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World's oldest leftovers found in Israel cave. Guess what food?3h ago ( October 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM ) The oldest leftovers in world history have been discovered, stashed inside Israel's Qesem Cave
You'll never guess what they preserved for posterity.
Bone marrow.
From deer.
Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence for storage and delayed consumption of food, deer bone marrow, at Qesem Cave in Israel.
The deer bones show clear signs that people were cracking them open to get to the marrow inside.
This previously unidentified behavior "offers insights into the socio-economy of the...Tags: Post, Science 46 people like this. Like Diet and depression: what you eat impacts your moodOctober 10, 2019 at 1:42 PM For years a friend has been telling my diet was hurting my general demeanor. Last year I stopped ignoring her and switched to a diet more like what is described in this study.
I will never be Mr. Cheerful, but it really did help.
NPR:
A randomized controlled trial published in the journal PLOS ONE finds that symptoms of depression dropped significantly among a group of young adults after they followed a Mediterranean-style pattern of eating for three weeks. Participants saw their depression ...Tags: Food, Post, Science, News, Diet, Medicine, Mental Health, Depression, Mood, Npr, Francis, Self Care, PLOS ONE, Sydney Australia, Macquarie University, Heather Francis 18 people like this. Like Engineers developed a mathematical model of OoblekOctober 10, 2019 at 1:07 PM A favorite kitchen chemistry (and physics) experiment of kids (and adults), Ooblek is the weird result of mixing cornstarch with water. Now, MIT engineers have developed a mathematical model that can predict and simulate how the non-Newtonian fluid switches between liquid and solid depending on the pressure applied to it. From MIT News:
Aside from predicting what the stuff might do in the hands of toddlers, the new model can be useful in predicting how oobleck and other solutions of ultrafi...Tags: Post, Video, Science, News, Mit, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, Materials Science, Aaron, Baumgarten, Kitchen Science, Ooblek, Ken Kamrin, Kamrin 40 people like this. Like Nobel Prize in Chemistry split 3 ways for lithium-ion battery researchOctober 9, 2019 at 12:57 PM  Tags: Post, Business, Japan, Science, Technology, News, Tech, Chemistry, Associated Press, Nobel, Lithium Ion Batteries, Mobile Tech, New York University, Lithium Ion, U K, University of Texas 146 people like this. Like Girl Scouts can now earn badges in space sciences like astronomy and the search for ETOctober 8, 2019 at 12:06 PM  Tags: Post, Space, Science, News, Education, Stem, Nasa, Seti, SETI Institute, Girl Scouts, SETI Institute Girl Scouts, Pamela Harman, Air Space Magazine Once 54 people like this. Like In Nevada, Tyler Turnipseed desperately leads a losing battle against 'Zombie deer'October 7, 2019 at 12:01 PM Nevada's chief game warden, Tyler Turnipseed knows they will loose the battle against 'zombie deer.' Deer infected with chronic wasting disease are infecting the Western United States.
NY Post:
Tyler Turnipseed, chief Nevada game warden, suggested in testimony about the proposed law that local populations could be infected if a hunter passing through the state from elsewhere dumps butchered waste.
Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming have all reported cases of animals with the disease — heightening ...Tags: Post, Science, News, Animals, Zombies, Wyoming, Nevada, Department of Agriculture, Wolff, Western United States, Kansas Colorado, Chronic Wasting Disease, Braaaaaains, Tyler Turnipseed, Nebraska Utah Idaho, Nevada J J Goicoechea 20 people like this. Like For the first time, pigs have been filmed using toolsOctober 7, 2019 at 7:30 AM At a zoo in Paris, ecologist Meredith Root-Bernstein noticed a Visayan warty pig pick up a piece of bark in its mouth and then use it to move soil. Over the following years, she and colleagues observed the adults pigs and offspring in the enclosure using bark to build their "nests":
Although the behavior occurred in captivity, there is at least some evidence pigs have used tools in the wild:
It’s very possible that wild Visayans use tools, too, she adds. Fernando “Dino” Gutierrez, president o...Tags: Post, Science, News, Animals, Paris, Fernando, Gutierrez, Visayan, Meredith Root Bernstein, Dino '' Gutierrez 45 people like this. Like Lawyers for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes want to quitOctober 4, 2019 at 12:18 PM Elizabeth Holmes continues to struggle.
