Now I have to look for them and reset the algorithms to suit.
Here we go!
]
- eccieuser9500
- 01-03-2021, 11:02 AM
You know how Google knows me? By what I read. I changed devices so my idle time has been reset. I used to get many recommendations on interesting science stuff. Like the sandcastle one.
Now I have to look for them and reset the algorithms to suit.
Here we go!
]
Now I have to look for them and reset the algorithms to suit.
Here we go!
]
- dilbert firestorm
- 01-03-2021, 07:25 PM
You know how Google knows me? By what I read. I changed devices so my idle time has been reset. I used to get many recommendations on interesting science stuff. Like the sandcastle one.did the concrete story lead you to the sandcastle story? I mean look at how salt is a factor in what you build. this goes for sandcastles too. even tho they're temporary structures.
Now I have to look for them and reset the algorithms to suit. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
- dilbert firestorm
- 01-04-2021, 10:01 PM
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/12/p...ased-astronomy
Project Stargazer: The history and future of balloon-based astronomy
Half a century ago, high-altitude balloon experiments paved the way for astronauts and orbiting telescopes. Now, high-tech balloons are giving astronomers a reason to keep their instruments a little closer to Earth.
Project Stargazer: The history and future of balloon-based astronomy
Half a century ago, high-altitude balloon experiments paved the way for astronauts and orbiting telescopes. Now, high-tech balloons are giving astronomers a reason to keep their instruments a little closer to Earth.
- dilbert firestorm
- 01-04-2021, 10:08 PM
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smith...rth-180976462/
Ten Exquisite Creatures That Once Roamed the Earth
Ten Exquisite Creatures That Once Roamed the Earth
- eccieuser9500
- 01-04-2021, 11:05 PM
did the concrete story lead you to the sandcastle story? I mean look at how salt is a factor in what you build. this goes for sandcastles too. even tho they're temporary structures. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
No. I think the sandcastle article was just one of those recommended for its superfluous nature. A sheer "we now know" type information.
Your articles on the concrete came after. And in between were the academic responses on the Chinese supercomputer articles. As I said about Google - I first read one article on the quantum computer claims from the Chinese lab. Then was led to the response questioning it. Then after was the clarification in response. All within as many days.
- eccieuser9500
- 01-04-2021, 11:25 PM
Each species described has a link with details about the discovery. I've watched many a video on Richard Dawkins. The eminent Evolutionary Biologist. I'm not so keen on Astronomy. I like to keep it Earthly. But that's me. Natural Science, Biochemistry and Biology.
In Terms of Biodiversity, 2020 Was a Success — These New Species Were Discovered!
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/new-species-2020
In Terms of Biodiversity, 2020 Was a Success — These New Species Were Discovered!
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/new-species-2020
Tegula Kusairo Yamazak
A new species of edible snail called the Tegula Kusairo Yamazak was discovered in Japan in December 2020, according to Phys.org. Its shell is brownish green, with a yellow or white underside. It generally inhabits muddy, gravel-laden areas throughout Japanese coastal areas in the Seto Inland Sea, Ōmura Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kinkō Bay, and the southern tip of South Korea.
- oeb11
- 01-05-2021, 07:22 AM
Smart People learn from everything and everyone
Average people from their experiences
Democrats know they have all the Answers!
(Not) Socrates
Average people from their experiences
Democrats know they have all the Answers!
(Not) Socrates
- eccieuser9500
- 01-05-2021, 07:19 PM
Still on ignore you little, little shit.
- eccieuser9500
- 01-05-2021, 07:30 PM
Why do men have to wait for 'round 2'?
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-men.amp
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-men.amp
Well, as bad news for anyone who has bought such merchandise, a new study in mice by scientists at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Portugal reveals that prolactin may actually not be the culprit after all. These results were published January 4 in the journal Communications Biology.
Ironically, the research project that ended up refuting the theory never aimed to do so.
"When we started working on this project, we actually set off to explore the theory," says Susana Lima, the principal investigator. "Our goal was to investigate in more detail the biological mechanisms by which prolactin might generate the refractory period."
What is the basis of the theory?
- dilbert firestorm
- 01-05-2021, 09:25 PM
Why do men have to wait for 'round 2'?its vague. gonna read whats that about. you find it funny. harrump! we'll see.
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-men.amp
wish you would reduce those extra lines. they're annoying.
