A team at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois have successfully used a beam of the near-massless particles to transmit the word “neutrino” to a detector 1 km away, including a 240-metre journey through solid rock. Read Article
My original post ‘Neutrino Communication’ from September 2011.
Add comment October 31st, 2012
I am watching this with interest, the United States are getting prepared for the worse with Meteorologists predicting a “Frankenstorm” (referenced to the fact that Halloween falls on Wednesday) as it merges with a separate winter storm. A lot of media reports from the USA seem to be hyped up and it could be that sensationalism is driving hysteria with people emptying the shelves of local stores for the stock piling of essentials. But the intensity of the storm is not the key here it’s sheer size, with close to hurricane force winds it could be 300 miles across by the time it makes landfall tomorrow and affect 60 million people! Not only high winds are of concern, a storm surge could cause coastal flooding coupled with the possibility of up to 10″ of rain and 2 foot of snowfall affecting 12 states as it merges with an Arctic jet stream, forecasters said Sandy has all the ingredients to transform into a “super storm” unlike anything seen over the eastern United States in decades. So it may appear the preparations under way are not such a typical American over-reaction but a well justified precautionary measure, time will tell.
Add comment October 28th, 2012
Right my week off is practically over and what have I achieved…Sod All! But that aint necessarily so. Off up to Budjinkan Eastbourne on Thursday to re-enroll and get training, trained there a couple of years ago with my brother, I wonder whether they’ve improved at all. On the compensator design front I have had to make some changes to the schematic, I’ve learned a bit more code and found a better way of doing things 😉 Spent some much needed time with Sophie as she’s growing up so fast, she started walking this week 🙂
It was my brother Larry’s 50th birthday on Friday and I drove my parents along with my sister and niece up to see him in Welwyn, he seemed quite content though looked a bit uncomfortable after downing 7 cans of coke within an hour. Again unphased by our presence as far as I could tell but it’s always worth the trip, I notice he doesn’t have a grey hair on his head unlike me at 8 years his junior 🙁 I guess he has little stress or worry. We look at him with all the ‘what ifs’ when he could be looking back at us with bewilderment, he will probably out-live the lot of us.
Add comment October 7th, 2012
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Research development for an injection to “cure” PKU? Click the picture for link, I will research this further before editing this post.
4 comments May 24th, 2012
So the diet is hovering over me again, the other half is now cooking me low protein dinners, just need to sort some bread. I used to bake my own from Loprofin Bread Mix which is nice but my motivation to cook it tends to wither and the packet stuff is a bit naff. I have seriously fallen behind with what is actually available out there for PKU’ers and I’m sure there must be something that’s convenient and doesn’t end up like that green stuff used for flower arranging after two days. Formula is the next biggy, I’m currently using MaxamumXP just because I’m used to it, but again it needs to be made up and something I can grab out the fridge on my way to work sounds like a much better choice.
On another note, I lost my flue analyser today, opened the back of the van and there it was…gone! It’s not conducive to making a good impression to your employers when you throw away £800 of theirs, that kind of ruined my day until I had a phone call from the office to tell me I had left it behind on a previous job, something I had considered too, relieved? Yes, so I chirpily continued my exploits for the rest of the day and came home a happy bunny to stuffed marrow 🙂
3 comments May 17th, 2012
Just watched a film called the Esoteric Agenda and was interested that Phenylalanine (Phe) in the sweetener Aspartame got a mention and that one of the effects of aspartame mentioned was the inability to think and the feeling of being in a fog. Of course it was tied into a string of other facts about fluoridation of water supplies etc. that are deliberately in place to control the population, debatable but interesting.
The problem here is that if you are normal (do not have PKU), any Phe content would be metabolised by the liver in the usual way and not present a problem, it certainly wouldn’t increase the blood levels twenty fold as an ordinary diet would in a person with PKU. I experience cognitive function delay and problems with the simple recall of words during conversation along with an inability to concentrate, this is all tied in with being off diet at which my blood levels of phenylalanine are likely to be 1200-1500umols/l, in context the levels of someone without PKU would be in the region of 60umols/l. If I were ‘on-diet’ my levels would be expected to be 700umols/l or lower, preferably 300-400, that is still five to ten times the norm and the problems I experience improve dramatically. So my argument is; does the ingestion of aspartame in moderate amounts on a daily basis increase the levels of phenylalanine in the blood of people without PKU to high enough levels to cause the ‘inability to think?’ I think not.
As for other claims in the film, I am now even more skeptical, two hours of my life I will never get back.
Add comment May 13th, 2012
