Collective-Evolution. Update: Coke responds and cleverly tries to bring other safe products into the spotlight in order to suggest their product is just as safe. Coke is the most valuable brand in history, and “Coca-Cola” is the world’s second-most recognized word after “hello.” However, the beverage itself is an absolute poison to the human metabolism. Coke is very close to the acidity level of battery acid and consequently it can clean surfaces equivalent to and often better than many toxic household cleaners.
It’s cheaper and easier to buy Coke in some third world countries than it is to access clean water. Coke uses “public relations propaganda” to convince consumers and entire nations that it is an “environmental company” when really it is linked to pollution, water shortages, and disease. The carbonation in Coke causes calcium loss in the bones through a 3-stage process: But, the story doesn’t end there. Source: When we target chemophobia, are we punching down? | Doing Good Science. Over at Pharyngula, Chris Clarke challenges those in the chemical know on their use of “dihydrogen monoxide” jokes. He writes: Doing what I do for a living, I often find myself reading things on Facebook, Twitter, or those increasingly archaic sites called “blogs” in which the writer expresses concern about industrial effluent in our air, water, consumer products or food.
Sometimes the concerns are well-founded, as in the example of pipeline breaks releasing volatile organic chemicals into your backyard. Sometimes, as in the case of concern over chemtrails or toxic vaccines, the concerns are ill-informed and spurious.And often enough, the educational system in the United States being the way it’s been since the Reagan administration, those concerns are couched in terms that would not be used by a person with a solid grounding in science. Two hydrogens, one oxygen … what’s coming out of your tap here is water.
Hilarious! Clarke explains: The First Image Ever of a Hydrogen Atom's Orbital Structure. Scientific publishing: Changing Nature. How new cancer drugs are developed. Living with cancer blog Have you ever wondered how new drugs are created and approved for the treatment of cancer? Every year, researchers study and develop new treatments in hopes of finding just the right connection to stop or prevent the growth of cancer cells. While it may seem that every day we hear about a new cancer treatment that's available, the tedious process can be 8-10 years in the making. The agency regulating drug approval is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is in charge of making sure that new drugs, vaccines, gene therapies and other biological treatments are safe and effective before they are released on the market for standard treatment for cancer patients.
To make certain that new drugs are safe and effective, first the new drug is studied in the laboratory and with animals. After the first phase of study is complete, it moves on to Phase II to study how the new drug works against a specific cancer. 6 Things You Didn't Know About STEM Jobs and Students. There are still an overwhelming number of occupations that require specialized skills and talent, but not enough qualified professionals who are applying for or filling those positions.
There is still a movement to entice female students, minority students—heck, all students—to pursue an education followed by an occupation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. But interest in these fields is increasing, according to a new national report released by STEMconnector, a STEM information database, and My College Options, a college-planning website that uses questionnaires to collect data on students' interests and career aspirations.
The report—Where are the STEM Students? What are Their Career Interests? Where are the STEM Jobs? —pegs the STEM interests of one million high school students in the United States and documents how their interest correlates with the STEM workforce to come in five years. [Read: 4 Tips for Overcoming the Skills Gap.] 1. 2. 3. 4. Science News From Around the Web.
Suzy Allman for The New York Times "Peter", a mixed-breed puppy participant in Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl 2012. Adorable Aggression: Seeing something cute may trigger aggressive behavior, reports Popular Science. In one study, pictures of super-cute animals generated agitated responses like “It’s so fluffy I want to die!” Another study allowed respondents to pop bubble wrap as they looked at cute photos. The cuter the animal, the more aggressive the response, and the more bubbles people popped. Deep Brain Stimulation for Autism: Electrodes implanted deep in the brain of a 13-year-old boy with severe autism have enabled him to live a more normal life, reports ScienceNews.org.The treatment reduced his destructive behavior and allowed the formerly nonverbal boy to speak a few words. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A self-driving car was displayed at Google's headquarters.
It’s the Driver’s Fault: Driverless cars may be on the road as soon as 2020. Croc-o-dolph? Evan Sung for The New York Times. Quantum gas goes below absolute zero. PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek/Thinkstock Temperature in a gas can reach below absolute zero thanks to a quirk of quantum physics. It may sound less likely than hell freezing over, but physicists have created an atomic gas with a sub-absolute-zero temperature for the first time1. Their technique opens the door to generating negative-Kelvin materials and new quantum devices, and it could even help to solve a cosmological mystery. Lord Kelvin defined the absolute temperature scale in the mid-1800s in such a way that nothing could be colder than absolute zero. Physicists later realized that the absolute temperature of a gas is related to the average energy of its particles. Absolute zero corresponds to the theoretical state in which particles have no energy at all, and higher temperatures correspond to higher average energies.
