biological computers - DNA pictures

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have taken biological computing one step further, with a new molecular machine capable of decoding images stored on a DNA chip. Though it's referred to as a "biological computer," the researchers' machine isn't much like a CPU at all -- unless your CPU was manufactured in a test tube filled with a smoothie of DNA molecules, enzymes and ATP. Once they found the right mix, the team proceeded to encrypt images on a DNA chip and used their Turing machine-like creation to decode them, with fluorescent stains helping to track its progress. The above image, read from left to right, gives a more literal idea of what the system can do -- basically, it takes a hidden image and extracts a given sequence. Storing data on DNA isn't anything new, but decrypting said data in this fashion apparently is. The applications for this kind of organic computing remain a bit fuzzy, but it's pretty clear that whatever follows probably won't look anything like a typical computer. The team's findings were recently published in a paper for the journal Angewandte Chemie, the abstract for which is linked below. For a slightly more readable explanation, check out the full press release after the break. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/09/biological-computer-can-decode-images-stored-in-dna-chips-appli/ "We are biological computers with ram and a hard drive. Ram is the present and the hard drive is the past. In hindsight is where the human experience evokes its self. It is when we pull from that hard drive that we experience consensus in the sense that what we pull is imperfect and we have to fill in the blanks with either truth or with our own make believe. It is that difference that makes life magical or devastating." DUDE12NOTHIN

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American: The Bill Hicks Story (2011)

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit - Bill Hicks

This Is Our Reality - YouTube

I am Dom0ne One of 7 billion people on a beautiful yet inconsequential rock I'm an evolutionary product It's a saddening proposition to say that People need religion to have worth and value This is the reality of our existence And whether you like it or not We are destined to continue on this path This world is awash with selfserving, tribal intolerances but We will arrest these vestigial, Bronze Age constructs in the future I refuse to accept that Children's minds will continue to be indoctrinated with divisiveness People will always place hope above reality and Faith will surpass scientific endeavour I know this will be the case because I understand human psychology Humanities focus will continue to shift And rationale will shine light on those that wish to worship pretense The human race has a path of enlightened optimism ahead I would be lying if I said that Religious ideolgy will invariably triumph over humanism If we take the time to look at life with honesty This Is Our Reality Inspired by "This Is The Truth"

Lawrence Krauss: Life, the Universe and Nothing - YouTube

10 Convicts Presumed Innocent After Execution

English jurist William Blackstone once said, “Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” Even lawyers are indoctrinated with this concept early in law school. Whether you support with the death penalty or not, most individuals would agree with the statement above. Despite the United State’s innocent-until-proven-guilty legal system, there are several cases where a presumably innocent person is convicted of a crime, some even put to death. Sadly, we may never get a chance to find out the truth. The recent inclusion of DNA evidence in trials has been used in some cases to clear many people falsely convicted. There are ten recent cases of people who are now presumed, but not proven, to be innocent and one bonus inclusion.

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Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues - YouTube

This life that I live. Freedom. Not a choice, it is a fantasy born from hope. a hope that is not for us but for a child. We are the last hopes. the last strain for a dream. how far have we been that we cannot see reality but through the lens of capture. alone we awake.

Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans Tour - YouTube

A Thriller About the 'Weird Loneliness of the Internet' - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - Video

The short film Internet Story is a tale of mystery and suspense, set in the bizarre world of online message boards and YouTube videos. The story begins when an anonymous Internet user creates an elaborate, puzzle-ridden treasure hunt based on an old Chaucer story. I won't ruin the ending, but I'll say that as the video went viral recently, viewers around the world were left Googling clues for answers.

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Rather than creating representational paintings on a flat canvas, Alexa Meade creates her representational paintings directly on top of the physical subjects that she is referencing. When photographed, the representational painting and the subject being referenced appear to be one and the same as the 3D space of her painted scenes becomes optically compressed into a 2D plane.