- dilbert firestorm
- 01-05-2021, 09:31 PM
Why do men have to wait for 'round 2'?
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-men.amp
its vague. gonna read whats that about. you find it funny. harrump! we'll see.so, its not prolactin.
wish you would reduce those extra lines. they're annoying. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
so they don't fucking know? lol!
- dilbert firestorm
- 01-31-2021, 03:26 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ube-shaped-poo
scientists solve the mystery of why wombats have cube-shaped poo
wombat
wombat's square poop - wtf??? lol
answer:
The team discovered big changes in the thickness of muscles inside the intestine, varying between two stiffer regions and two more flexible regions.
“The rhythmical contractions help form the sharp corners of the cubes,” Carver said.
When preliminary findings were presented in 2018 “at that point researchers believed there were four stiff and four flexible regions,” he said. “But what final research has confirmed is that the wombat’s intestine has two stiff and two flexible regions.”
scientists solve the mystery of why wombats have cube-shaped poo
wombat
wombat's square poop - wtf??? lol
answer:
The team discovered big changes in the thickness of muscles inside the intestine, varying between two stiffer regions and two more flexible regions.
“The rhythmical contractions help form the sharp corners of the cubes,” Carver said.
When preliminary findings were presented in 2018 “at that point researchers believed there were four stiff and four flexible regions,” he said. “But what final research has confirmed is that the wombat’s intestine has two stiff and two flexible regions.”
- Ripmany
- 02-01-2021, 01:31 PM
Like making blowing stuff up, hell yes, kissing hell yes.
- dilbert firestorm
- 02-01-2021, 11:40 PM
- dilbert firestorm
- 02-05-2021, 03:59 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...nt/ar-BB1dmR0f
Bricks made from MUSHROOMS could soon replace cement
Dan Avery For Dailymail.com 1 day ago
© Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
Mushrooms are good for more than just pizza toppings: A growing number of eco-minded entrepreneurs are looking at the familiar fungi as an environmentally friendly building material.
Engineers are already experimenting with mushroom bricks, which could greatly reduce carbon emissions in the construction industry.
They also easily biodegrade when it's time to knock a building down.
Now scientists want to create buildings out of living fungus, which could grow to a desired design and repair themselves when damaged.
© Provided by Daily Mail To create a mushroom 'brick,' mycelium, the fibrous roots of a mushroom, is combined with straw or some other agricultural waste and allowed to grow for up to two week. It's then fired in an oven or treated with chemicals to kill the fungus
Building materials and construction account for nearly 40 percent of humanity's carbon-dioxide emissions each year, according to the United Nations Environment Program.
But mycelium, the fibrous roots of mushrooms, are carbon neutral—as well as being lightweight, durable, moldable and naturally fire resistant.
To build a mushroom 'brick,' mycelium is combined with some kind of agricultural waste, like straw or corn husks.
It's then grown for about two weeks, long enough to fully colonize the straw, and then is heated or chemically treated to kill the fungus, Horizon reports.
© Provided by Daily Mail A mushroom brick stacked on top of a traditional clay brick. As demonstrated by The Verge, mycelium makes a durable building material that's fire resistant, carbon-neutral and lightweight
At that point, it's very much like a traditional brick, only made out of organic material instead of clay or concrete.
'We could make architecture by growing the building block materials then make a structure and then at the end of the useful life then return all those materials to the Earth instead of have them sit in the landfill for hundreds of thousands of years.,' David Benjamin, founding principal architect at the firm The Living, told The Verge in a new video demonstrating how to make a mushroom brick.
Since launching in 2019, FUNGAR (Fungal Architectures) has been experimenting with making building materials out of mycelium.
But Phil Ayres, an architectural researcher at Copenhagen's Center for Information Technology and Architecture and a founding member of FUNGAR, hopes to go well beyond mushroom bricks.
'The way it's currently been explored, within more experimental practices, is to actually kill the mycelium,' Ayres told the CBC.
© Provided by Daily Mail Nearly 40 percent of manmade carbon emissions are from building materials and the construction industry. Fungal architecture could soon be an eco-friendly alternative that quickly biodegrades when its no longer needed
'So you are casting it essentially in blocks and bricks and then assembling it from there. One of the things that we're doing in our research is actually considering the idea of growing things monolithically, which requires us to keep the mycelium alive.'
