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Angry Scientist Finds Uneducated Internet Comment And Delivers Badass Response... What If The Sun Disappeared? Dear parents, you are being lied to. Note: The content of this article was written by Dr.

Dear parents, you are being lied to.

Jennifer Raff for her blog, Violent Metaphors. It is being rehosted here with permission. You can click on the above hyperlink to view the original and engage in the lively discussion in the comments section. In light of recent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine preventable illnesses, and the refusal of anti-vaccination advocates to acknowledge the problem, I thought it was past time for this post. Dear parents, You are being lied to. They say that measles isn’t a deadly disease. KmeZXh0.jpg (550×1414) Microparticles allow you to live without breathing. Although it may seem like science fiction, a Boston research group has developed a type of microparticles which can be injected directly into the bloodstream to oxygenate your body quickly … even if we could not breathe.

Microparticles allow you to live without breathing

An extraordinary advancement in medicine that could help to save millions of lives in a year. According to the doctors, this development would allow medical teams to keep patients alive 15 to 30 minutes even though they may have severe respiratory failure. A time for medical teams in which they could act without risk for a heart attack or permanent brain injury. The first tests in animals are completed with a success. They say that doctors are able to inject this liquid into a vein restoring blood oxygen levels , giving the animals who needed those extra minutes . And from what these particles are composed? Particles of oxygen acids of two to four microns in size. According to John Kheir, principal investigator who solved the problem using deformable particles: Scientist creates lifelike cells out of metal. Scientists trying to create artificial life generally work under the assumption that life must be carbon-based, but what if a living thing could be made from another element?

Scientist creates lifelike cells out of metal

Science, You So Crazy: Transparent Aluminum Made in Lab. Star Trek fans will already be familiar with the concept of transparent aluminum – but who knew it really exists?

Science, You So Crazy: Transparent Aluminum Made in Lab

The fantasy material isn’t fantasy anymore. It’s here, it’s clear, and it’s completely awesome. Transparent aluminum was created in a lab at Oxford University by blasting thin aluminum foil with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. The flash knocked out a core electron from each aluminum atom without affecting the metal’s structure. The resulting material is not only useful for fun product packaging and (maybe) re-enacting Star Trek IV, but it can also help scientists understand nuclear fusion a little better.

Evidence Meltdown- Nuclear Power not so dangerous. The green movement has misled the world about the dangers of radiation.

Evidence Meltdown- Nuclear Power not so dangerous

By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th April 2011 Over the past fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged and wildly wrong. I began to see the extent of the problem after a debate last week with Helen Caldicott(1). First she sent me nine documents: newspaper articles, press releases and an advertisement. I pressed her further and she gave me a series of answers that made my heart sink – in most cases they referred to publications which either had little or no scientific standing, which did not support her claims or which contradicted them. 5 Seemingly Random Factors That Control Your Memory. We have all experienced zone-out moments when we know we totally should remember something that has apparently been deleted from our brain's hard drive against our will. That's because the human brain is a haphazard, messy machine that glitches at the slightest, strangest provocation.

However, our old friend science has tracked down some of the completely random things that decide whether or not your memory will choose to function at that particular moment. Game Theory. First published Sat Jan 25, 1997; substantive revision Wed May 5, 2010 Game theory is the study of the ways in which strategic interactions among economic agents produce outcomes with respect to the preferences (or utilities) of those agents, where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents.

Game Theory

The meaning of this statement will not be clear to the non-expert until each of the italicized words and phrases has been explained and featured in some examples. Doing this will be the main business of this article. First, however, we provide some historical and philosophical context in order to motivate the reader for the technical work ahead. Carbon Nanotubes. Transmission electron microscopy of carbon nanotubes: a warning.

Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotube science and technology Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale tubes of graphitic carbon with outstanding properties. They are among the stiffest and strongest fibres known, and have remarkable electronic properties and many other unique characteristics. For these reasons they have attracted huge academic and industrial interest, with thousands of papers on nanotubes being published every year. Commercial applications have been rather slow to develop, however, primarily because of the high production costs of the best quality nanotubes.

David Tong: String Theory. Awesome History of Maths Lecture. Physicists Quantum Teleport Photons Over 88 Miles.