In one radically impressive report, scientists discovered how to help a man feel his arm again after it had been paralyzed in an accident. (Science Daily: In a first, brain computer interface helps paralyzed man feel again)
There's no sci fi in this one since it's so sci fi already in doing things which were never thought possible in my lifetime. It seems they were thought possible by some researchers.
Here's some science you may not need since jumping spiders have been discovered to have exceptional hearing which is sensitive out to about nine meters. Yep, they can hear you coming easily. (Science Daily: What's that? New study finds jumping spiders can hear more than you think)
Consider how one might ever determine what a spider is capable of hearing and this research accomplished that. Moreover, it determined the frequencies to which the spiders are most responsive and it turned out one frequency is specific to the sound of parasitic wasps which kill spiders and they can react to that.
"All the team sat there together and we were thinking, 'why are they so sensitive to those frequencies?'" Menda said. It turned out 90 Hz is near the same frequency as wing beats of parasitic wasps, the jumping spider's biggest enemies, which provision their nests with jumping spiders for their young to feed on.
Science has obviously been of high interest in my life but Turunen kicks me right out of my chair. You have likely never ever heard a rendition of Phantom such as this. Pop mainstream just doesn't do it for me and, relative to this, it never possibly could. Life is never just polished, treacly crap as it's raw, live, and real. Bring that.
(Ed: why do you use such words when you have such a vocabulary?)
Because I can, darlin' (larfs).
The editors of Science Daily use the cliche, 'hidden in plain sight,' and that's an instant repulsion from an expression which has been as overused as 'dance the light fantasic,' etc. The science is a biochemical / genetic validation of evolution which again has extraordinarily-sophisticated science as the source of the conclusion. (Science Daily: Drivers of evolution hidden in plain sight)
There's no sci fi from the Rockhouse on this one since, for some or many, evolution is sci fi already. There is belief God designed this mechanism rather than the vagaries (or not) of chemical physics and I have no reason to argue with that since it couldn't possibly be proven one way or the other and what difference does it make when it's such an extraordinary system. This is not the same as intelligent design in which the vision is God made everything and, poof, there it was. We have no comment on that since we don't want to lose focus on the real subject, the discovery itself.
Since you're already probably already clear I'm the meat version of the Mad Hatter, here's another impossible thing since I'll believe six impossible things before breakfast every day. Barbie and I sometimes called it 'studying the species' in watching the unusual things people do but these ones are studying the species ... by watching the brain in 3D in real time in impossible detail. (Science Daily: Watching the brain in action)
Again on this one, the Rockhouse skills in science are not worthy to write any sci fi in the same context so we simply sit back to 'study the species,' in awe of what they discovered.
Here's one more featuring the impossibly beautiful voice of Tarja Turunen and it's a bit pop but it's a gorgeously beautiful and heartbreaking song.
"Only the Good Die Young" expresses many things in my hearts and the song may or may not elicit tears every time I hear it. I don't believe any tears are for me since I'm hardly a young man so it definitely doesn't mean me. The song is strongly pro-peace but it's non-specific and means peace everywhere for everyone. It's beyond my understanding how anyone could want anything else without severe heart and mind damage.
It's been my thinking more than once I should have gone to Woodstock and died after it was over so I never knew any of the Middle East horror was coming or how horrible people would be about it ... but only the good die young. I'll stop now or I'll break.
There's no sci fi in this one since it's so sci fi already in doing things which were never thought possible in my lifetime. It seems they were thought possible by some researchers.
Here's some science you may not need since jumping spiders have been discovered to have exceptional hearing which is sensitive out to about nine meters. Yep, they can hear you coming easily. (Science Daily: What's that? New study finds jumping spiders can hear more than you think)
Consider how one might ever determine what a spider is capable of hearing and this research accomplished that. Moreover, it determined the frequencies to which the spiders are most responsive and it turned out one frequency is specific to the sound of parasitic wasps which kill spiders and they can react to that.
"All the team sat there together and we were thinking, 'why are they so sensitive to those frequencies?'" Menda said. It turned out 90 Hz is near the same frequency as wing beats of parasitic wasps, the jumping spider's biggest enemies, which provision their nests with jumping spiders for their young to feed on.
