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This is a 7-minute long workout that has been scientifically designed to optimise your exercise session. It also only needs you, a wall and a chair.
See source to read more about this.
The success by a team at Oregon Health and Science University puts human “therapeutic cloning” back on the scientific agenda as a potential source of stem cells for regenerative medicine, after a few years in which attention focused on other methods that seemed easier to achieve.
The research may also revive fears about the birth of human clones, though the Oregon scientists insist that their work could not be used for this purpose.
“Our finding offers new ways of generating stem cells for patients with dysfunctional or damaged tissues and organs,” says Shoukhrat Mitalipov, senior author of the study published in the journal Cell. “Such stem cells can regenerate and replace those damaged cells and tissues and alleviate diseases that affect millions of people.”
Drones and clones. I’m eagerly waiting for the debates that are coming on the ethics of cloning for health purposes.
The success by a team at Oregon Health and Science University puts human “therapeutic cloning” back on the scientific agenda as a potential source of stem cells for regenerative medicine, after a few years in which attention focused on other methods that seemed easier to achieve.
The research may also revive fears about the birth of human clones, though the Oregon scientists insist that their work could not be used for this purpose.
“Our finding offers new ways of generating stem cells for patients with dysfunctional or damaged tissues and organs,” says Shoukhrat Mitalipov, senior author of the study published in the journal Cell. “Such stem cells can regenerate and replace those damaged cells and tissues and alleviate diseases that affect millions of people.”
Drones and clones. I’m eagerly waiting for the debates that are coming on the ethics of cloning for health purposes.
Drones and Silicon Valley, an early marriage
Drones and Silicon Valley, an early marriage
On Wednesday, a drone start-up called Airware plans to announce that it has raised $10.7 million in a round of financing led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Google Ventures, the investment arm of the search giant, is also pitching in money.
Although the term drone conjures up images of unmanned military planes that can shoot missiles from the sky, Airware is developing technology for the budding array of commercial uses for unmanned aerial vehicles, as they are also known. The company, based in Newport Beach, Calif., and founded by former aerospace engineers from Boeing and other companies, has created a combination of hardware and software that can be added to drones made by other companies to make them more programmable, Jonathan Downey, the chief executive of Airware, said in an interview.
The dronepocalypse is coming, with delivery services and more.
Drones and Silicon Valley, an early marriage
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On Wednesday, a drone start-up called Airware plans to announce that it has raised $10.7 million in a round of financing led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Google Ventures, the investment arm of the search giant, is also pitching in money.
Although the term drone conjures up images of unmanned military planes that can shoot missiles from the sky, Airware is developing technology for the budding array of commercial uses for unmanned aerial vehicles, as they are also known. The company, based in Newport Beach, Calif., and founded by former aerospace engineers from Boeing and other companies, has created a combination of hardware and software that can be added to drones made by other companies to make them more programmable, Jonathan Downey, the chief executive of Airware, said in an interview.
The dronepocalypse is coming, with delivery services and more.
Facebook is pseudo-reinventing emoticons
Facebook is pseudo-reinventing emoticons
Yet Keltner thought that by incorporating some of the principles from Darwin’s seminal work on emotion, he could add a touch of the richness he felt existing emoticons lacked. “I’m naïve about emoticons because I’ve never sent one in my life, but I’ve looked at them–it’s just missing a lot of important things in our emotional lives,” Keltner says.
Sympathy, for example, can be hard to really get across in traditional emoticon form. “It’s an under-appreciated emotion in Western culture,” Keltner explains. “We now know what it looks like and sounds like because of science. They created this dynamic emoticon that when you see it, it’s really powerful.”
Yes, they’re called emojis and they have been around for quite some time now. Not that I don’t think this is a good idea, but the amount of press Facebook/Path stickers have received is irritating when you think that no one ever mentioned emojis.
Facebook is pseudo-reinventing emoticons
Yet Keltner thought that by incorporating some of the principles from Darwin’s seminal work on emotion, he could add a touch of the richness he felt existing emoticons lacked. “I’m naïve about emoticons because I’ve never sent one in my life, but I’ve looked at them–it’s just missing a lot of important things in our emotional lives,” Keltner says.
Sympathy, for example, can be hard to really get across in traditional emoticon form. “It’s an under-appreciated emotion in Western culture,” Keltner explains. “We now know what it looks like and sounds like because of science. They created this dynamic emoticon that when you see it, it’s really powerful.”
