The WTF Thread (6 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

And a Tommy Darmody.

The facility I was working for used it for dog shit. But you could tell that anything could go through there.

Have you just ruined Boardwalk Empire for me?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Even if it's not an accurate saying, it has to great for winding non-physicist scientist up.

I always argue that biology is just the difficult part of physics. They work so hard on the low hanging fruit (really big things and really little things) but tend to ignore the more complicated, mathematically messy systems in between.

 

[magicbastarder]

someone once told me that biology is the study of emergent phenomena writ large.
but as regards the 'hierarchy' of science, there's a saying that biologists have to defer to chemists, chemists to physicists, physicists to mathematicians - but mathematicians defer only to god (if you can find one humble enough).

 

[Lili Marlene]

Ah lads, jaysus

I like him.

People on tv don't stand a chance

I said I liked him.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

someone once told me that biology is the study of emergent phenomena writ large.
but as regards the 'hierarchy' of science, there's a saying that biologists have to defer to chemists, chemists to physicists, physicists to mathematicians - but mathematicians defer only to god (if you can find one humble enough).

That might have been true at one stage but biology has moved on a lot from the early days of drawing and describing. The study of life has become so interdisciplinary now that you need to be able to work across fields. In my case, I have to understand a range of biology (anatomy, physiology, evolution, genetics, immunology, etc.), psychology, chemistry (synthesis, electrochemistry), physics (quantum, materials) and mathematics (linear algebra, statistics/probability, programming). Not only that, I need to be able to integrate these areas with each other.

I work with a lot of traditional chemists and physicists (I'm based in a chemistry department), they have it handy in comparison.

 

[nooleen]

yeah fuck those nerds

 

[Jim Daniels]

That might have been true at one stage but biology has moved on a lot from the early days of drawing and describing. The study of life has become so interdisciplinary now that you need to be able to work across fields. In my case, I have to understand a range of biology (anatomy, physiology, evolution, genetics, immunology, etc.), psychology, chemistry (synthesis, electrochemistry), physics (quantum, materials) and mathematics (linear algebra, statistics/probability, programming). Not only that, I need to be able to integrate these areas with each other.

I work with a lot of traditional chemists and physicists (I'm based in a chemistry department), they have it handy in comparison.

Biology can be very cool, when explained in lay-man's terms

Blood | Science Gallery

To an immunologist blood is everything. Even James Joyce knew about the immune system when on the opening page of Ulysses Buck Mulligan mocked the turning of wine into blood saying, “A little trouble about those white corpuscles”. Those white corpuscles have caused trouble for immunologists ever since, as it is these cells that defend us from infection. Not for the immunologist, then, the boring red blood cell whose sole function is to carry oxygen. The watery, colourless cells, called leukocytes, were seen as peculiar when they were first seen down the microscope. They lacked the glamour of the donutshaped red blood cell. Soon, however, from the work of the Russian biologist Ilya Mechnikov and the Trinity College Dublin graduate Almroth Wright, they would inform medicine like no other cell would.

The blood contains millions of white blood cells per millilitre. Their job is to sense an infection in the blood and then sound the alarm, or be transported into tissues through the blood highway to the site of infection. Inflammation happens at sites of injury (for example, when you sprain your ankle) or infection, and this complex biological process is all about the blood and the white blood cells. The injured part turns red because blood vessels expand and blood rushes there to bring the storm-trooping white blood cells. This makes the affected part feel hot. It becomes swollen because the white blood cells leave the blood vessel to get where the action is. In doing so, they bring some plasma (the name of the fluid in blood) with them. Finally, the white blood cell can get up close and personal to the invader and, if successful, eliminate it. What sometimes remains is pus, the most unglamorous of biological fluids, which is mainly made up of the corpses of the white blood cells killed in battle.

