Science

sweetlove666 wrote:

Don't know if it's strictly "science" but

read an interesting piece on the BBC website this morning about the housing of the smallpox virus and if the current storage of it should continue, and how studies of it have been developing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13360794

It certainly is! And WOW - review/paper links within the article!

*Pops off to read more*

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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/74415/title/No_pain,_healthier_brain?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

People whose brains are fucked (forgive the technical term) from chronic pain, may improve once the pain has gone!

Woohoo! There's hope for you yet!

Now, does it mention people whose brains are fucked from chronic parenthood?

Mr Monster wrote:

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Mr Monster wrote:

Now, does it mention people whose brains are fucked from chronic parenthood? External Media

I'm afraid the treatment for that is slow - well over 18 years, it may be too late by then External Media

I've no doubt once you start getting more sleep you'll feel better - speaking as someone who only got 4 hours a night for years and year before getting on to meds that give me at least 5 or 6 I know getting that sleep can be slow but it does make the world of difference!

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A new area of thinking beyond the point of quantum mechanics is trying to assess if it is the most fundamental phenomenon. David Deutsch in his new book “The Beginning of Infinity” has kind of shook this up with the proposal of fungibility.

Fungibility from a legal stance deems that certain entities to be identical for certain purposes, and a given example of this is a pound coin. Each pound coin is identical in every facet material composition, weight etc, they are design to be indistinguishable hence being fungible.

One of the proposed problem is that in your electronic bank account you have £1 and you are mistakenly given £1. The banking system rectifies this issue by removing the £1 from your bank account, but as the £1 are indistinguishable how does it determine which £1 is yours or the mistaken one. Understanding the significance of this problems the mind wonders into the classic science fiction discussion of multi universes or splitting of parallel states. Like in Red Dwarf they are able to transverse the barriers between coexisting parallel universes and meet their alternative states, as does Rimmer meets Ace Rimmer.

Proposed from this theory is the ability to create 2 separate scenarios from the original identical or fungible state. Its some pretty rad science that really blows your perception and thought on a single state and throws into quandary the idea of fate as a deterministic property of a predictable system. It kind of kybosh’s the realm of believing you have only one soul mate on earth.

Oooh... that reminds me of the way that the sign of the wavefunction of a system changes when two identical fermions (e.g. electrons) are swapped around.

(I hope I remembered that right!)

If that sounds silly, then it's meant to. As with so many things in quantum physics, it's not intuitive and it seems to have philosophical implications.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12913981?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Cooperative parrots who have sharing preferences depending on who they're sharing partner is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9417000/9417308.stm

And ellies are the same!

Don't know if anyone's seen this one...

Bionic hand for 'elective amputation' patient

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13273348

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/space-australian-for-beer.html

Beer balls in zero gravity..

http://jp.physoc.org/site/misc/jpevents5.xhtml

Certain interneurons (connecting nerve cells between muscles, other nerves etc.) are derived during embryogenesis (development in the womb) and when they go wrong, are involved in many neurodegenerative diseases - a talk to be given in Washington on the current research.

This one is a bit more hardcore science but don't be put off - it is interesting and you can always ask in here for definitions of words that are very specific.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13424246

Very endagered (and impossibly cute) monkey successfully bred outside of Brazil for the first time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/18/satoshi-kanazawa-black-women-psychology-today?CMP=twt_fd

An example of very Bad Science! Paper got past peer review whilst claiming black women are proven (objectively) to be the least attractive of all women!

Alicia D'amore wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13424246

Very endagered (and impossibly cute) monkey successfully bred outside of Brazil for the first time.

Endangered*

cheer_up wrote:

Don't know if anyone's seen this one...

Bionic hand for 'elective amputation' patient

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13273348

Brilliant, I'd love to read how successful it is!

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http://www.newscientist.com/special/mars-rock

Want to win a bit of Mars? Seriously!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028127.000-cern-press-chief-well-never-plug-blockbuster-leaks.html

The problem with leaks - do people distrust scientists?

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110518/full/473272a.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yahoo%2FqUaz+%28Nature+news%29&utm_content=Twitter

A break down of the ins and outs of induced pluripotent stem cells and the role they may play in treating diseases.

I've not read in depth yet (just skim read) but I don't think the article explains that...an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell) is a cell that can become almost any cell type and is produced by "reprogramming" an adult human cell such as a skin cell.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110518/full/news.2011.294.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yahoo%2FqUaz+%28Nature+news%29&utm_content=Twitter

Something right up my street - is it possibly that molecular interactions will be our downfall?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/may/19/1?CMP=twt_fd

The danger of science denial - what are people so afraid of?

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/05/micro-origami-unfolds-in-water.html

Micro-origami unfolds in water