I currently subscribe to Mendeley. They have been slowly but surely improving the quality of their software the last three years I have been using it, and I couldn't live without it. There are a few things I would like they've just never bothered to implement, even though many people have requested them, but then again at least they have a good forum and request system. I like to have my library of references synced with me wherever I go, so when I open a word document on any of my computers all the referencing works correctly.

Maybe this will mean they have more support and be able to do things like spend the time on their mobile versions so they actually work. But really I think this is the beginning of the end. Elsevier just doesn't seem to have any incentive to keep Mendeley easy to use with any publisher and have all the sharing capabilities it currently does. What if they don't like the fact I can import any open source format referencing styles for any journals? Maybe they will just make it awfully expensive to keep the current functionality, the price has been going up anyway on storage space. I deal with hundreds of papers in PDF, and Mendeley has the best solution for making notes, highlighting content and organizing PDFs with it's inbuilt viewer which makes it easy to keep up with my research. Zotero lacks these tools I'm not sure what the alternatives would be should Elsevier wreck Mendeley somehow.

+10 internets for making me burst out in random laughter at work

Compared to Henrietta Lacks, it's interesting to note that her cell line is a much more successful offspring, in a way, being cultured up to thousands of times her body weight in labs around the world. Anyway in my work modelling toxicological processes I like to avoid depending just on carcinoma data. All of them have shotgunned DNA and I really don't think the data they give is that useful other than for very basic ball park measurements. This is partly because they are too resilient and partly because they don't exhibit certain types of metabolism. Fortunately there are a number of normal human cell lines that can be used instead, which I prefer. The only draw back is they are more expensive as they need to be repurchased frequently and are more difficult to culture.

Imagine if botnets were put to benevolent uses, like distributed computing projects. Seriously forget credit card data - nobody has any money these days. Process some folding at home and collect some Nobels.

Also, the article is a little "light" on details, is it meant to be similar to the following?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_optic_gyroscope

According to NASA's site, the contract is $1.8 million - just in case you thought NASA might be able to spend $1.8 billion on something like that... http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2012/12-111.html

I think they should focus on cheaper space pens*



*(I kid, I kid!)

Well at least we can try out our economic theories on Iran about how to manage the money supply. If they are better off without increasing the money supply so as to not risk hyperinflation, we can then analyse what free market responses move to restore productivity.

If nuking it isn't an option, it's valuable to you. There are programs that can delete duplicates, but if you want some tolerance to changes in file-name and age, they can get hard to trust. But with the price of drives these days, is it worth your time de-duping them?

First, copy everything to a NAS with new drives in it in RAID5. Store the old drives someplace safe (they may stop working if left off for too long, but its better if something does go wrong with the NAS to have them right?).

Then, copy everything current to your new backup drives on your computer, and automate the backup so that it only keeps two or three versions of files so you don't end up with this problem again. Keep track of things you want to archive and archive them separately.

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. We all get into backup and duplicate problems eventually. I have found keeping my core work in dropbox and making a backup of it occasionally provides enough measure of data backup for me, but the information I generate in the lab doesn't take up so much space.

There are several apps you can use to turn them into IP cameras that operate over wifi. You'd just need a plug to keep them powered and wifi, and can then use a computer to record when they detect movement, making them a handy security camera.

Compared to the price of your usual IP camera's its a bargain solution.

For one thing, its reversible. Wears off after 60 mins in mice at the dose they were using. Hey that might even mean less free radicals which cause aging. Second, humans aren't going to notice the effects at the doses they receive, otherwise we would have seen it in factory workers that produce triclosan already. So nobody should be alarmed at least, unless maybe it impairs salmon swimming upstream to reproduce.

Although RBCs don't have any DNA on-board, just about every other cell does - so it's a question of quality if you want to resurrect a clone. But why? He's anatomically a modern human. If you were going to clone him why not yourself? ;)

The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is 392 parts per *million*. 0.00039%, if you will. If increasing that to 0.0005% will destroy the earth through global warming, the earth would have destroyed itself through seasonal variations let alone variations over millennia long ago...

Humans contribute about 3% of the CO2 output per annum, the rest of it is from living processes. Water vapour controls the majority of the global warming effect (~97%) which is why people who are sceptical about the AGW 'consensus' think that it's arse backwards CO2 affects water vapour and cloud formation. It makes more sense that changes in evaporation from solar sources lead the worlds largest reservoir of CO2, the oceans, to let more CO2 escape.

It's funny that the summary mentions solar decreases aren't matching global warming, because global temperatures have been declining recently too, supporting the idea that the sun is in control.

Similarly crappy upsampling drivers for example those found in old creative audigy cards degrade the signal, which could be a source of confusion. Has anyone also ever considered that 60 people isn't enough to confirm this; perhaps some people can detect higher freqencies than others, just like some people see TVs flickering at 60hz and others don't. The paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2332838 talks about neurons with base frequences up to 75khz, a fair bit above 24 khz that is represented by 48 khz sampling rates.

Could it be that the universe's entire playing field is just stuffed with warped areas here and there for no reason other than that there's no reason it should be smooth either, and galaxies form and move around these areas? I suppose if those underlying distortions themselves can move around then whether it's a form of matter or not might be moot. Any astrophysicists care to explain?

I want to believe in extreme possiblities