The Second Apocalypse

Miscellaneous Chatter => Philosophy & Science => Topic started by: TLEILAXU on January 10, 2018, 08:15:29 pm

Title: Random interesting science related stuff
Post by: TLEILAXU on January 10, 2018, 08:15:29 pm

This is a thread for random interesting science related stuff.
I'll start off:
This is physics talk I'm watching right now. It's about the fine tuning of the universe. It's not too hard to follow the broad ideas for a layman. Link: Why is there a Macroscopic Universe? (Nima Arkani-Hamed) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Fxt_yCrcc)

This is a cool little video where they hooked some heart cells to some gelatine/gold-ray thingy.
Robotic ray is part animal, part machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D_XrRo0h20)

Brian Cocks talks a little bit about heat death. It's very poetic and there's one line in particular that moves me near the end.
Death of the Universe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Untoik6c_gs)

Some creepy illusion stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_aftereffect

Synchronized oscillations of a synthetic quorum clock in bacteria. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVjunGxSCSc)
The related article is behinid a pay wall but there's an article describing the article here.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/417178/a-synchronous-clock-made-of-bacteria/

Title: Re: Random interesting science related stuff
Post by: Madness on January 10, 2018, 10:36:18 pm

I thought I saw a moniker for this thread in Quorum :(?

Tleilaxu's something something something?

Title: Re: Random interesting science related stuff
Post by: TLEILAXU on January 10, 2018, 10:58:40 pm

I wanted to make it more general, i.e. so others can join in too.

Title: Re: Random interesting science related stuff
Post by: TLEILAXU on March 27, 2018, 02:04:50 am

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/want-discover-truly-alien-life-pack-genome-sequencer