Ayer en Buenos Aires

Soft Kitty o Smelly Cat ? No lo sabremos hasta que baje de ahí.

Por ahora responde a los nombres de Erwin, Smelly Kitty, y Richard Feynman.

What-If.xkcd

Claro, porque xkcd no era suficiente, no.

Tenías que ir y crear what-if.xkcd

ANSWERING YOUR HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS WITH PHYSICS, EVERY TUESDAY.

What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

Tengo un empleo y una familia que atender, sabes ?

Fronteras de la Cirugía Plástica

Atentas, estimadas lectoras del blog. George Clooney, opidude certificado por mas de una de ustedes, se hizo un nip/tuck.

I never fixed my eyes, but I spent more money to stretch the skin of my testicles. I did not like the wrinkles. It's a new technique, many people in Hollywood have done it. It's called ball ironing. It's actually called a scrotal lift, and is a real thing.

Y bueno, puse una foto del rostro.
Que hubieran puesto ustedes ?

"Planchado de bolas" ?? Acá en Argentina no necesitamos de cirugías exóticas foráneas. La permanente hinchazon general de pelotas* nos deja la piel escrotal tersa y suave, como la seda.

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*Cogito hubiera aprobado este post. We miss you, man.

Que momento

Meanwhile, in Santiago del Estero :

Operan a un hombre para sacarle un desodorante del ano.

Un grupo de cirujanos tuvo que operar a un empleado judicial de Santiago del Estero y le extrajeron una tapa de desodorante del ano. Según comentó, se le metió cuando se cayó mientras organizaba unos papeles.

Por cosas como esta es que yo digitalizo todos mis documentos. Menos riesgo...

Y como siempre, la realidad imita a Seinfeld.  "One in a million shot, doc. One in a million".

h/t Gabriel G. in the Book of Faces

Schrödinger's President

Thought experiment (h/t Santiago en facebook) :

Schrödinger's President: A Venezuelan president, a flask of poison and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the president. There is a supposed 50% chance of this happening. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the president is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the president either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.

Fue la genética, mi amor.

White Mommy, White Daddy, Black Baby (Family Tree)

One Caucasian couple discovers the deep secrets that genetics can hide when their baby is born with African American features.

Genética: Una excusa para atorrantas.

De la sección "Seguí, seguí, que yo te aviso"

"Una investigación realizada por la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York concluyó que el sexo oral no solo es bueno para la salud general de las mujeres sino que, además, les permite ser más felices.

¿Y por qué esto es así? De acuerdo a los resultados, se debe a que el semen -además de espermatozoides- contiene sustancias antidepresivas como la serotonina y la tirotropina (una hormona que tiene la misma función) y la melatonina, un agente de inducción al sueño. Como si esto no fuera suficiente, su composición incluye, además, químicos como la oxitocina, el cortisol y la estrona que levantan el estado de ánimo general y mejoran el desempeño cognitivo.

El estudio se llevó a cabo sobre un grupo de 293 mujeres que expuso, en detalle, las características de su vida sexual. Las conclusiones generales también fueron contundentes: aquellas que tienen relaciones sexuales regulares y frecuentes, y tienen contacto directo con el fluido seminal, son menos depresivas, más saludables, más felices y tienen mejores resultados en evaluaciones del nivel de desarrollo intelectual."

Siga buscando argumentos para convencer a la patrona acá

Los dinosaurios van a desaparecer

Le ponen el nombre de Obama a una nueva especie de dinosaurio descubierta en EEUU.

I shit you not :

Yale scientists name Obamadon, a slender-jawed lizard, after the President

The small, insect-eating lizard was discovered in the badlands of northeastern Montana—its fossil preserved in an area called the Hell Creek formation. Less than a foot long, it had elaborate teeth with three cusps on each tooth and a slender jaw. Some 65 million years ago, it went extinct. And now, it is named for the 44th president of the United States: Obamadon gracilis. 