In theory, the fungus could grow into the shape of the building you wanted.
Living fungus could be self-repairing: If you accidentally punch a hole in the wall, just re-grow the mycelia to patch it up.
And fungus responds to electrical impulses, opening the door to a 'smart' wall that interacts with its environment.
But the longer mycelium grows, the more it eats up the supporting material that gives it structure—weakening the building's overall integrity.
To avoid that Ayres theorizes building walls with two dead layers of mycelia outside and one live layer inside.
Deprived of water, the inner layer would remain dormant until needed.
FUNGAR plans to build a small, free-standing building made of living mycelium, then observe it for changes over the long term.
'It's very early days to start saying your house will be made entirely of fungus,' Ayres told Horizon.
In 2014, The Living built a 40-foot-tall pavilion made of mushroom bricks outside New York City's PS1 art museum.
Visitors could walk inside Hy-Fi, as the structure was dubbed.
© Provided by Daily Mail In 2014, The Living built Hy-Fi, a 40-foot-tall pavilion made of mushroom bricks outside New York City's PS1 art museum
In a followup, it built a structure in Paris with living mycelium, so that bricks next to each other grew together.
'Our built environment needs these kinds of materials,' Benjamin told The Verge.
'Different countries have really ambitious climate change goals, and this material could really help jump-start some of that progress.'
NASA scientists have proposed using mycelia habitats on the Moon and Mars to save from having to bring heavy building materials on board spaceships.
'Right now, traditional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle — carrying our homes with us on our backs – a reliable plan, but with huge energy costs,' said Lynn Rothschild, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
'Instead, we can harness mycelia to grow these habitats ourselves when we get there.'
Environmentally minded entrepreneurs are also adapting mushrooms as household insulation, furniture, and even clothing.
Companies like Ikea and Dell have already started using mushroom-based packaging material, and a Dutch company has launched The Living Cocoon, a prototype 'mushroom coffin' that speeds the decomposition process, removes toxic materials from the ground and helps grow new trees.
Last year, Nebraska native Katy Ayers unveiled a canoe made out of mushrooms.
Mycelium are dense, waterproof and buoyant—perfectly suited for a watercraft.
Her eight-foot, 100-pound boat, which Ayers named 'Myconoe,' can seat two people and took just two weeks to grow.
And It sprouts new mushrooms every time she takes it out on the water.
Ayers collaborated on the boat with Nebraska Mushroom, a Grand Island company that grows and sells gourmet and medicinal 'shrooms.
She and owner Ash Gordon suspended a wooden skeleton and pâpier-maché mold inside a hammock-like structure, then filled it with mushroom spores.
For optimal growing conditions, the shell was hung in a special growing room where temperatures hover between 80 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity stays between 90 and 100 percent.
'Mushrooms are here to help us — they're a gift,' Ayers told NBC News.
'There's so much we can do with them beyond just food. They're our biggest ally for helping the environment.'
Ayers and Gordon are now experimenting with making chairs, landscaping bricks and other items out of mushrooms.
Bricks made from MUSHROOMS could soon replace cement
Dan Avery For Dailymail.com 1 day ago
© Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
Mushrooms are good for more than just pizza toppings: A growing number of eco-minded entrepreneurs are looking at the familiar fungi as an environmentally friendly building material.
Engineers are already experimenting with mushroom bricks, which could greatly reduce carbon emissions in the construction industry.
They also easily biodegrade when it's time to knock a building down.
Now scientists want to create buildings out of living fungus, which could grow to a desired design and repair themselves when damaged.
© Provided by Daily Mail To create a mushroom 'brick,' mycelium, the fibrous roots of a mushroom, is combined with straw or some other agricultural waste and allowed to grow for up to two week. It's then fired in an oven or treated with chemicals to kill the fungus
Building materials and construction account for nearly 40 percent of humanity's carbon-dioxide emissions each year, according to the United Nations Environment Program.
But mycelium, the fibrous roots of mushrooms, are carbon neutral—as well as being lightweight, durable, moldable and naturally fire resistant.
To build a mushroom 'brick,' mycelium is combined with some kind of agricultural waste, like straw or corn husks.
It's then grown for about two weeks, long enough to fully colonize the straw, and then is heated or chemically treated to kill the fungus, Horizon reports.
