Caffeine and Lasers
Caffeine and Lasers
Cam
I run a poruidly niche-less blog, where I talk about Science, Culture, Economics, Beer, Coffee, Technology and whatever else I feel like.
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In some work headed by Macquarie Uni, a new species of spider was discovered in Northern Queensland (With a really cool hunting strategy). See this spider (dubbed the ballista spider) hunts green ants, the really angry, territorial green...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction
Turns out you can bend things using lasers. The process relies on two key characteristics of most solids, (especially metal and glass) Things expand when they heat up Things get soft and bends when they are hot enough So the process is...
My favourite thing about owning a 3D printer is the very specific tools which I would never pay for. Take a guess what this is for: It is a key for popping out portafilters from the group head on my espresso machine Oridinarily I can do...
Another cool scientist profile dropped on Nature earlier, and I wanted to share it here. Billie Goolsby uses robots built by Tony Chen to eavesdrop on the conversations between Frogs and Tadpoles. How cool is that! Essentially, it turns...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction
I spotted a remarkably simple demonstration of optical diffraction the other night, from looking across at the far away lights on the otherside of the train tracks from a balcony. I noticed they looked quite different dependng on whether...
Rating: ⭐ Type: Fiction
I was reccomended a couple of white papers by a collegue (Thanks Ben Pope!) and I wanted to share them here. Being opinion white-papers they are both quite readable. Is machine learning good or bad for the natural sciences? Hogg and...
Image Credit: The Daily Texan LINK: The Conversation
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I've been thinking about how we find meaning in life after reading "The Happiness Of Dogs" by Mark Rowlands. I also finally played Disco Elysium, and I think I have thoughts on applying Rowlands' thoughts to the game. A note on spoilers:...