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[jegga]

Who knew vaping would be

@Nepia said in Science!:

Weird, in my head Oxford would have been filled with professors who are crusty old dudes well over 65.

Same here

[Tim]

[jegga]

@Tim did you see the video further down?

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@Nepia said in Science!:

Weird, in my head Oxford would have been filled with professors who are crusty old dudes well over 65.

There are plenty of old ones there, but the faculty is younger than you might think.

The summer garden party was much more fun that I expected it to be.

[Tim]

@jegga Ha ha. I have now.

[jegga]

@Tim said in Science!:

@jegga Ha ha. I have now.

Not great despite his form .

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[Stockcar86]

[Nevorian]

MarinaTex | James Dyson Award

MarinaTex is a home compostable material designed as an alternative to single-use plastic films. The material is comprised of waste material from the fishing...

"Plastic" made from fish waste

Rima Sabina Aouf  /  Feb 9, 2022  /  Design

UK student's fish-waste bioplastic MarinaTex wins 2019 James Dyson Award top prize

An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award.

[Rembrandt]

@Nevorian said in Science!:

"Plastic" made from fish waste

Rima Sabina Aouf  /  Feb 9, 2022  /  Design

UK student's fish-waste bioplastic MarinaTex wins 2019 James Dyson Award top prize

An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award.

Pretty great if the claim that 1 cod has enough waste for 1,400 bags is correct.

Of course not everyone is happy...

[Machpants]

That's pretty cool

[nzzp]

This is pretty amazing

Erik Olsen

Sea-thru Brings Clarity to Underwater Photos

A new algorithm counteracts the distorting impact of water

[Machpants]

Wow, cool thing about that is that tech will be on phones in a few years. I love my underwater pics.

[jegga]

@Stockcar86

https://qz.com/1763584/dna-evidences-reliability-called-into-question-by-human-chimera/

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@jegga said in Science!:

@Stockcar86

https://qz.com/1763584/dna-evidences-reliability-called-into-question-by-human-chimera/

On a tangentially related identity theme...

[jegga]

Electric eel powers Xmas lights . Unfortunately @Catogrande appears to have named it

James de Villiers  /  Dec 4, 2019  /  News

This video shows how the Tennessee Aquarium powers its Christmas tree using an electric eel

A video by the Tennesee Aquarium posted on Twitter shows how an electric eel lit up the lights of a Christmas tree.

[jegga]

@Stockcar86 said in Science!:

@jegga said in Science!:

@Stockcar86

https://qz.com/1763584/dna-evidences-reliability-called-into-question-by-human-chimera/

On a tangentially related identity theme...

A company that does DNA testing for the police etc just bought one of this genealogy sites

Megan Molteni  /  Dec 9, 2019  /  tags

A DNA Firm That Caters to Police Just Bought a Genealogy Site

In 2018, GEDmatch played a key role in reopening the 40-year-old Golden State Killer case. Now a company that serves law enforcement is gobbling it up.

[Machpants]

@jegga Fuck that's funny!

[jegga]

Scott Barry Kaufman

Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously

New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality, and the results are so strong and pervasive that they can no longer be ignored

[taniwharugby]

@jegga the thing is, a relative of a criminal could submit their DNA and happily have them test it without knowing their cousin/subling/parent is a serial killer and inadvertently point the authorities in the right direction...