Look up this New Year’s, there will be a blue moon, the second full moon of the month. It’s an event that happens about once every twenty years. A normal blue moons happen about every 30 months.
If I was funny I’d make a witty remark here about the beer, too. But I’m not. Get drunk, have a happy New Year’s.
I just ran across this incredible video put together by the American Museum of Natural History. Watch it, and have your mind blown to smithereens. Also, it will make you feel terribly insignificant. You should probably get some tissues for when you start questioning your existence.
In a recent abstract published in the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), guys that really love titties found more ways to protect them.
Soy intake was monitored in a little over 5000 surgically treated breast cancer patients. Basically, the ones who ate and drank a shit-ton of soy only died 7.4% of the time, and the cancer came back only 8% of the time. On the other end, 10.3% who didn’t like the taste of soy died and 11.2% had their cancer return. Compare these numbers and it’s easy to see that lactose intolerant people have a life advantage.
Wu Tang will be releasing an awareness song called “Protect Ya Breast”
Thirty-two years ago, NASA sent out two space probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were just to explore the planets past the Asteroid Belt. Currently, they’re careening right out of the solar system.
Amazingly, the probes still work and are still providing important data.
They’re leaving the solar system and about to pass through a cloud of gasses aptly named “Local Fluff” (Local Interstellar Cloud). The only thing protecting our little planet (and all the others) from being completely enveloped and burnt to a crisp is the magnetic field generated by the Sun. I’m not nearly as interested in this facet of the article as I am about the fact that they are so far out.
Instead of simply observing extrasolar data from our planet, we will be collecting the data at the source and beaming it back here. That’s AWESOME. It’s kind of like leaving the neighborhood for the first time. I can’t wait to see what these things find out. Or if they’ll even stay intact out there. We should be sending out many more probes like these for future generations to study.
This guy has proposed a new unified field theory based on information. Now, I kind of understand the basics of information theory, where literally everything is information (even spacetime), it is not just a mental construct we use to understand our surroundings (as most people may see it). However, articles like these always bring to light my shortcomings in scientific knowledge, specifically physics. I can barely understand what he is proposing, I think it is that at the smallest possible measurable level there is information that is the same in all sampled instances, and that would in turn unify all of the Standard Model and gravity and essentially everything. I could be wrong, but that’s what it seems like to me.
Anyway, its pretty awesome that we have another theory to go along with string theory, superstring theory, M theory, and the holographic principle. Someone’s going to get it right. Eventually.
A long time ago I heard about some kid who discovered plastic-eating bacteria and was pretty impressed, and also glad that I now had an argument every time someone would bitch at me for using a plastic bag instead of paper.
Recently, new bacteria functions were discovered which mean further advancements in the field of sanitation.
This doesn’t sound very exciting now, but it will. Especially for you hysterical environmental freaks. Imagine a time when you can throw your soda bottle into a container and have it turned into clean water (imagine then fuel cell cars that run on hydrogen produced from trash) or fresh fertilizer for your garden (a little like compost now, except with non-organic materials). Things like the Pacific Garbage Patch could be completely eliminated, along with any need for landfills.
It sounds like hippie science, but it also sounds kind of exciting. I can’t wait for The Future.
It’s been a long time. I shouldn’t have left you. Without a dope beat to step to.
In recent news, we found a planet orbiting a red sun. It may be “too hot to contain life” but those in the know realize that’s Superman’s home planet.
The MEarth project seems to be independent of the Kepler Mission, but I like the effort being put into Earth-like planets in search of other life.
Updates will be more frequent now that finals are over.
