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Scientific Screen-savers
Started by Caesars0331
Hey,
This is similar to the SETI at home thing that riven mentioned but instead of looking for aliens it processes data for cancer research from the University of Oxford.
http://grid.org/projects/cancer/
This is similar to the SETI at home thing that riven mentioned but instead of looking for aliens it processes data for cancer research from the University of Oxford.
http://grid.org/projects/cancer/
...or you can evaluate probabilistic thermodynamics to solve protein folding questions.
http://folding.stanford.edu/
http://folding.stanford.edu/
United Devices has a really cool one that does a ligand fitting program for smallpox, cancer proteins, and a new proteomics project. I like their software too... very non-invasive and easy to use.
www.grid.org
www.grid.org
Thanks for all the responses. I look forward to checking them all out.
OK, I award you 100 nerd points for asking for a DNA replication screen saver.
And on that note, here's a link to the IUBMB-Nicholson Metabolic Map. It may be too big to use for wallpaper, but it's a pretty cool map.
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/img/assets/4202/MetabolicPathways_6_17_04_.pdf
Nerd on!
And on that note, here's a link to the IUBMB-Nicholson Metabolic Map. It may be too big to use for wallpaper, but it's a pretty cool map.
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/img/assets/4202/MetabolicPathways_6_17_04_.pdf
Nerd on!
DianaLynne said:
To post on this thread, you obviously know the secret nerd password and hand shake!! You aren't fooling anyone lol
Thanks for the link by the way. I check it out later!
nymeria said:
Where do we go on the website to get this?
SETI at home!
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Seriously... if anyone has a DNA replication screen saver, that would be unbelievable cool.
On another note, I have a 3.5 foot by 6.5 foot biochemical pathways poster hanging in my hall... can anyone out-nerd that?
On another note, I have a 3.5 foot by 6.5 foot biochemical pathways poster hanging in my hall... can anyone out-nerd that?
I have, as art that I built for fun, a new manifestation of an inverted cycloid. If you remember from calculus, a cycloid is the path that a point would take if put on the edge of a disc and rolled. The hopping motion of the point is a cycloid. Gauss (I think) figured out that a perfect pendulum would take this path inverted. In otherwords, the circular path that a normal pendulum takes doesn't give it a regular period from crest to crest. If the weight were to follow the path of an inverted cycloid, it would always take it the same amount of time to swing from side to side, regardless of how high it is swinging.
Building on the concept, I created two steel plates that, when put side-by-side created a gap in which a ball bearing could roll. I came up with the horizontal formula for the curvature of the gap such that the vertical movement of the ball was that of an inverted cycloid. It works great and is now art in my apartment.
Major geeki/nerdiness. Aaaaah thankyou.
Building on the concept, I created two steel plates that, when put side-by-side created a gap in which a ball bearing could roll. I came up with the horizontal formula for the curvature of the gap such that the vertical movement of the ball was that of an inverted cycloid. It works great and is now art in my apartment.
Major geeki/nerdiness. Aaaaah thankyou.
Wow..and I thought I was a nerd (although actually I'm jealous I didn't think of this first!) 😛
I'm tempted to send everyone that ever said I was a nerd when I was a freshman here!
I'm tempted to send everyone that ever said I was a nerd when I was a freshman here!
muahaha I am the nerd king!
stoic said:
Whoa! Where'd you get that poster, I'd love to have one!
Here's a question: How many of you have bought a textbook for recreational reading? I bet it's most of you! (I have an anatomy text, genetic, biochem, and behavioral endocrinology that I bought because I thought they'd be cool.)
DianaLynne said:
I bummed it off of a Roche sales rep. They give them away free, all you need to do is go to the roche website, email and sales rep, and wait for your poster to arrive.
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