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Today I was researching laser treatment of vitreous eye floaters and came across this mind-blowing video of a live procedure being done by one of the only very few physicians in the US who perform it: To anyone who has never had a floater, it might be difficult to imagine how amazing this procedure seems. …

I wanted to offer this method I sort of discovered today on how to organize when you are in a situation where it seems like the task is too overwhelming to the point of being impossible. That is how it has been with me for too long. I have had piles of junk all over…

Transit of Venus | exploratorium.edu/venus brightcove.createExperiences();

Hi, this is my first post with the newly arranged Alaya: Tech blog thingy.  All the previous tech and science related posts will be here.  I apologize if any are missing.  There are around 800 posts to go through and preen and I have not finished the process yet. The other day I finally got…

Is there a massive, hidden planet in our solar system, bigger even than the largest known planet Jupiter?  Or perhaps a red dwarf star that is a sister to our Sun yet which until now has been undetected? Far far beyond the orbit of Neptune lie what are called trans-neptunian objects.  Way out there is…

In 150,000 or 200,000 years what is someone going to think, coming across a nuclear waste dump?  “What the fuck is this?”  What thoughts will go through their mind, being aware that, 150,000 or 200,000 years prior, a few generations of Homo sapiens decided to leave this toxic shit around for the next hundreds of…

News today about exciting research where scientists have been able to get algae to create complex proteins similar to those created by the malaria parasites in the Plasmodium genus. Excerpt: The use of algae to produce malaria proteins that elicited antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum in laboratory mice and prevented malaria transmission was published May 16…

There is a feature of Google Maps, which is not enabled by default, called Distance Measurement Tool.  First it has to be enabled as per these instructions.  Then one clicks on points on the map to create the route for calculating the distance.  Here’s a useful video showing how it works: I don’t know how…

I think I’ve made a couple posts here in the past about how the realm of microorganisms in the body, in particular things like intenstinal flora, are like this other, undiscovered realm which may be far more powerful that we know or think. I think I wrote about how someone making a sloppy kiss can…

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library is a comprehensive online source of music scores.  I just got violin parts for a Bach cantata and a mass.  Full scores are available as well as separate parts for individual instruments.  I also saw a copy of Bach’s handwritten manuscript for a violin part to a mass.  This was a…