© Provided by Daily Mail A mushroom brick stacked on top of a traditional clay brick. As demonstrated by The Verge, mycelium makes a durable building material that's fire resistant, carbon-neutral and lightweight
At that point, it's very much like a traditional brick, only made out of organic material instead of clay or concrete.
'We could make architecture by growing the building block materials then make a structure and then at the end of the useful life then return all those materials to the Earth instead of have them sit in the landfill for hundreds of thousands of years.,' David Benjamin, founding principal architect at the firm The Living, told The Verge in a new video demonstrating how to make a mushroom brick.
Since launching in 2019, FUNGAR (Fungal Architectures) has been experimenting with making building materials out of mycelium.
But Phil Ayres, an architectural researcher at Copenhagen's Center for Information Technology and Architecture and a founding member of FUNGAR, hopes to go well beyond mushroom bricks.
'The way it's currently been explored, within more experimental practices, is to actually kill the mycelium,' Ayres told the CBC.
© Provided by Daily Mail Nearly 40 percent of manmade carbon emissions are from building materials and the construction industry. Fungal architecture could soon be an eco-friendly alternative that quickly biodegrades when its no longer needed
'So you are casting it essentially in blocks and bricks and then assembling it from there. One of the things that we're doing in our research is actually considering the idea of growing things monolithically, which requires us to keep the mycelium alive.'
In theory, the fungus could grow into the shape of the building you wanted.
Living fungus could be self-repairing: If you accidentally punch a hole in the wall, just re-grow the mycelia to patch it up.
And fungus responds to electrical impulses, opening the door to a 'smart' wall that interacts with its environment.
But the longer mycelium grows, the more it eats up the supporting material that gives it structure—weakening the building's overall integrity.
To avoid that Ayres theorizes building walls with two dead layers of mycelia outside and one live layer inside.
Deprived of water, the inner layer would remain dormant until needed.
FUNGAR plans to build a small, free-standing building made of living mycelium, then observe it for changes over the long term.
'It's very early days to start saying your house will be made entirely of fungus,' Ayres told Horizon.
In 2014, The Living built a 40-foot-tall pavilion made of mushroom bricks outside New York City's PS1 art museum.
Visitors could walk inside Hy-Fi, as the structure was dubbed.
© Provided by Daily Mail In 2014, The Living built Hy-Fi, a 40-foot-tall pavilion made of mushroom bricks outside New York City's PS1 art museum
In a followup, it built a structure in Paris with living mycelium, so that bricks next to each other grew together.
'Our built environment needs these kinds of materials,' Benjamin told The Verge.
'Different countries have really ambitious climate change goals, and this material could really help jump-start some of that progress.'
NASA scientists have proposed using mycelia habitats on the Moon and Mars to save from having to bring heavy building materials on board spaceships.
'Right now, traditional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle — carrying our homes with us on our backs – a reliable plan, but with huge energy costs,' said Lynn Rothschild, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
'Instead, we can harness mycelia to grow these habitats ourselves when we get there.'
Environmentally minded entrepreneurs are also adapting mushrooms as household insulation, furniture, and even clothing.
Companies like Ikea and Dell have already started using mushroom-based packaging material, and a Dutch company has launched The Living Cocoon, a prototype 'mushroom coffin' that speeds the decomposition process, removes toxic materials from the ground and helps grow new trees.
Last year, Nebraska native Katy Ayers unveiled a canoe made out of mushrooms.
Mycelium are dense, waterproof and buoyant—perfectly suited for a watercraft.
Her eight-foot, 100-pound boat, which Ayers named 'Myconoe,' can seat two people and took just two weeks to grow.
And It sprouts new mushrooms every time she takes it out on the water.
Ayers collaborated on the boat with Nebraska Mushroom, a Grand Island company that grows and sells gourmet and medicinal 'shrooms.
She and owner Ash Gordon suspended a wooden skeleton and pâpier-maché mold inside a hammock-like structure, then filled it with mushroom spores.
For optimal growing conditions, the shell was hung in a special growing room where temperatures hover between 80 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity stays between 90 and 100 percent.
'Mushrooms are here to help us — they're a gift,' Ayers told NBC News.
'There's so much we can do with them beyond just food. They're our biggest ally for helping the environment.'
Ayers and Gordon are now experimenting with making chairs, landscaping bricks and other items out of mushrooms.