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Well shit, I guess they got out of the city. I thought I just checked the site earlier this year and didn't see anything new.
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Yeah, my immediate reaction was "Holy shit the guy's making comics again?"
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beatbandito wrote:Well shit, I guess they got out of the city. I thought I just checked the site earlier this year and didn't see anything new.
There was an April Fool's page a couple years back where they actually did make it out, only to discover civilization had recovered and kept the city as a memorial to the war. I thought that would've been a fine place to end the comic, well, but here we are.
But more on topic, how do they even calculate stuff like hypothetical planets made of blueberries?
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Yoji wrote:But more on topic, how do they even calculate stuff like hypothetical planets made of blueberries?
The link to the abstract is right there!
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Yes, it's real
(it's actually a local tl;dr of a Popular Mechanics article from the previous year, and that article was based on legitimate scientific research by a Swedish scientist in 1896, Svante Arrhenius - the same man who coined the phrase "greenhouse gases").
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My favorite college professor, Dr. John Placer, did some AI research on prairie dog language. Here's an old Wired article about it:
Rodents' Talk Isn't Just 'Cheep'
Rodents' Talk Isn't Just 'Cheep'
Gunnison's prairie dog can describe and warn others of an approaching coyote or a red-tailed hawk, and do it by "name." There are consistent chirps that denote the presence of humans and even non-predators like skunks or badgers. There are specific calls for cows, elk, prong-horned antelope and domestic cats, and these calls are consistent across prairie dog colonies, [biologist Con Slobodchikoff, also of NAU] says.
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"In human speech recognition, you know what the important sounds are," such as vowels and consonants, says Placer. For prairie dogs, the scientists believe that they can find the equivalents of vowels and consonants within the alarm calls and thus learn how the calls are structured. So far, they have trained a computer to recognize three key prairie dog calls more than 90 percent of the time based on this technique. It's a far cry from the futuristic translating device that Placer envisions -- a trained human who understands prairie dog call variations could do this more efficiently -- but "it's a start," says Placer.
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The clearest photo of Mercury ever taken:
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Huh, I always thought of Mercury as red like Mars.
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To be fair, I have no idea what filters are on that image.
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Mathematics! rather than Science!, but I'll allow it.
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Heard about this one on The Constant*: A 500-year-old skeleton was found with what looked like a knife tied onto its arm to replace a severed hand. Considering the level of medical know-how at the time, they say it's evidence that he was well cared for since he didn't just die from sepsis.
*god DAMN, Alexis picks the weirdest bedtime listening sometimes.
*god DAMN, Alexis picks the weirdest bedtime listening sometimes.
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A remarkably rectangular iceberg was spotted in the Antarctic.
Good to see the plan to curb global warming by just dropping huge ice cubes in the ocean continues apace.
Good to see the plan to curb global warming by just dropping huge ice cubes in the ocean continues apace.
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Yoji wrote:A remarkably rectangular iceberg was spotted in the Antarctic.
Good to see the plan to curb global warming by just dropping huge ice cubes in the ocean continues apace.
Oh man, this story was in the side bar and it is cool as fuck: Melting Memories: A Data-Driven Art Installation that Visualizes the Brain’s Inner Workings
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This is... a rear projection screen with 3d imagery carefully aligned to the lighting in the installation?
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mharr wrote:This is... a rear projection screen with 3d imagery carefully aligned to the lighting in the installation?
I'm really not sure!
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Ironically, the exhibit itself is witchcraft.
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