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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla.

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema.

Soon Censored? Korean Scientists Successfully Kill Cancer with Magnets. In South Korea, scientists used a magnetic field to get cancer cells to actually self-destruct.

Soon Censored? Korean Scientists Successfully Kill Cancer with Magnets

The body removes old, defective, and infected cells through the process of programmed cell death (PCD), or apoptosis. In apoptosis, the rejected cell responds to certain signals sent by the body by fragmenting. Immune cells then consume these fragments. The magnets help trigger apoptosis. When apoptosis fails, however, rejected cells divide uncontrollably, developing tumors. Magnets Induce Apoptosis Professor Jinwoo Cheon of Yonsei University in Seoul and a team of scientists conducted experiments on bowel cancer cells using magnetic fields to induce apoptosis. What Is Sea Plankton Doing On The Outside Of The ISS? There’s no oxygen, zero gravity, extreme temperatures and a constant barrage of cosmic radiation on the outside of the International Space Station.

What Is Sea Plankton Doing On The Outside Of The ISS?

So how did sea plankton get there and why is it still alive and thriving? Russian cosmonauts Olek Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov were on a routine spacewalk to launch nanosatellites (tossing them like tennis balls to Russian wolfhounds) when they noticed some dirt on the outside of the Russian side of the space station and on a window called an illuminator.

They used wipes to clean the surfaces and a later analysis of the microscopic particles identified them as sea plankton and other microorganisms. This has never been seen before, says Vladimir Solovyev, chief of the Russian ISS orbital mission. It must have been on the module when it was launched, you say? Location in Kazakhstan where space station components were launched. So how did sea plankton end up 260 miles up in space? It’s Not Your Imagination – Your Dog Gets Jealous. Dogs get jealous if their owners show interest in another dog (or even in a fake one), as confirmed by a new U.S. study.

It’s Not Your Imagination – Your Dog Gets Jealous

This finding obviously won’t surprise dog owners, who most likely have already noticed jealous behaviors in their pets. In any case, the study shows that the feeling of jealousy has deep evolutionary roots and is not an exceptional “privilege” of humans. Researchers, led by Christine Harris, professor of psychology from the University of California at San Diego, conducted an experiment which involved 36 dogs and their owners. All dogs were relatively small – weighing less than 35 pounds and shorter than 15 inches.

This was a restriction introduced by the researchers for safety reasons, as small dogs would be easier to control in case of excessive jealousy displayed during the experiment. The dog owners had to interact with different objects, including a realistic stuffed dog, a Halloween candy pail and a book, without paying attention to their pets. Fungus Turns Ants Into Zombie Antpocalypse. Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice. Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.

Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice

Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects. This drug doesn't require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies. Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human's cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone.

In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. Forces and Motion.