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Month: July 2014

Anything but solitary contemplation, man. NOT THAT!!

10 July 2014 grant 0

It isn’t easy being alone with our thoughts. Nature makes monks seem manlier than ever with research that shows most people prefer physical pain to just sitting and thinking:

“We

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Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.

9 July 2014 grant 0

The Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race:

Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell

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Gödel music composition to debut at Gödel Prize celebration.

8 July 2014 grant 0

Nature has more on the suitably self-recursive premiere of a uniquely mathematical piece of music:

The piece, “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” by Danish composer Niels Marthinsen, was

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Old phones are listening.

7 July 2014 grant 0

Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how old smart phones are being used to listen for disrupted sleep patterns, illegal loggers, gunshots, breeding cicadas and a host of other… Read the rest “Old phones are listening.”

Science Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.

6 July 2014 grant 0

Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque

This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat.

No, he doesn’t look very free in that image.… Read the rest “Science Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.”

“Mind-blowing” Viking discovery made in Ireland.

4 July 2014 grant 0

Irish Central has more on the pristine site in a little village in County Louth that used to be a Viking winter base:

Geophysical tests funded by Dundalk’s County Museum have allowed scientists

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“Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.”

4 July 2014 grant 0

Science Daily has us imagining that message being broadcast to an an interstellar ship full of would-be colonists, thanks to new research that’s found some so-called “Goldilocks… Read the rest ““Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.””

Supercooled livers stay alive longer

2 July 2014 grant 0

Not just fresher, says PopSci, but better for transplants:

The procedure was part of an experimental new method for treating donated organs. The method is still in its early stages of development,

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