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[Eagleon]

Brains can now be made see-through. Neuroscientists rejoice.

This is pretty huge news for the connectome crowd, and might make EyeWire (the dealie where lots of people trace and virtually stain neurons through sectioned slides) obsolete, which is kind of... mud in their eye... Obviously it can't be done on living brains, which is the holy grail. But sectioning is incredibly painstaking work, this sounds like you throw your tissue into the solution, come back a month later, and you have a reusable anatomical model with a tremendous level of detail.

[Scelly9]

What the hell...

[Loud Whispers]

Brains can now be made see-through. Neuroscientists rejoice.

This is pretty huge news for the connectome crowd, and might make EyeWire (the dealie where lots of people trace and virtually stain neurons through sectioned slides) obsolete, which is kind of... mud in their eye... Obviously it can't be done on living brains, which is the holy grail. But sectioning is incredibly painstaking work, this sounds like you throw your tissue into the solution, come back a month later, and you have a reusable anatomical model with a tremendous level of detail.

Excellent! What else can they make transparent science?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Maybe, but they'll never make love transparent! CHECKMATE SCIENTISTS

[Loud Whispers]

Maybe, but they'll never make love transparent! CHECKMATE SCIENTISTS

Nick your Amygdala.

CHECKMATE PLATO

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Maybe, but they'll never make love transparent! CHECKMATE SCIENTISTS

Nick your Amygdala.

CHECKMATE PLATO

DONE. I AM NOW EXTREMELY AFRAID OF EVERYTHING. OH GOD WHY.

[Loud Whispers]

SCIENCE INDUCED STRESS RESPONSE

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

[werty892]

SCIENCE IS THE BOMB!

[MaximumZero]

Somebody set us up the bomb?

[Morrigi]

EDIT: Derp.

[palsch]

A pretty worthwhile lecture on GM crops.

50 minutes, but there is a full transcript as well.

[10ebbor10]

Yeah, it kinda makes me sad how bad "environamentalism" turns out to be for the environement.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I should hope you know that most environmentalists aren't against GM crops these days. That reputation comes from the early days of GM, where there was certainly a point in that we weren't ultra-certain of what consequences might result.

That said, a lot of GM companies are still black hats, but that has to do with their business practices and genetic copyrights rather than the fact that they are doing GM.

[10ebbor10]

Yeah, I was mainly talking about the Mad hatters, who are against anything that isn't 100% based on Middle Age technology. Examples are the Let's close all nuclear Power (and replace it with coal power) guys, the whole deal about organic farming (I got against agroengineering, agroforestry and all that stuff. Those actually work) , and some subgroups of vegetarians.

That said, a lot of GM companies are still black hats, but that has to do with their business practices and genetic copyrights rather than the fact that they are doing GM.

That being Monsanto, and...

GM crops isn't  a crowded field.

[palsch]

I should hope you know that most environmentalists aren't against GM crops these days. That reputation comes from the early days of GM, where there was certainly a point in that we weren't ultra-certain of what consequences might result.

I don't know about that. Both in the UK and US there is major opposition from large environmental organisations. Generally it's the groups that have remained rabidly anti-nuclear in the face of climate change. The big ones are probably Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Also the Green Party, or at least elements of the British one as of last year.

There has also been a recent resurgence in opposition to GMO which is a little worrying.