FDA approves pill to prevent HIV infections
The drug, Truvada, is the first medication intended to prevent HIV infections in people having sex with infected individuals.
(JEFF CHIU/AP)
This is amazing. Click through and read the full article - the last three paragraphs are super important.
Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me with Science” single came out October 23, 1982. Here’s the original promo video.
Going to go see Dolby tomorrow!
I had almost forgotten about this gig.
Cannot not sing along to the electronics in this song.
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The Russian government has revealed that a vast quantity of high-quality diamonds rests beneath a Siberian impact crater, numbering in the “trillions of carats”.
The Popigai Crater, 100 km wide and located in the isolated north of the country, was formed roughly 35.7 million years ago by the impact of an asteroid estimated to be between 5-8 km wide. Its collision created a wealth of impact diamonds — which form when an existing diamond seam is hit by a large falling body — in such quantities that could, it is claimed, supply the world diamond market for the next 3,000 years.
i’m sorry, what?
THIS IS INCREDIBLY COOL.
impact diamonds aren’t gem-standard, so these probably won’t end up in anyone’s rings (unless they are science nerds, i guess maybe) but they are stronger than regular diamonds so they are going to be AMAZINGLY USEFUL for science and industry.
also
CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE LOOKING AT THAT MANY DIAMONDS AT ONCE
LIKE WOW GOSH
A WORLD FULL OF SPARKLES
SCIENCE!
Foldable Spokeless Racing Bike.
Concept design by Allen Chester G. Zhang
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If you’re interested, this 1982 documentary has some great footage of Alex using English words to identify objects. Really cool stuff. Every time he gets one right, before she can even hand him his treat, he says “I want a nut” XDOh my god I’m crying.
Irene spent 30 years socializing Alex and he eventually became as smart as a 5 year old human. He could speak English and was able to convey ideas and coin new words. Like, he knew the words “yummy” and “bread” and when she made him a birthday cake he called it “yummy-bread” because he didn’t know the word for cake.
It took years and years of training him out of her own pocket before anyone would even give he grant money to study him “officially” and now she’s one of the most well-respected animal behavior scientists.
She had a routine with Alex where every night she’d say “Goodnight Alex, I love you!” and he’d say “I love you!” and then she’d turn off the light and go to bed. Recently, after going through their routine, she came by the next morning and he had passed away.
30 years.
;____;
When I read her book, I couldn’t make it through the first sentence on the dust jacket without crying.
As a storytelling blog, it would be remiss of me not to direct you all to the Moth story link above. A well-spent 15 minutes on YouTube, if you can spare the time.
(Source: the-humans-from-wall-e)
apparently when you drop a gummy bear into potassium
it opens a portal to hell
you can see the fear in that little guy’s eyes
oh my god you can hear it screaming.
So, in high school, I was for some reason in the “advanced track” science class. Which was a sad, sad mistake. But anyway. My chemistry teacher did this for us one day in class. It was, easily, the only day of that class I enjoyed. At Christmas break I downgraded to regular chem, but the Satan Bears will always be with me.
(Source: pyrop, via sniffleheim)
“In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
“It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.”
… /jawdrop
I DO THIS. I sleep for about 4 hours, wake up, take Mum to work, fuck around for a bit, then sleep for another four, then I’m awake.
This is weeeeeeird.
Wow, huh! I’d read once that this used to be commonly accepted back in the… uh… I forget the years but it was pre-industrial Europe? People would have a “first sleep”, get up, visit neighbors, do whatever quietly in the night, go back to bed and have a “second sleep” until morning. It was a thing and modern sociologists could not figure out why this was so or what happened to it. I’d never heard of this follow-up study before. Cool.
DELIGHTFUL. I’ve heard of the historical reference to this, but never made a correlation with modern practice. This is, actually, how I sleep, but my period of wakefulness isn’t usually longer than an hour. (Also I prefer it if my waking intersection is pre-dawn, it’s kind of a bitch if the birds are waking up and stuff and I’m trying to fall back to sleep.)
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We live in a society that both oversexualizes women and shames women for having/wanting/enjoying sex....
3rd one way flight in as many years.
DC, I may regret moving to you in the middle of summer, but right now, I am damn excited!
Been a long, strange week and it’s only Wednesday. The huge display of Oberon at Whole Foods was one of the peaks. #thisweek #bells #bellsoberon
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New blog post by Frank Iero on his official site.
Book of Kells
