Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice - Slashdot
sciencehabit writes “Many physicians and parents report that their autistic children have unusually severe gastrointestinal problems, such as chronic constipation or diarrhea. These observations have led some researchers to speculate that an ailing gut contributes to the disorder in some cases, but …
Further evidence for the gut microbe theory of Autism…
The Dino Pet - A Self Sustaining Night Light
Designed by Yonder Biology (“The DNA Art Company”), the Dino Pet is a dinosaur-shaped habitat for a species of bioluminescent marine algae that photosynthesizes during the day and glows at night. “Dino” is actually a play on words, as the actual organisms contained inside the dinosaur-shaped model are called dinoflagellates and are known for their ability to glow when physically agitated (shaken). You might have already seen them in action as they live on various shorelines that cause the waves to glow at night. The organisms can live for 1-3 months but can potentially live indefinitely if the algae are supplied with the proper food and right amount of sunlight. I have a feelings these are going to be very popular but they aren’t ready for sale yet. The Dino Pet is currently funding on Kickstarter.
Coolest. Nightlight. EVAR!
(Source: thisiscolossal.com, via callmegallifreya)
Teen creates bio-plastic from banana peels
Sixteen-year-old Elif Bilgin of Turkey has developed a way to replace traditional petroleum-based plastic with banana peels.
The Turkish teen took home a US$50,000 prize for her project “Go Bananas!” Thursday after winning the second annual Scientific American Science in Action Award, associated with Google Science Fair.
“My project makes it possible to use banana peels, a waste material which is thrown away almost every day, in the electrical insulation of cables,” Bilgin said in a media statement.
“This is both an extremely nature-friendly and cheap process, which has the potential to decrease the amount of pollution created due to the use of plastics, which contain petroleum derivatives.”
Bilgin spent two years developing the bio-plastic, which does not decay. She said the process is so easy that it is possible to repeat at home, with special care taken for chemicals used in the production process.
In September, the teen will compete at Google’s California headquarters for the overall Google Science Fair prize for 15-to-16 year olds. She will also have access to a one-year mentorship.
Has anyone else noticed how many brilliant breakthroughs in science are coming from the minds of teenage girls the last few years? Between this story, the four girls in Nigeria who invented a generator that runs on urine, the California girl who invented a twenty-second cell phone charger… Who knows where we’d be today without the patriarchal interference of men, stealing or hiding the brilliance of women?
Our future is in the hands of teenage girls, and I for one feel really good about that.
When I was about 7 I wanted to invent a thing that purified water based off of fish gills. I went to the school library to do research like a good little inventor and one of my teachers asked me what I was doing, and then told me that there were some new barbie books in, and that I’d probably be better off with those.
Don’t forget the girl who invented a torch that’d light up just from the heat of your hands
basically everyone should stop shitting on teenage girls because they do awesome things when you let them
or that one time a girl found the cure for cancer that we could be using in 15 years
oh but girls aren’t good at science FUCK YOU PATRIARCHY
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^All of this!
(Source: qr7xf-7kw4k-nhydy-0w4z-jtnw-ntr3, via the-gay-is-over9000)
When Science Shows Use Bullshit Science…
OMFG are you serious?
This sort of thing can be looked up in a cold second. JFC…
I’ve seen it all. Bad forensics. Bad chemistry. Bad psychology. Bad physics… and since it’s the primary hinge of the show… I have to wonder what the hell the writers/producers/etc. are thinking when they so blatantly miss the whole point.
Fucking RESEARCH, people!
AIGH!
I freaking called it: LIVE!
I have mentioned in my stories a product I named Nutri Food™. This was/is a brand name for a chemically derived food product that had not even seen a crop.
Now I find out there’s a person who’s (a) created something astonishingly like it and (b) volunteered his own body to test the dang stuff.
He’s blogging about it, too. Though I don’t think he can get it on the market as “Soylent”…
Microbe can turn sewerage into black gold
Bet'cha they never go for it because they would lose their stranglehold on the fuel industry.