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Main Forums => Anarchy => Topic started by: BizB on May 23, 2014, 04:08:45 PM
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Ok... Norm(NORM!)ally, when I find links like this, I keep them to myself and dole out the favorites as I find them interesting. Though, normally, I'm not surrounded by the amazing likes of people like you. So, I'm posting the link, here. What I'd like for you to do is pick one link per week and explore how it is amazing to you and post something about that here. Post it elsewhere, if you'd like. But, whatever you do... post it here.
http://futureseek.wordpress.com/
The only thing happening faster than change is the rate at which we're seeing change happen. Be part of that avalanche.
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To clarify - you want us to pick from this list? Or just to find a mindblowing "we live in the future" link and discuss it? Either way, I'm in. :hmm:
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Either. I'm amazed at the amount of daily content.
The only thing that is happening faster than change is the rate at which change is happening.
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Why Is The Future So Boring? (http://www.patrickmccray.com/2014/05/20/why-is-the-future-so-boring/)
Because we live in the post-science-fiction golden age and our current state of technology has taught generations what is possible.... and humans are impatient.
Myself, I don't consider the future boring. I'm excited for it, even though I may not live to see some of the things that I know are likely coming.
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I read this The Biomechanics Behind Amazing Ant Strength (http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-biomechanics-behind-amazing-ant-strength) right after I watched a video about Geckskin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SayqhqTZoxI). Putting seemingly unrelated things together as I am want to do, I realized that we are going to soon have exoskeleton suits that will allow us to climb walls with heavy packs on our heads. Or... something. Clearly, I haven't spent a great deal of time/effort coming up with good applications of these technologies combined. But rest assured, they will be.
Robots that can scale buildings to wash windows and carry their own water!
Pizza delivery robots that can bring enough pizza for the hole area!
More!
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Thanks Obama...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/23/thanks-to-budget-cuts-we-may-never-know-for-sure-why-the-universe-is-expanding/?tid=rssfeed
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Combine these (http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/24/roombots-furniture/) with Geckskin and you may be onto something.
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I clicked Jupiter's red spot is mysteriously shrinking (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/05/22/jupiters-red-spot-is-mysteriously-shrinking/) and found out that apparently it's more of a mystery what's been keeping the storm going this whole time.
Aside from the blog, I've been interested in something a bit more mainstream (simply because of IBM's advertising) which was "atomic level" storage:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/7920/
I'm curious about the marketing aspect, but mainly my life would be so much easier if storage admins just had more space and didn't have to hassle me all the time with their made-up math about why they should have more available space than they do.
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ICs are currently being designed at the 12/16 nm level. The researchers are planning now for the 3, 5, 7 nm level. This coupled with the infinite possibilities in materials science mean that the death of Moore's Law was a bit premature. Undead Moore's Law FTW, plus it's a pretty darn good band name.
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http://www.gizmag.com/the-archimedes-liam-f1-urban-wind-turbine/32263/
With a price tag over $5K, assuming this turbine would be capable of eliminating my on-grid electrical needs, I estimate that it would take 6 years to pay for itself.
I suppose that's not bad.
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Woah...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/learn-new-skills-with-superhuman-speed
Just amazing.
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http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/29/5762946/new-stargate-film-trilogy-is-happening-with-original-director
Yes. Just... yes... please.
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Woah...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/learn-new-skills-with-superhuman-speed
Just amazing.
Concur. Pretty cool stuff.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/beam-me-up-scientists-say-human-teleportation-is-possible-1.1815010
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How Radioactive Is Our Ocean? (http://ourradioactiveocean.org/)
My colleague Ken Buesseler is probably the world's leading expert on natural and anthropogenic radioactivity in the ocean. So naturally he got inundated with requests from the public to find out how much Fukushima radiation is in their water. Which he'd be totally into, but because there are no conceivable health risks in the US from this he can't get any funding from US funding agencies to study it. So, he's got a crowdfunded effort going, you can get together with some folks, pick a site, raise some $, Ken will send you a kit to sample the water, and Ken's tech Spike will analyze it and you'll see how much cesium-134 (Fukushima) and cesium-137 (atmospheric nuclear testing '40s to '70s) are in the water. It's pretty cool. But the coolest thing about this is the astonishing sensitivity of the equipment. He can measure radiation as low as 1 Bq per cubic meter - 1 Bq is one radioactive decay per second. So basically he's catching and counting individual gamma rays, quantifying their energy (so you know which isotopes they come from) and adding them up. That's ... that's amazing. It's like you've got Maxwell's Demon as your lab tech.
