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Recent graduate of Gettysburg College who loves baseball, anime, writing, drawing, Rogue Squadron, cars (and Top Gear) and her cats and Old English Sheepdogs. Has a massive obsession with Stanford even though she does not go there. Author of the webcomic The Historians and Londinium, a novel in the making set in 1863 London. Has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism.
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I’m thinking of starting a general blog on which I write about all of my nerdy interests just because sometimes I have a lot of stuff to say about them - and they’re kind of random sometimes, so.
Anyways, here’s my big question for you all. I like history, manga/anime, Star Wars, and all sorts of other geeky things, so…what should I name the blog?
AAAAH SO AWESOMEOh WOW. A PLAYABLE fan-made version of the in-story video game from The Last Starfighter. The video above is sample play.
Tell me who the most attractive fictional character is.
Really, that’s all there is to it.
I’ve been working on a series for Aerys in which I get in shape for a 5K using the nerdiest methods possible. Right now, I’m going to take a poll on which characters you’d use as workout motivation. They can be characters you’d like to look like/feel like, characters you’re attracted to, etc.
And…go! Who’s your choice?
- Church Sign: Don't fear tomorrow, God is already there.
- Me: God is a Time Lord?
I KNEW WHAT BOTH OF THOSE WERE FROM. NERD APPRECIATION FOR YOU, R.A. DICKEY. YOU CLEARLY GET IT.
WISE OF THE MACHINE In its first public demonstration, the computer system built by IBM defeated two “Jeopardy!” champions, including 74-consecutive-game-winner Ken Jennings, above, in a practice match ahead of a formal competition that will air on TV in mid-February. Afterwards, the computer, known as Watson, also took Ken Jennings’s lunch money. (Photo: AP via the Wall St. Journal; caption via the Journal. Except that last part.)
I am so excited for when this airs later this year. SO EXCITED.
It just…UNF. OH MY GOD.
HOLY SHIT, YOU SHOULD ALL GET IT. IT’S FREAKING HILARIOUS.
Next attempt: …get a better camera, self. This was awful. Your little digital snapshot will not do for your attempts at being an amateur astronomer.
NASA has a live stream of the eclipse up, for those of you who can’t deal with the cold or can’t see it due to cloud cover.
The link comes courtesy of Michael Schlact, who tweeted it. Thank you, Schlact.
If you can’t see it, I’m taking photos every half hour - I just took my first one at 12:30, and my second one will come around 1:00. I’ll post them all tomorrow so you can see the eclipse!
My camera is woefully bad, though, so don’t expect Hubble-grade photographs.
NASA astrobiologists have discovered a microorganism in California that is doing something completely novel: substituting arsenic for phosphorus in its chemical makeup.
Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur are the six basic building blocks of all known forms of life on Earth. Phosphorus is part of the chemical backbone of DNA and RNA, the structures that carry genetic instructions for life, and is considered an essential element for all living cells. Arsenic, which is chemically similar to phosphorus, is poisonous for most life on Earth. Arsenic disrupts metabolic pathways because chemically it behaves similarly to phosphate.It’s been known for a while that some microbes can metabolise arsenic, but what this organism is doing is building parts of itself out of arsenic, something no other known life forms can do. ”If something here on Earth can do something so unexpected,” asks Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA Astrobiology Research Fellow, “What else can life do that we haven’t seen yet?”
This will change the way astrobiologists look for life on other planets, including where they look (arsenic-rich atmospheres were previously considered off-limits) and what the definition of life really is (right now, we only know that life exists the way it does on Earth, so finding out that life can exist very differently and using different chemicals will expand what we think of when we think of “life”). This is the first alternative biology we’ve ever known to exist; previously, the idea of alternative biologies has been mere speculation, more common in the realms of pop-science and science fiction.
Source: NASA. Photo via Gizmodo. More info at NASA astrobiology.
I love science.
(via joshlemonlyman)
The Original Trilogy owns, okay? You got that?
My college library allows you to text yourself the call number to your phone if you’re too lazy to write it down.
Whilst I think it’s a sustainability thing (it uses less paper), I love writing all my call numbers down on a little sheet of paper and scouring the library. It gives me this feeling of intellectual exploration that I get nowhere else, and it’s really oddly exhilarating for me.
