I hope someone makes the equivalent video for production of the Kindle…

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They say that “theoretically” the bumble bee cannot fly, but in reality it is commonly airborne. They also say that theoretically humans cannot fly by flapping artificial wings…but in reality is it possible?

The implication is that simply flapping is enough to get you airborne, but birds don’t just flap their wings haphazardly like Jarno Smeets is doing in this video, they have a controlled pattern that exploits the Bernouilli effect to lower the air pressure above the wing and reduce it below the wing. A man could flap wings in that way and generate lift, but assuming he weighs about 80kg and can run at a maximum of 10kmh he’d have to have wings 2km wide to generate the necessary upward thrust.

It will be interesting to see whether this is another viral marketing campaign from the Hi-Tech sportswear company as was the liquid mountaineering video we featured here almost two years ago. I’m pretty sure I can see the winch wire at one point just before the video cuts to a lateral shot of Smeets in the air.

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Source: http://thinktosuccess.tumblr.com/post/4576676132/beautiful-dance-moves-involves-maths

The mathematics of dance is a post from: SciScoop Science News

One area that is ripe for the BS tag is so-called “Integrative Medicine”. This is the supposed holistic combination alternative medicine with conventional medicine that is meant to provide a better approach to personal “wellbeing”…practitioners get the best of both worlds: the potential for a proper cure (courtesy of the conventional) and the potential for a big fat fee for doing very little if anything at all and for a bottle of sugar pills (courtesy of the complementary).

However, Integrative Medicine is to Alternative Therapies as Intelligent Design is to Creationism.

Scam? sCAM? BS!

One might use the programmer’s NOT symbol “!” in front of the BS to represent something that is most certainly not the ordure of bovine ruminants. I.e. !BS

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But, you could instead simply focus on finding what you love, doing that and letting the success and self improvement come along for the ride. After all, writers write not because they enjoy all the typing but because they love words. Runners run not because the pain gives them a kick but because they love the miles passing beneath their feet. What’s your love?

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The Park Pharmacy is located at Thorn Park Lodge in a Victorian conservation area within Mutley Park. The trust has been developing a costly but supported medicinal garden here over the years and has enabled wheelchair access and other accessibility measures. The Park Pharmacy and its collection play a vital and unique local role in science education as well as providing mental health fun and therapy projects for residents in care homes, Alzheimer’s patients, patients recovering from Stroke and many others.

Saving our scientific heritage is a post from: SciScoop Science News

You don’t have time to take a country walk, call a loved one, read a book, learn a language? Or are they just not priorities. Where does updating your Facebook status, tweeting and reading others people’s blogs fit into this. Are they a priority? Do you have time for them? Thing about what’s more important…living your life and taking care of priorities or feeling like you have no “me” time, when in reality you have as many hours for “me” as everyone else.

And, yes, this post was inspired by someone else’s blog post and you may be reading it via Facebook or Twitter and I certainly found time to write it…but now I’m off to record a little guitar music.

Are You As Busy As You Think?.

Escaping the time fog is a post from: SciScoop Science News

Scientists have recently turned our focus on to ourselves, asking how do we make decisions in our research? To study ourselves, we need you – the faculty and graduate students conducting the research – to participate. Please take 10 minutes to take part in our study. You’ll be asked to manage research studies as you strive to earn tenure – something I think we can all relate to… Link: http://bit.ly/wsmLT4

We need faculty and graduate students – the people who are conducting the research – to take part in this study; we cannot rely on the typical subject pools. We are trying to include all disciplines and would be grateful if you would post or tweet this information to share it with others who might participate.

The research is being conducted by Michael Dougherty and colleagues at UMD and is hoping to learn from active researchers aged 18 years or more.

– Erica Yu, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland

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Anyway, the “scientist” illustrated in the stock photo is wearing goggles, no problem there. She has her latex safety gloves, check. She even has her hair tied back in a neat pony tail so as to avoid dangling her tresses in an errant Bunsen burner flame. But, take a look. Aside from the obviously nonsensical gunk in her flat-bottomed flask…isn’t there something missing from the photograph?

Oh yes…she’s not wearing a labcoat, or indeed, anything covering her shoulders, arms or upper chest. Perhaps she’s entirely naked, which I am not sure complies with lab safety regulations. I’ve spent the last three hours scouring the iStockPhoto site on your behalf to check that they are not breaking other lab rules by showing wholly naked scientists. I hope you appreciate my efforts…

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-13771784-lab-work.php

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