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Dead Milkmen post three new tracks
I have seen many punk acts from my youth live in recent years. The Dead Milkmen were outstanding when I saw them earlier this year. Also, don’t trust the happy; the happy are insane.
Dead Milkmen post three new tracks
The Dead Milkmen have recently posted three new tracks on Soundcloud. Click the song titles below to have a listen.
It looks like if you don’t ask a really hard question about PHP or Javascript, you will will get an answer almost immediately.
How long waiting for an answer in StackOverflow – Interrupted
I think it’s amazing the speed an answer is given for any asked question, like freaking fast. If you are using Google Reader to peek new questions filtered by tag, when you see a question, almost for sure it’s already answered.
Fortunately all StackExchange data is open, so we can see exactly how fast is that. I used the online data browser, more than enough for the task.
I decided to consider only the questions having an accepted answer, since questions with many bogus answers should not be treated as having an answer at all.
Only mentioning this because D&D is cool.
12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Alan Kingstone, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, had a problem: all humans have their eyes in the middle of their faces, and there’s nothing that Kingstone could do about it. His 12-year-old son, Julian Levy, had the solution: monsters. While some monsters are basically humanoid in shape, others have eyes on their hands, tails, tentacles and other unnatural body parts. Perfect. Kingstone would use monsters. And Julian would get his first publication in a journal from the Royal Society, one of the world’s most august scientific institutions.
This research is showing that a parent who smokes passes on changes in DNA that may manifest two generations later. The study is about asthma, but this link suggests anything you might do to your body prior to conceiving a child might effect on all your progeny.
Conditioning Research: scary epigenetics….you suffer because your grandad smoked?
Germline epigenetic marks imposed by exposure to nicotine during pregnancy can become permanently programmed and transferred through the germline to subsequent generations, a ground-breaking finding that shifts the current asthma paradigm, opening up many new avenues to explore.
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