Category: Science seen
Contents (most recent first)
"Never bet against bacteria" (26-Jun-08)
http://kk.org/ct2/2008/06/the-unclear-origins-of-oil.php(There's more…)Post-migratory brain misorientation disease (05-May-08)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature06834(There's more…)The taste of the brain (22-Apr-08)
http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/the-sugar-made-me-do-it/(There's more…)Tune in, turn on, publish or perish (14-Apr-08)
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/005132.html(There's more…)Forgive me Father for I have genetically modified (11-Mar-08)
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/03/genetic_modification_joins_lus.html(There's more…)Genes with silly names should stay (12-Feb-08)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-1-401(There's more…)Six million dollar cockroach (22-Jan-08)
http://en.rian.ru/science/20080117/97179313.html(There's more…)Public domain day (01-Jan-08)
http://everybodyslibraries.com/2008/01/01/public-domain-day-gifts/(There's more…)Dynamic URI-based chart-drawing API from Google (07-Dec-07)
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/(There's more…)Toddlers leap the uncanny valley (07-Nov-07)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707769104(There's more…)Future predictions (#1 in a series) (31-Oct-07)
I went away and saw a vision of the future (Dubai) and another (Malaysia). Having aggregated and synthesized the data, I'd say the future will look like this:
- It will be more humid
- It will be quite poorly planned/zoned
- The battle against entropy will continue, using both ingenuity and brute force
- People will be mostly happy
- Demography will do funny things e.g. blow up in our face, undermine our assumptions
- Historical grudges will not be solved (that's an easy prediction to make, right?)
- There will be more laptops (another easy one), even as phones improve (less easy)
- Indian cuisine will prevail over all others
- It is not clear which technology will prevail for the opening of soft drink cans
Honestly, do you think any of those predictions will be wrong?
What's your formula/equation/algorithm? asks Brockman (20-Oct-07)
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge226.html(There's more…)Two laptops per child, for two weeks (25-Sep-07)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6994957.stm(There's more…)A frontier too far? (21-Sep-07)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html(There's more…)The EEA and the mall (29-Jun-07)
Let's tabulate:
- Humans in the Pleistocene
- Move around in small groups
- Bewildered by the surrounding environment but forced to interact with it for survival
- Have only a small and stereotypical culture
- Subject to capricious changes in circumstances
- Humans in the mall
- Move around in small groups
- Eminently understandable environment with opt-in/opt-out immediately available if gratification delayed even for a moment
- Have only a small and stereotypical culture
- Ensured of constancy of circumstances
(Mall here is shorthand for allegedly shallow, market-led, TV-and-shopping existence.)
There is a prevailing body of myth that claims humans like to be outdoors, that we prefer lofty goals than just getting by, that we can only achieve totality or satisfy unarticulated spiritual needs by oneness with nature and such. This myth was manufactured in the 60s and honed in the 90s, where most of us caught a bad case of it.
In truth, we like our environments changeless, our horizons proximate, and our superficial needs met in superficial ways. So it sounds to me as though, from caves to malls, we've evolved ourselves into this corner and we're getting what we, at a genetic level, want. Those that truly live the myth i.e. reject the mall are the outliers, the species-fringe -- the denizens of the mall are the norms. Who will outlast the other? Who has the upper hand?
Dawkins says we should beware the tyranny of the selfish replicators. He meant genes but a friend of mine pointed out to me once that it also applies to the social underclass, who tend to replicate a lot and, we must note, shop in malls…
The meek shall inherit the mall. What are you going to do then?