Yes, they’re called emojis and they have been around for quite some time now. Not that I don’t think this is a good idea, but the amount of press Facebook/Path stickers have received is irritating when you think that no one ever mentioned emojis.
Samsung gearing up towards 5G network
Samsung gearing up towards 5G network
Once commercialized, 5G mobile technology will allow users to transmit huge data files, like high-quality digital movies, “practically without limitation,” it said.
Cool news, then!
The European Union announced earlier this year a plan to invest €50 million, or $65 million, in research to deliver 5G mobile technology by 2020.
Oh, too bad.
Samsung gearing up towards 5G network
Once commercialized, 5G mobile technology will allow users to transmit huge data files, like high-quality digital movies, “practically without limitation,” it said.
Cool news, then!
The European Union announced earlier this year a plan to invest €50 million, or $65 million, in research to deliver 5G mobile technology by 2020.
Oh, too bad.
Jimi Hendrix, jamming with Miles Davis sent a telegram to Paul McCartney in 1969 as he thought it would be cool that they jam all together, with Tony Williams at the drums.
Unfortunately this never happened.
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Jimi Hendrix, jamming with Miles Davis sent a telegram to Paul McCartney in 1969 as he thought it would be cool that they jam all together, with Tony Williams at the drums.
Unfortunately this never happened.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.
Hemingway’s Routine on Farnam Street.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.
ScoreCleaner Notes
Would you like an app that writes automatically the musical notation of what you’re singing or playing (no chords though)?
Check it out.
Chinese DIY inventions.
The caption accompanying this one:
Chinese farmer Wu Yulu sits next to his robot “Lao Wu” at his home on the outskirts of Beijing, on September 3, 2003. Wu, who only managed to finish primary education, started to build robots for fun more than a decade ago.
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Chinese DIY inventions.
The caption accompanying this one:
Chinese farmer Wu Yulu sits next to his robot “Lao Wu” at his home on the outskirts of Beijing, on September 3, 2003. Wu, who only managed to finish primary education, started to build robots for fun more than a decade ago.
Amazon vs. Apple vs. Facebook vs. Google
What’s up with these?
They all want to be the uber-company. That is, a company which has a complete user experience with the following elements:
Hardware — mobile device(s)
An app ecosystem
Streaming media
Cloud services—at the least, as a delivery mechanism for the above
And why do these companies aspire to be competitive in all four of these areas? There are two reasons: The first is that a customer who starts using your hardware is more likely to (or may have no choice but to) use your software, and the reverse is also frequently true. All four of these companies (and, yes, Microsoft) have created their own “walled gardens,” which means that once you’ve bought media or apps from them, or uploaded data into their mutually incompatible services, you’re stuck. That’s by design: Having invested so much time and money into their ecosystems, the energy barrier for a consumer to switch to a competitor is so high that it gives each company room to maneuver and, if they have an advantage, maybe even gain market share. Ecosystem lock-in is like a ratchet on the size of your base of customers: Even if you mess up once in a while, it’s hard for your market to shrink, and every chance you differentiate, you can grab a few more people.
Amazon vs. Apple vs. Facebook vs. Google
What’s up with these?
They all want to be the uber-company. That is, a company which has a complete user experience with the following elements:
Hardware — mobile device(s)
An app ecosystem
Streaming media
Cloud services—at the least, as a delivery mechanism for the above
And why do these companies aspire to be competitive in all four of these areas? There are two reasons: The first is that a customer who starts using your hardware is more likely to (or may have no choice but to) use your software, and the reverse is also frequently true. All four of these companies (and, yes, Microsoft) have created their own “walled gardens,” which means that once you’ve bought media or apps from them, or uploaded data into their mutually incompatible services, you’re stuck. That’s by design: Having invested so much time and money into their ecosystems, the energy barrier for a consumer to switch to a competitor is so high that it gives each company room to maneuver and, if they have an advantage, maybe even gain market share. Ecosystem lock-in is like a ratchet on the size of your base of customers: Even if you mess up once in a while, it’s hard for your market to shrink, and every chance you differentiate, you can grab a few more people.
Dots - a game about connecting
Dots - a game about connecting
Are you playing Dots? If not you should. Here’s the strategy guide, courtesy of Quartz. If you think you can beat my high score, follow me on Twitter and compare (what? a cheap technique?)
Dots - a game about connecting
Are you playing Dots? If not you should. Here’s the strategy guide, courtesy of Quartz. If you think you can beat my high score, follow me on Twitter and compare (what? a cheap technique?)