My Daily Tweets 01.30.12

• Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt’s Charged Electrons Heading for Space not Surface wp.me/pWvW-6Di 2 minutes ago
  
• iPhone Lens Wallet: for Serious iPhonetographers wp.me/pWvW-6Dg 4 minutes ago
  
• Sony Cybershot DSC-TX200V: 18.2 MP, 1080p/60 Video, and Covered in Glass wp.me/pWvW-6De 6 minutes ago
  
• GUYS, we all use our phones to text and surf the web from the can, and The Times is ON IT. bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/the… 16 hours ago
  
• @DrBenneworth “@DanConnell: On the academic job market & gaining a PhD – The Jettison Airplane wp.me/p29Fky-a via @wordpressdotcom ” 16 hours ago
  
• Sumerian gold jar, other relics returned to Iraq by Germany reut.rs/yJoOXn 17 hours ago
  
• Poor Lana Del Rey. bit.ly/x27CsN 17 hours ago
  
• Scientific Study Proves Blogging Therapeutic for Teens wp.me/pWvW-6Db 17 hours ago
  
• Time to finish work. Last stretch of the day. 17 hours ago
  
• Ok, repub all of my posts that were just published on SciTechDaily. Time to walk Spike. 18 hours ago
  
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: The Ethics of Brain Boosting wp.me/pWvW-6D8 18 hours ago
  
• On top of my main areas of interest, mathematics, topology, Riemann surfaces, differential geometry, and some pure algebra. 18 hours ago
  
• NDM-1 Super Bacteria Scares Medical Community in India wp.me/pWvW-6D6 18 hours ago
  
• I have a keen interest in cosmology, astrophysics, astronomy, particle physics, and epidemiology. That much is obvious 18 hours ago
  
• Lab Experiment to Determine if Antimatter Weighs More than Baryonic Matter wp.me/pWvW-6D4 18 hours ago
  
• Bus-Sized Asteroid Barely Misses Earth wp.me/pWvW-6D2 18 hours ago
  
• Self-Healing Polymer Mechanism Rediscovered After 60 Years wp.me/pWvW-6D0 18 hours ago
  
• Adanson’s Jumping Spiders Hunt Using Unusual Depth Perception wp.me/pWvW-6CY 18 hours ago
  
• Tomorrow, I have to be up early in the morning. Not going to be pleasant, but lots of coffee will help make matters better 18 hours ago
  
• Women aren’t actually better than men, we’re just better-looking. 18 hours ago
  
• I’ve got one more post to go, but I’m walking Spike now. 18 hours ago
  
• Blogging as Therapy for Teenagers – Studied: nyti.ms/wdjf14 18 hours ago
  
• @hungryintaipei @catherineshu No, imported from Germany. You can find it at Carrefour and 7-11 now. The one with whole hazelnuts is the best 19 hours ago
  
• @RacyZephyr thx 19 hours ago
  
• @RacyZephyr You can’t wear fake lashes and makeup all of the time. 19 hours ago
  
• @CatherineShu @hungryintaipei 🙂 I stay away from marshmallows. Ritter Sport, now that’s a good chocolate. 19 hours ago
  
• @hungryintaipei @catherineshu Everything at Costco is too huge for 1 person, reason why I no longer go. 19 hours ago
  
• @RacyZephyr I call ’em like I see them, and to be honest, I prefer the natural look vs the glammed up one. 19 hours ago
  
• Slate has an interesting explanation for why transit systems look the way they do. pco.lt/yeCJQc 19 hours ago
  
• @RacyZephyr still pretty hot 19 hours ago
  
• @RachFee bad. 19 hours ago
  
• FF crash. Ah well, it’s become the norm. #Mozilla 20 hours ago
  
• I hate it when people contact me about buying bicycle gear, pump me for info, and then buy nothing. WTF20 hours ago
  
• Fab Ciraolo Illustrations Part 2 – bestbookmarks.net/art/fab-ciraol… (via #sociablesite) bestbookmarks.net/art/fab-ciraol… 20 hours ago
  
• Promzona 2012 Calendar » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond! designyoutrust.com/2012/01/30/pro… via @4designyoutrust 20 hours ago
  
• Les Amies de Place Blanche » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond! designyoutrust.com/2012/01/30/les… via @4designyoutrust 20 hours ago
  
• Then other times, it just doesn’t want me to type in French or German. 20 hours ago
  
• Funny how sometimes iOS can switch easily between languages other times it can’t. I’ve had it actually correct the French that I type. 20 hours ago
  
• Abbey Lee Kershaw for Gucci “Flora” Fragrance Campaign by Sølve Sundsbø fashiongonerogue.com/abbey-lee-kers… via @fashgonerogue 21 hours ago
  
• Daisy Lowe in two Photoshoots | FreeYork Eng freeyork.org/photography/da… via @freeyork_net 21 hours ago
  
• Saw a dedicated Royal Elastics shop in ATT 4 Fun. Will buy some shoes there. 21 hours ago
  
• It was outside, but very loud. Surprised me. 21 hours ago
  
• Sometimes, people just go nuts w fireworks in Taiwan. I was picking up a Subway sandwich, some lady detonated a shitload right next to me 21 hours ago
  
• @jeansnow Later this year, Sept or so 21 hours ago
  
• Do you remember when newspapers’ Arts sections actually covered visual art? Rather than Hollywood & celebrity gossip. 23 hours ago
  
