis: 'Chain reaction could restart' →
1820 GMT, 16 March 2011
Michael Marshall, environment reporter
The situation at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has become extremely unnerving. The Tokyo Electric Power Company has now admitted that the spent fuel rods could go critical - that is, a nuclear chain reaction could restart.
We have known since yesterday that the reactors themselves were coming under control,...
Cool! Newly found star emits light at room... →
Kevin Luhman of Pennsylvania State University in University Park and colleagues have used NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope to detect the glow of what appears to be a brown dwarf at just 30 °C (Astrophysical Journal Letters, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/730/1/L9).
