It is being produced for research purposes, so I guess you could ask at your local university lab where they sourced it. But caution is in order: the experiment described in the article was intended to find out about the toxicity of BF C60. Given that many of its chemically-similar relatives are indeed highly toxic, it's probably not a good idea to ingest this stuff yet. Six rats don't prove this substance is harmless.
Just curious, what are it's chemically similar relatives? I'm no chemist, but I thought the only thing remotely similar to c60 is graphite (which is harmless).
Carbon nanostructures have been shown to embed themselves as fibres into tissues, causing irritation and possibly cancer. So even if buckyballs are themselves harmless, likely carbon contaminants from the production process might not be. The balls also have a tendency to encase small molecules within them, and then delivering those encased substances directly into the human cell. So special care would have to be taken that the buckies are really "empty". That's all under the assumption the C60s are themselves non-toxic.
Some fullerene compound substances are toxic, but the C60 pure fullerene seems to be OK so far. Still, I wouldn't bet my life on it. If, for example, the C60 bucky would have a toxicity mechanism comparable to carbon nanotubes, that may be damage unlikely to show up during the limited lifetime of a rat - but it may well be much more relevant to humans who live 30 times as long!
This is one of the big problems with the supplement industry. The moment one small scale, unreplicated study shows potential for a compound people jump all over it regardless of the fact that it hasn't been shown to be safe in humans and the actual experiment hasn't been replicated.
Or that the mix of Earth and Theia in the moon is very non homogenous and they took most of their samples from the Earths part.
Actually, now that I think about it, wouldn't the result of the collision cause most of Earths contribution to be on the surface of the moon? If it was otherwise, then Earth would have had an ring much like Saturn at one point which then collected into whole to become the moon. That couldn't be true since we would have easily seen evidence on the moon. This theory of mine would mean that almost any samples taken from the moon would would be originally from Earth.
The giant impact theory predicts that Earth did, at one point, have a proto-ring of debris from the collision. That proto-ring slowly accreted into the moon.
I'm not sure what evidence we would expect to observe on the moon to indicate whether it accreted from a proto-ring or was captured intact - could you elaborate a little?
I loved BeOS back in the day. Such a beautiful and clean interface. I loved the philosophy behind it, and the disdain for 'cruft' as they called it. I still have the discs lying around somewhere...
BeOS's idealism also held it back. They didn't want any ported apps; everything was supposed to be written from scratch. So no Mozilla, no Java, etc. Unfortunately, the BeOS market was never large enough to justify writing large native apps, so they just never happened.
I really hated the small title bars. Never got used (admittedly, never tried that much) to them. We had a BeOS machine at the office in 1998, a beautiful IBM Aptiva S.
I'm a designer, but I can't code. I'm looking for someone who can code a template for a popular CMS. I'll do the design, and you can code. I'll provide more guidance if you contact me, with your skillset and experience. If you don't have much experience, don't worry! Just tell me what you're good at.
Estimated time required: a few weeks
Estimated cost: a few hundred dollars
Correlating the estimated time required and estimated cost, you are basically paying $100/week. I assume 5 days / week and 5 hours / day. That's $4/hour. Serious?
I don't live in the West, and I don't make as much money as you do. Is that wrong? There are plenty of people using HN that are not reflections of yourself.
I'm also not assuming that this will be worked on full-time. If it was, I wouldn't expect it to take more than about a week.
I don't think where you live matters. I live in country with a Per Capita 15 times lower than the USA but charge something per hour which is related only to my experience and knowledge.
I'll admit I was trying to be funny with that, but honestly if you are any good at what you do I (and probably others) would be interested in your work, and probably wouldn't care where you live.
In that respect even if you don't live in the west, I'm sure anyone you would want to work with you on a project charges more than $4/hr part time or not, regardless of where they live.
Of course they are, but you know very well that the word 'anti-semitism' refers solely to Jews.
If you can get everyone to switch over to 'Judeophobia', fine by me, but until then you'll have to accept that the meaning of words sometimes differs from their literal parts.