This website sucks in many ways (oh my god so much Flash ... so much shitty Flash), but it's full of useful info about radiation in the ocean, which you can use to startle your enemies and embarrass your friends.
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But the coolest thing about this is the astonishing sensitivity of the equipment. He can measure radiation as low as 1 Bq per cubic meter - 1 Bq is one radioactive decay per second. So basically he's catching and counting individual gamma rays, quantifying their energy (so you know which isotopes they come from) and adding them up. That's ... that's amazing. It's like you've got Maxwell's Demon as your lab tech.
Whoa, W.T.F.? How the hell is he doing that? :-o
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Frickin' Lasers!
http://m.phys.org/news/2014-06-laser-device-alcohol-cars.html
I wonder how the 4th amendment would protect against the application of such a device in the USA.
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Whoa, W.T.F.? How the hell is he doing that? :-o
Germanium detector gamma spectrometer - these deelies I htink http://www.canberra.com/products/detectors/germanium-detectors.asp - also, like, three days of measurement per sample.
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also, like, three days of measurement per sample.
Ahhhhhhhhh, okay. That'll do it. Really, that's about the only way you can detect stuff that minute.
While I was soaking up government-issue radiation, I underwent yearly rad monitoring to determine how much radioactive particulate might be nested in lung tissue.
For that, I got to sit in front of a shielded radiac that was pointed at my chest.... for about 30 minutes straight. I'd sit there, reading a book, and it would just quietly soak up any gamma or neutron radiation anything floating in my lungs might be emitting, and because you can only make a detector so sensitive, the time is necessary to make any measurements that fine.
As a side note, my lungs were always really clean as far as radiologicals go. That's because I took anti-contamination equipment very seriously in my work then, something I'm sure my lungs thank me for now (which is about when I'd be developing lung cancer if I'd had any significant inhaled exposure in my 20s).
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I knew this was Future Seek but I'm bleary eyed and just read it as Future Self Links, so so I checked it out (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pbsaurus+in+the+future&l=1)
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http://www.space.com/26112-how-spacex-dragons-taxi-to-iss-will-self-land-animation.html
Worthless without animation of the dudes inside getting out after the landing! How do we know they survived the animation process?
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:galm:
HECTAR.
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http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/06/drugs-reveals-cancer-tumors-to-immune.html
I love the future we're about to live in. Once science (Google) solves that pesky mortality issue, rich people will be able to keep their money FOR EVER!
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http://inhabitat.com/scientists-develop-worlds-lightest-metal-100x-lighter-than-styrofoam/
Unbelievable.
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\m/
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Not from futureseek, but a link that I want you to enjoy.
http://tldrwikipedia.tumblr.com/
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http://www.livescience.com/46462-smart-glass-smartphone-cameras.html?
This is pretty cool. Eventually, we won't need DSLRs to capture the best of possible shots. We'll have post-processing focus ability and all the features of our expensive cameras built into our mobile devices.
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Because of their size, smartphone cameras currently don’t have aperture mechanisms. "There is no technology today that can realize an iris aperture for smartphone cameras," said Tobias Deutschmann, physicist at the Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern in Germany and lead-author of the study.
Um. That's gotta be a translation error. That said, the glass sounds really cool.
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UW-Madison scientists find the recipe for blood:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/22991
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Pull my finger! It'll save your life.
http://time.com/2976464/rotten-eggs-hydrogen-sulfide-mitochondria/
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UW-Madison scientists find the recipe for blood:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/22991
Holy crap. That's Nobel worthy.
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Also: This (http://mic.com/articles/88851/harvard-scientists-may-have-just-unlocked-the-secret-to-staying-young-forever)
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Also: This (http://mic.com/articles/88851/harvard-scientists-may-have-just-unlocked-the-secret-to-staying-young-forever)
OOooh yessss
This article is not an endorsement of bathing in the blood of virgins.
