Remind me not to tell about the worms that live IN YOUR FACE! They chill in your follicles and come out at night to feast on your skin and have sex orgies.
Remind me not to tell about the worms that live IN YOUR FACE! They chill in your follicles and come out at night to feast on your skin and have sex orgies.
Oh, I remember learning about those guys back in high school biology. Kinda creepy and gross... but that's life.
It is an entertaining read of a terrifying chemical compound.
Then I just happened to check on the latest xkcd "what-if" question about pressure cookers wherein the author uses F2O2 as an example of how to make things worse.
Despite 5 years on a technical school and more years than I like to admit at a university, I never knew the actual chemical process that happens in a transistor. I knew what a transistor (essentially a tiny electrical switch) is and what it does (if you apply voltage on the gate, electricity can flow between the two other contacts, otherwise not), but I never knew how it actually worked on the low level.
At first I found it odd that metal would make people act like they were gases... but then I realised that metal fans just cause turbulent air patterns, which makes perfect sense.
"They" have known about adaptive optics for a long time. The technique isn't new, despite what the journalists write in that article. It's a big step up, sure, but not new. And that article doesn't even get to the most interesting part: HOW adaptive optics works.
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Chemicals this chemist won't work with
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php
It is an entertaining read of a terrifying chemical compound.
Then I just happened to check on the latest xkcd "what-if" question about pressure cookers wherein the author uses F2O2 as an example of how to make things worse.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
and this:
This video taught me that very easily:
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/may/cd47.html