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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:24 pm

"dead last of her heat in 800 meters, but yet we are all proud of you : Sarah Attar, first Saudi woman to compete in Athletics at the Olympics"
http://i.imgur.com/Bbq7Nl.png
Seems more like a typical American the way she speaks and so different than what you would think from the above photo. Nice personality I thought.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/vid ... s-16765348
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:36 am

NAA verifies new US record for human-powered helicopter flight (video)
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/12/naa- ... er-flight/
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:44 am

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1346 ... ingle-gram

"Here, we develop a strategy to encode arbitrary digital information using a novel encoding scheme that utilizes next-generation DNA synthesis and se-quencing technologies (fig. S1). We converted an html-coded draft of a book that included 53,426 words, 11 JPG images and 1 JavaScript pro-gram into a 5.27 megabit bitstream (3). We then encoded these bits onto 54,898 159nt oligonucleotides (oligos) each encoding a 96-bit data block (96nt), a 19-bit address specifying the location of the data block in the bit stream (19nt), and flanking 22nt common sequences for amplification and sequencing. The oligo library was synthesized by ink-jet printed, high-fidelity DNA microchips (8). To read the encoded book, we ampli-fied the library by limited-cycle PCR and then sequenced on a single lane of an Illumina HiSeq."
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726926/advance ... 226355.pdf

Supplementary Materials for Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA
George M. Church, Yuan Gao, Sriram Kosuri
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726926/advance ... rch.SM.pdf
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:30 am

Gamera II HPH Altitude Record 8 ft (2.5m) 8/28/2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3oUkyMae0c
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:17 pm

"Without warning, he says, a feeing of bliss, timelessness, and connectedness began to overwhelm him."
Space Euphoria: Do Our Brains Change When We Travel in Outer Space?
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... horia.html

And on the other hand ...
"And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain."
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/225221- ... tream-when
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:22 am

A good article I thought.
"For a year I had only been able to order “a coffee.” There was choice again, alongside trees, people, cars, noise and smells. Initially I was overwhelmed, and my perception and perspective flooded — this was sensory overload. It was as if I were a child again, learning things for the first time, except with prior memories. I felt free."
"In remote environments, people undergo a well-studied change and can develop “winter-over syndrome,” which can involve depression, irritability, anger, insomnia, inability to concentrate and avoidance tactics — not to mention the ‘1,000-yard (Antarctic) stare.” I saw it and felt it; no one in our crew was spared."
http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.co ... the-world/
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:52 pm

We Won't Be Able To Understand Everything
http://www.edge.org/response-detail/23670

Fundamental Statement of Prof. Doron Zeilberger's Ultrafinitism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8AyJrTJNx4
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Post by Mark » Thu May 02, 2013 8:57 pm

"I was so excited, I couldn't sleep," recalls Chirarattananon, co-lead author of a paper published this week in Science.
Robotic insects make first controlled flight
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-event ... led-flight
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Post by Mark » Sat May 04, 2013 2:40 am

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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:32 am

Strangely funny review of a jam jar wine. I was thinking it would be amusing to try to modify the bottle in order to make it "jam jar".
Wine Review #4 - Part 1: Shiraz?! jam jar 2009, Peter Lehmann Clanc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_8X0ItKZhI#t=2m2s
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:10 pm

Stories of when things go wrong. Really wrong.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-a ... act=3#play
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:00 pm

Maybe they will be fueling future jam jars. ha

Future Beaumont methanol plant to be largest in country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwF4g3KYpW8

"The plant would cost more than $1 billion and produce about 1.75 million tons of methanol per year, according to the company, OCI N.V. The plant will be build by OCI N.V. subsidiary Natgasoline."
Nation’s largest methanol plant planned for Texas
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/11/21/nati ... for-texas/
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Re: Left field

Post by Mark » Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:27 pm

This fellow even created nostalgic model toy kits to go along with the pretense. Seems like something Larry C. would have liked, he was into retro stuff I recall. Definitely a surreal left field endeavor - Project Wool Over Your Eyes. The ammo box with the RAYOVAC battery and accessories hurts my head to the extent he took this train of thought.

"to create the illusion that a jet-powered scooter, officially named the Grand Thrust Star 100, was developed during the Cold War and used extensively across the United States."
A PULSE-JET POWERED SCOOTER – DREAMS OF FLIGHT BY RANDY REGIER
https://silodrome.com/pulse-jet-powered-scooter/
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