NASA scientist's part time job: Houston Cheerleader.

Ruben me paso unas imagenes muy importantes hoy:

... Williams does occasionally sound a little ambivalent, if not defensive, and she does, after all, say things like, "Beauty doesn't last forever," and "I'd much prefer people speak of me as an engineer." ...

Ruben Llibre: rompio la regla
Rodolfo Hansen: y es un rocket scientist
Rodolfo Hansen: literraly
Ruben Llibre: it's not fair
Rodolfo Hansen: indeed it is not
Ruben Llibre: esa vaina deberia causar implosiones en el universo
Ruben Llibre: jajajajajaja
Rodolfo Hansen: ... so sad...

Los olores.

Agruparé aquí un grupo de ideas que tengo sobre los olores:

1. Los olores corresponden a la resonancia cuántica de la molécula a olfatear
2. Los olores son un salto evolutivo en el que ha conseguido procesarse a nivel cerebral información que previamente se procesaba únicamente a nivel celular
3. Los olores debido a que proveen un medio de comunicación directa entre célula y cerebro (me refiero a comunicación ínter-organismo) son responsable de muchos mecanismos de interacción aún por ser descubiertos, estudiados
4. Los olores proveen 'meta-data' sobre el funcionamiento / la realidad biológica

Supongo que cuando se ve de esa manera, queda obvia la utilidad evolutiva de la habilidad y porqué en tantas especies se ha desarrollado tanto o más que el oído o la vista. De igual modo confío en que seguiremos descubriendo más datos sorprendentes sobre el olfato, y tendremos perfumes y artefactos para: subir / bajar el metabolismo, atraer / repudiar personas, detectar / tratar enfermedades, controlar el sistema inmunológico, guiar el desarrollo infantil, controlar el estrés y la producción hormonal, ah, y claro, sabremos más sobre nuestras mascotas. :D

Post-Data: Les debo todas las referencias de donde saque estas ideas... andan rondando como par de links en este blog... ;)

"Human Blood May Contain A Cure for AIDS"

Lisandro writes "German scientists at the University of Ulm have identified a natural ingredient of human blood that prevents the HIV-1 virus from from infecting immune cells and multiplying. The molecule, which they call virus-inhibitory peptide (VIRIP), promises new types of effective treatment for HIV in the future. 'Tweaks to its amino acid components boosted its anti-HIV potency by two orders of magnitude. Tests also showed that some derivatives of the molecule are highly stable in human blood plasma, and non-toxic even at very high concentrations. A synthetic version of VIRIP also proved effective at blocking HIV, excluding the possibility that some other factor was responsible. VIRIP targets a sugar molecule which HIV uses to infect a host cell. '"

Continue reading at Slashdot.



Oye esa vaina.... 2 ordenes de magnitud.... no side effects detected....



Viva el sexo libre!!! ?!

Porn will put HD-DVD over Blue-Ray?

Will porn put HD-DVD over Blue-Ray? Did betamax really loose because there was no porn on it?! Is it a problem of choice? Is sony morally above the rest of us? Or should the right to choose what you can or cannot see be left to someone else? Is this the case with HD-DVD ? I can burn anything in the privacy of my home... Sarusa writes in slashdot: "If this is true, it's Beta vs VHS all over again and HD-DVD may be the foregone winner of the format wars. First, Heise reports (summarized from the German by sgknox.com) that Digital Playground, who were committed to Blu-ray last year, are now producing HD-DVD titles instead. No Blu-ray disk manufacturer would make their disks because Sony doesn't want porn on Blu-ray (just as with Betamax). Second, as reported by tgdaily, the porn industry overwhelmingly favors HD-DVD because it's much cheaper and easier to produce. As noted in the tgdaily article, porn was a huge factor in VHS winning the VHS/Beta format wars even though many people don't like to acknowledge it. Porn, like gaming, pushes tech adoption."