Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram. A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0). Www.nickbostrom.com/superintelligentwill.pdf. Nothing Sacred. Kissing Hank's Ass. "Effing the ineffable since 1996" Looking over my most recent articles I notice that they tend to be pretty negative. That's not really the kind of person I am. Or at least not the kind of person I want to be. So I thought it might be nice to get away from mocking religion for a while and instead talk about one of my heroes: Adam Savage. Adam Savage is the host of "Mythbusters," a science reality show on The Discovery Channel.
But "Mythbusters" isn't why Adam Savage is my hero. He discusses everything from the value of failure to the construction of a replica Maltese falcon. On top of all that, he makes no secret about being an atheist, while at the same time never being an ass about it. As it happens, I live just across the bay from the Mythbusters' home base at M5 Industries. But here's the strange thing: even though I've lived here for 8 1/2 years, I've never seen Adam Savage in person. Proof from Coolest Name.
The Four Horsemen HD: Hour 1 of 2 - Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Ep 1. Scientists Confirm that Plants Talk and Listen To Each Other, Communication Crucial for Survival. When a South African botanist Lyall Watson claimed in 1973 that plants had emotions that could be recorded on a lie detector test, he was dismissed by many in the scientific community.
However, new research, published in the journal Trends in Plant Science, has revealed that plants not only respond to sound, but they also communicate to each other by making "clicking" sounds. Using powerful loudspeakers, researchers at The University of Western Australia were able to hear clicking sounds coming from the roots of corn saplings. Researchers at Bristol University also found that when they suspended the young roots in water and played a continuous noise at 220Hz, a similar frequency to the plant clicks, they found that the plants grew towards the source of the sound. "Everyone knows that plants react to light, and scientists also know that plants use volatile chemicals to communicate with each other, for instance, when danger - such as a herbivore - approaches," Dr. A Trip Through The Universe. - “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” - Another trip through the Universe travelling at the speed of light.
Again it gives you the perspective of actually tiy we are and how vast the Universe actually is. The Milky Way is a huge city of stars, so big that even at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to travel across it. Beyond our own galaxy lies a vast expanse of galaxies. The deeper we see into space, the more galaxies we discover.
Fallacies A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning.
The list of fallacies contains 209 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides brief explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacies should not be persuasive, but they often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created intentionally in order to deceive other people. The vast majority of the commonly identified fallacies involve arguments, although some involve explanations, or definitions, or other products of reasoning. Sometimes the term "fallacy" is used even more broadly to indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. An informal fallacy is fallacious because of both its form and its content.
The discussion that precedes the long alphabetical list of fallacies begins with an account of the ways in which the term "fallacy" is vague. 18 Photos Of Albert Einstein Being Super Chill. Future - Science & Environment - Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist? Are we alone?
It is a question that has occupied mankind for centuries. Today, we live in an age of exploration, where robots on Mars and planet-hunting telescopes are beginning to allow us to edge closer to an answer. While we wait to establish contact, one technique we can use back on Earth is an equation that American astronomer Frank Drake formulated in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations may exist in the Milky Way galaxy. It is not a rigorous equation, offering a wide range of possible answers. Instead it is more a tool used to help understand how many worlds might be out there and how those estimates change as missions like Kepler, a telescope that is currently searching for Earth-like planets, begin to discover more about our universe.