ABC7:
According to our media partner, the Mercury News, Holmes' lawyers have asked a judge to let them quit the case. They're claiming Holmes is not paying them. "Ms. Holmes has not paid Cooley for any of its work as her counsel of record in this action for more than a year," lawyers Stephen Neal, John Dwyer and Jeffrey Lombard said in the filing obtained by the newspaper. "Further, given Ms. Holmes's current financial situation, Cooley has no expectati...Tags: Post, Science, Technology, News, Law, Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, Holmes, Cooley, Ms Holmes, Not Sherlock but awful quirky, Mercury News Holmes, Stephen Neal John Dwyer, Jeffrey Lombard 33 people like this. Like Beautiful book, augmented reality, and film about stunning rocket launchesMay 31, 2019 at 4:21 PM  Tags: Art, Post, Books, Photography, Video, Space, Science, News, Films, Nasa, Rockets 211 people like this. Like The Reality Bubble: how humanity's collective blindspots render us incapable of seeing danger until it's too late (and what to do about it)May 23, 2019 at 7:07 AM  Tags: Reviews, Post, Books, Gift Guide, Science, News, Delightful Creatures, Climate, History, Jane Goodall, Tong, Ziya Tong, Specialization Is For Insects, Naomi Klein David Suzuki, Ziya Tong Allen Lane 127 people like this. Like Global sea levels could rise 6 feet by year 2100, twice as high as previous estimatesMay 21, 2019 at 6:07 PM A new study on polar ice sheet melt warns that global sea levels could rise by almost six feet by the year 2100, an estimate twice as high as previously predicted.
The newly modeled sea level rise would devastate parts of major cities around the globe, and displace hundreds of millions of people.
The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS] journal [Link].
Here's an excerpt:
Future sea level rise (SLR) poses serious threats to the viability of c...Tags: Post, Science, News, Environment, Global Warming, Ipcc, Nasa, Sea Level Rise, Antarctica, Greenland, Sea Levels, PNAS, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, National Academy of Sciences, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Picks 29 people like this. Like NASA launching living things into deep space for the first time (on purpose) in nearly 50 yearsMay 21, 2019 at 1:21 PM  Tags: Post, Space, Science, News, Nasa, Satellites, Artemis 130 people like this. Like The weight of a kilogram changed overnight; the length of a second may be nextMay 20, 2019 at 1:27 PM A new definition of kilogram went into effect today. No longer is the kilogram defined by Le Grand K, a 140-year-old weight under glass in a secret location near Paris. Now it's determined by the Planck constant, based on physicist Max Planck's theory that "electromagnetic energy at a given frequency could only be emitted in discrete amounts, or quanta, whose energy is proportional to h, now known as the Planck constant." Scientists at the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures also re...Tags: Post, Science, News, Mathematics, Weights, Measurements, Measures 2 people like this. Like 100 proofs the Earth is a globeMay 20, 2019 at 8:32 AM Here's the first 14 of 100 proofs that the Earth is a globe, with the rest still to come author David Morgan-Mar. [via]
1. The Blue Marble
The most straightforward way to check the shape of the Earth is to look at it. There’s one small problem, though. To see the shape of the Earth as a whole, you need to be far enough away from it. For most of human history, this has not been possible. It was only with the advent of the space age that our technology has allowed us to send a human being, or a ...Tags: Post, Science, News 7 people like this. Like NASA probe spots the final lunar resting place of the crashed Israeli spacecraftMay 16, 2019 at 3:03 PM  Tags: Post, Space, Science, News, Nasa, Moon, Arizona State University, LROC, Beresheet 85 people like this. Like Despite the hype, the CBD molecule is actually pretty amazeballsMay 16, 2019 at 1:06 PM CBD is definitely screaming up toward the peak of inflated expectations, but it's not pure grift: the actual molecule and the way it interacts with our bodies is pretty amazing.
