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Andrew V

Soylent gets a version bump to 1.1-new flavor, new gut flora help | Ars Technica - 0 views

  • The second change deals with my biggest issue with Soylent—what can be politely termed as "a bit of gas." Regular Soylent use eliminates the gas, but using Soylent as an occasional substitute for a missed meal—which is my preferred usage of the stuff—can introduce some thunderous gut activity (which I referred to in my original Soylent review as "horse-killing farts").
    • Andrew V
       
      Horse-killing Farts, I like this description for a fart. I can only guess what that is like.
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Isaiah-Thomas C

Milky Way has half the amount of dark matter as previously thought, new measurements re... - 0 views

    • Isaiah-Thomas C
       
      isn't dark matter a theory
  • Australian astronomers used a method developed almost 100 years ago to discover that the weight of dark matter in our own galaxy is 800,000,000,000 (or 8 x 1011) times the mass of the Sun.
  • Stars, dust, you and me, all the things that we see, only make up about 4 per cent of the entire Universe," he said.
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  • This is an artist's impression of the Milky Way and its dark matter halo (shown in blue, but in reality invisible).
  • Milky Way has half the amount of dark matter as previously thought, new measurements reveal
  • A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way has revealed there is half as much of the mysterious substance as previously thought. Australian astronomers used a method developed almost 100 years ago to discover that the weight of dark matter in our own galaxy is 800,000,000,000 times the mass of the Sun. They probed the edge of the Milky Way, looking closely, for the first time, at the fringes of the galaxy about 5 million billion kilometres from Earth.
    • Dyna Kunce
       
      What happens if this happens? dark matter, really invisible? i had no idea that the universe is really dark. cool, but what is this dark matter they are talking about? is this the way that our galaxy ends? i need to do more studying.
  • Dr Kafle, who is originally from Nepal, was able to measure the mass of the dark matter in the Milky Way by studying the speed of stars throughout the galaxy, including the edges, which had never been studied to this detail before. He used a robust technique developed by British astronomer James Jeans in 1915 -- decades before the discovery of dark matter. Dr Kafle's measurement helps to solve a mystery that has been haunting theorists for almost two decades. "The current idea of galaxy formation and evolution, called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter theory, predicts that there should be a handful of big satellite galaxies around the Milky Way that are visible with the naked eye, but we don't see that," Dr Kafle said. "When you use our measurement of the mass of the dark matter the theory predicts that there should only be three satellite galaxies out there, which is exactly what we see; the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy." University of Sydney astrophysicist Professor Geraint Lewis, who was also involved in the research, said the missing satellite problem had been "a thorn in the cosmological side for almost 15 years." "Dr Kafle's work has shown that it might not be as bad as everyone thought, although there are still problems to overcome," he said. The study also presented a holistic model of the Milky Way, which allowed the scientists to measure several interesting things such as the speed required to leave the galaxy. "Be prepared to hit 550 kilometres per second if you want to escape the gravitational clutches of our galaxy," Dr Kafle said. "A rocket launched from Earth needs just 11 kilometres per second to leave its surface, which is already about 300 times faster than the maximum Australian speed limit in a car!"
  • Temperature and Water Vapor on an Exoplanet Mapped Milky Way Has Half the Amount of Dark Matter as Previously Thought Astronomers See Right Into Heart of Exploding Star Impossibly Bright Dead Star: X-Ray Source in the Cigar Galaxy Is the First Ultraluminous Pulsar Ever Detected Hungry Black Hole Eats Faster Than Thought Possible Matter & Energy Nanoparticles Can Act Like Liquid on the Outside, Crystal on the Inside Flying Robots to Save Lives in the Alps Electrically Conductive Plastics Promising for Batteries, Transparent Solar Cells DNA Nano-Foundries Cast Custom-Shaped Metal Nanoparticles New Investigational Cardiac Pacemaker as Small as a Vitamin
  • Space & Time Dark Matter Astrophysics Galaxies Astronomy Solar Flare Sun
    • Dyna Kunce
       
      all the other things on this page.
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    • Dyna Kunce
       
      Cool story. space and time is still being explored.
    • Dyna Kunce
       
      the story of all this is very interesting. that all matter in the universe can still be explored by camera. later on, humans and machines that can travel far. space and time is very interesting.
  • is dark matter and the rest is dark energy."
  • A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way
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  • Dr Kafle, who is originally from Nepal, was able to measure the mass of the dark matter in the Milky Way by studying the speed of stars throughout the galaxy, including the edges, which had never been studied to this detail before. He used a robust technique developed by British astronomer James Jeans in 1915 -- decades before the discovery of dark matter. Dr Kafle's measurement helps to solve a mystery that has been haunting theorists for almost two decades. "The current idea of galaxy formation and evolution, called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter theory, predicts that there should be a handful of big satellite galaxies around the Milky Way that are visible with the naked eye, but we don't see that," Dr Kafle said. "When you use our measurement of the mass of the dark matter the theory predicts that there should only be three satellite galaxies out there, which is exactly what we see; the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy." University of Sydney astrophysicist Professor Geraint Lewis, who was also involved in the research, said the missing satellite problem had been "a thorn in the cosmological side for almost 15 years." "Dr Kafle's work has shown that it might not be as bad as everyone thought, although there are still problems to overcome," he said. The study also presented a holistic model of the Milky Way, which allowed the scientists to measure several interesting things such as the speed required to leave the galaxy. "Be prepared to hit 550 kilometres per second if you want to escape the gravitational clutches of our galaxy," Dr Kafle said. "A rocket launched from Earth needs just 11 kilometres per second to leave its surface, which is already about 300 times faster than the maximum Australian speed limit in a car!"
Andrew V

