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Shriveled fingers and toes are something we ;re all familiar with, yet scientists have struggled to explain why it happens. A longstanding theory is that wrinkles are the result of water passing through the outer layer of the skin, causing it to swell. But as neuroscientist Mark Changizi pointed out a few years ago, it clearly a spontaneous reflex that requires a better explanation. Now, writing in Biology Letters, researcher Tom Smulders believes he found the answer 鈥?and it has to do with our ability to handle wet objects. Smulders, who works at Newcastle Centre for Beh stanley us aviour and Evolution, has confirmed that objects are indeed easier to handle stanley termoska with wrinkled fingers than with dry, smooth ones 鈥?a suggestion that our ancestors evolved the physiological response as they foraged for food in wet vegetation or in streams. While Changizi proposed a similar theory, it was Smulders who proved him correct by virtue o stanley cup f a simple experiment. Writing in BBC, Jonathan Amos explains: [The study] involved asking volunteers to pick up marbles immersed in a bucket of water with one hand and then passing them through a small slot to be deposited by the other hand in a second container. Volunteers with wrinkled fingers routinely completed the task faster than their smooth-skinned counterparts. The team found there was no advantage from ridged fingers when moving dry objects. This suggests that the wrinkles serve the specific function of improving our grip on ob Svgn What Is This
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The Ghostbusters have dedicated their lives to removing and containing the undead menace, but what if the proton pack-wielding foursome joined the ranks of the very ghosts they hunt Ghostbuters comic artist Dan Schoening gives new unlife to the ghosthunting heroes. Egon, Ray, and Peter were ghostified in the Real Ghostbusters episode The Flip Side, stanley cup but since Schoening artw stanley cupe ork is based on the design of the movies, he wanted to try his hand at his own vers stanley cup ion of the Flip Side Ghostbusters. He even gave them punny last names to go with their gruesome looks. You can see more of Schoening Ghostbusters artwork in his comics or at his deviantART page. [via Design You Trust] ComicsGhostbusters Wfto G.I. Joe: Retaliation Super Bowl Screencaps
Alice in Wonderland got its stanley cups uk start as a simple story, told by a mathematics professor to a colleague daughter. It a strange story that stanley deutschland seems to be the result of a drug trip, but is actually a scathing satire of the new-fangled math that the professor was seeing invade his area of study. Most of us just enjoy the White Rabbit and the hookah-smoking caterpillar. But now you can understand the math in Alice without needing to be a math whiz. Some people who read Alice in Wonderland find it a whimsical adventure into a world of fun little paradoxes. Other people consider it a creepy march through a world of characters who seem to be set on making life as frustrating as possible as manically as they can. Which side you see might possibly have some bearing on your view of the world. Alice isn ;t just fun and games. Charles Dodgson 鈥?the real name of Lewis Carroll 鈥?added all those paradoxes and puzzles as he was poring over the new math that was stanley cup springing up in the middle of the 1800s. Carroll liked good old-fashioned no nonsense algebra and Euclidean geometry 鈥?areas of study that could prove things about the natural world. Suddenly math students, and even teachers, were using different mathematical methods to prove things like one and one not equaling two. It seemed to Carroll that they were just being difficult on purpose, so he skewered them in prose. Alice Mathematical Attempts at Control Alice herself isn ;t the focus of Carroll ir
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After becoming famous for such hits as 1982 She Blinded Me With Science, synthesizer maestro Thomas Dolby spent 20+ years in the private sector inventing new digital music technologies. Now Dolby getting back to his electronic music roots with his new album, the dieselpunk-inflected A Map of the Floating City. Dolby told io9 about returning to music, becoming the unwitting inspiration for internet fan fiction, and The Floating City, an alternate reality trading game that he using to leak new tracks. Dolby was also gracious enough to discuss his experience composing the Howard the Duck soundtrack, a r茅sum茅 builder if ever stanley flask there was one. How did you come up with the idea to incorporate an entire storyline and virtual world into the release of your album During the 20 years or so t stanley cup spain hat I wasn ;t making any music, sites on the internet were treating me and my songs like I was one of those guys that died. So I stanley cup would lurk around those sites, and one of things that I ;d noticed is that they weren ;t talking about my commercial success, they were digging into the intricacies of the lyrics. People were taking on roles of characters from my songs and writing little bits of collaborative fiction based around my characters. I found that fascinating 鈥?I realized that a lot of people were listening to my music as a continuity to the body of work. For my new album, A Map of the Floating City, I wanted to make a link back to the previ Iulj NASA releases a model of last year s devastating Tohoku-oki tsunami
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Well that was quick as ever. The always-punctual iPhone Dev Team already jailbroken tethered iOS 5, which has only been live a few hours, for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, and iPod Touch. iOS 5 has been jailbroken since around the time of the initial beta, but this is confirmation for stanley quencher fresh installers. https://gizmodo/redsn0w-updated-now-jail...ly-5810631 As always, you should know that the tethered version, which means you have to connect to a computer running Redsn0w every time you turn on your device, will probably require you to restore to a previous backup if you want to install an untethered stanley cup jailbreak once it released. If you rely on Ultrasn0w or Gevey SIM for a carrier unlock, you shouldn ;t upgrade to the stock iOS5, and instead follow the instructions in Redmond Pie guide to work up a custom firmware file, although the iPhoen Dev Team still recommends you stay away for now. The jailbreak also won ;t work for the iPad 2 or the iPhone 4S, if you ;ve magically got one of those already. But still! If you want to dive stanley cup into all of the goodies in iOS 5 while keeping your jailbreak apps and settings, here your short-awaited reprieve. [iPhone Dev Team via Redmond Pie] AppleiOS 5 Xzsn Burner, Obama for America, and More
The modern Naval battlefield is a cacophony of electromagnetic energy with active and jamming signals competing for dominance amid the din. This new 3D radar system however, cuts through the static of war to accurately track nearly a thousand tennis ball-sized incoming threats. Which might be moving at Mach 3 from 15 miles away. Known as the Artisan 3D, this medium range stanley vaso 3D surveillance radar developed by BAE Systems is designed to replace the Type 996 surveillance and target stanley bottles indication radar and is reputedly the single most advanced radar system on Earth. The E/F frequency band radar array has a solid state transmit module and measures 1.35 meters tall, 4.1 meters wide, and 1.6 meters deep. It weighs a scant 1,500 pounds, thanks to its carbon fiber glass construction the same used in F1 racecar shells , allowing a single team to install the system in as little as three weeks. Its performance is simply unmatched. All the electronic interference barely phases the Artisan 3D. The system can shrug off the electromagnetic equivalent of 10,000 cell phone signals to spot, ID, and track up t stanley cup o 900 tennis ball-sized objects which happen to be the cross section of incoming ship killer missiles moving at three times the speed of sound at distances up to 25 km. It overall range runs between 200 m and 200 km, though only larger ship-sized objects will ping at that distance. Even so, the system will greatly improve the British Navy air defense, surface defense and ai
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