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Moises Velasquez-Manoff dives deep into the history of therapeutic uses of CBD (which are necessarily small-scale and inconclusive, thanks to both legal prohibition and centuries of intense selective breeding to increase the THC content of marijuana, which downregulates produ...Tags: Health, Post, Science, News, Hype, Weed, Canada, Fda, New York Times Magazine, Cbd, Mount Sinai, Hurd, MeFi, Yasmin Hurd, Moises Velasquez Manoff, Jeremy Kemp 19 people like this. Like Quantum Physics for Babies and Rocket Science for BabiesMay 11, 2019 at 1:35 PM Quantum Physics for Babies and Rocket Science for Babies are the kind of board books you’d find on a toddler’s shelf. They have stiff, tear-proof cardboard pages, simple illustrations, and minimal text. But they actually explain the subjects on a (very) high level. The author, Chris Ferrie, is a physicist and Senior Lecturer for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney.
I finally learned why quantum physics is called quantum physics! And even though I know how a w...Tags: Post, Books, Family, Science, Kids, News 4 people like this. Like Auction: Apollo 11 lunar landing manual that flew to the moon and backMay 8, 2019 at 10:50 AM  Tags: Post, Space, Science, News, Nasa, Eagle, Reuters, Michael Collins, Armstrong, Christies, Aldrin, Collectors, Command Module, One Small Step, Buzz Aldrin From Christies 83 people like this. Like Why birds fly in a V formationMay 7, 2019 at 12:50 PM Why do many birds fly in a V formation? The wonderful video curators at The Kid Should See This came across this excellent 2014 clip above from the science journal Nature explaining research into the aerodynamic advantages of the formation. From Nature:
...UK's Royal Veterinary College put data loggers on ibises to record their position, speed and wing flaps when they migrated. The ibises position themselves within the V so that they benefit from the flow of air created by the bird in fron...Tags: Post, Video, Science, News, Animals, Flight, Nature, Birds, Aerodynamics, UK s Royal Veterinary College 39 people like this. Like Magical science demonstration of water not spilling from an upside down glassMay 6, 2019 at 1:13 PM This gravity defying water trick, watch til the end. from r/blackmagicfuckery
A science teacher uses a classic but eternally astonishing demonstration in a lesson on atmospheric pressure and surface tension. The real magic though is the infectious curiosity she sparks in her students.
(Here's the science.)Tags: Post, Video, Science, News, Education, Teaching, Teachers, Magic, Wonder 31 people like this. Like Cute, floating cube robots arrive at the International Space StationMay 2, 2019 at 12:23 PM A few days ago, two little robots arrived at the International Space Station to help astronauts with simple tasks. Called Astrobees, the cube bots are 12" x 12" x 12" and propelled around the microgravity environment by small fans. The bots are named Honey and Bumble. A third, Queen, remains on Earth. From NASA:
Working autonomously or via remote control by astronauts, flight controllers or researchers on the ground, the robots are designed to complete tasks such as taking inventory, documen...Tags: Post, Space, Science, News, Nasa, International Space Station, Robots, Robotics 17 people like this. Like The media is failing on climate change – here's how they can do better ahead of 2020April 30, 2019 at 9:40 AM  Tags: Post, New York, Science, Congress, Washington Post, Washington, New York City, US, America, Cnn, Yale, Iowa, Fairfield, Showtime, The Guardian, Mitch McConnell 100 people like this. Like What will it take for the media to focus on climate change in the 2020 elections?April 30, 2019 at 9:40 AM  Tags: Post, New York, Science, Yosemite, Congress, Washington Post, Washington, New York City, US, America, Cnn, Yale, Iowa, Fairfield, Showtime, The Guardian 143 people like this. Like Prehistoric