Churchill
Saturday, January 21st, 2017https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chartwell
Churchill’s Secret
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4711762/
Archive for January, 2017
We still don’t really know how bicycles work
Saturday, January 21st, 2017We still don’t really know how #bicycles work
http://www.NewStatesman.com/science/2013/08/we-still-don%E2%80%99t-really-know-how-bicycles-work Still rides upright with special wheels cancelling gyroscopic effect
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“The most definitive analysis came exactly a century later. It involved an experimental bicycle that had all its gyroscopic effects cancelled out by a system of counter-rotating wheels. The effort of building such a strange contraption was worth it: the resulting paper was published the prestigious journal Science.
The publication plunged bicycle dynamics back into chaos. It turns out that taking into account the angles of the headset and the forks, the distribution of weight and the handlebar turn, the gyroscopic effects are not enough to keep a bike upright after all. What does? We simply don’t know. Forget mysterious dark matter and the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the universe; the bicycle represents a far more embarrassing hole in the accomplishments of physics.”
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The best smart smoke alarm
Friday, January 20th, 2017Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump | WIRED
Friday, January 20th, 2017Hamilton Smith’s discovery that launched biotechnology.
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017Jclub paper
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017The impact of #SVs on…gene expression
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/09/055962 24k in 147 people in GTEx pilot act as causal variants in 3-7% of ~25k eQTLs
The impact of structural variation on human gene expression
Colby Chiang, Alexandra J Scott, Joe R Davis, Emily
K Tsang, Xin Li, Yungil Kim, Farhan N Damani, Liron Ganel, GTEx Consortium, Stephen B Montgomery, Alexis Battle, Donald F Conrad, Ira M Hall
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/055962