This girl from the UK has been determined to have the most scientifically perfect face:
The 18-year-old student is blessed with what is described as the perfect face. It matches an international blueprint for the optimum ratio between eyes, mouth, forehead and chin, endowing her with flawless proportions.
She beat out 8,000 other people and now the race is over. Can we all stop caring so much about looks now and move on with society? Probably not. :/
This new installation for a science museum is 90 feet long, made up of 3,600 LCD panels, and runs on only 75 watts.
(Source: fastcodesign.com)
MSNBC says conservatives’ trust in science since 1974 has dropped by 13%. Sleep tight.
Phantom Flex camera captures an exploding cake at 2500 fps. What a waste of cake.
If you’re wondering how a cake explodes, these chemists try to explain it. Sort of:
(Source: youtube.com)
Bald bears baffle Bavarian German vets
…Some experts believe it could be due to a genetic defect though the animals do not seem to be suffering from any other affliction.
The bears, which originate from South America, normally have fluffy dark brown fur and would now be growing a thicker fur coat to keep warm during the winter….
The patty will be much like a regular quarter-pounder — but with one big difference: This one will be created by growing bovine stem cells in a vat, transforming them into thousands of thin layers of beef muscle cells, mincing them into tiny pieces, then combining the bits with lab-grown animal fat to form a lump of meat the size of a golf ball.
If Post and his colleagues succeed, it would mark a technological triumph after years of working to improve upon the current, millennia-old method for making meat. Researchers in the field say the livestock industry in its current incarnation is too energy-intensive and land-intensive for a global population that’s rising in numbers and affluence.
$330,000 lab-grown hamburger due out this year
Fat American science? Crazy Japanese science? Evil German science? Nope … it’s Dutch.
A little while back, some airports introduced those whole body scanners – the ones where you stand with your hands over your head and the machine takes an image of your body to rule out the presence of weapons, explosives, etc. Given all of the threats from shoe bombers to liquid bombers that have made it through traditional metal detectors, I thought this was a good idea. More monitoring to insure my safety is a good thing. But the outcry from the libertarians and the privacy crowd was deafening. It was newsworthy for weeks. All kinds of concerns about TSA agents peaking at one’s body profile, etc.
So imagine my surprise when I talked on the phone the other day with folks from Unique solutions. They use the exact same technology in the shopping mall to allow consumers to create a clothing size template that is unique to them. Armed with that scan information, you can go to certain merchants to buy highly customized clothing of a fit that is unique to you. When I heard about this, I wondered how widespread it is, but right after the phone call I saw one of these in a mall near my home. Consumers are flocking, apparently. No complaints from the privacy crowd on this one. Who’d a thunk it? Essentially the same scan. Same risks best I can tell (couldn’t an errant employee view your scan?). But no outcry.
There was probably a courtship ritual among dinosaurs, involving signature body features. Last year, a group of paleontologists showed that the enormous fins on the back of pterosaurs and pelycosaurs were most likely there to attract mates, because they seem to have grown larger and larger through the generations. Similarly, some researchers think sauropods like the apatosaurus (which was once called the brontosaurus) grew long necks for mating displays rather than to reach the high leaves. Male triceratops may have locked their massive horns for the right to mate.
Bacterial typography
Maybe it’s me, but does this seem like an unnecessary headline to anyone else?
Following exercise recommendations, conclude the authors, “may offset the genetic predisposition to obesity associated with the FTO” gene. Indeed, three earlier studies (including this one from 2009 and this one from 2008) also suggested that exercise can negate the effect of the “fat” gene. Like the studies that reached the opposite conclusion—exercise all you want, but carrying fat DNA is destiny—they, too, used questionnaires rather than actually measuring how much kids exercised. By doing the latter, this new research study takes a big step toward showing that our fate—or at least our BMI—lies as much in our gym membership as in our DNA.
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