- Science Daily
Take it easy on the sci fi as most spiders aren't dangerous to humans, it's just the ones which are scare the bejeebers out of us. I don't think jumping spiders are terribly venomous but you're welcome to try that experiment for yourself. There's no way I'm doing it so let me know what happens, if you would.
Note: spiders scare the living hell out of me and every time I feed the animals, as in every day, I do something of a ritual before I put my hand into the garbage can used to store the pet food and with every move as I pull out the scoops used for their food. The garage is dark, quiet, and perfect for brown recluse spiders, one of America's more dangerous eight-leggers.
(Ed: how does the spider get inside a tightly-sealed garbage can?)
Well, I haven't precisely figured that out but I'll be ready, Spiderman.
(Ed: did you like the Spiderman movies?)
I did see one and I thought it was bloody awful as they relate to sci fi as much as telling elephant jokes relates to the Bible.
Here's another from the Oh Wow category since scientists may have come up with a real and permanent method of treating HIV. Some of you may remember when we first head of HIV in the eighties and many of us lost at least a few dear friends. Now it affects about thirty-six million people globally but there may be some major help with that. (Science Daily: New antibody therapy permanently blocks HIV-like SIV infection in monkeys)
There's no sci fi with this one either as all any of us wants is to see this deadly disease cured. Mystery Lady covered a Fleetwood Mac song for a friend who was dying horribly from AIDS and it's one of the most hauntingly beautiful renditions I have ever heard. Some of you have heard her sing and know she has the pipes to bring tears to a rock and there was deep personal significance to this one as well.
This is not the type of song which is my preference to hear her sing as I loved how she killed Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" and she would be jumping up and down, having one hell of a job time when she sang it but this wasn't the time and Jerry was our friend. He couldn't get any reefer and it eased his suffering tremendously so we would go over there and I would smoke some ganja with him.
Here's another from the Oh Wow category but this one is an entirely different dimension, well, all of them to be exact. (Science Daily: Observable universe contains two trillion galaxies, 10 times more than previously thought)
The sci fi for this one is some scientists have detected motions of stars which are so large on an inter-galactic scale that they surmise that could only happen due to influences of external universes so this really isn't all the dimensions and reality is vastly bigger than we could ever possibly consider, possibly without any limit at all.
Here's one from the category of No Way, That's Impossible but they have used synthetic DNA to create impossibly tiny 'machines.' (Science Daily: DNA-based single-electron electronic devices created)
On this one I can't offer any sci fi since my knowledge isn't even close to enough to manage how they do it.
Note: the research is from Finland which also gave us Nightwish with the also impossibly magnificent voice of Tarja Turunen (now singing independently) and this is a favorite demonstration of her operatic talent in a song familiar to most rather than heavy metal which has been her specialty. Yes, a school-trained singer with operatic skills. Talk to me about Taylor Swift will you?? (larfs)
Take it easy on the sci fi as most spiders aren't dangerous to humans, it's just the ones which are scare the bejeebers out of us. I don't think jumping spiders are terribly venomous but you're welcome to try that experiment for yourself. There's no way I'm doing it so let me know what happens, if you would.
Note: spiders scare the living hell out of me and every time I feed the animals, as in every day, I do something of a ritual before I put my hand into the garbage can used to store the pet food and with every move as I pull out the scoops used for their food. The garage is dark, quiet, and perfect for brown recluse spiders, one of America's more dangerous eight-leggers.
(Ed: how does the spider get inside a tightly-sealed garbage can?)
Well, I haven't precisely figured that out but I'll be ready, Spiderman.
(Ed: did you like the Spiderman movies?)
I did see one and I thought it was bloody awful as they relate to sci fi as much as telling elephant jokes relates to the Bible.