Carbon footprints have hair (28-May-07)
It's not just the size of your carbon footprint - it's the shape.(There's more…)Garlic, cross, stake, Lotka-Volterra equation… (13-Apr-07)
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608059(There's more…)Less than human (21-Mar-07)
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/03/19/you_dont_miss_those_8000_genes.php(There's more…)Stand on Hawai'i (09-Mar-07)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=09E07C6F-E7F2-99DF-3AD087F0DA77D94F(There's more…)Eminent scientists deploy cheesegraters (22-Nov-06)
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/science-forecasts(There's more…)Lunatic fringe misidentified (10-Nov-06)
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061106/full/061106-2.html(There's more…)Gone and eventually forgotten (14-Oct-06)
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100(There's more…)Planets eight pluto (25-Aug-06)
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060821/full/060821-11.html(There's more…)Ug him make pretty fings too (12-Aug-06)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0605128103(There's more…)Man's best immortal friend (10-Aug-06)
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/08/09/an_old_dog_lives_on_inside_new.php(There's more…)Wikipedia's 100 Most-Linked-To Pages (09-Aug-06)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Mostlinked&limit=100&offset=0(There's more…)Wining about global warming (19-Jul-06)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0603230103(There's more…)The social singularity (12-Jul-06)
The End Times don't come every day. Vernor Vinge could be correct with his technological singularity notion, I guess, and a runaway feed-forward cascade of indistinguishable-from-magic technology bubbling out of existing trends may soon take us to undreamt-of places. Maybe. Alternatively, or alternately, or simultaneously, Arthur C. Clarke, he of the indistinguishable-from-magic insight, might be right: as per Childhoods' End, a geek rapture may uplift or upload us to some higher level of being, hitherto undreamt-of. But--drama aside--perhaps there are mundane, boring, ho-hum, comparatively insignificant little mindblowing revolutions to be had in the interim.
Is One Laptop Per Child one of these?
No really. Okay, there are practicalities and logistics and such, but toss those carelessly aside for a moment and think about it. Exercise some boundless optimism. Hand out a billion laptops, then sit back. You can hold your breath if you want - it won't take long. Pow! Like Childhoods' End, the kids will not wait for the rest of us. Like the technological singularity, a great change will sneak up on us and then, in a rushing moment, blast to shards the story each of us tells herself about What Happens Next, and pelt off into the future in a whirl of dust and disappointment. When one billion kids can mesh a network based on a consensus agreement, one that permits an empowering consensual hallucination, one that bypasses so many of the current channels, gates, controls and oversights - well, let's just say it could get messy. When one billion kids have a chance to see beyond the horizon, beyond their watershed, just plain beyond - what happens then? To them? To us? Everybody without a connection, or without the wherewithall to keep up (meaning, most of us) will suddenly find themselves not only on the outside of something big but with a serious Outside Context Problem.
We borrow the present from our kids; there's a good chance they'll take it back before we're certain we've done with it. Then they'll flee for the future, where singularities may come in multiples.
Nature's list of top science blogs (06-Jul-06)
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060703/multimedia/50_science_blogs.html(There's more…)Scholar boxing (29-Jun-06)
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=google+scholar+searchbox(There's more…)Irony sharp as a harpoon (23-Jun-06)
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/whale-terrorists.html(There's more…)A wise man knows his genes (21-Jun-06)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/06/18/no.stomachs.ap/index.html(There's more…)Apes lack pockets, not foresight (26-May-06)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1125456(There's more…)More non-Mendelian stuff in Nature, mice this time (25-May-06)
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060522/full/060522-13.html(There's more…)I believe you will think this cartoon is funny (03-May-06)
http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sid=40347(There's more…)Humans say recursion found in birds (27-Apr-06)
http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature04675(There's more…)The amino acid dice don't roll where they may (07-Apr-06)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123539(There's more…)Most tentative scientific abstract ever (05-Apr-06)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0600803103(There's more…)Criminal Sweat Investigations (04-Apr-06)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8938(There's more…)Careful with that prayer, Eugene (31-Mar-06)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2005.05.028(There's more…)Once we were one; now we are legion (29-Mar-06)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0601265103(There's more…)How to do science in the coming centuries (20-Mar-06)
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly06/kelly06_index.html(There's more…)Real virtual life (17-Mar-06)
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060313/full/060313-4.html(There's more…)How bad could a Vesuvius eruption be? (15-Mar-06)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0508697103(There's more…)Isn't alien blood supposed to be green? (13-Mar-06)
