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How to grow a bone without a body

TED Fellow Nina Tandon — a regular Poppy Pomfrey — has developed a new way to grow customized bones. How? Well, she regenerates a person’s own multi-potent stem cells. (Don’t worry, we’ll explain.) 

What you see above is decellularized bone scaffolding, which serves as the mold for the bone. Then, fat stem cells from a human are added to this structure, which is placed in a bioreactor that allows the materials to combine. Three weeks later, voilà! You have mature bone. 

So far, Tandon and her team have successfully regrown pig bone, which could be the first step on the way to growing human bones, and an amazing step forward in healing our bodies.

Find out more about Tandon’s work »

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When people say ‘I hate math’ what you’re really saying is, ‘I hate the way mathematics was taught to me.’ Imagine an art class, in which, they teach you only how to paint a fence or wall, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then, of course, years later you would say, ‘I hate art.’ What you would really be saying is ‘I hate painting the fence.’ And so it is with math. When people say ‘I hate math’ what they are really saying is ‘I hate painting the fence.’

UC Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel (via we-are-star-stuff)

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This was a week or so ago, but here's a terrible phone camera video as I was working on this mood lamp thing.

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Five Dollar Chemistry Set Wins Big Manu Prakash won a contest to develop the 21st century chemistry set. His version, based on a toy music box, is small, robust, programmable and costs five dollars. It can inspire young scientists and also address developing-world problems such as water quality and health. When Prakash was young he had a thing about flames. He’s not encouraging all kids to follow his fiery lead – he did burn one hand pretty badly – but he thinks kids should explore more when it comes to learning about science. That’s the idea behind his programmable, toy-like device that won a competition to “reimagine the chemistry set for the 21st century.” Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/04/five-dollar-chemistry-set-wins-big

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Is there a science to artistic expression? And who are some people combining science and art creatively?

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Hey, this is one of our favorite topics! Here are a few of our favorite artworks that intersect with science and engineering…

I enjoyed this meditation from Greg on art’s intersection with science. Those are great links above, and I’d also recommend my #sciart tag for more. Discussions like these seem to begin with the assumption that art and science have long been at odds. I’m not sure that’s true, at least not in the long run.

Regardless, I think that the two disciplines cook with very similar crucibles of creation, and dammit I’m just gonna have to make a video about this.

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There is such a grave difference between, "Even if I don't understand you, I accept you," and "I don't understand you, but I accept that there are just some weird people out there that you can't reason with."

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A glorious fuck-ton of perspective angle references (per request).

[From various sources.]

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To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering
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When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he began to understand how the tools of science and engineering become more powerful when combined with art, with design and beauty. Ever since, he's been searching for a convincing modern-day equivalent to Rome's masterpiece. Stay tuned to the end of the talk for his unexpected suggestion.
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We often hear about the incredible variety of vending machines in japan that dispense everything from hot meals and new phones to clean undies, but this is the first time we’ve read about a giant vending machine specifically designed to replace an entire grocery store.

The village of Clifton, Derbyshire, England lost its local shop 14 years ago, which meant that when residents needed something as simple as a pint of milk, they had to drive over two miles simply to reach the nearest supermarket. Local electrical engineer Peter Fox invented this marvelous machine to replace his village’s long-absent convenient store.

The faux brick exterior and awning give the modern automatic shop a traditional feel. “The machine, which contains chiller compartments, stocks essentials such as bread, milk, eggs, toiletries, pet food – and umbrellas. Residents select their items, pay by cash or credit card and take the goods from the dispenser.”

Mr Fox thoughtfully designed the machine so that it can dispense a wide variety of products regardless of their respective weight or delicacy.

"It works by lifting a small basket up to each shelf before a mechanism pushes out the desired product.That way it only has a small distance to travel, preventing milk bottles from bursting or eggs from smashing."

The machine is also linked to a website which allows villagers to check stock availability before they even leave the house. 

Visit Dailymail.co.uk to learn more about this Peter Fox’s awesome automatic shop.

[via Foodbeast and Dailymail.co.uk]

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100 years of the Computer Art Scene 
UPDATE: I’ve uploaded the talk onto SoundCloud for better sharing.
Recording of a talk from NOTACON 2004 discusses the history of computing and creativity. It isn’t for for everyone, but anyone with an interest in this area could find this interesting:
SYNOPSIS: Since the first time that machines could calculate, people have twisted, modified, hacked and played with them to create art. In a fast-paced hour, we're going to do our best to capture 100 years of computer art, the magic of the art scene, the demo scene, and a dozen other "scenes" that have been with us as long as computers have. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of visual and audio history as your two over-the top scene pilots take you on "the story so far" to the artscene. ... Alright, so, basically, the name of the talk is "100 Years of the Computer Art Scene". That was a marketing trick, but what are you going to do. Technology, as far as man has always approached it, incrementally over time, it gets better and better, but the biggest problem you have is adaptation. How do you convince people that they were doing things this way, and now they want to do it this way? And because your big metal honking clanking thing is much better than however they were doing it by hand. Interestingly, if you really look at the history of communication technologies, and later computer technologies, its kind of surprising how much art actually plays a point into it. In terms of this narrative, we're going to start somewhere around telegraphs, which is a little ways in, but what're you going to do. Telegraph technology basically involved using wires to send dashes and dots indicating some sort of code that could be decoded over long distances, therefore allowing you to send messages basically instantaneously, an amazing difference for that time. Where as before, when Abraham Lincoln was elected, there were parts of the country that didn't know what their new president looked like for 3 or 4 months. And didn't know he had won for weeks or months, simply because the communication wasn't there. So the addition of this instantaneous traffic changes the world, markedly.
You can download the talk from Archive.Org here, and a text file transcript of the talk can be found here

via prostheticknowledge:

Source: archive.org
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