Twitter and the Oxford English Dictionary | OxfordWords blog

Twitter and the Oxford English Dictionary | OxfordWords blog
zerostatereflex: 'Robo-suit' lets man lift 100kg It’s happening...
"There are also hints that smell is a quantum sense. Our noses appear to work by sensing the natural..."
Google is heading towards Android on laptops, I bet
"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered."
"Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information."

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 07:28 AM PDT

Twitter and the Oxford English Dictionary | OxfordWords blog:

Richard Holden of the OED (@rchrd_h) credits me as the first twittered use of 'hash tag' and #hashtag, but I've been left out of the OED citation itself. Odd, especially since Ben Zimmer came to the same result a few years ago).

zerostatereflex: 'Robo-suit' lets man lift 100kg It’s happening...

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:38 AM PDT

zerostatereflex:

'Robo-suit' lets man lift 100kg

It's happening fast. Robotic suits are coming.

Bolo suits!

"There are also hints that smell is a quantum sense. Our noses appear to work by sensing the natural..."

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:37 AM PDT

There are also hints that smell is a quantum sense. Our noses appear to work by sensing the natural vibration frequencies of the bonds between atoms in molecules. Those frequencies determine whether a smell receptor is switched on and sends a signal to the brain. The best explanation for experimental observations involves an electron using a phenomenon known as quantum uncertainty to tunnel through a seemingly impenetrable barrier. Essentially, it borrows energy from the universe in order to leap across an empty space in the smell receptors and trigger the brain's sense of smell. As long as it returns the energy quickly enough, the electron can use as much as it needs. This "quantum tunnelling" phenomenon is also at the heart of modern electronics."

Then there's the navigation trick birds use for migration. Studies of the European robin (and the robin had to wear a cute little eyepatch during this research) suggest that a particular configuration of a molecule in the robin's retina – a configuration that can only be explained by the rules of quantum theory – allows the bird to sense Earth's magnetic field and thus determine the direction in which it should fly.

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- Micaheal Brooks, Five discoveries taking science by surprise | Science | The Observer

What about precognition? That's how I sense what's coming and which way to fly.

Google is heading towards Android on laptops, I bet

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:13 AM PDT

I kind of missed the part of Google I/O when Sundar Pichai showed Android apps running on Chromebook.