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601022(There's more…)Holes in black hole theory back (10-Mar-06)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925423.600(There's more…)Scientific progress goes "Fizz!" (09-Mar-06)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/06/soured.onsoda.ap/index.html(There's more…)The price is right regardless of the postage (28-Feb-06)
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol6/iss2/art3/(There's more…)Genographic project output (23-Feb-06)
http://justinblanton.com/2006/02/the-genographic-project(There's more…)100 intellectuals (warning: may contain scientists) (22-Feb-06)
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1582272,00.html(There's more…)We can't see the walls closing in around us (22-Feb-06)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.019(There's more…)Scientific rigour for all (16-Feb-06)
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/01/whos_more_hones.htm(There's more…)Old jokes (24-Jan-06)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/QRB/journal/issues/v80n4/800401/brief/800401.abstract.html(There's more…)100 instances of ignorance, again (04-Jan-06)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm(There's more…)Gotta sue 'em all! (21-Dec-05)
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/20/nintendo_threatens_l.html(There's more…)Have dog and gourd, will travel (14-Dec-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0509279102(There's more…)Lemons in Nature? (08-Dec-05)
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/snakeoil_resear.html(There's more…)It take a day to get good at something (07-Dec-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0506072102(There's more…)Games dolphins play (29-Nov-05)
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051107_dolphinfrm.htm(There's more…)An internal water cycle (23-Nov-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0506531102(There's more…)The trick is to keep thinking (23-Nov-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0508817102(There's more…)$100 laptop for the world's poor (or just for the world) (22-Nov-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8338(There's more…)Most geeky novels (18-Nov-05)
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/top_20_geek_novels_the_results.html(There's more…)Battle for the hearts and minds of scientists, writ small (18-Nov-05)
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051114/full/051114-4.html#20051114(There's more…)A fish called Wanda not as good as a lemur called Cleese (17-Nov-05)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_en_ce/people_john_cleese(There's more…)An explanation for the "genome cache"? (21-Oct-05)
http://www.cell.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS0092867405008706(There's more…)Stop with the "hobbit" thing! (12-Oct-05)
http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2005/10/11/hobbits_again.php(There's more…)The scientist-therapist gap (11-Oct-05)
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i25/25b00701.htm(There's more…)Moon number 158 (04-Oct-05)
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/moon/index.html(There's more…)Gorilla hands not just for chest beating (04-Oct-05)
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030385(There's more…)Google got an ant named after them (01-Oct-05)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/ants-unearthed-with-google-earth.html(There's more…)If you're going to be a scientist, there are three things you have to believe (20-Sep-05)
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1716.html(There's more…)Pulled back from the precipice of lucidity (13-Sep-05)
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27594(There's more…)MS of the Xena paper (12-Sep-05)
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/%7Embrown/papers/ps/xena.pdf(There's more…)Animal experiments that were worth it (12-Sep-05)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1559757,00.html(There's more…)The irony of BSE (05-Sep-05)
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673605672182/abstract(There's more…)Hard plastic (02-Sep-05)
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/09/science_and_evolution_is_not_a_matter_of_faith.shtml(There's more…)The sun revolves around America (31-Aug-05)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?pagewanted=all(There's more…)"You haven't explained everything yet," is not a competing hypothesis (31-Aug-05)
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge166.html#ss(There's more…)We smell in stereo (30-Aug-05)
http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627305005349(There's more…)One tenth of a petabasepair (25-Aug-05)
http://www.embl.org/aboutus/news/press/2005/press22aug05.html(There's more…)Bar at centre of the Milky Way (17-Aug-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7854(There's more…)Fly through twice (16-Aug-05)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F12%2Fwnugg12.xml(There's more…)A planet by any other name (12-Aug-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7811(There's more…)Capuchins aren't fooled by mirrors (10-Aug-05)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503935102(There's more…)Photosynthesis causes climate devastation (09-Aug-05)
http://intl.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0504878102v1(There's more…)Voyage to the second dimension (27-Jul-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0502848102(There's more…)Get acquainted with 99942 Apophis (27-Jul-05)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis(There's more…)Dawkins says universe "too queer" to grasp (13-Jul-05)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4676751.stm(There's more…)Seabed energy researcher releases lots of gas (08-Jul-05)