poop reveals person ate entire venomous snake, including a fangApril 25, 2019 at 1:21 PM  Tags: Post, Texas, Science, News, Archaeology, Weird Shit, Elanor Sonderman, Sonderman 117 people like this. Like Japanese chemistry professor busted for teaching students to make MollyApril 23, 2019 at 2:43 PM Tatsunori Iwamura, 61, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Japan's Matsuyama University, was busted for teaching his students how to make MDMA (aka Molly/Ecstasy) and 5F-QUPIC, a cannabinoid agonist. At some point, Iwamura had a license to manufacture illegal drugs for academic purposes but it had expired. From The Guardian:
Local drug enforcement authorities believe 11 students produced the drug (MDMA) under Iwamura’s instruction. Four students, along with an assistant professor, have ...Tags: Post, Japan, Breaking Bad, Science, News, Drugs, Molly, Ecstasy, Chemistry, Mdma, Kyodo, Tatsunori Iwamura, Matsuyama University, Molly Ecstasy, Iwamura, Tatsuya Mizogami 33 people like this. Like The Voyager Golden Record deconstructed on the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcastApril 22, 2019 at 12:35 PM  Tags: Post, Space, Music, Science, News, Nasa, Hertz, Carl Sagan, Mozart, Extraterrestrials, Bach, Timothy Ferris, Blind Willie Johnson, Solomon Island, Linda Salzman Sagan, Voyager Golden Record 78 people like this. Like Frankenswine: Pig brains partly revived by scientists 4 hours after pigs were killedApril 17, 2019 at 3:06 PM  Tags: Post, Science, News, Yale, Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven Conn, Nita Farahany, Nenad Sestan, Pig Brains, Stefano G Daniele 69 people like this. Like "Cthulhu was real!" say scientistsApril 16, 2019 at 1:27 PM Well, sort of. Paleontologists have identified a 430 million-year-old fossil of a multi-tentacled sea creature as a new species and dubbed it Sollasina cthulhu after HP Lovecraft's Great Old One. From Yale University:
The new cthulhu, Sollasina, had 45 tentacle-like tube feet, which it used to crawl along the ocean floor and capture food. The creature was small, about the size of a large spider. It was found in the Herefordshire Lagerstätte in the United Kingdom, a site that has proven to ...Tags: Post, Science, News, Oceans, United Kingdom, Yale, Cthulhu, Fossils, Paleontology, Yale University, Lovecraft, Sea Creatures, Derek Briggs, Sollasina, Herefordshire Lagerstätte 17 people like this. Like This is the reconstructed face of a pet dog that lived 4,500 years agoApril 16, 2019 at 1:09 PM Archaeologists uncovered the skeleton of this neolithic dog more than a century ago in a 5,000 year old tomb on on the island of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Now, forensic scientists and artists have reconstructed the animal's face. According to Historic Environment Scotland researcher Steve Farrar, this dog and 23 others found in the "Cuween Hill (tomb) suggest that dogs had a particularly special significance for the farmers... Maybe dogs were their symbol or totem, perhaps they thought of the...Tags: Post, Science, News, Dogs, Scotland, Animals, History, Archaeology, Forensics, University of Dundee, Hes, Steve Farrar, Cuween Hill, Mainland Orkney Scotland, Amy Thornton 35 people like this. Like First image of a supermassive black holeApril 10, 2019 at 10:22 AM One day, my children, all this will be yours.
From The National Science Foundation:
So how were scientists able to “see” the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy 53 million light years away? ...
It is still impossible to image the actual black hole (again, that intense gravity let’s nothing escape) so the data being collected is light from the material around the event horizon of the object — the “point of no return” of a black hole. What we are seeing is truly the silhouett...Tags: Post, Space, Science, News, Holes, National Science Foundation 49 people like this. Like |
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