June 2010
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Immortality Is Not Just For Vampires Anymore
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish might be the key to learning about why animals age. Individual jellyfish can grow up from a polyp into an adult jelly — and then revert back to a polyp. Obviously, whatever genetic trick these jellyfish have… could be a trick that only jellyfish or other very simple organisms are able to perform. But it’s still a neat trick.
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Good Ol' Ben Franklin...
“As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by an invention of ours.” — Ben Franklin
Is Archive.org Able To Keep Up?
Occassionally, I check out Archive.org to see what websites looked like a few years ago… But recently, it seems like the Archive isn’t really archiving new material. They say they’re “just a bit behind” in indexing — and that the data that has been donated to them via Alexa has a stipulation that only data older than 6 months can be displayed in the Archive.
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Beg, Borrow Or Crowdfund -- It Pays To Be...
I came across an interesting writeup of a successful Kickstarter project where the project creator admits to having a back-up plan:
At the time, I also thought that if we didn’t reach our Kickstarter goal by the deadline, then I would move to the Indiegogo platform and ask all our original backers to re-pledge their amounts so we could collect immediately (that’s one major difference between...
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The Japanese Space Agency Has The Right Idea
Japan is aiming for a moon base to be constructed by robots before 2020. This is a seriously good idea that NASA should have been working on for decades now, instead of shuttling people up to the ISS. I guess the ISS is cool and all, but a permanent moon base built and maintained by robots? How can you beat that? Even if the Japanese don’t get their moon base built on time — at...