Schneider and his colleagues reached such sub-absolute-zero temperatures with an ultracold quantum gas made up of potassium atoms. 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012. A New, Genetically Distinct Lion Population is Found. In a twist on the Lion King’s “Circle of Life,” a group of researchers identified a population of genetically distinct lions—in a zoo. The finding came after an Addis Ababa zoo asked researchers in its sister city of Leipzig to help prove that their lions not only looked unusual, but were genetically unique. The finding would help the struggling zoo to obtain funding to continue breeding the lions and to improve their living conditions. The Addis Ababa zoo lions have dark manes and small bodies, unlike other African lions. But life in captivity can sometimes influence appearance. A team of researchers, led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and the University of York in the UK, checked to see if the lions really are different by comparing DNA samples of 15 lions from the zoo to six populations of wild lions.
Their genetic analysis revealed that the gene sequence of all fifteen lions were unique and showed little sign of inbreeding. What Programming Language to Learn (Next) | Streamhead. So you’re ready to learn a new programming language? You might be entirely new to the world of application development, in that case, welcome! Or you’ve might have been creating applications for years, but now you feel you’re ready for something new. Picking a programming language can be a daunting task. There are an enormous amount of options, hence this short and handy guide. Note: This article is also available in Serbo-Croatian. I created this flowchart after reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.
Be Sociable, Share! Up Goer Five. Breaking Bad Science Advisor Donna Nelson on the Show's Real-Life Science - Breaking Bad. Editor’s Note: Dr. Donna J. Nelson, Professor of Organic Chemistry at University of Oklahoma, has served as a science advisor on Breaking Bad since 2008. In this exclusive essay for AMCtv.com, she discusses the explosive potential of Etch-a-Sketch, the technicalities of building an RV battery, and the lethality of ricin. Breaking Bad may be a fictional show, but much of its science is based in reality. Below is a breakdown of some memorable science moments from the series. Remember that many of these scenes include very dangerous and sometimes illegal activities.
Etch A Sketch Explosives In Season 1 Episode 7, Walt tasks Jesse with procuring supplies so they can switch their operation to a P2P cook. The balanced equation for the highly exothermic (heat-releasing) reaction shown on screen is: Fe2O3 + 2 Al –> 2 Fe + Al2O3 Walt and Jesse use about a pint of thermite in the scene, which would require 553 grams of aluminum (or about 184 original Etch A Sketches). Walt’s solution? How to Prevent and Protect Your Hair From Split Ends. A split end is when the hair-shaft splits or flays due to excessive heat and misuse. They happen when the protective cuticle has been stripped away from the ends of hair fibers. Split ends are more likely to develop in dry or brittle hair.
Typically the hair splits into two or three strands, and can be as long or two to three centimeters in length. There is no way to repair split ends; when they occur, the hair must be trimmed. Did you know that splitting of hairs at the ends” is also known as “Trichoptilosis”? Typical causes of damage include: What Split Ends Can Look Like: Types of Split Ends a. Avoiding Split Ends – 8 Tips and Techniques: Get your hair cut or trimmed regularly – (at least every 6 weeks). We would love to hear your thoughts on the topic of this blog! Tags: Biosilk, broken hair, fix split ends, hair products, hair repair, hair tips, professional hair products, reconstruct hair, Redken, split ends. Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning. October 26th, 2012 · 93 comments The MIT Challenge My friend Scott Young recently finished an astounding feat: he completed all 33 courses in MIT’s fabled computer science curriculum, from Linear Algebra to Theory of Computation, in less than one year.
More importantly, he did it all on his own, watching the lectures online and evaluating himself using the actual exams. (See Scott’s FAQ page for the details of how he ran this challenge.) That works out to around 1 course every 1.5 weeks. As you know, I’m convinced that the ability to master complicated information quickly is crucial for building a remarkable career (see my new book as well as here and here).
Below is a detailed guest post, written by Scott, that drills down to the exact techniques he used (including specific examples) to pull off his MIT Challenge. Take it away Scott… How I Tamed MIT’s Computer Science Curriculum, By Scott Young I’ve always been excited by the prospect of learning faster. Why Cramming Doesn’t Work For Formulas. Science in an Election Year. More than a dozen science and engineering organizations worked with ScienceDebate.org to draft 14 top science questions to ask the two main presidential candidates this election year. Although President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney declined to debate these issues in person (at least as of press time), their campaigns provided written responses to the queries.
Because these are substantive issues that will play a critical role in determining the nation's—not to mention our planet's—future, the Scientific American editors summarized and rated the candidates' answers. Our following analysis is not a comprehensive guide to the election—you will have to look elsewhere for an evaluation of the candidates' positions on foreign affairs, social values or tax policy. Instead we focused on highlighting how the candidates differ from each other on science. Overall, we found that Romney was more specific about what he would like to do in the next four years than Obama.