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/newsevents/14382.html(There's more…)Pentagon scientist claims innovation peaked around 1900 (05-Jul-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7616(There's more…)"If God is the designer, and we are created in his image, does that mean he has back problems too?" (05-Jul-05)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-barash27jun27,0,5530701.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions(There's more…)Pieces of brain prevent peace of mind (24-Jun-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0504136102(There's more…)Stem cells from the prepuce (24-Jun-05)
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/scd.2005.14.337(There's more…)"An overwhelming majority of plant geneticists, biochemists and molecular biologists have endorsed the use and safety of [GM] crops" (23-Jun-05)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7042/full/435561c.html(There's more…)Acne causes angst but is good for your heart (20-Jun-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7541(There's more…)13-lined ground squirrel, megabat, microbat, tree shrew, bushbaby, hyrax, pangolin, sloth, Northern white-cheeked gibbon, M and S strains of Anopheles gambiae, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, and the zebra finch (14-Jun-05)
http://www.genome.gov/15014493(There's more…)Bryson to save UK science (08-Jun-05)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4614825.stm(There's more…)1000 years of managerial roles and persecution select for greater intelligence (04-Jun-05)
http://harpend.dsl.xmission.com/Documents/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf(There's more…)New York Times publishes while PNAS pauses (03-Jun-05)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/opinion/30wein.html(There's more…)Bad kids won't all grow up to be psychopaths (01-Jun-05)
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00393.x(There's more…)Seeing red and five other colours (01-Jun-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0503281102(There's more…)Drop and give me fifty ideas! (30-May-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18625011.900(There's more…)Poppa was a rolling gene complex (24-May-05)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.02.006(There's more…)Denaissance Man (24-May-05)
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2005/05/23/the_denaissance_starts_here.html(There's more…)Three's company, four's a pidgin (18-May-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0406608102(There's more…)Headline: New, delicious species discovered (18-May-05)
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4120&n=1(There's more…)New York Times pokes fun at scientific theory (18-May-05)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/science/17orga.html?(There's more…)Crib cribs (17-May-05)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/psci/2005/00000016/00000004/art00008(There's more…)PNAS complete run (16-May-05)
http://pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=2&action=archive(There's more…)Einstein famous, dead, and occasionally out of copyright (13-May-05)
http://www.physics2005.org/(There's more…)Baby David might or might not be Baby Jessica for a reason (13-May-05)
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/images/spelke.slides/pages/spelke_Page_24.htm(There's more…)Assumptions of linear progress proven wrong again (04-May-05)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.12.005(There's more…)Straight on till morning (02-May-05)
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-12-05-p2.html(There's more…)New Scientist interrogates UK politicians (01-May-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7327(There's more…)"If you could teach the world just one thing…" (29-Apr-05)
http://www.spiked-online.com/sections/science/sciencesurvey/(There's more…)One billion acres of GM (28-Apr-05)
http://www.truthabouttrade.org/article.asp?id=3745(There's more…)Biodiversity fashionable every 62 million years (27-Apr-05)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03339(There's more…)It takes two nerds (22-Apr-05)
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/baron-cohen05/baron-cohen05_index.html(There's more…)Oil's not well and won't end well (22-Apr-05)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1464050,00.html(There's more…)Gene therapy for haemophilia (20-Apr-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0409249102(There's more…)A Million Random Digits (19-Apr-05)
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1418/index.html(There's more…)SETI should be STI (18-Apr-05)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/opinion/10davies.html(There's more…)What about ennui? (18-Apr-05)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1458536,00.html(There's more…)Slime-mold beetle political nomenclature (14-Apr-05)
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Stories/April05/slime-mold.Bush.Cheney.ssl.html(There's more…)Randomly generated scientific paper accepted at conference (14-Apr-05)
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/(There's more…)Marburg outbreak in Angola (12-Apr-05)
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050404/full/050404-12.html(There's more…)Emerging Plant Biotechnologies: New Bugs For Old (06-Apr-05)
http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2005/news05.apr.html#apr0501(There's more…)Stephen Hawking's poor career choice (01-Apr-05)
http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503200(There's more…)"Could dandruff be altering the world�s climate?" (01-Apr-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7217(There's more…)"Snail mating is a slow, languorous process, but it also involves some heavy weaponry" (01-Apr-05)
http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2005/03/30/love_darts_in_the_backyard.php(There's more…)An evolutionist admires Skinner the behaviourist (30-Mar-05)
