Gyro as in gyroscope, not kebab. So who will make the first app that lets me strap my iPhone to my back wherein its sensors feed a program on the device, or more Siri-like on a remote server, that keep me upright after swilling pints all afternoon? I guess version 1.0 has a backpack with [...]
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iPhone Gyro
Posted in BICYCLING, GEEKDOM, HEH, LIFE SCIENCES, VIDEO DU JOUR on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m Inclined To Believe Floyd Landis
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, LIFE SCIENCES, WTF? on July 30, 2006 | Comments Off
Having said that, if he’s bluffing and doping was the case it’s a dark day for cycling. But I think he’s clean, and the WSJ published an intelligent piece. Booze can alter the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone, in the WSJ article: “I don’t ordinarily ever drink alcohol during a race,” he said yesterday. But [...]
Doggie Math
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, LIFE SCIENCES on February 28, 2006 | Comments Off
Don’t you wish your dog was smart like mine. An article in Science News re the math instinct in dogs was interesting: …Standing at the water’s edge, Pennings throws a tennis ball out into the waves, and Elvis eagerly retrieves it. When Pennings throws the ball at an angle to the shoreline, Elvis has several [...]
Pandemic Plug
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH, LIFE SCIENCES on February 17, 2006 | Comments Off
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have announced formation of a $200 Million Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund. From their announcement: “We will invest in companies developing fundamentally new platforms for detection, prevention and treatment of global, pathogenic infectious diseases,†said Brook Byers. “More than 15 million people worldwide die each year from infectious diseases. Over [...]
Angstrom-level Resolution Helps Solve RNAP Ladder Mystery
Posted in GEEKDOM, LIFE SCIENCES on November 15, 2005 | Comments Off
Heh, until researchers at Stanford recently figured out an new implementation of optical force clamps, traditional optical trap resolution was insufficient to view activity in realtime at the molecular level. Upon sorting the problem and creating angstrom-level resolution (which is around the size of a hydrogen atom for those keeping score), they had a historical [...]
Mouse Phermone Advertisement Songs
Posted in HEH, LIFE SCIENCES, MUSIC, PEEPS on November 2, 2005 | Comments Off
Yesterday it was monkey math, today it’s rodent rockers. As it turns out, a study of the ultrasonic vocalisations of mice mouse indicates they sing. Yep, singing male mice, singing to attract females. Timothy E. Holy and Zhongsheng Guo of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology (located in St. Louis, [...]
Monkey Math
Posted in HEH, LIFE SCIENCES on November 1, 2005 | Comments Off
FWIW, a sort of semantic congruity appears to be at work in the brains of monkeys, responsible perhaps for a type of abstract numeric processing. Duke University cognitive neuroscientists have presented findings this week in Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science claiming the neural mechanism underlying numerical perception is evolutionarily [...]
Nuking Cancer With Nanotubes
Posted in LIFE SCIENCES on August 5, 2005 | Comments Off
Cool concept here, Stanford researchers are using near-infrared-lasers to burn up cancerous cells whilst not bothering healthy cells. The clever bit involves carbon nanotubes. The cleverer bit is how researchers are getting the nanotubes in only the cancerous cells. Cancer cells have well-known surface receptors and as you know these receptors recognise specific antibodies. By [...]
Rawkin’ Artificial Lung
Posted in LIFE SCIENCES on June 16, 2005 | Comments Off
Sophisticated membrane technology using the heart as a pump enables oxygenation of blood. Such an artificial lung device has the potential to save lives due to the portability and elegant implementation. On May 23rd the device was used on a 22 year old Alhambra California man injured in a roadside blast when the tank he [...]
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