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Weird & Interesting science
Weird & Interesting science
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(Thought I'd try to make a thread for the weird and interesting science posts people run across)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30922800

Skrillex reduces mosquito bites.  "The electronic song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" reduces host attack and mating success in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti."

I know that it popped up in the news on 4/1, but it is an actual paper.

RMH
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I can sympathize, dubstep tends to offend my inner ear with its sharp artificial beats and reduce my interest in food or other appetites as well.
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‎noli esse culus
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Our farming ancestors are the reason we can say 'f' words today
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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https://www.livescience.com/65107-tiny-f...dlets.html

Toads with fluorescent bones.
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Several today

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/scien...ution.html

New human species existed in the Philippines - May have been shorter than Homo Floresiensis (the hobbits)



https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scien...ket-newtab

New phase of matter that acts as solid & liquid at the same time


and the one that's all over the place - first picture of a black hole

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873592

RMH
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(04-10-2019, 03:45 PM)RMH99 Wrote: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scien...ket-newtab

New phase of matter that acts as solid & liquid at the same time

I'm sorry that just annoys me. The solid-liquid-gas thing is a very old idea and like most very old ideas, it's a gross oversimplification. There are lots of materials that combine the properties of solids and liquids, starting with a bucket of fine dry sand, which would behave as a liquid despite being made up of solid particles.

Professionally, I spend a lot of time measuring the damping of rubber compounds, which is a measure of the ratio between them acting like a liquid and acting like a solid.
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(04-10-2019, 03:45 PM)RMH999 Wrote: and the one that's all over the place - first picture of a black hole

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873592

RMH

xkcd puts it into perspective:

[Image: m87_black_hole_size_comparison.png]
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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So that's a black hole. Does anyone else think it looks like a bagel under heat lamps, or is my diet making me see everything as food?
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Yeah, I thought that too. And I don't even like bagelsthat much!
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I was thinking a Cheerio, myself.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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I was just wondering if it would really look like what they did in the movie, Interstellar, but I guess that just means I'm the true nerd around here. :V :V :V :V
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According to the article I read about how they created the effect, the astrophysicist consulted was surprised by it but then realized the answer was probably that it would, and it's not like there's enough resolution to the image to say that no, none of that bright ring is the light of stars around and beyond it bent into that kind of halo.
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Funny you should ask...

How does Interstellar measure up against the first photo of an actual black hole? - a conversation with the movie's SFX designer.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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https://newatlas.com/fecal-transplants-a...ion/59278/

Showing again that the gut microbiota in humans has a lot more effect on us than we realize.
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Helium hydride found in nature
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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Humans are bioluminescent

Admittedly incredibly faint bioluminescence...

*edit* Drat, didn't check the date. Is old news (2009)
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(04-19-2019, 07:23 PM)RMH999 Wrote: Humans are bioluminescent

Admittedly incredibly faint bioluminescence...

I recall seeing something about this years ago. Sure enough, the paper is dated 2009.
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Well. That explains Twilight vampires.
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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(04-19-2019, 09:48 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Well.  That explains Twilight vampires.

*rimshot*
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Dammit BA!!!! You are making me guilty of alcohol abuse!!!
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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https://www.biotechniques.com/dna-sequen...inst-them/

Parasitic plants taking host plant genes to become better parasites
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Mysterious green icebergs from Antarctica might be fertilizing the southern ocean
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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(08-01-2019, 06:06 PM)robkelk Wrote: Mysterious green icebergs from Antarctica might be fertilizing the southern ocean
"Tekeli-li!  Tekeli-li!"
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
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*gives DH a 'Seriously?!?!?' look*

Hate to tell you this, but I understood the science in the article Rob referenced more understandable than your quip.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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Ctulhu Mythos reference, I don't get any further than that Star Ranger.
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