The mountain range that fell from space, earth-like planet discovered, open source seeds, stem cells help the blind, and other Geek news, with Miles, Ben and Bonnie. This show is dedicated to the memory of Finn, a good dog.
The Falcon 9 lifted off on time at 19:25 UTC, and the launch went perfectly. Just under 11 minutes later the Dragon capsule was deployed into orbit. The solar arrays were deployed, and all looks good. Congrats to SpaceX!
For those of you taking notes at home, over the past few days I wrote a couple of pieces about a viral video that purported to show a meteoroid (the solid part of space debris that gets hot and creates a meteor when it rams through our atmosphere) zipping past a skydiver. At first I was open to the idea, if skeptical, but upon further reading and examination I became more convinced it was just a rock that fell out of the skydiver
Illinois police seized computers and mobile phones while raiding a house whose owner was suspected of parodying the town mayor on Twitter.
In all, five people following the Tuesday evening raid were taken to the Peoria Police Department station for questioning, local media report.
It works for London’s night-blind mice, anyway — Researchers from University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital in the UK teamed up to grow a synthetic retina from embryonic stem cells, extract immature photoreceptor cells from it, and successfully transplant them into the peepers of at least 3 blind mice. What about mature photoreceptor cells? What about extracting color-receptor cells for the color blind? WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE?!?? Science counsels patience, my child. They’ll get to it.
Peeps, the wildly popular sugary marshmallow treats, have little nutritional value and take up a lot of space for their mass, so I wouldn
Here’s another forum link. http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/1191618/4/
A couple of weeks ago we talked about how, in most cases, life uses exclusively the left-handed enantiomers of amino acids to make proteins. This homochirality is also see in the sugars we talked about last week, but in this case, mostly D-sugars are utilized in biological systems.
What isn
A South Fayette High School sophomore claims to have been bullied all year at his new school located in McDonald, Pennsylvania. In February, the student made an audio recording of one bullying incident during his special education math class. Instead of questioning the students whose voices were recorded, school administrators threatened to charge him with felony wiretapping before eventually agreeing to reduce the charge to disorderly conduct.
Teacher shows students how to properly apologize, consideration and good will spreads beyond classroom. It’s a life hack!
Today, only three companies (Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta) account for about half of all commercial seed sales. Increasingly, patenting is used to enhance the power and control of these and similar companies over the seeds that feed the world.
Inspired by the free and open source software movement that has provided alternatives to proprietary software, OSSI was created to free the seed
The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today
Kepler-186f is one of the big success stories. It
iSEC, the company contracted to review the bootloader and Windows kernel driver for any backdoor or related security issue, concluded (PDF) that TrueCrypt has:
