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Weird & Interesting science
04-03-2019, 06:56 AM
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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.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-03-2019, 09:52 AM
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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04-04-2019, 06:11 PM
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04-04-2019, 09:21 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-10-2019, 03:45 PM
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
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-10-2019, 04:21 PM
(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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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-12-2019, 07:35 AM
(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
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![[Image: m87_black_hole_size_comparison.png]](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/m87_black_hole_size_comparison.png)
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-12-2019, 10:09 AM
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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04-12-2019, 02:28 PM
Yeah, I thought that too. And I don't even like bagelsthat much!
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04-12-2019, 06:44 PM
I was thinking a Cheerio, myself.
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04-13-2019, 04:23 AM
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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04-13-2019, 07:09 AM
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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04-13-2019, 09:27 AM
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04-14-2019, 08:12 AM
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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04-18-2019, 07:26 AM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-19-2019, 07:23 PM
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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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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-19-2019, 07:47 PM
(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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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-19-2019, 09:48 PM
Well. That explains Twilight vampires.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-20-2019, 01:10 AM
(04-19-2019, 09:48 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Well. That explains Twilight vampires.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-24-2019, 02:54 AM
Dammit BA!!!! You are making me guilty of alcohol abuse!!!
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07-30-2019, 12:00 PM
https://www.biotechniques.com/dna-sequen...inst-them/
Parasitic plants taking host plant genes to become better parasites
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08-01-2019, 06:06 PM
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08-01-2019, 09:08 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
08-02-2019, 01:32 AM
*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.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
08-02-2019, 03:51 AM
Ctulhu Mythos reference, I don't get any further than that Star Ranger.
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