A Tumblr page.
I post stuff I like.
If you want to know what I like, look slightly to your right.
Btw, I'm the little boy up there in the seersucker. Total badass I know. You're welcome.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
It’s the same picture, pretty much from the same angle. I just took it over and over again
Bolt runs so fast it bends time and space... and so does everyone else.
An amazing idea. Check it out, only lasts a couple of minutes
Interplanetary Superhighway
For thousands of years, navigators have used the stars to find their way, but in recent years, GPS has all but eliminated the challenge of navigating the Earth’s surface. Today’s navigational problems are in space—and JPL research scientist Martin Lo has conceived an interesting and mathematically viable idea for navigating amongst the planets: an ‘Interplanetary Superhighway.’ Most missions take advantage of the way gravity speeds up a spacecraft as it swings by a planet or moon, but Lo’s idea takes advantage of something else—Lagrange points, which are the points between celestial objects where their gravitational pull is cancelled out. These points leave paths of ‘gravity voids’ through which spacecraft can travel without having to fight the pull of gravity, so just a tiny expenditure of energy would propel the craft, slashing the amount of fuel it needs to move. The Earth-Moon system has five Lagrange points, which connect to similar ones between other planets and moons, creating subtle pathways that link the solar system—imagine a network of virtual tubes, snaking through space like a freeway but constantly shifting as the planets orbit the sun. Even though travelling along these would be slower than more direct routes, and they do not guarantee easy access to every part of the solar system, this potential Interplanetary Superhighway requires minimal energy and therefore minimal fuel—a huge advantage for future unmanned deep-space missions.
It would be like the Futurama transport tubes with spaceships!
(Or maybe like a ton of interplanetary slingshots—I’m not positive which. I can’t really get into too much detail atm or do any background research because I’n currently announcing/commentating for a basketball game.
While on that subject, there’s literally a girl playing tonight named, and I’m not kidding, “SheNasty”. Who does that to their kid?
Like that’s not even a bad name. That’s a direct insult.
Anyway, cool space thing. Check it out.)
(Source: justtouchedawkwardly)
Inventors Michael Halbert
Laboratory Equipment: Iron-Eating Bacteria Can Breathe Electrons
Scientists have developed a way to grow iron-oxidizing bacteria using electricity instead of iron, an advance that will allow them to better study the organisms and could one day be used to turn electricity into fuel. The study is published in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American…
The World We Explore- Sir Ken Robinson Zeitgeist Americas 2012 by zeitgeistminds
Pretty good—check it out if you ever get the time.
Stay crunchy guys.
I think I should start using the phrase “stay crunchy” and try to turn it into like a normal saying.
I mean, that sounds like a real saying doesn’t it?
If you agree, try to help me spread it, and message me with your first impression of its meaning so I can try to come up with a definite definition of the term.
Thanks guys, and stay crunchy.
PWN the SAT Q&A: [rebloggable by request]
Mike, I just wanted to say thank you. I’m not positivethat I got an 800 this time (I always could have made an arithmetic error), but using your methods I was able to confidently answer virtually every question on the test. I mean, you taught me how to do all of the questions man. I don’t think…
This guy knows his stuff. If you’re having trouble with the Math part of the SAT, you’ve godda check him out.
He breaks down everything that you need to know to solve virtually every question that the Math portion will throw at you, and he keeps it simple (he doesn’t go into the advanced math solutions to every problem — his core philosophy is that “the SAT isn’t a Math test”, and as such the College Board is never going to throw stuff at you that you need to have taken Calc to figure out), which allows you to internalize all of the core concepts that the Math Section tests and apply them to even the hardest questions that you’ll come across on test day.
I know that that’s probably horribly written and confusing, and I’m sure that I left out something important to say about him, but I took the SAT today, give me a break ;)
But seriously you guys, CHECK OUT HIS TUMBLR AND CHECK OUT HIS BLOG.
(P.S. Oh yeah, and he’s pretty funny too.)
Robot controlled through fMRI
I can’t get the full article, but that statement alone is something that I find pretty amazing. I may be somewhat out of touch with current advancements in the field of “mind controlled robotics”, but I had previously been under the impression that to be able to control external devices like this with thought alone you had to have a series of electrodes implanted in your brain.
Knowing that people are capable of rewiring their brain to the point that they can control these devices with a level of precision and fluidity that almost equals that of their natural limbs, I have great hope that this advancement could some day lead to solely mental interfaces being used for everything from controlling laptops to driving cars.
(BTW here’s the a Pubmed link talking about how although we DO focus a little bit on the physical action of say, moving your mouse, a majority of your brain is actually focusing on the movement of your “pointer” if that makes sense. Once you get used to it, you no longer think about the physical action of controlling a device as much, and instead focus on what the device that you’re controlling is actually doing. I also think it’s cool because I kinda peripherally know the lead author of this paper (Michael Crutcher). He’s an awesome guy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15365665 )