Can I lose weight on Soylent? - Soylent - 0 views

  • Do you poop on Soylent?
    • Andrew V
       
      I find this question interesting.
Patrick W

Getting Started with Firefox extension - Diigo help - 0 views

  •  Feature Highlight: Highlights Diigo saves the day with "highlights". Highlights let you select the important snippets on a page and store them in your library with the page's bookmark. Let's try it. Just open a page, maybe one of your old-school bookmarks or one of your new cat bookmarks, and find the information on that page you actually care about. Select that important text. Got it? Okay, now put your hemet on, 'cause this might blow your mind! Click the highlight icon on the Diigo toolbar. It's the one with the "T" on a page with a yellow highlighter. You will notice that the selected text gets a yellow background. This means that the text has been saved in your library, and as long as you have the Diigo add-on the text will be highlighted on the page! How's that for easy?   Now you've highlighted the text. It will appear in your library within the bookmark for the page it is on. Go to your library and you can see how it works. If you're not sure how to get to your library, just click the second icon on the toolbar (Diigo icon to the left of the search bar) and then select "My Library »".
  • Sticky Notes on the Web What? I can put a sticky note on a web page? How? Oh, that's right! Diigo. Just right-click anywhere on the page and choose to "add a floating sticky note". Type up your note and choose "Post", then move the note anywhere on the page. You have to type a note first, before you move it where you want, otherwise there's nothing to move!
Patrick W

Getting Started with Chrome extension - Diigo help - 0 views

  • Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
  • Highlighting can also be accomplished from the context pop-up. After the Chrome extension is installed, whenever you select text on a webpage, the context pop-up will appear, allowing you to accomplish text-related annotation. Highlight Pop-up Menu – After you highlight some text, position your mouse cursor over it and the highlight pop-up menu will appear. The highlight pop-up menu allows you to add notes to, share, or delete the highlight.
  • Sticky Note Click the middle icon on the annotation toolbar to add a sticky note to the page. With a sticky note, you can write your thoughts anywhere on a web page.
Patrick W

Getting Started with Diigolet - Diigo help - 0 views

  • Tags help you find and organize your bookmarks by letting you select all of your bookmarks with a certain tag or combination of tags. Quickly add relevant tags to a bookmark by clicking on any of the recommended tags that appear under the description field on the “Save Bookmark” pop-up. When you are satisfied with the information in the “Save Bookmark” pop-up, click the “Save Bookmark” button. Now a link to the page is stored in your Diigo library, and the information you entered is stored with it.
  • Highlight Highlighting lets you denote important information on a page, just like highlighting in a book, but with Diigo, the highlighted text will be conveniently saved to your library as well. There are some important things for me to denote on my recipe. My wife doesn’t like pineapple, my grandfather can’t have eggs or chocolate, and I don’t like coconut very much, so I highlight those items on the recipe to let me know I need to deal with them. Highlight by clicking “Highlight” on the Diigolet. Then select the text you want to highlight. The text will be visually highlighted and the text is now stored in your library. It’s that easy. Click the button again to exit highlighter mode. You can also change the color of a highlight by clicking the downward-pointing arrow next to “Highlight” and choosing a color. Colors are useful for differentiating different types of highlights. I will use a different color for each of the different people I need to consider.
  • To add a sticky note to a highlight, simply move your mouse cursor over a highlight. When the little pop-up tab with the pencil on it appears, move the cursor to it and a menu will appear. Choose “Add Sticky Notes”. Now you can type and post a sticky note just like before, but this time it will be tied to the highlighted text.
Dyna Kunce

Pneumonia Fact Sheet - American Lung Association - 0 views

  • 589,000 hospital discharges in males (40.2 per 10,000) and 643,000 discharges in females (42.4 per 10,000)
  • Pneumonia can also be caused by the inhalation of food, liquid, gases or dust.
  • One type of pneumonia caused by fungi is pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)
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  • Approximately 50 percent of pneumonia cases are believed to be caused by viruses and tend to result in less severe illness than bacteria-caused pneumonia. Most pneumonia in the very young is caused by viral infection, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The symptoms of viral pneumonia are similar to influenza symptoms and include fever, dry cough, headache, muscle pain, weakness, fever and increasing breathlessness.
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