Kickass Kid of the Day: A Maryland-based scientist has developed an incredibly accurate mechanism for detecting pancreatic cancer, which is faster than current methods, as well as 100 times more sensitive and 28 times cheaper. Oh, and the scientist is 15 years old.
For his discovery, high school freshman Jack Andraka just won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which comes with a $75,000 prize.
Andraka’s method uses single-walled carbon nanotubes — which he calls “the superheroes of material science” — to detect a pancreatic cancer marker in urine and blood samples. In a blind test, it had a 100% success rate.
“I did not expect for it to be this good,” he said, “I was blown away by how sensitive it was.”
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List of social skills along with specific strategies for teaching those skills
The history of Mesopotamia in a 10 minute cartoon for adults? Yes please!
Former mental_floss writers John and Hank Green have started a new nerdy thing on YouTube, and it’s pretty great: Crash Course is a series of educational videos covering World History (John) and Biology (Hank). The production values are high (including animation, HD, all that good stuff), and each video is about ten minutes long.
So without further ado, I give you Crash Course #1: The Agricultural Revolution.(via)
Sunday Lessons
a fragment after Sebald
The autumn before I had moved just off the park, and I recall the late rosiness of a midwinter Sunday, when the branches that interleave down every street in that section of the city were bare and visible to such a distance in the slantwise light that they lent the grey cracklature of Flemish masters to intersections a half-mile off through which the few cars slid with the appearance of silence, their acceleration impossible to distinguish from the ambient roar, even in those years when the city was not so prosperous and many shopfronts remained broken-glassed or boarded, parked cars secured with locks across their steering wheels, and a buttoned-up hurry perceptible in the strides of passersby, less from quickness of their steps than from their hands in pockets or held close to their sides, gazes averted or cast far ahead, tensed and ready muscles palpable in their staccato steps, spines rigid, heads locked into safe angles as if tight against the cold.
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald on writing. (via boxofoctaves)
Ferroux
Second installation of my ongoing series focused on analog visual effects, understanding fluid dynamics, magnetism & natural invisible forces. This time around I experimented with mixing tiny portions of ferrofluid & other chemicals, soap, alcohol, milk etc. Not for the trypophobic for sure.
Special thanks to Cherry & Kiat of Syndicate for getting me onto the video workshop to work on this video.
Music: Drowned by Riga
~Yokoblivion~: Thank you Jeremy Lin, thank you God. →
This is the best Sunday I have ever had :Working in the museum kept the day constructive, cheered up a frustrated friend with a spiritual talk. A few minutes’ great sunshine outside with a cup of organic coffee during the break warmed me up. Then I came back home for a basketball game (New York…
(via rumorsintheair)