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=rus8zx389vmlru6y5azc2lehaybc71(There's more…)The histone code is a simple code (29-Mar-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0500136102(There's more…)Article on Robert Trivers (29-Mar-05)
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/03/27/the_evolutionary_revolutionary?pg=full(There's more…)The postulated genome-wide sequence cache (27-Mar-05)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03380(There's more…)Surprisingly complex behaviors "hard-wired" in primates (23-Mar-05)
http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_hard_wired.htm(There's more…)New York blows, Craig Venter sucks (09-Mar-05)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7112(There's more…)Diary pages survived shuttle Columbia burnup (01-Mar-05)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7034817/(There's more…)Serendipitous discovery of Wolbachia genomes in multiple Drosophila species (01-Mar-05)
http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/3/R23(There's more…)Condensed version of On The Origin Of Species (28-Feb-05)
http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/darwin.htm(There's more…)Life on Mars paper was a rumour (21-Feb-05)
http://doctorzhibloggo.typepad.com/archives/2005/02/evidence_of_lif.html(There's more…)Life on Mars currently being peer-reviewed (18-Feb-05)
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html(There's more…)Alternative splicing makes humans more complicated than mice (14-Feb-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0409742102(There's more…)The Origin Of Chemical Elements pdf (11-Feb-05)
http://fangio.magnet.fsu.edu/~vlad/pr100/100yrs/html/chap/fs2_07009.htm(There's more…)Homemade triffids, not labmade (11-Feb-05)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/columbia.html(There's more…)More on pigeon navigation via artificial landmarks (11-Feb-05)
http://scienceweek.com/2005/sc050211-1.htm(There's more…)Five-object variation on Rock Paper Scissors (10-Feb-05)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%2C_Paper%2C_Scissors#Five_object_variations(There's more…)Science meets Poetry in The Onion (10-Feb-05)
http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4106&o=2(There's more…)Language from scratch (07-Feb-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0405448102(There's more…)Asteroid near miss will be visible (06-Feb-05)
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news149.html(There's more…)Flores man incapable of cutting cheese triangles (04-Feb-05)
http://abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1291341.htm(There's more…)Dyson talks a load of spheres (03-Feb-05)
http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/magaphone.asp(There's more…)Not much wisdom in crowds of stockbrokers (02-Feb-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0409157102(There's more…)Wikipedia current events in sci-tech (30-Jan-05)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_science_and_technology_events(There's more…)Turin shround radiocarbon dates questioned (27-Jan-05)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2004.09.029(There's more…)The brain knows the speed of sound (27-Jan-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407034102(There's more…)Molecular imaging technique named after ogre (27-Jan-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0409487102(There's more…)Textbook disclaimer stickers (21-Jan-05)
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/(There's more…)Ready to solve the protein structure prediction problem (19-Jan-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407152101(There's more…)Eyes presume landscapes (19-Jan-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0409311102(There's more…)One virus, three kingdoms (19-Jan-05)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0406668102(There's more…)Source of the "Oh-my-God" particle found (16-Jan-05)
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050110/full/050110-18.html(There's more…)Debate about Homo floresiensis (16-Jan-05)
http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20044/news/2004_4_01.pdf(There's more…)Da Vinci's lab discovered (13-Jan-05)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=599962(There's more…)No more lurking in burrows waiting for meteors (13-Jan-05)
http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038%2Fnature03102(There's more…)100 things we didn't know this time last year (11-Jan-05)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4134329.stm(There's more…)Two types of people, jigsaw-wise (01-Jan-05)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4132393.stm(There's more…)Alleged compelling evidence of interspecies telepathy (31-Dec-04)
http://improbable.typepad.com/improbable_research_whats/2004/12/test_a_parrot.html(There's more…)Capuchins use tools well, journals publish papers slowly (31-Dec-04)
http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/041214fragzy.shtml(There's more…)A present from the Universe (30-Dec-04)
http://avoyagetoarcturus.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_avoyagetoarcturus_archive.html#110398231241684440(There's more…)Nature's "2004 Wrap-up" (26-Dec-04)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041129/full/nm1204-1273.html(There's more…)Adaptive immune system gradualistic, not a macromutation (24-Dec-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0408480102(There's more…)The tree falling in the forest is not even there (24-Dec-04)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041220/full/041220-12.html(There's more…)Does a tree-like phylogeny only exist at the tips in the prokaryotes? (23-Dec-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2864(There's more…)Ten Technologies In Five Years (23-Dec-04)
