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CHVRCHES music videos are like a cross between watching beautifully directed 90's city snapshots at night mixed with taking lots of drugs.

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Nathan's Music Highlights #1

Something For Kate - Captain (Million Miles An Hour)

This is the first song I ever heard by my favourite band of all time, when I was 6 years old in 1997. Saw it on Rage late one night and I got their first album, Elsewhere For 8 Minutes, not long after.

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Scientist Trap Antimatter for a Record Breaking 16 Minutes!!

(gizmodo) - Scientists working on the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) near Geneva, Switzerland did something no other scientists have done. They stored atoms of antihydrogen for 1000 seconds (~16 minutes) which is 10,000 times longer than they’ve ever done before. By trapping and observing antimatter for that long, scientists can better understand the properties of it.

Read the whole article HERE!!

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NASA’s Black Marble is the most detailed night image of Earth ever made Twinkling city lights, raging wildfires and colourful auroras are lit up in new dazzling nighttime views of the Earth. The new “Black Marble” images released Wednesday are courtesy of a newly launched NASA-NOAA satellite that’s equipped with a sensor to observe the planet at night. The full view consists of a series of images stitched together as an extremely high-resolution composite that gives us the most detailed night view of Earth ever created. (NASA)

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Gary Larson's solution to the riddle: Why did the chicken cross the road?… Oh, wait, this isn’t a solution, actually is another riddle… Well, who needs to solve this things?

(Via)

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I create sculptures inspired by protein molecules. My latest piece (see link) is a 5ft piece of a human antibody recently installed in Seattle.

"Savior" - Antibody (IgG)

Copper, Steel, Gold/Chrome plating - 56”x50”x18”

2013 - Hutchinson Institute

The machinery of life, an inevitably complex system, must constantly defend itself from intrusion and subversion by other agents inhabiting the biosphere. Ever more intricate systems for the detection and thwarting of intruding foreign life forms have evolved over the eons, culminating in adaptive immunity with one of its centerpieces: The Antibody. Also known as Immunoglobulin, this pronged, Y-shaped protein structure is capable of binding, blocking and neutralizing foreign objects such as as bacteria or viruses. The two tips of the “Y” have special patches which can tightly recognize and bind a target. Our body generates astronomical numbers of variants, each recognizing a different shape. The variety is so great that completely alien molecules can be recognized even though the body has never encountered them before. Once bound, the antibody blocks the function of the foreign object by physically occluding its functional parts. The Antibody sacrifices itself in the process but not before signaling to the immune system to make more of its specific variant form. After the intruder in question has been fought off, memory cells remain in the bloodstream that can quickly be reactivated should reinfection occur to produce more of the successful variant Antibody.

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Maths Cure for Wolverine… Do the math!

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Inside the D-Wave Two quantum computer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility. A dilution refrigerator cools the 512-qubit Vesuvius processor to 20 millikelvin (near absolute zero) — more than 100 times colder than interstellar space.

Credit: NASA Ames / John Hardman

Source: What will NASA be doing with its new quantum computer? (io9.com)

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The Chastworth House in Perth, Western Australia.Yes please

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This is reasonably accurate

WHAT GUYS LOOK FOR IN GIRLS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 graphics card

At least 1TB storage capacity

Sleek chrome finish w/ scarlet hand-painted flames

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This is good shit.

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