Damn. Oh well.
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Holy crap. That's Nobel worthy.
And OF COURSE the research is done by a guy whose name suggests he could be related to a guy named Vlad...
v-v
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Eek (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-s-magnetic-field-flip-could-happen-sooner-than-expected/?&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20140716)
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Does this mean that we would have to replace the drains in Austria with the one's in Australia?
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I'm trying to get my engineers to install a little electronic magnetic compass in the buoy system we're developing so we can tell if it's spinning. No point, if magnetic north's gonna be pointing to Indiana.
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Don't drink and climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikH9ZRcF2Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikH9ZRcF2Q)
Know your limits, and please drink acorningly.
(I realize it's an old video, but I only saw it for the first time today)
P.S. A nice youtube embedding tag would go great with the curtains.
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It was new again when I saw it yesterday.
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Recycling, SpaceX style (http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/140723video/)
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Mobile Solar (http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/08/14/nrg-energy-buys-solar-start-up-goal-zero/?smid=tw-share)
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Excellent. Personal power is one of the keys to sustainable energy production/use in the next decade. (IMHO)
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Mobile Solar (http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/08/14/nrg-energy-buys-solar-start-up-goal-zero/?smid=tw-share)
I've seen Goalzero stuff at REI recently. I'm intrigued. Good for camping, if you stay in camp. That's always been the obstacle - when do you deploy the panel? if you leave it in your camp for the day while you're out hiking or something there's a good chance it'll walk off. Anyway, interesting.
And can I just say that "Ocean Yuan" is a pretty awesome name? Yes.
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Biometric defense system would prevent it from walking off.
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Biometric defense system? Ooh yeah, trained squirrels
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That's a possibility, I was thinking a strong electric shock to anyone who touched it without the proper biometrics, though.
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Holy shit -- it worked (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lanow-ln-earthquake-earlywarning-system-gave-10second-alert-before-napa-quake-felt-20140824-story.html).
I did not expect that
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Thank God. My children need wine!
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Children with autism 'have too many synapses in their brain' - Medical News Today (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/281463.php)
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I saw that last week.
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You see that every day! :hug:
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Booze reduces my synapses.
Prevention, people.
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I'm going to put this here in case I need it later:
(http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/go_fuck_yourself_cactus_disney.gif)
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:applause:
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http://gizmodo.com/these-ant-sized-radios-might-power-the-internet-of-thin-1633891966?
I am so excited about the advances that we'll make over the next 50 years. I just hope we don't destroy ourselves before then.
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http://phys.org/news/2014-09-buckyballs-diamondoids-tiny-electronic-nosehair clipper.html
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Evidence Suggesting Re-running Evolutionary History would Produce the Same Results.
A large, ambitious study exploring the evolutionary trajectories of 640 different strains of yeast cells over 500 generations sampled every 12 hours and originating from a single parent cell has generated strong evidence that re-running evolution results in organsims arriving at the same end point http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140911-evolutions-random-paths-all-lead-to-the-same-place/. This goes against conventional evolutionary thinking. The study shows that, regarding evolutionary trajectories, the initial mutations accounting for genotypic differences invariably leads to convergence rather than divergence at the fitness level. This suggests that if we started life on this planet from scratch we would evolve in a similar fashion and broadly arrive at the same point. The work also suggests a disconnect between evolution at the genetic level and at the level of the whole organism.
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Hmmmm.
I've seen lots of genetic simulations that produce surprisingly familiar results, suggesting that the convergence thing is not exactly a new result. I think this is just the anthropic principle at work.
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Oh BY THE WAY! CalISO's real time and forecast electricity use and capacity charts (http://www.caiso.com/Pages/TodaysOutlook.aspx#SupplyandDemand) now include a graphic panel for renewables. COOL.
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Oh BY THE WAY! CalISO's real time and forecast electricity use and capacity charts (http://www.caiso.com/Pages/TodaysOutlook.aspx#SupplyandDemand) now include a graphic panel for renewables. COOL.
