A thread for scientific nerdiness

[bellbird]

I think I may have found that video on Youtube a few years back.

Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level
I'm only 2 minutes in and I can already tell it's gonna be great

 

[Friday]

and the atrial flutter.

OMG... The atrial flutter should be used in textbooks! Dead on. :roflmao: At least until dude loses the beat towards the end. You gotta give that guy mad props, though. He cleeeearly has no sense of rhythm, but man oh man does he give it his all.

My fav has to be Junctional Rhythm :hilarious: heads just lolling, although you just knew AFib was gonna be great.

 

[Angrboda]

@bellbird I'm so glad you found it. I just watched it again, and it's even more awesome than I remember.

If anyone is interested, there is a link on the homepage of allaboutbirds.org to an article about a new bird of paradise species. Very pretty video.

So, I was just reading through a page of notes I took about an ant colony I was watching earlier today. After stating that I'd observed a worker transporting brood, I wrote 'Larva is a fat butt'. I think I must never allow anyone else to read my field notes.

 

[littleoc]

allaboutbirds.org to an article about a new bird of paradise species. Very pretty video.

Yes!!

Also, lol! But it's important to note little details like fat butt! :roflmao:

 

[Friday]

I just read a super interesting layman’s article summarising some of the more recent archaeological studies & emerging theories on civilisation and agricultural cultivation.

Dead Link Removed

 

[littleoc]

Love this channel!

3 cool things we don’t know about the Milky Way:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr7DRhY5DwI

 

[littleoc]

I didn’t know that this was a thing!

I know it’s just a Wikipedia article but it’s really neat if you didn’t know about this profession before!

Hyperbaric Welding (or Underwater Welding, or any kind of welding that has to happen in high pressure)

In “See Also” there’s one about Oxy-fuel welding and cutting :D

Welding in space or other really low pressure places must be fun

 

[Friday]

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-translate-takes-a-dig-at-flat-earthers/

When you ask Google Translate to translate "I am a flat-Earther" from English into French, it returns with "Je suis un fou." Translate that back to English again and you get "I'm a crazy person."

:roflmao:

Love. It.

 

[Ronin]

Capitalization matters though, works only with a lowercase e for that Earther. :D

 

[littleoc]

You won't get sick from Dengue if you only get it once!

Have I already explained this or should I keep on? lol

 

[FragileGlass]

I recently finished Max Tegmark’s - Mathematical Universe and the theories of a Multiverse. It gave me enouragement to think that another version of myselves made the right choice. I’m just the sacrificial lamb for a greater good so that my other selves have a greater purpose and better experience whatever their timeline is. Really have to pay attention to that next déjà vu experience. Otherwise it’s a really fantastic eye opening read to see how the numbers give our existience such significant meaning. Yeah I’m a cosmos dork!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis

 

[Friday]

This Summer Solstice, Earth's Days Are Longer Than Ever
- National Geographic Society
https://apple.news/ALsJE1G8LQRSDOx-ZXV47qQ

This Summer Solstice, Earth's Days Are Longer Shorter Than Ever
- World according To Friday - W(a)TF

Meyers and a colleague recently showed that 1.4 billion years ago, a single “day” lasted only about 18 hours. And changes in the gravitational dance between our planet and the moon are causing Earth’s day to get ever so slightly longer each year.

Everyone knows you can’t trust astrophysicists with math... and here is a prime example of why!

A 32 hour day? 6+24 instead of 24-6 ? Would be perfect.

Sure sure, the universe is expanding, but the sun sucked our poor little ball of rock INTO its orbit, and I posit has been f*cking with its perfect day, deducting a whole 6 hours of get ‘er done sleep ever since!

Somebody point a mathematician at that maniac, and prove my hypothesis right, wouldya? And then, while you’re at it, nudge the earth back to where it belongs. ;)

In a recently published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they worked out some of the celestial physics that would help them understand the way Earth moved around in space in the past. Back in the Proterozoic, a few million years after multicellular life appeared on the planet, the moon was about 211,825 miles away from Earth—about 21,000 miles closer than it is today. This, they figured out, compressed the length of a day down to 18.68 hours

See??? 18.68 hour days! Even more sleep! And suntans! And get ‘er done time! Clearly THEY had a mathematician on board. As if the world would have neatly decreased its time in round hours. Snort. So an 18.68 hour day on the equator, plus 18.68 hours of mischief making time under the stars and what looks to have been a truly spectacular moon = 37 & change.

Why, yes. I do actually go to astrophysicist bars and f*ck with them with these arguments. The only downside is I’ve yet to meet one who doesn’t think the game is hilarious. Their grad students, though, get their noses reeeeeeally out of joint. :sneaky: