Human Magneto Sensitivity

Turns out human's might have magnetic sensing ability just like other animals. Steven Reppert, MD, the Higgins Family Professor of Neuroscience and chair and professor of neurobiology, grad student Lauren Foley, and Robert Gegear, PhD, a post doctoral fellow in the Reppert lab now an assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute took the human cryptochrome 2 protein (hCRY2) and placed it in drosophilia flies by making a making a transgenic model that lacked their native cryptochrome protein and included the hCRY2. The modified drosophilia were able to sense & respond to generated magnetic fields.

So as humans we either have a dormant magnetoreception ability or a developing one. Fun stuff!

Fixed my monitor: why soldering skills are useful.

So, my right monitor is about... 6 years old give or take a few months. It's had some issues in the past couple of months with not wanting to turn on, Friday it went on the fritz hardcore and was having great difficulty getting it to power on from sleep, and especially from off. Today I came home and it absolutely would not power on. So what's a guy to do? Well, open it up of course! 2 of the 1000uf capacitors on the power supply had popped, one apparently long ago as it was literally dust, the other recently as it was quite gooey. While I didn't have any 1000uf's at 10v I did have some at 16v, so I swapped them out. Man oh man, I've never seen the monitor power up this fast, not even when it was new. Ahhh time spent figuring out how to get the frame off, 15 minutes, time to replace and reassemble about 10 minutes. So 25 minutes of my time, saved me the 100ish bucks I would have spent replacing it. Ahhh see kids, learning to solder and keeping common components around in your parts bin IS QUITE USEFUL!

 

 

Ahem

Whatever douchebag at Wishard stole my grandmothers credit cards, medical cards, drivers license, checkbook, prescription cards, and cash while she was getting tests and out of her room. I'm going to fucking find you if you try to use a single one. And when I do, you'll wish you were in an Egyptian prison being tortured by someone with a scrap of humanity

NASA Head Charles Bolden Warns Of Attack From 'Outside Forces'

So one of the top brass at NASA did a family/emergency preparedness talk the other day to all NASA personnel… he said things like "We are the only agency in the federal government that's responsible for the safety and well being of not only people here on Earth but uh off this planet” (not on this world and at the space station, on and off this planet)… "think about attacks like 9/11 from outside forces" note 'outside forces' not terrorists, ... mind you, it could be that this guy is a former Marine… but ehhhhh I say Alien Invasion!