Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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The scientifically minded inquiry of human/animal morality. Do I do that here or on one of the religion thread(s)?
That would be more suitable to this thread. Though it wouldn't be out of line to start a philosophy thread, either.
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Now that zebra mussels have been mentioned - thought I'd post this here for any hunter/gatherer types:
http://eattheinvaders.org/
If we could somehow get McDonald's to work invasive species into their menus they will quickly go from invasive to extinct.
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There's been a couple others like this found. One was a pre-existing drug/chemical that also kills pretty much any cancer it comes into contact with. CLR or CAS or something like that. Stories about it were posted on FOH a few years back. The problem with a lot of these kinds of things isn't their efficacy, but coming up with a viable treatment that will target only the cancer and not harm the patient otherwise. Tabloid aside, yeah they've probably found something interesting. But it's one of probably dozens of similar chemicals. Turning it in to an actual treatment is the tricky part.
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I haven't watched that TED talk, but the idea but intensive grazing is all the rage these days. The idea is that it mimics what herds of buffalo did before Europeans came to N. America. The buffalo didn't sit around inside a barbed wire fence like cattle today do, they would move into an area, eat everything that grows there, trample the shit out of everything, and then move on. It sounds like a natural disaster, but prairie grasses and plants evolved with this happening and they actually benefit from it. Having large hoofed animals walking on the ground softens it and the manure is a source of nitrogen which is deposited in piles and then scattered by insects and birds. 20 years ago if you grazed a pasture down to bare dirt you would be accused of overgrazing, but people are finding that if you do it the right way (over a short period of time and not at the same time of year on the same ground every year) it's actually beneficial and even dramatically so.
Lots of people are fencing their pastures into smaller sections these days so they can graze more intensively and move more often and the results seem to be very good. On the contrary, there have been some wrong-headed environmental groups that have bought land to "protect" it from grazing animals and what winds up happening is that the ground gets so hard that the grass seeds don't grow and they wind up turning it into a desert.
Lots of people are fencing their pastures into smaller sections these days so they can graze more intensively and move more often and the results seem to be very good. On the contrary, there have been some wrong-headed environmental groups that have bought land to "protect" it from grazing animals and what winds up happening is that the ground gets so hard that the grass seeds don't grow and they wind up turning it into a desert.
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There used to be an alternative energy thread but I guess I'll just leave this here:
Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production could revolutionize alternative energy market
Things like this tend to peter out eventually but if an environmentally friendly method of producing hydrogen could be found it's a total game changer.
Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production could revolutionize alternative energy market
Things like this tend to peter out eventually but if an environmentally friendly method of producing hydrogen could be found it's a total game changer.
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Sounds like a Chemists' dream find. The problem with hydrogen though isn't its production (Since it's a common byproduct of a lot of industries). It's storage and density. Hydrogen leaks out of normal containers and a litre of it stores like 1/7th the energy of gasoline.article_sl said:
iannis
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You also have to manufacture and separate the enzymes somehow.
It's not so much the prevalence of the fuel consumed (the focus of the article), it's the manufacture of those necessary reagents.
It's neat but... the article is an advertisement for the V-Tech chemical engineering doctoral program. Not so much anything else.
It's not so much the prevalence of the fuel consumed (the focus of the article), it's the manufacture of those necessary reagents.
It's neat but... the article is an advertisement for the V-Tech chemical engineering doctoral program. Not so much anything else.
Correct. Grats on solving the problem of how to find the most abundant element in the universe.
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It being the most abundant element in the universe is pretty irrelevant if there is none of it on earth.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...sEnabled=false
Great news. Asteroid mining is the next big step in space exploration.
Great news. Asteroid mining is the next big step in space exploration.
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