http://www.the-scientist.com/2004/12/6/29/1(There's more…)Professor Anthony Trewavas (23-Dec-04)
http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/plant/pages/staff_pages/T_Trewavas_staffpage.htm(There's more…)A bit of a think problem (20-Dec-04)
http://www.idiolect.org.uk/notes/archives/cat_quotes.html#000272(There's more…)Science's annual "Areas To Watch Next Year" (18-Dec-04)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5704/2014(There's more…)Science's annual "Breakthroughs Of The Year" (18-Dec-04)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4098453.stm(There's more…)An alternative to ATP (17-Dec-04)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041213/full/041213-11.html(There's more…)"any particular brain can evolve into any particular mind, depending on the experiences encountered" (16-Dec-04)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1683a(There's more…)Neuroscientist asks Dalai Lama, "What if neuroscience comes up with information that directly contradicts Buddhist philosophy?" (14-Dec-04)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041206/full/432670a.html(There's more…)Highish-resolution dynamic parallel measurement of brain activity (14-Dec-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3524-04.2004(There's more…)Spooked by magnetic fields (14-Dec-04)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041206/full/041206-10.html(There's more…)"we find that the collapse time of the universe is t_c > 42 (24) gigayears from today at 68% (95%) confidence" (11-Dec-04)
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409264(There's more…)PNAS Early Edition papers and articles (11-Dec-04)
http://intl.pnas.org/papbyrecent.shtml(There's more…)Tool use by wild capuchins (11-Dec-04)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4083517.stm(There's more…)Mole in JCS (11-Dec-04)
http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/search?sendit=Search&author1=Mole&journalcode=joces(There's more…)Deep thinking by rhesus macaques (11-Dec-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0408077101(There's more…)Moving the cursor by thinking (10-Dec-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0403504101(There's more…)Triffids of the Sierra Nevada (08-Dec-04)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4076525.stm(There's more…)"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" (07-Dec-04)
http://people.delphiforums.com/lordorman/light.htm(There's more…)Best evidence yet of aqueous Mars (06-Dec-04)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2004-280(There's more…)Another solar system barged past ours (05-Dec-04)
http://www.utah.edu/unews/releases/04/dec/starencounter.html(There's more…)"Our modern skulls house a stone age mind" (05-Dec-04)
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/index.html(There's more…)Less roots on the viral tree of life? (05-Dec-04)
http://www.molecule.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS1097276504007099(There's more…)Cold fusion still unconvincing, Einstein still dead, etc. (04-Dec-04)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041129/full/041129-11.html(There's more…)Jakobshavn Isbrae, the world's fastest glacier, is speeding up (04-Dec-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03130(There's more…)A beautiful but diabolical mind (03-Dec-04)
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/shannonbio.html(There's more…)"Genetic networks with canalyzing Boolean rules are always stable" (01-Dec-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407783101(There's more…)Regulatory conservation between mice and humans (01-Dec-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407670101(There's more…)Bacterial species differ more by style than content (29-Nov-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0406038101(There's more…)Air is heavier than we thought (28-Nov-04)
http://physics.iop.org/IOP/Press/PR5504.html(There's more…)Worst jobs in science (24-Nov-04)
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,20967,713471,00.html(There's more…)Darwin's _On The Origin Of Species_ is 145 years old today! (23-Nov-04)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1228(There's more…)A hard life for a parasite's parasite (23-Nov-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03036(There's more…)Genetically modified pronouns (21-Nov-04)
http://www.regard.ac.uk/research_findings/RES-000-22-0132/report.pdf(There's more…)Fascinating Gallup article on the demographics of Darwinism in America (21-Nov-04)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=14107(There's more…)Bring out yer genomes! (18-Nov-04)
http://mednews.stanford.edu/releases/2004/November/fish.htm(There's more…)Astronauts publish paper in scientific journal while still in space (14-Nov-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2342041680(There's more…)"The journalistic norm of balance has no corollary in the world of science" (11-Nov-04)
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/6/mooney-science.asp(There's more…)The iceberg may have sunk the Titanic but it wasn't the root cause (11-Nov-04)
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/abstract_80510.htm(There's more…)The Arctic is warming up faster than the rest of us and this is bad news (09-Nov-04)
http://amap.no/workdocs/index.cfm?dirsub=%2FACIA%2Foverview(There's more…)Fifty thousand images from Mars (08-Nov-04)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2004-266(There's more…)Even among non-humans, individuals act to the detriment of their species (07-Nov-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1102417(There's more…)Convergent evolution of behaviour in an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian web-building spiders (07-Nov-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407395101(There's more…)Using Gamma Ray Bursts as standard candles (07-Nov-04)
