Bong Spirit is a super premium vodka, sold in a bottle shaped like a bong. It has a knock-out hole in the bottom for other uses once all the vodka’s gone. <3
well that iiis nifty
This looks so nifty. Let’s start building up, keep the land, take some air.
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mothernaturenetwork:
5 breakthroughs that will make solar power cheaper than coalSolar technology charges forward despite Washington’s backward march. Just check out this solar cell printed on paper — MIT has found a way to print solar cells on just about anything, using low temperatures and vapor. The resulting printed paper cell is extremely durable and can be folded and unfolded more than 1,000 times with no loss in performance!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpnvatLjnp1qd4vugo1_500.jpg)
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5 breakthroughs that will make solar power cheaper than coal
Solar technology charges forward despite Washington’s backward march. Just check out this solar cell printed on paper — MIT has found a way to print solar cells on just about anything, using low temperatures and vapor. The resulting printed paper cell is extremely durable and can be folded and unfolded more than 1,000 times with no loss in performance!
I really hope that this becomes more widespread, it would save a lot of lives. Go Science!
New HIV test takes minutes, costs $1.
The mChip was created at Colombia University, and is so simple it can be used by almost anyone. A small sample of blood is dropped onto the microfluidics based chip, and a result is displayed in around 15 minutes.
The chip can test for syphillis and HIV and has a 100% detection rate, although up to 6% can be false positive results, requiring the need for a re-test. While that may sound like a lot of false positives, it is still around the same amount of error as traditional tests.
While the chips can’t yet be purchased through your local doctor, researchers hope they will find widespread use in Africa. A prostate detecting chip has already been approved for use in Europe.
Oh my dear. These look delicious.
Lemon & Honey Chicken Skewers
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Ingredients
* 1 pound chicken breast fillets
* 2 tablespoons lemon juice
* 2 tablespoons honey
* 2 teaspoons sesame seeds
* 1 teaspoon grated ginger
* 8 wooden skewers, soaked in cold waterInstructions
1. Preheat your indoor grill to medium high heat. Or you can use a grill pan on your gas or electric range on medium high. Of course, charcoal or gas grills are fine, too.
2. Slice chicken into thin strips and thread onto 8 soaked skewers.
3. Place skewers on grill or pan and cook for 3 minutes or until cooked through.
4. While chicken is cooking, combine lemon juice, honey, sesame, and ginger.
5. Dip the skewers into the lemon-honey mixture, or pour it directly over them.
I want.
Earlier this week, the London Metropolitan Police put up this poster all through the Tube. Designed by Advertising Lamb.
Tetrachromacy →
Holy Wow!
Humans get their color vision from three kinds of cone cells in the eyes, with response curves centered around the wavelengths we perceive as blue, green and red. As a result, the color space we can perceive is three-dimensional. Birds have four different kinds of cones, and so they can distinguish more shades of color than humans. It is, in a sense, the opposite of color blindness. And some humans may have it, too. Some women may carry two variant genes on their two X chromosomes, and thus be born with four different cones with response curves centered at slightly different wavelengths. If this is so, they may have better-than-normal color vision, distinguishing colors that, to healthy trichromats, would be impossible to tell apart. Men, with their lone X chromosome, would not be genetically capable of developing tetrachromacy. Some potential tetrachromats have been identified, but the subject has not been extensively studied. For one thing, it remains unclear whether the neurons connecting the eyes with the brain and the visual processing in the brain would be able to carry and interpret extra data from a fourth color channel.
People who experience taste more intensely than normal, healthy individuals are called supertasters.
For decades, scientists have known that DNA consists of four basic units — adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. Those four bases have been taught in science textbooks and have formed the basis of the growing knowledge regarding how genes code for life. Yet in recent history, scientists have expanded that list from four to six.
These last two bases — called 5-formylcytosine and 5 carboxylcytosine — are actually versions of cytosine that have been modified by Tet proteins, molecular entities thought to play a role in DNA demethylation and stem cell reprogramming.
Thus, the discovery could advance stem cell research by giving a glimpse into the DNA changes — such as the removal of chemical groups through demethylation — that could reprogram adult cells to make them act like stem cells.
“Before we can grasp the magnitude of this discovery, we have to figure out the function of these new bases,” said senior study author Yi Zhang, Ph.D., Kenan Distinguished Professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. “Because these bases represent an intermediate state in the demethylation process, they could be important for cell fate reprogramming and cancer, both of which involve DNA demethylation.”
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