Dr Jamie Seymour, ‘toxinologist’, was on the boat when Steve Irwin died. Listen to Jamie talk about that, and how amazing steve was. Interview provided by Destin who has the awesome SmarterEveryDay show.
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Say goodbye to fillings
Visits to the dentist could be pain and drill free within three years
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/16/fillings-dentists-tooth-decay-treatment
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Largest Dam in the World
The Three Gorges Dam is really an engineering marvel. Both this infographic and the documentary are worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCQFZgm2OI4
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Tricking Bacteria to Attack Early
In this TED talk, Bonnie Bassler explains how she it working to trick bacteria to attach the body early, before there is enough bacteria to do any permanent damage to the host. This is a breakthrough, and will help stop bacteria from becoming drug resistant.
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Solar Flares are cool
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Food to you control your appetite
Here is a list of foods you should be eating.
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Burn it all
Did you know when you burn something you can determine what it is made from by the light that is emitted?
Swedish physicist Angstrom discovered this in 1958. He later used this to determine that the sun is made from Hydrogen. During a full solar eclipse, when the moon blocks out the brightness of the sun, you can only then see the sun’s corona enough to determine its composition.
Interesting about this fact, is that the moon is currently at a distance from the earth to actually block out the sun entirely. If it wasn’t, it would have taken people a lot longer to figure that the sun is mostly made of Hydrogen.
Raven created this great image. It is a combination of the periodic table of the elements with the Emission Spectrum of each element overlaid it their respective places.
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New Computer Architecture
In 2018, your new computer will be 6 times faster and use 80 times less energy. HP just invented a new computer architecture. Rather than using generalized CPUs, it uses special purpose ones. Instead of using electricity is uses light, called photonics.
Check out the HP Discover video explaining all the details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbMSR9vA-c
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Underground Ocean NOT Discovered
I lot of science sources are publishing that a huge underground reservoir has been discovered based on information publish in this Science article.
The article seems to imply that water is trapped in other forms so it is NOT technically an ocean as we know it.
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Visualizing the Known Universe
This is a great animation of the known universe.