• I do have some respect for the midget for doing this because the last time he tried to go fast it didn’t end well, Clarkson about Hamster 30 Jan
  
• This is going to crush u guys lke beetles under its feet, Hamster about his Noble, #TopGear 30 Jan
  
• @Fabin_H Love it too. Been watching it for a long time. Clarkson is hilarious. 30 Jan
  
• Lamborghini will have said why don’t we just use a laser, a laser shooting heat onto the windscreen to get rid of the…, Clarkson, #TopGear 30 Jan
  
• This will have taken [McLaren] 7 years of meetings to get just right, Clarkson in #TopGear about windshield wipers 30 Jan
  
• @Fabin_H I torrent it. New ep was aired last night n the uk 30 Jan
  
• One of my friends is about as tall as some of my grade 4 students. Kind of funny and different. 30 Jan
  
• Found what to do. Watch #TopGear while I eat 30 Jan
  
• Field trip w the kids but I finish early. 30 Jan
  
• Gonna take it easy for a couple of hours. I still have to do lots of writing, but I’m sort of out of it. Tomorrow, I have to be up early 30 Jan
  
• @itsminhvybitch faut chercher ds la langue originale. ie, mon prenom, ya rien en francais, anglais, etc, mais une signification indienne 30 Jan
  
• Time to get cracking. I’m running Winter Camp this week. Need to walk Spike and then get ready. 30 Jan
  
• Finished #TheDogsofRiga and started #TheManWhoSmiled. About 500p in. I’ll finish Mankell’s books this week. 30 Jan
  
• Weekend’s new concept, for me: financial repression en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial… 30 Jan
  
• 開工大吉 to you, I’m still in vacation. 30 Jan
  
• @asimone happy birthday! 30 Jan
  
• So confused by all the New Yorkers complaining that Manhattan is too safe. FYI: The Mission in SF offers great stabbings with your lattes. 30 Jan
  
• I have so many apps on my iPhone I genuinely can’t find half of them. Spotlight is my tool for navigating nearly 90% of the time. 30 Jan
  
• Is #Facebook run by sociopaths? news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-5… 30 Jan
  
• My Daily Tweets 01.29.12 wp.me/pWvW-6CV 30 Jan

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Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt’s Charged Electrons Heading for Space not Surface

The increase in solar activity has become quite obvious on Earth, thanks to the increase in auroras caused by geomagnetic storms, but while astronomers had previously believed that the Earth might be stripped temporarily of its radiation belts, causing the charged electrons to inundate the atmosphere, new data has shown that the deadly particles will actually be blown back into space.

Read more @ SciTechDaily

iPhone Lens Wallet: for Serious iPhonetographers

As more and more people ditch their point-and-shoot cameras in favor of their iPhones, it becomes necessary to find a way to lug around all those add-on lenses that you’ve got. Check out Photojojo’s iPhone Lens Wallet, which lets you carry them around easily enough, without cramping your style.

Read more @ Technabob

Sony Cybershot DSC-TX200V: 18.2 MP, 1080p/60 Video, and Covered in Glass

You got to hand it to Sony, they do occasionally release some really cool products, like this new Sony Cybershot DSC-TX200V which was just announced. It’s a compact camera that sports the highest resolution for a point-and-shoot camera yet. It’s also sandwiched between glass plates, so it does look quite fetching.

Read more @ Technabob

Scientific Study Proves Blogging Therapeutic for Teens

Over the recent years, with the boom in texting and online social networks, teenagers have been developing new ways of dealing with their emotional problems. A new study has shown that there is a therapeutic value in blogging. While many people see writing as a form of therapy, the study highlighted the issue faced by teens.

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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: The Ethics of Brain Boosting

Prominent Oxford neuroscientists are teaming up with ethicists to consider the issues raised by brain stimulating techniques. They recently spoke on BBC’s Radio 4 morning program to have a discussion. The most promising stimulation, called transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) can be used to improve language, math, memory, problem solving, attention span, and even movement.

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NDM-1 Super Bacteria Scares Medical Community in India

In Indian hospitals, over 50% of bacterial infections are now resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Surveys have shown that many widespread pathogens in India are also resistant to powerful, broad-spectrum antibiotics. In 2010, a team of scientists analyzed bacterial infections in New Delhi and found that 24% could resist the hospital’s last resort intravenous antibiotics, carbapenems, and 13% had a super-resistant gene, New Delhi metallo-ß-lactamase 1 (NDM-1), that conferred resistance to carbapenems and 14 other antibiotics.

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Lab Experiment to Determine if Antimatter Weighs More than Baryonic Matter

Physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have set forward lab experiments to determine if antimatter behaves differently in gravity than baryonic matter. This could provide an explanation why the Universe doesn’t seem to have much antimatter and why it’s expanding at an ever increasing rate.

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Bus-Sized Asteroid Barely Misses Earth

An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth in what’s been described as a near miss. However, experts weren’t concerned that it might have impacted. This isn’t uncommon and these types of asteroids are hard to see except when they come quite close to Earth.

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Self-Healing Polymer Mechanism Rediscovered After 60 Years

There’s been a lot more research into self-healing organic polymers, but it’s only recently that a self-healing mechanism from more than 60 years ago was rediscovered. The process, which is called siloxane equilibration, allows silicone rubber that’s been cut in half to completely repair itself through heat-activated reversible bonding.

Read more @ SciTechDaily