Weekly Science Headlines

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I mean, it's not a cyborg fish exactly, but it's a goddamn light-controlled swimming meat-robot-fish, which is pretty damn cool.

[Brother Mythos]

If this shit isn't exactly what it sounds like I will kill a mofo 

Cos it sounds like we can now build cyborg fish. You ever hear something that's so fucking cool, you plain don't have the heart to fact check it?

I wonder if this will eventually be recognized as Great-Grandfather of Cyborg Frankenfish.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Correction: Light-controlled swimming rat-meat-robot-fish. I mean, c'mon. What more could you want?

[Junkenstein]

Tentacles.

But another good step for biotech by the looks of it.

[LMNO]

Tentacles.

There go my nipples again.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Screaming lord fuckballs, cheers for the link!



*ETA: WTF is with google photosharing?

[Brother Mythos]

'5,000-year-old tablet shows Mesopotamian workers paid in beer'

Here's the link: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/5-000-year-old-tablet-shows-mesopotamian-workers-paid-in-beer-165528011.html

I found this article very amusing until I remembered a lady who works in a pet shop, and takes all of her wages in birdseed. That, and the fact that Mesopotamians didn't start using money, as we know it, for almost another three millennia. Up until then, they operated strictly as a barter economy.

[Brother Mythos]

"ROBO-BEER: WORLD'S FIRST BEER BREWED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"

Here's the link: http://www.newsweek.com/robo-beer-worlds-first-beer-brewed-artificial-intelligence-480341

Have any of the people from the UK who post on this forum tried this beer yet?

[Brother Mythos]

'Suspending a chicken over your bed could protect against Zika virus and malaria'

"The researchers believe mosquitoes are wary of chickens because the birds eat the insects, and their blood is not nutritious enough to be worth the taking the risk."

Here's the link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/21/suspending-a-chicken-over-your-bed-could-protect-against-zika-vi/

[Brother Mythos]

'Music makes beer taste better'

"Music can influence how much you like the taste of beer, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Their findings suggest that a range of multisensory information, such as sound, sensation, shape and color, can influence the way we perceive taste."

I'll drink to that!

Here's the link: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-07-music-beer.html

[Nast]

'Suspending a chicken over your bed could protect against Zika virus and malaria'

"The researchers believe mosquitoes are wary of chickens because the birds eat the insects, and their blood is not nutritious enough to be worth the taking the risk."

Here's the link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/21/suspending-a-chicken-over-your-bed-could-protect-against-zika-vi/

[Brother Mythos]

'Suspending a chicken over your bed could protect against Zika virus and malaria'

"The researchers believe mosquitoes are wary of chickens because the birds eat the insects, and their blood is not nutritious enough to be worth the taking the risk."

Here's the link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/21/suspending-a-chicken-over-your-bed-could-protect-against-zika-vi/

I can't help but wonder what Voodoo practitioners would think of that article.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

'Suspending a chicken over your bed could protect against Zika virus and malaria'

"The researchers believe mosquitoes are wary of chickens because the birds eat the insects, and their blood is not nutritious enough to be worth the taking the risk."

Here's the link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/21/suspending-a-chicken-over-your-bed-could-protect-against-zika-vi/

I can't help but wonder what Voodoo practitioners would think of that article.

Oh my god, that's exactly what I was thinking. I saw the headline and thought "what kind of weird folk magic is this"

[Brother Mythos]

'Suspending a chicken over your bed could protect against Zika virus and malaria'

"The researchers believe mosquitoes are wary of chickens because the birds eat the insects, and their blood is not nutritious enough to be worth the taking the risk."

Here's the link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/21/suspending-a-chicken-over-your-bed-could-protect-against-zika-vi/

I can't help but wonder what Voodoo practitioners would think of that article.

Oh my god, that's exactly what I was thinking. I saw the headline and thought "what kind of weird folk magic is this"

I feel a little guilty for promoting a cultural stereotype, but I can live with it.

[Brother Mythos]

'In 250 million years Earth might only have one continent'

'Science calls it "Pangaea Proxima". You might prefer to call it the Next Big Thing. A supercontinent is on its way that incorporates all of Earth's major landmasses, meaning you could walk from Australia to Alaska, or Patagonia to Scandinavia. But it will be about 250 million years in the making.'

Here's the link: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160729-in-250-million-years-earth-might-only-have-one-continent

The YouTube videos are good, but it's sad that even 250 million year from now, the Jersey Shore will still be the gawd-awful Jersey Shore.