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“In a recent paper titled “The Scientific Case for Brain Simulations,” several HBP scientists argue that big simulations “will likely be indispensable for bridging the scales between the neuron and system levels in the brain.” In other words: Scientists can look at the nuts and bolts of how neurons work, and they can study the behavior of entire organisms, but they need simulations to show how the former creates the latter. The paper’s authors draw a comparison to weather forecasts, in which an understanding of physics and chemistry at the scale of neighborhoods allows us to accurately predict temperature, rainfall, and wind across the whole globe.”
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A Decade Ago, a Scientist Promised a Brain Simulation in a Decade
August 3, 2019Bluetooth was named after a Danish King (but just bad tooth?)
August 2, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth
“The first documented appearance of Harald’s nickname “Bluetooth” (as blatan; Old Norse *blátǫnn) is in the Chronicon Roskildense (written ca. 1140), alongside the alternative nickname Clac Harald.[5] Clac Harald appears to be a confusion of Harald Bluetooth with the legendary or semi-legendary Harald Klak, son of Halfdan. The byname is given as Blachtent and explicitly glossed as “bluish or black tooth” (dens lividus vel niger) in a chronicle of the late 12th century, Wilhelmi abbatis regum Danorum genealogia.[6] The traditional explanation is that Harald must have had a conspicuous bad tooth that appeared “blue” (i.e. “black”, as blár “blue” meant “blue-black”, or “dark-coloured”). Another explanation, proposed by Scocozza (1997) is that he was called “blue thane” (or “dark thane”) in England (with Anglo-Saxon thegn corrupted to tan when the name came back into Old Norse).[7]”
His dark materials | 1843
July 22, 2019https://www.1843magazine.com/design/his-dark-materials
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The material he’s describing is Vantablack – the blackest black ever created. It was developed by a company called Surrey NanoSystems (SNS), whose laboratory is housed in a single-storey, pre-fab block in a dreary business park near the port at Newhaven, on Britain’s south coast. Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes (“Vanta” stands for “vertically aligned nanotube array”). Each tube is just a few nanometres thick and a few hundred nanometres tall – that is, just a few billionths of a metre.
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Shaping Biomedicine as an Information Science
July 7, 2019https://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/TimLenoir/shapingbiomedicine.html
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To provide commercial users with their own unrestricted access to GENET and MOLGEN programs, Brutlag, Feigenbaum, Friedland, and Kedes formed a company, IntelliGenetics, which would offer the suite of MOLGEN software for sale or rental to the emerging biotechnology industry. With 125 research labs doing recombinant DNA research in the US alone and a number of new genetic engineering firms starting up, opportunities looked outstanding. No one was currently supplying software in this rapidly growing genetic engineering marketplace. With their exclusive licensing arrangement with Stanford for the MOLGEN software, IntelliGenetics was poised to lead a huge growth area. The business plan expressed well the excellent position of the company: “}}
California Dreamin’ – Wikipedia
July 6, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Dreamin%27
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The lyrics of the song express the narrator’s longing for the warmth of Los Angeles during a cold winter in New York City.
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How Much Fiber Do Men Need? | Healthy Eating | SF Gate
July 5, 2019https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/much-fiber-men-need-5695.html
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A man between the ages of 19 and 50 needs approximately 38 grams of fiber each day, says the National Institutes of Health’s Food and Nutrition Board. Men over 50 years old need slightly less, about 30 grams daily. There are two types of dietary fiber, soluble and insoluble fiber, and men who eat good sources of both regularly may be less likely to develop a variety of chronic medical problems. “}}
DIKW pyramid – Wikipedia
July 5, 2019attributed to Zappa in book….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid
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The DIKW pyramid, also known variously as the DIKW hierarchy, wisdom hierarchy, knowledge hierarchy, information hierarchy, and the data pyramid,[1] refers loosely to a class of models[2] for representing purported structural and/or functionalrelationships between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
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SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack
July 5, 2019a good example of a hypothetical attack that now becomes real
https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f QT:{{”
“The number one use of OpenPGP today is to verify downloaded packages for Linux-based operating systems, usually using a software tool called GnuPG. If someone were to poison a vendor’s public certificate and upload it to the keyserver network, the next time a system administrator refreshed their keyring from the keyserver network the vendor’s now-poisoned certificate would be downloaded. At that point upgrades become impossible because the authenticity of downloaded packages cannot be verified. Even downloading the vendor’s certificate and re-importing it would be of no use, because GnuPG would choke trying to import the new certificate. It is not hard to imagine how motivated adversaries could employ this against a Linux-based computer network.”
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Milislav Demerec – Wikipedia
July 5, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milislav_Demerec
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He became a prominent Drosophila researcher and established the Drosophila Information Service newsletter in 1934 with Calvin Bridges. In 1936 he was made the assistant directory of the Department of Genetics, and the acting director in 1941 following the retirement of Albert Blakeslee. That year, he was also made director of the Biological Laboratory of the Long Island Biological Association making him the director of both Cold Spring Harbor laboratories, by 1943. “}}
Shelf Life: Episode 11
July 5, 2019https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/episode-11-green-grow-the-salamanders
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In addition to public education, the new department’s curator, Charles-Edward Winslow, also pushed for better ways to study the organisms that caused diseases. His efforts led to the creation of a collection of microscopic life, which Winslow called the Living Museum, aimed at helping researchers cultivate, study, and classify different types of microorganisms. Winslow solicited live cultures from all over the country. Within two years, he had gathered 578 bacterial strains and provided 1,700 cultures to researchers at more than 120 labs and universities.
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