When a patient’s kidney stops functioning, the existing options are limited to transplant or continual dialysis. Now scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are a little closer to having a third option: transplanting kidneys that have been “upcycled” from previously unusable tissue. To make these functioning and transplantable organs, the researchers begin[...]
When you’ve got a clogged artery, your options are usually few and risky: anti-clotting drugs or surgery to unblock the clot or reroute blood flow past the blockage. But researchers in China have figured out how to use a laser to clog and then clear a blocked blood vessel in a live mouse, without surgery.[...]
When it comes to bizarre hobbies, merging two animals together in the name of art has got to be among the strangest. Student Arne Fredriksen uses photo manipulation to create the out of these world hybrids which have become a hit online. The Weird …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read[...]
One rather bizarre piece of trivia about this weird winter is that in Fargo-Moorhead, each month has produced more snow than the month previous. In October, 3.6 inches of snow fell. November snowfall was 4.8 inches. In December, we got 5.1 inches.See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts –[...]
The possibility of someday recording all the neurons firing in a living creature’s central nervous system has inspired generations of neuroscientists. Now a group of researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has finally achieved the feat. The scientists studied live zebrafish larvae that had been genetically encoded with a calcium indicator called GCaMP5G. They suspended[...]
Normal shot of a candle (left) versus motion magnified version (right). Forget 3-D and HD. This new kind of video isn’t almost as good as real life; it’s even better. The technique amplifies colors and movements that are invisible to the naked eye. The resulting view is not only enhanced but dynamic. “What we’re doing here is[...]
Reconstruction of the vortex core and flow field from raw 3D data. The rendered data correspond to a three-fold distorted loop (a), a trefoil knot (b) and a pair of linked rings (slightly after the first reconnection event (c). Image courtesy of Dustin Kleckner and William T. M. Irvine/Nature Physics When air flows around the wing[...]
Optimal September navigation routes for ice-strengthened (red) and common open-water (blue) ships traveling between Rotterdam, The Netherlands and St. John’s, Newfoundland in present years (left) and in future (right). Image courtesy Laurence C. Smith and Scott R. Stephenson/PNAS The extent of Arctic sea ice has been diminishing since the late 1970s due to climate change,[...]
Clanger or clear wing cicada (Psaltoda claripennis). Image courtesy of Arthur Chapman/Flickr Cicadas don’t use antibacterial wing sanitizer, so how do these insects keep their wings free of bacteria? Hint: it’s structural. The wings of the Clanger cicada kill certain bacteria by ripping their cell membranes. A pattern of pillar-like nanostructures on the wings’ surface put pressure on[...]
Forget 3-D and HD. This new kind of video isn’t almost as good as real life; it’s even better. The technique amplifies colors and movements that are invisible to the naked eye. The resulting view is not only enhanced but dynamic. “What we’re doing here is a particular project at the intersection of vision and graphics that[...]
Chad and Chris travel down to the American southwest to kick it with Juan Romero! Show Notes The Transition of Juan Romero comic strip! Next Week: The White Ship http://www.hppodcraft.com/podcasts/09_08_13_hppodcraft_ep006.mp3 Click Here to Read The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast by hppodcraft Tweet
Here’s literary critic Edmund Wilson’s form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn’t a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time: Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to:[...]
Author: Mark All estselling witchcraft author Trish Sinclair has a shameful secret: sheâ s a lousy spellcaster, and the spells in her books belong to others. So when a dying warlock entrusts her with an ancient and powerful grimoire, she runs for her life from his murderer, psychotic witch Kate Cavanaugh. Kate pursues Trish relentlessly[...]
She'll be selling her produce at three markets this year: the Junction, Oakville Place and John St. Joshi's life changed when she was in a car accident. Click Here to Read Google Alerts – S. T. Joshi by Tweet
You’ve got to give researchers a hand — or at least a forelimb — for discovering that a gradual transition in femur size and position was apparently the main factor behind changes in dinosaur evolution that, over millions of years, led to the emergence of birds. In a study published today in Nature, a team[...]
The Guardian newspaper has an obituary on the death of Basil Copper, the British author of the Lovecraftian mythos novel The Great White Space (1974) and much else. This novel seems regarded as a pinnacle of mythos fiction and was republished a few weeks ago as an official budget-price Kindle ebook (warning: plot spoilers early[...]
The Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE launch on T-Mobile has been nothing short of bizarre.Gotta Be Mobile Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre by Tweet
This episode starts with the next part of Stanley’s journey, where he takes the first step on the way home. The main feature today, is the first part of one of Lovecraft’s most loved stories: “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Download the show . http://archive.org/download/CthulhuPodcastEpisode149/CEP149.mp3 Click Here to Read Cthulhu by Tweet
Much of the food that fills your dinner plate can only be produced with the help of a highly managed insect species: the western honey bee. Many farmers actually rent commercial colonies to unleash on their fields when the crops are in bloom. Such pollination services rake in $ 14 billion a year in the United[...]
Much of the food that fills your dinner plate can only be produced with the help of a highly managed insect species: the western honey bee. Many farmers actually rent commercial colonies to unleash on their fields when the crops are in bloom. Such pollination services rake in $ 14 billion a year in the United[...]
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