December 2010
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Metabolic cooperation between different prokaryote...
cells in a biofilm secrete signaling molecules that recruit nearby cells and produce proteins that stick the cells together and onto the substrate. channels in the biofilm allow nutrients to reach cells in the interior and wastes to be expelled. This cooperation allows them to use resources thy could not use as individual cells. Its like that show I used to watch where the individual robots can...
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Florence and the Machine -...
When food is good. Everything is good.
Dinner: stir fried spicy blue crab accompanied with a bottle of newcastle brown ale. Side dish of stir fried eggplant with spicy green pepper, sugar snap peas, and steamy radish soup.
1 hr break chillaxin on the couch.
Dessert: hot mug of coffee with lots of milk and a heavy slice of dark gingerbread.
time to get down to business: physics all night
soundtrack: Tchaikovsky, Ravel &...
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a blurb on kindness and doors.
On my campus (Wisconsin, USA: large student body) there exists the social protocol of holding doors for other people. When I am walking into a building after someone else but not close enough to catch the door behind them, 85% of the time, that someone will hold the door open for me until I can catch it behind them Strangely, only 20-30%% of those times will the person hold the door open for me...
Charge your cell phone with your finger??
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The Mechanical Mobile by Mikhail Stawsky
If you have a habit of twirling your hair with your finger, or motioning that someone is crazy, this might be the perfect cell phone for you! Creator Mikhail Stawsky has come up with a phone that can be charged by spinning it on your finger, and allowing it to accumulate kinetic energy.
The insurance plan is HIGHLY...
There’s just stuff….stuff’s wrong with me. okay?
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed what they...
The liquid and bones were in a sealed bronze cooking vessel dug up near the ancient capital of Xian - home to the country’s famed terracotta warriors.
The pots were discovered in a tomb being excavated to make way for an extension to the local airport.
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“Anonymous is not an organisation… it most certainly is not a group of...”
– Operation Payback
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“yesterday I binged on an entire 130z jar of Nutella and there’s a 50/50...”
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I can never get enough!
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