The Nanopowers of Spinach 53
Roland Piquepaille writes "Ohio University physicists have used a simple molecule of chlorophyll taken from spinach to develop a complex nanobiological switch. They used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to image chlorophyll-a and then injected it with a single electron to manipulate the molecule into four positions. The researchers say this biological switch might be used in future applications for green energy, technology and medicine. Read more for additional pictures and references about this spinach-based biological switch."
Yet *another*... (Score:4, Insightful)
While I'll concede that this particular submission actually appears accurate and interesting (no doubt by accident, judging from his prolific (and annoying) submission history [slashdot.org]), when will we be able to filter this guy out?
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tage as "pigpile" (Score:1, Informative)
Hopefully soon there will be a way to filter stories based on tags!
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When the tag cloud is produced (we aren't just tagging for our own amusement are we?) if everyone tags him as pigpile, then we are gonna have a whole lotta bacon filling up the screen...
It will give him more revenue because people might actually follow through on the articles.
Just a thought, obviously you can tag however you want...
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tag as "fuckroland" (Score:2)
Well, I've been using this [slashdot.org] Seems clear enough. Has no effect at all on the editors, but makes be feel marginally better.
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What!?
There is no link to his blog in the submission (other than his own name, and everyone else links to themselves like that too). I think that was the condition that they allowed Roland stories - he links to the actual articles now, not his own blog.
And if you complain that the summary is plagiarizing other blogs...isn't that what every summary is supposed to do?
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With apologies to Frankie Laine...
Roland, Roland, Roland
Though those clicks are swollen
Keeps them blog ads rollin'
Rawhide!
Through science, tech, and weather
Text rip'd together
Hopin' those geeks will see his site!
All the things he's gettin'
Good traffic, views, and bitchin'
He'll sign them checks will all of his might!
Sign 'em on, pick 'em up
Pick 'em up, sign 'em on
Sign 'em on, pick 'em up
Rawhide!
Count 'em out, write 'em in
write 'em in, count 'em out
Count 'em out, write 'em in
Rawhide!
A different Roland (Score:2)
That isn't the same Roland. Whether or not that account is related or not, I don't know. In a previous post the user said that it was to fight the Real Roland Piquepaille. I don't care if that's the case or not. But it is this user [slashdot.org] that is the one submitting the stories. That user is called "rpiquepa".
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I mean, the "related links" even has a link to Roland's blog!
- RG>
I'm psychic... The replies will be... (Score:5, Funny)
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Bluto with bluetooth?
Wimpy with <limp-wristed-apologist-goes-here>?
A biological switch based on spinach... (Score:3, Funny)
Green Energy! (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed!
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Thoughts on computing applications... (Score:2)
Flexible, grown computer chips: the future as we have yet to know it? Bio-engineered to grow with the right inputs and outputs to grow massively parallel wafers or discs. Using the tools nature has spent billions of years developing we can build computers which outperform any handheld we have today by orders of magnitude, just as long as you remember to give them light and water. What you call a hydr
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actually, it'd probably only run under windows.
Wasted time (Score:1)
Not again--but we knew it would happen. (Score:2)
Then I looked up--and I was confirmed, but could there be any doubt, particularly after the last "nanotech" article he posted about a week ago? He posts articles that seem like they are written by a college freshman. They aim for an air of profundity, but the reveal him to know nothing at all about what he is writing about.
I'm off to watch something more brainy that Piquepaille's pseudo-science: the
Spinach (Score:2)
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Puhleease: Put Roland Piquepaille blog elsewhere (Score:5, Insightful)
I read
Roland Piquepailles submissions are usually vague quasiscience or fiction.
Is this latest news just "Yet Another Wishful Nano-manipulation", or are the something new here? The article, unfortunately, gives no added insight.
You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.
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Wait.. is there a section of Slashdot I don't know about?
Re:Puhleease: Put Roland Piquepaille blog elsewher (Score:3, Informative)
He's popeye (Score:1)
Ohio University (Score:1)
Congrats to Prof. Hla, as well, for keeping OU in the headlines.
ooooooh awesome! (Score:1)
Popeye Marine (Score:1)
Spinach is irrelevant (Score:2)
It's interesting that the paper mentions "green" energy as well.
While the idea is interesting there may be some practical limitations. The experiments were done at 4.6 Kelvins.
I think the coolest part is: "Our experiments were performed by using a home-built low temperature STM"
"Simple" molecule? (Score:1)
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