Here's another from the Oh Wow category since scientists may have come up with a real and permanent method of treating HIV. Some of you may remember when we first head of HIV in the eighties and many of us lost at least a few dear friends. Now it affects about thirty-six million people globally but there may be some major help with that. (Science Daily: New antibody therapy permanently blocks HIV-like SIV infection in monkeys)
There's no sci fi with this one either as all any of us wants is to see this deadly disease cured. Mystery Lady covered a Fleetwood Mac song for a friend who was dying horribly from AIDS and it's one of the most hauntingly beautiful renditions I have ever heard. Some of you have heard her sing and know she has the pipes to bring tears to a rock and there was deep personal significance to this one as well.
This is not the type of song which is my preference to hear her sing as I loved how she killed Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" and she would be jumping up and down, having one hell of a job time when she sang it but this wasn't the time and Jerry was our friend. He couldn't get any reefer and it eased his suffering tremendously so we would go over there and I would smoke some ganja with him.
Here's another from the Oh Wow category but this one is an entirely different dimension, well, all of them to be exact. (Science Daily: Observable universe contains two trillion galaxies, 10 times more than previously thought)
The sci fi for this one is some scientists have detected motions of stars which are so large on an inter-galactic scale that they surmise that could only happen due to influences of external universes so this really isn't all the dimensions and reality is vastly bigger than we could ever possibly consider, possibly without any limit at all.
Here's one from the category of No Way, That's Impossible but they have used synthetic DNA to create impossibly tiny 'machines.' (Science Daily: DNA-based single-electron electronic devices created)
On this one I can't offer any sci fi since my knowledge isn't even close to enough to manage how they do it.
Note: the research is from Finland which also gave us Nightwish with the also impossibly magnificent voice of Tarja Turunen (now singing independently) and this is a favorite demonstration of her operatic talent in a song familiar to most rather than heavy metal which has been her specialty. Yes, a school-trained singer with operatic skills. Talk to me about Taylor Swift will you?? (larfs)
Science has obviously been of high interest in my life but Turunen kicks me right out of my chair. You have likely never ever heard a rendition of Phantom such as this. Pop mainstream just doesn't do it for me and, relative to this, it never possibly could. Life is never just polished, treacly crap as it's raw, live, and real. Bring that.
(Ed: why do you use such words when you have such a vocabulary?)
Because I can, darlin' (larfs).
The editors of Science Daily use the cliche, 'hidden in plain sight,' and that's an instant repulsion from an expression which has been as overused as 'dance the light fantasic,' etc. The science is a biochemical / genetic validation of evolution which again has extraordinarily-sophisticated science as the source of the conclusion. (Science Daily: Drivers of evolution hidden in plain sight)
There's no sci fi from the Rockhouse on this one since, for some or many, evolution is sci fi already. There is belief God designed this mechanism rather than the vagaries (or not) of chemical physics and I have no reason to argue with that since it couldn't possibly be proven one way or the other and what difference does it make when it's such an extraordinary system. This is not the same as intelligent design in which the vision is God made everything and, poof, there it was. We have no comment on that since we don't want to lose focus on the real subject, the discovery itself.
Since you're already probably already clear I'm the meat version of the Mad Hatter, here's another impossible thing since I'll believe six impossible things before breakfast every day. Barbie and I sometimes called it 'studying the species' in watching the unusual things people do but these ones are studying the species ... by watching the brain in 3D in real time in impossible detail. (Science Daily: Watching the brain in action)
Again on this one, the Rockhouse skills in science are not worthy to write any sci fi in the same context so we simply sit back to 'study the species,' in awe of what they discovered.
Here's one more featuring the impossibly beautiful voice of Tarja Turunen and it's a bit pop but it's a gorgeously beautiful and heartbreaking song.
"Only the Good Die Young" expresses many things in my hearts and the song may or may not elicit tears every time I hear it. I don't believe any tears are for me since I'm hardly a young man so it definitely doesn't mean me. The song is strongly pro-peace but it's non-specific and means peace everywhere for everyone. It's beyond my understanding how anyone could want anything else without severe heart and mind damage.
It's been my thinking more than once I should have gone to Woodstock and died after it was over so I never knew any of the Middle East horror was coming or how horrible people would be about it ... but only the good die young. I'll stop now or I'll break.
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