Lots to talk about this week as we’re joined by Jeremy Williams and Kishore Hari to recap the Super Bowl (technology and chicken wings!), discuss our hopes for Star Trek, Jeremy’s appearance on Mythbusters, and the latest news in tech. How do you feel about the newest changes to Twitter?
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Drones:
Harking back to Adam’s impassioned pleas to behave responsibly with drones….
well ok, So that hasn’t worked. Sure it’s the minority, but it always is isn’t it? (270 million guns in america, only a couple of hundred owners go crazy ape bonkers each year)
idiot magnets.
stories this week for the UK near misses reported at major airports… 747 on take off had a near miss with a drone 16 feet away!
Do we really have to wait for fatalities before treating them as real aircraft? with all the training, insurance and regulation requirements?
Yellow Line in Football: in the regular season Denver Broncos versus New England Patriots game, CBS placed the yard numbers over the snow so that you can tell what yard line was near. so the 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 numbers were superimposed on top of the snow in grey lettering no less. pretty cool, huh?
My Opinion like it matters in the intersperse of the internet on twitter and facebook feeds…
Both twitter and facebook are FREE. If they want to make changes to the platforms or the feeds they will and can. If you have a problem with it, stop using the services. You do not pay for it, you do not have to use it. If they cost money and were making changes it might be something different but they are free services. I’m tired of hearing people complain about facebook changing their stream style. Go outside and play.
in Canada, They sell them but you can’t fly if you don’t have a flight plan etc. so lots of people break the rules, they wont be doing that much long i don’t think.
The site is returning an error when I try to post timestamps, so here is a link to them:
http://pastebin.com/Xc4MkRxb
Jeremy gets more and more interesting. It would be such a privilege to sit down and just have a chat with the folks there at Tested. Between Jeremy, Kishore, Norm, Will and Adam you could spend a lifetime getting to know some genuinely good guys and learning more things than you can imagine.
On the subject of pirating games, I think my favorite anti-piracy measure is with the classic RPG EarthBound / Mother 2 for Super Nintendo. If the game was pirated, the difficulty of the game would go through the roof by having much more monsters in the overworld, making the game a slog.
If you somehow made it through all that and got to the end, right when you get to the end boss, the game would then crash. When you reset your Super Nintendo, you’ll then find that your save file has been deleted.
Question for Kishore…
As the media rarely reports properly on science I was wondering if you knew of any sites that are scientifically informed. I’m looking for a site that reports on science news and is reliable. Not bashing tested.
Thanks
William
re: discussion in the first 7 minutes – baking powder for wings might not be as effective if you then go ahead and just deep fry them, but it definitely makes a difference if you bake instead of fry.
Yea, I’m not a fan of bone in chicken either.
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH NUGGETS!!!
You can still get the chronological view on facebook. Just hover over the news feed on the left side and click latest.
I agree though, Twitter needs to stay chronological. Or at least make sure it stays available.
I agree. While I admit that bone-in chicken, when roasted, fried or otherwise cooked, tastes much better than boneless, when it comes to wings, the bone is taking up valuable meat space and gets in the way.
On the subject of spicy – Wings and also most any food people like to make ridiculously hot versions of. The Peppers are a spice – just like any other spice , I’ve always felt you use enough to get the flavor then after that it can quickly degenerate to Bro territory. No one ever brags that they ate a taco with 5 table spoons of salt or that it had 15 tablespoons of cumin, but they will go on forever on how hot they made something and how no one but them could eat it. Like that is something any cook or eater strives for. They whole I love it hot bring it on! phenomenon is a weird sub culture of food.
For a new, in-depth source with some of the best science writers in the world: http://www.statnews.com/
For a roundup of great science articles every week: Ed Yong’s (British science writer for Atlantic and Nat Geo) weekly link roundup: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/06/ive-got-your-missing-links-right-here-6-february-2016/
How I do it: I follow a bunch of interesting science journalists and scientists on twitter. I read what they link to and follow the rabbit hole from there.
It wasn’t that spicy!
I can believe it , some of those flavors sounded good and you guys didn’t go into he bragging part. But if you like wings and spicy food , I am sure you have met the folks I was talking about .
Those NASA themed Posters look amazing. I just uploaded a bunch of Mosaic Photography Prints using Apollo Mission only photographs at Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/AstronautPrints
Why the hate for Enterprise? You guys talk about never seeing an episode but then go on to describe what you want the new Star Trek to be, gritty, serialized, and capturing visuals of early Trek but modernized……. YOU SERIOUSLY JUST DOSCRIBED ENTERPRISE!!!!!!!!! Your all good with Voyager but Enterprise was to much of a reach? Do yourselfs a favor and go watch it on Netflix, it’s only 4 season and it’s not like you have other Star Trek to watch until next year.
The paper about the removal of senescent cells is probably Nature 2016 Vol 530 11 Feb, Baker et al. They used a transgene in mice that encodes for a fusion protein betweencaspase 8 and the FK506 binding protein under the control of a gene promoter that is expressed in senescent cells (p16INK4a). This way they can kill p16INK4a positive cells by giving a drug weekly and study the long term effects. Cool results but not easily translatable into human applications.
Yep – its that Nature paper. Totally not easily translatable to humans, but really fascinating. Pretty big sample size of mice, with varied diets and gender too.
Here’s the best non technical article I’ve read about the paper: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/clearing-retired-cells-extends-life/459723/
Link to the Nature paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v530/n7589/full/nature16932.html