There are many different complex types of white blood cells, all with different jobs to do. The monocyte will eat up bacteria and send out signals to the rest of the immune system. The neutrophil will spew bleach onto the invading bugs, killing them. The B lymphocyte will make antibodies to help neutralise the invader. It’s a dirty business that can go wrong, as can be seen with the Ebola virus, which provokes the blood to such an extent that the blood vessels start to leak, giving us the horror story of hemorrhagic necrosis. Then there are the inflammatory diseases, where the white blood cells are drawn from the blood into our tissues, causing havoc. If they are drawn to the joints they cause rheumatoid arthritis, to the brain multiple sclerosis, to the skin psoriasis or to the lungs asthma. This makes the immune system a major focus of biomedical research, because if this process can be limited, these diseases might be kept at bay. If we can understand why this deviation happens, we might find a cure. It is signals from the white blood cells that irritate the tissues being invaded. Limiting these signals is a major focus for the biotech sector who led the charge on cloning the genes that make them and developed drugs to limit these genes. One example is the drug Enbrel, which jams a signal called TNF made in abundance by white blood cells in rheumatoid arthritis. Enbrel and pharmaceuticals like it are some of the biggest selling drugs at the moment, benefiting patients and reaping rich rewards for the companies that make them. Enbrel is made in Ireland, and every week sixty litres of the drug is sent down the Liffey and exported. This makes $60m per shipment, showing us the value of targeting a blood protein in disease. If you were to fill a can of coke with Enbrel it would sell for $40,000, making it more expensive than gold.

Most of the time, the blood and white blood cells are our friends, protecting us from harm and healing our injured bodies. Millions of years of evolution have honed the system to keep us one step ahead of microbes in the most important arms race of them all, a race that keeps our species going. We celebrate blood in this exhibition, where you will see delicate glass sculptures of particular blood vessels, measure your pulse pushing blood around your body, have your blood type tested, and learn what happens when you donate blood. You can give back what your blood has given to you — your vitality. We hope you will be enthralled by the many exhibits exploring this most vital of fluids.

 

[ann post]

found this on my fb timeline from 2010

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You should read the things they say about him on the David Icke forums, you'll never think of Jim'll Fix It in the same light!............ ...................He could be, but that would be the least of his worries according to what they say on there, you have to read it, it's not pretty and not the type of talk that would be suitable for a nice, clean place like facebook. Lets just say one of the accusations against him is also a song by cannibal corpse

 

[Reets]

Woman Hospitalized To Remove Deer Tongue She Used To 'Please' Herself

 

[washingcattle]

Woman Hospitalized To Remove Deer Tongue She Used To 'Please' Herself

She didn’t remember leaving it up there.

She didn’t remember leaving it up there.

AAAAAAAGGGGHHHH


Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Ahem.

What a sad story. I feel sorry for the deer.

 

[nooleen]

ah jaysus

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I really wanted this one to be fake

snopes.com: Deerly Beloved

 

[pete]

Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny has devised his very own system of musical composition, The Hexadic System, which is the basis for an upcoming new album, entitled Hexadic and to be released on DragCityin February 2015.

How The Hexadic System came to be...
Ben Chasny's restless intellect has regularly guided the progress of his creation. A lyrical mastery of acoustic finger-picking would be enough to build a body of work for most musicians; this is just the stepping-off point for Ben. From the earliest days of private-press psych home recordings, Six Organs of Admittance has sought out alternative spaces in which to make music and challenge audiences to keep up with his rapid advances into new terrain. Over the last two years Ben has been assembling a comprehensive system of musical composition. Designed to free sound and language from rational order and replace calculation with indeterminacy, The Hexadic System is a catalyst to extinguish patterns and generate new means of chord progressions and choices.
Though it was not his intention upon creating this unique system, the structures it was generating were so compelling, they soon became the bones of the next Six Organs record. This is the longest time between Six Organs records since Ben started making them in 1998. This is also why Hexadic sounds unlike anything else made this year, and generally unlike most other things made ever.
The System builds all of the tonal fields, chord changes, scales, and lyrics on Hexadic, creating the framework of the songs that the musicians engage with. Yet the System is open; within the framework, Chasny's own personal aesthetics - such as the production mode of loud guitars, the order of songs, the editing of length, were all conscious decisions made to communicate the pieces. The exact same combinatorial patterns used on this record would generate infinite results, depending on the choices of the individual. Ben's years of study have produced an operational agent that has not only built all the songs on Hexadic but is also a system anyone can use to restructure their ways of habit.
With a desire to provoke the unconscious and spring past the structures and limits of the conscious mind, this was the goal: to use the System to make heavy music with as few "heavy" signifiers as possible. The ones that are left: Volume. Distortion. Impact! This is Hexadic: the sound of the System in the hands of Six Organs of Admittance.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Your job is ok...this time

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[pete]

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[Jim Daniels]

She has form.. brilliant!

