JCC Go science?

Not yet, no.

Edit: To clarify further, foldable screens have been A Thing(TM) at trade shows for a few years now, but the pricing still isn't there yet. So it kind of seems like Samsung is jumping the gun to try and force their way out of second (really third) place.

 

What do you think / what would you pay for a tablet / phone hybrid?

I know I had a tough time trying to justify the purchase of the iPhone XR, but once the Apple Store had that sale where they gave me $150 for my 4 year old iPhone 6, I knew that would probably be the best time to pull the trigger and upgrade.

 

I'm not totally sure what the ceiling on a reasonable price for most folks is but I suspect it's like $700 based on what models sell when (I'm going largely off CNet observations). In general the phone market has been slowing down, possibly because battery replacement is a thing now, and I don't think there's a huge market willing to drop two grand on the first folding phone in that situation.

Edit: Also, lol, I just noticed in that Huawei article that Samsung is actually first in the smartphone market, so I guess they just want to stake a claim on innovation.

 

https://gizmodo.com/particle-physicists-build-a-meatball-collider-1832816681

@Lord Vivec -- I think we can both agree that this is the type of practical thing we should be focusing on in physics?

 

I'm already thinking of the possibilities! A brand new field if physics: Quantum Meal Theory.

 

Something something fries in a box with condiments dispensed based on radioactive decay something something Schrödinger's catsup.

 

I was thinking along the lines of Schrodinger's Veal (since that's the ingredient least likely to make it into a meatball these days!)... but yours is better, as always...

 

Scientists restore some brain functions to dead pigs, killed in slaughterhouse hours before

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...tore-some-function-in-the-brains-of-dead-pigs

 

That is promising, horrifying, and ethically questionable in one neat convenient package.

Gives some cred to people who want to freeze their heads when they die i guess? Haven’t read about cryofreezing in some time.

 

No one is ever really gone

 

And.... we get closer to the Zombie Apocalypse even more.

 

Brainnnnnns.

 

Fascinating, but also vaguely creepy.

 

Eh... not really, the underlying irony of cryofreezing is that even if we figured out a way to bring severed heads back from the dead, the freezing and unthawing process would do a lot more damage on top of "mere" death (whatever those scare quotes can even remotely imply).

 

Yep. We're looking at quite a bit more small-scale damage and destructuration through the freezing and then unfreezing process...

 

Virgin anaconda in zoo unexpectedly gives live birth to two clones
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anac...th-parthenogenesis_n_5ce99b93e4b00356fc227180

 

The second and third coming!

 

Uhhhh, dont let them near any apple trees.

 

what if they freeze-dry the heads?

 

New theory for Dark Matter... magnetic monopoles
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-candidate-dark.amp

 

Nikolai Kardashev 1932 to 2019

Russian astrophysicist and SETI pioneer Nikolai Kardashev passed away on August 3, 2019. Known for the Kardashev scale of extraterrestrial civilizations, in 1963 he conducted the first Soviet search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by examining the quasar CTA-102 for signs of a technological civilization. In the following year, Kardashev organized the first Soviet conference on communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) at Byurakan Observatory in Armenia. Also in 1964, Kardashev proposed a scale that now bears his name, which is used for classifying extraterrestrial civilizations in terms of their energy use. Civilizations ranked on the Kardashev Scale range from Type I civilizations capable of using the energy resources of a single planet, to Type II civilizations that use the full energy of a star, to Type III civilizations that have access to the energy of an entire galaxy.

In 1971, along with other Soviet astronomers and American Carl Sagan, Kardashev organized a Soviet-American conference on CETI, also held at Byurakan Observatory. Kardashev became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1976, and in 1994 he became a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A decade later, he was awarded the Demidov Prize for his work in astrophysics.

 

@Lord Vivec

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/world/ancient-galaxies-discovery-scn/index.html

Can you layman's terms what this means, and what the contradictions of the current universal models mean (if anything)?

 

So I did a bit of reading to see what their study was (I don't have access to Nature grrr). As you know, the farther away something is in space, the older it is because light takes time to get here. Astrophysicists have been studying the farthest observable galaxies to see what star formation was like in the early universe. Based on current studies of those galaxies, scientists determined an average rate for star formation.

However, in this study, they've been using a new technique (looking at different, harder to detect wavelengths of light) and have found galaxies far away that weren't seen before. These galaxies being super far away are from the early universe as well. The issue is that these galaxies have a lot more stars and have a way higher star formation rate, way higher than the models created from the previous paragraph

 

Okay, but what does that functionally mean other than around galaxy formation and/or the early universe... any implications on things like the Big Bang, or any of the fundamental universal forces? Or is it just a generalized modeling change?

 

As far as I know it doesn't have any change regarding the fundamental forces or the big bang itself. This really just has to do with modeling star formation in early universe galaxies. It also has good prospects for Galaxy detection technologies.