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405602(There's more…)Second BMA report on biotechnology, weapons and humanity (04-Nov-04)
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/BioWeaponsII(There's more…)A virus that is too big to be called non-living (04-Nov-04)
http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/en/pres/compress/mimivirus.htm(There's more…)Free stuff from Nature about Homo floresiensis (04-Nov-04)
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html(There's more…)Duckbilled platypuses determine gender via a hugely complex sex chromosome system (04-Nov-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405702101(There's more…)De novo synthesis of 32kb of DNA (02-Nov-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0406911101(There's more…)Endogenous formation of morphine in human cells (02-Nov-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405430101(There's more…)Toddlers that copy mum faithfully grow up to be good (28-Oct-04)
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/toddler_response.pdf(There's more…)Cassini-Huygens' approach to Titan (27-Oct-04)
http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=537(There's more…)Nearby rainforests do more than provide tourist dollars and putative cancer cures (12-Sep-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405147101(There's more…)Elephant, shrew, hydra, hedgehog, guinea pig, tenrec, armadillo, rabbit, cat, slimemold, a ciliate, a choanoflagellate, a placozoan, snail, roundworm, another roundworm, lamprey (05-Aug-04)
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/12511858(There's more…)Yawning is contagious in chimps too (21-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2004.0224(There's more…)Doubt cast on the association between advanced toolmaking and modern humans (20-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02690(There's more…)Foetal genotyping by taking a sample of maternal venous blood (15-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403962101(There's more…)Don't worry about biodiversity, there is a startling amount of it on your shower curtain (15-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.7.4187-4192.2004(There's more…)Language is a pattern and baby babbling is a crucial part of decoding and practicing (15-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2003.10.007(There's more…)Moths demonstrate neuronal plasticity and associative learning (15-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0401902101(There's more…)Stephen Hawking to admit error; black holes do release information (14-Jul-04)
http://www.dcu.ie/~nolanb/gr17_plenary.htm#hawking(There's more…)Lampreys have a completely different but just as good immune system as us (14-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02740(There's more…)Inhale this virus and be cured of cocaine addition, allegedly (13-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403795101(There's more…)Humans evolved bigger brains for better depth perception (07-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0401955101(There's more…)The nitrogen cycle is tighter than you think (01-Jul-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02635(There's more…)Marine cryptozoology is just a tale of blind men and a whale (30-Jun-04)
http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/abstract/206/3/125(There's more…)Metabolic network analysis of the causes and evolution of enzyme dispensability in yeast (30-Jun-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02636(There's more…)Human culture has done so well because we tell our kids off (24-Jun-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0400731101(There's more…)Cells are nothing at all like bags of free-floating stuff (24-Jun-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0402606101(There's more…)First steps towards agriculture 23000 years ago? (24-Jun-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0402362101(There's more…)One Picture Is Worth at Least a Million Neurons (17-Jun-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2004.05.045(There's more…)Enhanced partner preference in a promiscuous species by manipulating the expression of a single gene (16-Jun-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02539(There's more…)Poison ants make poison frogs poisonous (15-Jun-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0402365101(There's more…)Caves are dug by microbes (09-Jun-04)
http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1130%2FG20288.1(There's more…)In planta engineering of viral RNA replicons: Efficient assembly by recombination of DNA modules delivered by Agrobacterium (08-Jun-04)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0400149101(There's more…)Harvard finds a sort of "steric hindrance" for gene regulation (03-Jun-04)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040603070607.htm(There's more…)Programmable cells: Interfacing natural and engineered gene networks (01-Jun-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0402940101(There's more…)Physiologically mediated self/non-self discrimination in roots (31-May-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0306604101(There's more…)Archaeans responsible for human disease? (27-May-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0308766101(There's more…)Hierarchical reductionism in molecular biology (26-May-04)
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=218699(There's more…)Bacteria manage their own evolvability within a quasispecies (26-May-04)
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=263856(There's more…)Biodiversity isn't just in rainforests (26-May-04)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040525063445.htm(There's more…)Quadruplet (not triplet) genetic code (18-May-04)
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