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imagine the smell in this car omg
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Texting.
I wish you can send emotions through text messages.
Not even faces. Just emotions.
That way you’d know when I’m sarcastic or laughing and feeling happy about the text you just sent.
Life would be so much more easier,
Because you can only say so much with words.It’s called a phonecall
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Growth Factor Aids Stem Cell Regeneration After Radiation Damage
DURHAM, N.C. – Epidermal growth factor has been found to speed the recovery of blood-making stem cells after exposure to radiation, according to Duke Medicine researchers. The finding could open new options for treating cancer patients and victims of dirty bombs or nuclear disasters.
Reported in the Feb. 3, 2013, issue of the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers explored what had first appeared to be an anomaly among certain genetically modified mice with an abundance of epidermal growth factor in their bone marrow. The mice were protected from radiation damage, and the researchers questioned how this occurred.
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![scinerds:
Are you easily embarrassed? A Berkeley study suggests that this is a good thing — people who are easily embarrassed are considered more trustworthy and generous.
UC Berkeley social psychologist Robb Willer explains:
“Embarrassment is one emotional signature of a person to whom you can entrust valuable resources. It’s part of the social glue that fosters trust and cooperation in everyday life.”
Time and time again, the results showed that embarrassment signals people’s tendency to be pro-social. Matthew Feinberg, lead author of the paper, explains: “You want to affiliate with [people who display embarrassment] more — you feel comfortable trusting them.”
More at ucresearch.tumblr.com→](http://24.media.tumblr.com/cd3dcf90bde6fce48c2c24bbe093809b/tumblr_mjq9gbyL9I1qbn6nco1_500.gif)
Are you easily embarrassed? A Berkeley study suggests that this is a good thing — people who are easily embarrassed are considered more trustworthy and generous.
UC Berkeley social psychologist Robb Willer explains:
“Embarrassment is one emotional signature of a person to whom you can entrust valuable resources. It’s part of the social glue that fosters trust and cooperation in everyday life.”
Time and time again, the results showed that embarrassment signals people’s tendency to be pro-social. Matthew Feinberg, lead author of the paper, explains: “You want to affiliate with [people who display embarrassment] more — you feel comfortable trusting them.”
More at ucresearch.tumblr.com→
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.@BillGates thinks #meat is a problem. Unfortunately, he’s enamored of a dubious solution. @tryveg @michaelpollan
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An implantable, artifical kidney
Shuvo Roy is developing an artificial kidney at UCSF that could revolutionize care for millions of people around the world:
“Look at the impact. There are 600,000 people who have kidney failure in this country, two million worldwide. Less than 20,000 transplants are performed every year. And on the waiting list today, which is the sickest of the sick, there are almost 100,000 people. If we can deliver on this, we can provide an alternative therapy and a treatment option that doesn’t exist today for the vast majority of people who are now forced to rely on dialysis.”
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The Science of Ant Mills aka Death Spirals.
“Imagine a complex society that can accomplish amazing things, but also has an error in its programming that, occasionally, causes many of its members to run amok and die tragically. This is the situation faced by some species of ants, and the behavior is called a death spiral or an ant mill. You can see several examples in the videos below. The ants seem to have gone insane, walking in an endless circle together.
Beebe (1921) described a circular mill he witnessed in Guyana. It measured 1200 feet in circumference and had a 2.5 hour circuit time per ant. The mill persisted for two days, “with ever increasing numbers of dead bodies littering the route as exhaustion took its toll, but eventually a few workers straggled from the trail thus breaking the cycle, and the raid marched off into the forest.”
The cause of this behavior is the technology ant societies use for ground navigation. They follow pheromone trails on the ground laid down by other ants, or they simply follow other ants visually. The system works well normally. A scout ant goes out and finds something. Other ants go back to get more by following the scent trail, or by following each other. However, if a loop gets created, the ants will march blindly, sometimes circling until they die.
You can see an ant pheromone trail being formed in this video: Fire ant pheromone.”
Watch more videos of ant mills here.
Amazing
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The Majestic Grolar Bear
Although polar bears and grizzly bears aren’t all that similar and are definitely separate species, they can interbreed and create fertile offspring in the wild. Hank brings us the story of these misfit bears, which he likes to call grolar bears.
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