 

[Cormcolash]

Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny has devised his very own system of musical composition, The Hexadic System, which is the basis for an upcoming new album, entitled Hexadic and to be released on DragCityin February 2015.

How The Hexadic System came to be...
Ben Chasny's restless intellect has regularly guided the progress of his creation. A lyrical mastery of acoustic finger-picking would be enough to build a body of work for most musicians; this is just the stepping-off point for Ben. From the earliest days of private-press psych home recordings, Six Organs of Admittance has sought out alternative spaces in which to make music and challenge audiences to keep up with his rapid advances into new terrain. Over the last two years Ben has been assembling a comprehensive system of musical composition. Designed to free sound and language from rational order and replace calculation with indeterminacy, The Hexadic System is a catalyst to extinguish patterns and generate new means of chord progressions and choices.
Though it was not his intention upon creating this unique system, the structures it was generating were so compelling, they soon became the bones of the next Six Organs record. This is the longest time between Six Organs records since Ben started making them in 1998. This is also why Hexadic sounds unlike anything else made this year, and generally unlike most other things made ever.
The System builds all of the tonal fields, chord changes, scales, and lyrics on Hexadic, creating the framework of the songs that the musicians engage with. Yet the System is open; within the framework, Chasny's own personal aesthetics - such as the production mode of loud guitars, the order of songs, the editing of length, were all conscious decisions made to communicate the pieces. The exact same combinatorial patterns used on this record would generate infinite results, depending on the choices of the individual. Ben's years of study have produced an operational agent that has not only built all the songs on Hexadic but is also a system anyone can use to restructure their ways of habit.
With a desire to provoke the unconscious and spring past the structures and limits of the conscious mind, this was the goal: to use the System to make heavy music with as few "heavy" signifiers as possible. The ones that are left: Volume. Distortion. Impact! This is Hexadic: the sound of the System in the hands of Six Organs of Admittance.

What a total pile of fucking shiiiiiitttttteeeeeeeeeee

 

[rettucs]

I was in Google HQ today at lunchtime (the main one in Silicon Valley like). Sweet jesus, what the fuck like.

 

[rettucs]

Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny has devised his very own system of musical composition, The Hexadic System, which is the basis for an upcoming new album, entitled Hexadic and to be released on DragCityin February 2015.

How The Hexadic System came to be...
Ben Chasny's restless intellect has regularly guided the progress of his creation. A lyrical mastery of acoustic finger-picking would be enough to build a body of work for most musicians; this is just the stepping-off point for Ben. From the earliest days of private-press psych home recordings, Six Organs of Admittance has sought out alternative spaces in which to make music and challenge audiences to keep up with his rapid advances into new terrain. Over the last two years Ben has been assembling a comprehensive system of musical composition. Designed to free sound and language from rational order and replace calculation with indeterminacy, The Hexadic System is a catalyst to extinguish patterns and generate new means of chord progressions and choices.
Though it was not his intention upon creating this unique system, the structures it was generating were so compelling, they soon became the bones of the next Six Organs record. This is the longest time between Six Organs records since Ben started making them in 1998. This is also why Hexadic sounds unlike anything else made this year, and generally unlike most other things made ever.
The System builds all of the tonal fields, chord changes, scales, and lyrics on Hexadic, creating the framework of the songs that the musicians engage with. Yet the System is open; within the framework, Chasny's own personal aesthetics - such as the production mode of loud guitars, the order of songs, the editing of length, were all conscious decisions made to communicate the pieces. The exact same combinatorial patterns used on this record would generate infinite results, depending on the choices of the individual. Ben's years of study have produced an operational agent that has not only built all the songs on Hexadic but is also a system anyone can use to restructure their ways of habit.
With a desire to provoke the unconscious and spring past the structures and limits of the conscious mind, this was the goal: to use the System to make heavy music with as few "heavy" signifiers as possible. The ones that are left: Volume. Distortion. Impact! This is Hexadic: the sound of the System in the hands of Six Organs of Admittance.

LOVE Ben Chasny. If hes doing this shit then its gonna be great

 

[Lili Marlene]

I was in Google HQ today at lunchtime (the main one in Silicon Valley like). Sweet jesus, what the fuck like.

go on