Biology was comparatively boring by the time I got there, but if you were in high school sometime in the 70s, maybe you’ve seen this. The only way I can even begin to explain this is with a conspiracy theory: Jim Morrison took a season off from touring with the Doors to teach Bio II. They should have just called this, “Hey, there’s LSD in my mRNA!”
I still know absolutely nothing about protein synthesis, but TIL that video in the 70s was terrible.
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These etched PBC Time Lord symbols were made by George Hadley, who was inspired by the Gallifreyan artwork used on the artifacts and relics in the show. The DIYer in me wants to take the afternoon off and make a set for my house; these are awesome.
Students from the University of Adelaide’s School of Mechanical Engineering have build a pretty cool human operated diwheel as a school project, and I must say, the thing looks REALLY fun to drive, even though it might make me a bit nauseated after a while. Check it out:
This project by students in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Adelaide involved the construction of a human operated diwheel called EDWARD. Many diwheels in the past have been human powered or powered by IC engines. This one is purely electric. It has additional functionality lacking in other models, including inbuilt dynamic lateral stability and slosh control to prevent “gerbiling” or tumbling in aggressive braking or acceleration maneuvers. The diwheel also incorporates a unique feature that allows the rider to drive the vehicle when “upside down” – keeping the vehicle in its unstable state.
One in four US hackers is secretly working for law enforcement agencies according to a hacker magazine.
Eric Corley of 2600 made the estimate in an interview with the Guardian newspaper. (If 2600 sounds familiar, it’s the magazine of a website that maintains, among other things, a list of words and phrases banned from Google’s Instant Search feature, which has now been updated to include “rosy palm and her 5 sisters” and futanari, the Japanese word for hermaphrodite.)
According to Corley, hackers are a particularly vulnerable target for being persuaded to become government enforcers. That’s a combination of hackers often being people with little other experience of being threatened with criminal charges, and the comparatively hefty sentences that can follow.
The Guardian claims that many online forums dedicated to trading in illicit information such as stolen credit cards are being run by people now working for the FBI, with those posting on such sites being left to incriminate themselves.
It’s even speculated this trend may be the real inspiration for the recent attacks by the LulzSec hacker group on Infragard, an organization that works with the FBI. For its part, LulzSec claimed the attack was motivated by the US government’s recent decision to designate some forms of cyber-attack as an act of war which could entail a military response. That seems an off claim as the designation referred only to cases where the specific involvement of a foreign government could be proven.
To be fair, it’s worth remembering the one in four figure is based on a single claim that isn’t backed by any published detail. It is possible it is exaggerated, which certainly wouldn’t do the cause of law enforcement agencies any harm. In particular, the ratio will depend entirely on how the total number of “hackers” is classified.
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a “Chickenosaurus”.