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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So, your phone - in your pocket - will be able to identify the gesture you just made to do any number of commands? Cool.
http://www.geek.com/science/new-smartphone-gesture-control-system-uses-wireless-transmissions-instead-of-cameras-1605085/
Do your kids a favour and ask them for lots of details when they tell you stories as a toddler.
http://www.businessinsider.com/women-have-better-memories-than-men-2014-9?
If your job involves presenting at a client's location, this might be worth keeping in your laptop bag.
http://gizmodo.com/microsofts-wireless-display-adapter-makes-your-tv-a-sec-1638179841?
The Future Crime Division of your local PD could use your cell phone data to predict crime patterns
http://www.khq.com/story/26606919/researchers-believe-future-crimes-can-be-predicted-by-analyzing-mobile-data
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http://www.businessinsider.com/women-have-better-memories-than-men-2014-9?
No.shit. They needed science to back this up?
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No.shit. They needed science to back this up?
Which one were you again?
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Which one were you again?
:slap
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The memory is the second thing to go.
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No it isn't. Well maybe. I forget what the first is.
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The links I clicked on today...
http://gizmodo.com/samsung-has-made-wi-fi-thats-five-times-faster-due-201-1645593796? -- Apple will claim they invented it first.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531646/instead-of-google-glass-how-about-a-tiny-telescope/ -- Yea!... no.
http://gizmodo.com/remember-how-facebook-is-experimenting-with-friend-to-f-1645607534? -- another one on the pile.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141013.html -- disappointing
http://www.businessinsider.com/diamond-nanothreads-make-space-elevator-2014-10? -- Actually read about this on Sunday thanks to Mark Bruce, but this is a good write up about it.
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/incredible-photo-of-an-f-18-zooming-through-the-golden-1645700221/+ericlimer? -- incredulous, not incredible
http://www.forbes.com/sites/avigilon/2014/10/13/the-digital-physical-world-in-2020/ -- Is your business prepared for this?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/peter-thiel-on-apple-mbas-and-startup-creation/17059735/ -- This one will take some time to read (haven't done that yet).
http://time.com/3502215/this-alzheimers-breakthrough-could-be-a-game-changer/? -- My future is looking like I may remember my past after all.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/welcome-to-prepper-camp/381351/?single_page=true -- I didn't expect this to be about preppers based on the link text. I personally hope I don't survive a catastrophic event like these guys are preparing for.
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6957627/dentist-rip-off They're not anti-Semite, they're anti-Dentite! </Seinfeld>
http://rw.runnersworld.com/sub-2/ -- I used to be a runner...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141013090227.htm? -- Ummm... already done - mostly (http://www.wolfram.com/)
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/badass-airplane-pilot-extinguishes-truck-fire-with-one-1645598971/+jesusdiaz? - he shoots, he scores!
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Today's reading list:
Flies
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29596438 -- The more we know, the better off we'll be.
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-flies-are-responsible-beers-tasty-fruity-smells -- more fly news
Beer
http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-recreate-170-year-old-beer-2014-10?
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-flies-are-responsible-beers-tasty-fruity-smells -- more fly news (Same as above)
http://io9.com/our-planet-just-experienced-the-warmest-six-month-stret-1646120867? -- This space intentionally left blank
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/robotic-followers/ -- makes me wonder just how long it will take before we find practical uses for every-day robots
https://www.airdog.com/# -- Linked from the above. I want.
https://medium.com/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2014/top-10-emerging-technologies-2014-e2f15db3ad2 -- TL;DR (yet)
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141014.html -- gorgeous
http://www.scientificamerican.com/report/cancer-research-advances/
http://www.exponentialorgs.com/ -- may add this to my reading list
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/new-gulfstream-jets-flight-decks-look-like-sci-fi-space-1646201208/+megneal? -- how the other half (1%) lives
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/14/us-usa-housing-foreclosures-insight-idUSKCN0I30BU20141014 -- Thinking about walking away from that mortgage? Think again.
Smart home
http://www.businessinsider.com/jason-johnson-yves-behar-august-founders-2014-10? #1
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2014/10/14/august-lock-is-promising-but-not-something-to-latch-onto/17226179/ -- Another August story.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/14/british-gas-hive-connected-home/