The Love Police: How to Escape a TERROR STOP (1 of 2) (via cveitch)

@4 days ago
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"The NHS should stop funding homeopathy, MPs say.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said using public money on the highly-diluted remedies could not be justified.
The cross-party group said there was no evidence beyond a placebo effect, when a patient gets better because of their belief that the treatment works."

BBC News - NHS money ‘wasted’ on homeopathy
@2 weeks ago with 3 notes
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"The Conservatives have unveiled plans to deliver a “nationwide super-fast broadband”, part of which could be funded from the BBC licence fee.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne said a Tory government would deliver speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) to the “majority” of homes by 2017."

BBC News - ‘Super-fast broadband’ in UK homes by 2017 - Tories
@1 month ago
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"How to whip up the perfect frothy frog ‘meringue’ nest"

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@1 month ago
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“Because they couldn’t mathematically determine a “perfect” solution, the researchers decided to task the slime mold with a problem human designers had already tackled. They placed oat flakes (a slime mold favorite) on agar plates in a pattern that mimicked the locations of cities around Tokyo and impregnated the plates with P. polycephalum at the point representing Tokyo itself. They then watched the slime mold grow for 26 hours, creating tendrils that interconnected the food supplies. Different plates exhibited a range of solutions, but the visual similarity to the Tokyo rail system was striking in many of them” Slime as Engineer - brainless mold mimics Tokyo subway Boing Boing

“Because they couldn’t mathematically determine a “perfect” solution, the researchers decided to task the slime mold with a problem human designers had already tackled. They placed oat flakes (a slime mold favorite) on agar plates in a pattern that mimicked the locations of cities around Tokyo and impregnated the plates with P. polycephalum at the point representing Tokyo itself. They then watched the slime mold grow for 26 hours, creating tendrils that interconnected the food supplies. Different plates exhibited a range of solutions, but the visual similarity to the Tokyo rail system was striking in many of them”

Slime as Engineer - brainless mold mimics Tokyo subway Boing Boing

@1 month ago with 1 note
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"The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week. This would leave many organisations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the internet, leading legal experts to say it will become impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access."

Open Wi-Fi ‘outlawed’ by Digital Economy Bill - ZDNet.co.uk
@1 week ago
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"The spray is a form of “liquid glass” and is harmless to living things and the wider environment. It is being touted as one of the most important, environmentally-friendly products to emerge from the field of nanotechnology, which deals in objects at the molecular end of the size scale."

Spray-on miracle could revolutionise manufacturing - Science, News - The Independent
@1 month ago
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"The players from Google and Vimeo do present a pretty serious problem, though. Each of these require a proprietary H.264 codec to be able to view them. These codecs aren’t compatible with the royalty-free web standards that the rest of the web is built on. The fact that they are being so unabashedly hyped along with the new darling of the web – HTML5 – means that most people don’t understand that something very dangerous is taking place behind the scenes."

Christopher Blizzard · HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web
@1 month ago
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"Childhood trauma may leave a lasting imprint not just on the psyche but also in the DNA."

Mental Health | DISCOVER Magazine
@1 month ago
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“…not everyone needs a PC. Think about it – the modern PC is a massively overpowered piece of kit for the average consumer. I don’t mean the average geek, I mean the average consumer. Nearly everything we geeks love and adore about a general-purpose computer is a pain point for the average consumer. Browsable file system: They lose their files. Modularity and customizability: They have no clue where to start with the complexity. RAW POWAH: For what, typing in Word? Multitasking plus WIMP UI: They can’t tell what app they’re in.” (via The Apple iPad, explained to geeks)

“…not everyone needs a PC. Think about it – the modern PC is a massively overpowered piece of kit for the average consumer. I don’t mean the average geek, I mean the average consumer. Nearly everything we geeks love and adore about a general-purpose computer is a pain point for the average consumer.

Browsable file system: They lose their files.

Modularity and customizability: They have no clue where to start with the complexity.

RAW POWAH: For what, typing in Word?

Multitasking plus WIMP UI: They can’t tell what app they’re in.”

(via The Apple iPad, explained to geeks)

@1 month ago
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"The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week. This would leave many organisations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the internet, leading legal experts to say it will become impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access."
Open Wi-Fi ‘outlawed’ by Digital Economy Bill - ZDNet.co.uk


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"The NHS should stop funding homeopathy, MPs say.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said using public money on the highly-diluted remedies could not be justified.
The cross-party group said there was no evidence beyond a placebo effect, when a patient gets better because of their belief that the treatment works."
BBC News - NHS money ‘wasted’ on homeopathy


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"The spray is a form of “liquid glass” and is harmless to living things and the wider environment. It is being touted as one of the most important, environmentally-friendly products to emerge from the field of nanotechnology, which deals in objects at the molecular end of the size scale."
Spray-on miracle could revolutionise manufacturing - Science, News - The Independent


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"The Conservatives have unveiled plans to deliver a “nationwide super-fast broadband”, part of which could be funded from the BBC licence fee.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne said a Tory government would deliver speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) to the “majority” of homes by 2017."
BBC News - ‘Super-fast broadband’ in UK homes by 2017 - Tories


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"The players from Google and Vimeo do present a pretty serious problem, though. Each of these require a proprietary H.264 codec to be able to view them. These codecs aren’t compatible with the royalty-free web standards that the rest of the web is built on. The fact that they are being so unabashedly hyped along with the new darling of the web – HTML5 – means that most people don’t understand that something very dangerous is taking place behind the scenes."
Christopher Blizzard · HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web


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"How to whip up the perfect frothy frog ‘meringue’ nest"
BBC News


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"Childhood trauma may leave a lasting imprint not just on the psyche but also in the DNA."
Mental Health | DISCOVER Magazine


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“Because they couldn’t mathematically determine a “perfect” solution, the researchers decided to task the slime mold with a problem human designers had already tackled. They placed oat flakes (a slime mold favorite) on agar plates in a pattern that mimicked the locations of cities around Tokyo and impregnated the plates with P. polycephalum at the point representing Tokyo itself. They then watched the slime mold grow for 26 hours, creating tendrils that interconnected the food supplies. Different plates exhibited a range of solutions, but the visual similarity to the Tokyo rail system was striking in many of them” Slime as Engineer - brainless mold mimics Tokyo subway Boing Boing


#news #science 

 

“…not everyone needs a PC. Think about it – the modern PC is a massively overpowered piece of kit for the average consumer. I don’t mean the average geek, I mean the average consumer. Nearly everything we geeks love and adore about a general-purpose computer is a pain point for the average consumer. Browsable file system: They lose their files. Modularity and customizability: They have no clue where to start with the complexity. RAW POWAH: For what, typing in Word? Multitasking plus WIMP UI: They can’t tell what app they’re in.” (via The Apple iPad, explained to geeks)


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