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July 22, 2019
https://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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July 7, 2019
https://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: “}}
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July 5, 2019
https://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. “}}
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July 5, 2019
attributed 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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July 5, 2019
a 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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July 5, 2019
https://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. “}}
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July 5, 2019
https://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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June 30, 2019
https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=general_information/about_pdb/index.html
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The PDB was established in 1971 at Brookhaven National Laboratory under the leadership of Walter Hamilton and originally contained 7 structures. After Hamilton’s untimely death, Tom Koetzle began to lead the PDB in 1973, and then Joel Sussman in 1994. Led by Helen M. Berman, the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) became responsible for the management of the PDB in 1998. In 2003, thewwPDB was formed to maintain a single PDB archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community. It consists of organizations that act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data. Stephen K. Burley became Director in 2014.
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June 21, 2019
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When a radiant energy source is directed at a Crookes radiometer, the radiometer becomes a heat engine.[citation needed] The operation of a heat engine is based on a difference in temperature that is converted to a mechanical output. In this case, the black side of the vane becomes hotter than the other side, as radiant energy from a light source warms the black side by black-body absorption faster than the silver or white side. The internal air molecules are heated up when they touch the black side of the vane.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer
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