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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Jordan Super Fly RTTG “Las Vegas”
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
WTF? Fashion Minute: March 22, 2012
Lady Gaga was spotted making her way through Narita International Airport in Japan wearing a bedazzled Chanel jacket, military style cap, and ripped fishnets. |
Tia Mowry was one witchy woman (at least from the waist down) in New York. |
Boy George at the Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and composing in London. |
Jaime King was trying to draw more attention to her TV show, "Hart of Dixie," at The CW upfronts in NYC |
Miley Cyrus' recent fashion looks isn't that she "Can't Be Tamed" and shows too much skin -- after all, she has been soaking up the sun in Miami. Yet those high-waisted pants are awful. |
Rihanna grabbed a bite to eat at Il Ristorante di Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California, wearing barely anything. |
Ke$ha, who is known for wearing crazy getups keeps the trend going here. |
SpaceX Successfully Launches the First Privately Built Spacecraft to the International Space Station
After a handful of delays and one abort on the launch pad, SpaceX began its historic journey toward the International Space Station just before 4:00 a.m. eastern time this morning as its Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in a spectacular nighttime launch. MadOne
DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage
DNA is the blueprint for life, and now it can serve as a computer to monitor life’s processes. Bioengineers transformed DNA into a one-bit memory system that can record, store and erase data within living cells. A future DNA memory device could be used to track cell division and differentiation in cancer patients, perhaps, or to monitor what happens as cells get sick or age. We’ve seen plenty of body-monitoring computer systems, from chips that can swim through the bloodstream to nanowires that can tap the heart or other muscle. But so far, these systems are limited to a few processes. This system could work like rewritable memory in your computer, recording and erasing information again and again.
The system flips DNA sequences back and forth between two states, basically the genetic equivalent of a binary switch. One DNA orientation equates to “one,” and the other equates to “zero.” The process uses an enzyme taken from bacteriophages to cut and recombine the DNA. The recombinase enzyme moves to a particular swath of DNA and flips it around so its base pairs basically read backward, and a second signal flips it back.
Stanford researchers Jerome Bonnet and Drew Endy call it a “recombinase addressable data” module, or RAD. The team worked for three years to find the right balance of proteins that would reliably flip the DNA sequences back and forth without degrading. To test whether it worked, the team modified E. coli bacteria to fluoresce in different colors depending on the state of the DNA bit. In lab tests so far, it’s been able to monitor the activity of E. coli as they double more than 100 times. The team’s goal is to produce a byte, combining 8 of these RAD bits to build a larger memory system. Popsci
100-Year Starship Project Forges Ahead With First Round of Funding
An ambitious effort for an interstellar travel planning organization officially kicked off this week, after DARPA awarded $500,000 to form the 100-Year Starship initiative. Former astronaut Mae Jemison, whose proposal was selected earlier this year, will lead the new independent organization. The goal is to ensure that the capability for human interstellar travel exists within the next 100 years. It may not look like the starship Enterprise, but a real interstellar vessel is possible within that timeframe, Jemison said. “Yes, it can be done. Our current technology arc is sufficient,” she said in a statement.
In its first year, the organization will seek new investors and develop new ideas for interstellar exploration, the new 100YSS website says. A public symposium is planned for September in Houston, where anyone from engineers to philosophers will be able to present papers and host talks about the challenges of such a project. The 100-Year Starship is not necessarily a ship per se, but an organization that can last 100 years and potentially carry out the vision of a real starship. It will look for input from scientists, engineers, doctors, sociologists, writers (!), ethicists and public policy experts. The 100-Year Starship project also has a new scientific research partner called The Way, an awesomely named spinoff that will focus on “speculative, long-term science and technology,” according to the project. We can't wait to see what they come up with. Popsci
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Coming Soon to Theaters: Skyfall
Sony Pictures released the first teaser trailer for the 23rd James Bond film, Skyfall, late Sunday night.
Skyfall, arrives November 9th, 2012
Arrow TV Trailer
A trailer for the series based on the DC Comics’ character the Green Arrow has surfaced on Youtube. The trailer reveals that it keeps the character close to his roots yet has a lot of influence from Christopher Nolan’s Batmans.
Plot: The hour long drama is a modern retelling of the legendary DC Comics character the Green Arrow.
Stephen Amell stars in the title role. The project, which also
counts Paul Blackthorne, Jamey Sheridan, David Ramsey, Colin Donnell,
Katie Cassidy and Willa Holland among its cast, hails from pilot season
heavyweight Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. David
Nutter directed the pilot, which is set up at Berlanti Productions in
association with Warner Bros. Television. MadOne
Suicide bomber kills at least 96 soldiers in Yemen
A policeman collects evidence at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Sanaa, Yemen, May 21, 2012. |
On Monday, a suicide bomber
posing as a member of the Yemen military killed at least 96 people and
wounded hundreds more--most if not all soldiers--in a blast in Sanaa,
Yemen's capital. The soldiers were rehearsing for a military parade in Sabeen Square near the presidential palace, Yemeni officials said. According to Agence France-Press,
the bomber, carrying explosives under his uniform, "blew himself up in
the middle of an army battalion." According to AFP, as many as 300
wounded soldiers were being treated at seven area hospitals. An al-Qaida source claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the BBC.
"This is a real massacre," one
soldier, Ahmed Sobhi, told the Associated Press. "There are piles of
torn body parts, limbs and heads. This is unbelievable." According to CNN,
top Yemen officials, including the country's defense minister, were at
the scene but escaped unharmed. CNN said 101 soldiers were killed in the
blast. The parade was to be part of a
National Day of Unification celebration marking the 22nd anniversary of
the May 22, 1990 union of North and South Yemen. According to AFP, it's unclear if Tuesday's parade will take place as planned. MadOne
Box Office Report: May 18th - 20th, 2012
Avengers smashed new comer at the box office this weekend. Battleship not only came in at number 2 it grossed a dismal $25.3 million. That's well below the anticipated $35 million to $40 million that Universal and director Peter Berg were hoping for. Battleship, designed to put the studio squarely in the tentpole game, cost at least $209 million to produce, excluding a pricey marketing spend.. Think like A Man continues to do well on a smaller budget and has been making profits every week. Here is your numbers for the weekend. MadOne
Rank
|
Movie
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Weekend
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Theaters
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Average
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Total
|
Budget
|
1
|
The Avengers
|
$55,057,000
|
4,249
|
$12,958
|
$457,078,000
|
$220
|
2
|
Battleship
|
$25,300,000
|
3,690
|
$6,856
|
$25,300,000
|
$209
|
3
|
The Dictator
|
$17,415,000
|
3,008
|
$5,790
|
$24,456,000
|
$65
|
4
|
Dark Shadows
|
$12,770,000
|
3,755
|
$3,401
|
$50,908,000
|
$150
|
5
|
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
|
$10,500,000
|
3,021
|
$3,476
|
$10,500,000
|
-
|
6
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
|
$3,250,000
|
354
|
$9,181
|
$8,257,000
|
-
|
7
|
The Hunger Games
|
$3,000,000
|
2,064
|
$1,453
|
$391,631,000
|
$78
|
8
|
Think Like a Man
|
$2,700,000
|
1,722
|
$1,568
|
$85,888,000
|
$12
|
9
|
The Lucky One
|
$1,765,000
|
2,005
|
$880
|
$56,921,000
|
-
|
10
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
|
$1,450,000
|
1,840
|
$788
|
$25,362,000
|
$55
|