The ancient lizard species bearing President Obama’s name was discovered when researchers from Yale and Harvard universities re-examined fossil collections all across the country, as part of an effort to understand what happened to lizards and snakes during the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs.

In the process, Yale paleontologist Nicholas Longrich said the team encountered several new species that were previously unknown or misclassified lurking in museum collections. There was one ferocious carnivorous lizard in need of a name, but that one didn’t turn out to be presidential. The small one with the slender jaw seemed just right. There was one problem. This was before November.

“I was seriously thinking, if the election had gone the other way, I would have yanked it,” Longrich said. “It might have seemed like we were mocking it, naming a lizard that goes extinct after that, seemed kind of cruel.”

Que manga de chupamedias...

Fronteras de la Ciencia

Transplante de bigotes

Turkish plastic surgeon Selahattin Tulunay says the number of mustache transplants he performs has boomed in the last few years. He now performs 50-60 of the procedures a month, on patients who hail mostly from the Middle East and travel to Turkey as medical tourists. He said his patients generally want thick mustaches as they felt they would make them look mature and dignified.

Viene de este otro post relacionado con cabello.

My God, It's Full Of Stars !

100,000 estrellas.

Ojo, funciona solo para Chrome.

La partícula de Higgs, versión resumida

Si vosaltres son como yo, que no les da la cabeza, en una de esas les viene bien.

Einstein was wrong !

Team del "Curiosity" en el set de "Big Bang Theory" !

Doblemente awesome.

Carakini

Abajo de esto hay opiladies...

Lena Soderberg

Novedades en el campo de la nanotecnología :

A team from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) printed a colour photo, measuring just 50 micrometres across.

The photo is a crop of the portrait of Lena Soderberg, a Swedish model, that originally appeared in a 1972 issue of Playboy. 

It is a commonly-used image for testing printing techniques.

En el interés de la ciencia, aquí completamos la información con mas fotos de Lena. Ah, 1972...

La lógica de los conspiranóicos.

Comentario de Jorge Alcalde sobre un libro que trata sobre los conspiranoícos.

Interesante explicación sobre por qué la gente arma conspiraciones verosímiles -aunque no sean verdaderas- con determinados sucesos.

Lejos de estar transtornados están utilizando un modo lógico, evolutivo, de funcionamiento cerebral, que usamos todos; aunque el resultado sea incorrecto.

Jorge Alcalde responde: De las conspiraciones y de muchos misterios sin resolver.

Pi

As american as (apple) pi.

The U.S. population has reached a nerdy and delightful milestone.

Shortly after 2:29 p.m. on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, the U.S. population was exactly 314,159,265, or* pi (π) times 100 million, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock projects the real-time size of the U.S. population based on monthly population estimates.

* N. del E. : Aproximadamente.

En defensa de la siestita

(Visto en Lifehacker)

Kate Upton, explained

Estudio científico para predecir los movimientos del tetamen en función del talle del corpiño.

"Predictors of 3-D Breast Kinematics during Bare-Breasted Running", Louise Ellen Wood, Jennifer White, Alexandra Milligan, Bessie Ayres, Wendy Hedger, and Joanna Scurr, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, vol. 44, no. 7, July 7, 2012, pp. 1351-7.

PURPOSE: This study aimed to analyze differences in breast kinematics between breast cup sizes during running and the ability of breast and body size measurements to explain these differences.

RESULTS: All kinematic variables significantly increased with breast cup size. Scaling models found that breast mass was the only anthropometric measure to consistently explain differences in breast kinematics between cup sizes.

CONCLUSIONS: Bare-breasted kinematics significantly increased with cup size during running.

 Dejame de joder, esto es digno de una beca del CONICET.

And Venus was her name

Ayer desde la Tierra se pudo ver un espectacular tránsito de Venus frente al Sol. Hay algunas fotos muy interesantes (y otras bastante malogradas) acá.