Science 'n Shtein

[ice grillin you]

Look straight up at the sky on there.  Is that the sun?

usually....unless its at night then its the moon

[SunMo]

Look straight up at the sky on there.  Is that the sun?

its a vent in the ceiling of the sound stage they are in

[Seabiscuit36]

I'm guessing its just an optical issue with the camera based on where it is in relation to the camera. 

[hbionic]

I say its one of the space gods looking in.

[General_Failure]

Woman's missing digits grow back in phantom form

The woman, RN, was born with just three fingers on her right hand. Aged 18, RN had the hand amputated after a car accident. She later began to feel that her missing limb was still present, and developed a "phantom" hand.

"But here's the interesting thing," says Paul McGeoch at the University of California, San Diego. "Her phantom hand didn't have three digits, it had five."

A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator.

A University of Florida scientist has created a living "brain" of cultured rat cells that now controls an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator.

Scientists say the research could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic devices and unmanned airplanes flown by living computers.

[rjs246]

And just like that, Skynet was born.

[SD]

360 view which also goes up and down of Curiosity on Mars:
http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731

[General_Failure]

The Trogloraptor is at once a new species, genus and family of spider.

[rjs246]

Inching closer to an indestructible pandemic.

[ice grillin you]

wow thats scary....they dont really explain how the new york patient got better....does the bug just run its course in some people or did something nih treated her with work

whats really interesting is what to do with people who have a bug but dont get rid of it...they basically have to be quarantined forveer  or until it leaves them or kills them

this also is another example of big government at its best

[rjs246]

Great question and I have no idea how patient zero got better, but this shtein is scary.

[Tomahawk]

Still, they found Klebsiella on a ventilator that had been bleached twice. They found it in a sink drain in a patient's room, so they tore out the plumbing. And they kept finding it in patients, at a rate of about one per week.

Damn

[General_Failure]

Disabled Chinese farmer builds his own bionic arms.

[hbionic]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/


Quiz results


26 Correct  24 Wrong

You answered 26 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 52%.

It's really not that tough a quiz....but I guess I thought I knew more than I do. 

[ice grillin you]

i got three of the first 30 correct and two of those were guesses....then i quit