A Conversation With Eric Mazur: Using the ‘Beauties of Physics’ to Conquer Science Illit
Eric Mazur, a professor at Harvard, wants his students to understand concepts, not regurgitate facts. (Read on Source)
Slimming Down Future Spacesuits
Skintight spacesuits may give future astronauts a more flexible - not to mention stylish - way to explore the moon and Mars. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are edging closer to a spaceworthy astronaut garment that replaces the bulky traits of current, gas-pressurized versions with flexibility and mobility. Dubbed ... (Read on Source)
Ancient Golden Mask Unearthed in Bulgaria
July 15: Bulgarian archeologist Georgi Kitov holds an ancient Thracian gold mask near the village of Topolchane, east of the capital, Sofia. SOFIA, Bulgaria — A 2,400-year-old golden mask that once belonged to a Thracian king was unearthed in a timber-lined tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Monday. (Read on Source)
Kyoto Protocol
Your location: Home > Kyoto Protocol (Read on Source)
Endeavour Astronauts Arrive at NASA Spaceport for Rehearsal
Educator astronaut Barbara Morgan and her crewmates arrived in Florida for a launch dress rehearsal. (Read on Source)
NASA Finalizes Ares I Upper Stage Engine Contract
WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a $1.2 billion contract with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to develop the J-2X engine the U.S. space agency needs to power the upper stages of its Ares I crew launch vehicle and Ares V heavy-lift rocket. (Read on Source)
Chimps on treadmill offer human evolution insight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chimpanzees scampering on a treadmill have provided support for the notion that ancient human ancestors began walking on two legs because it used less energy than quadrupedal knuckle-walking, scientists said. (Read on Source)
Planets Splat Into Stars Like Bugs on Windshields
Analysis of churning red giants find surface iron content correlates to whether star has planets or not, implying that planets have fallen into star and been absorbed. (Read on Source)
Energy use 'drove human walking'
The human bipedal gait is about four times more efficient than chimps getting around on either two or four legs, the researchers found. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they say this may explain why we walk bipedally, and some of our anatomical features. (Read on Source)
Islamic Creationist and a Book Sent Round the World
An Islamic creationist is mailing a lavishly illustrated, 800-page attack on evolutionary theory to scientists around the world. (Read on Source)
Back From the Dead
July 23, 2007 issue - Bill Bondar knows exactly where he died: on the sidewalk outside his house in a retirement community in southern New Jersey. It was 10:30 on the night of May 23, a Wednesday, and Bondar was 61?a retired computer programmer with a cherry red Gibson bass guitar, an instrument he had first picked up around the same time as ... (Read on Source)
Patinkin Quits ?Criminal Minds?
Mandy Patinkin has walked out on his role from the critically praised CBS hit drama “Criminal Minds.” Some are citing the reason for the actor’s decision to quit the series as “creative differences.” This is not the first time Mandy has left while his show was still on top of the ratings heap. Twelve [...] (Read on Source)
Weather around the U.S.A.
Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. (Read on Source)
Careers in biotechnology, part II bioinformatics
I had an enlightening experience recently, after I wrote some bioinformatics activities, under contract, for a community college. At the end of the project, the person at the college asked me if the activities were anything like the things that a " bioinformatics technician " would do on the job. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments ... (Read on Source)
Vets: Pet Injuries Peak During Full Moons
Cats, dogs seem to go to emergency rooms 25 percent more frequently during full moons than other points in lunar cycle; no explanation found. (Read on Source)
REVIEW: KOP by Warren Hammond
MY RATING : KOP is Warren Hammond's first novel, and if its any indication, his writing career ought to be a good one. Juno is a police officer in the Koba Office of Police (KOP), and like most other cops, he's dirty and on the take. In the past, Juno was the enforcer for current Chief of Police Paul Chang, helping Paul rise through the ranks by ... (Read on Source)
SaskPower eyes clean-coal facility
Saskatchewan's provincially owned utility is set to deliver a reality check for the notion that the world can increasingly rely on coal-fired electricity, while aggressively battling climate change. (Read on Source)
Waxing on disaster
DISASTERS: RECIPES AND REMEDIES A Social Research Conference at The New School for Social Research November 1 and 2, 2007 www.newschool.edu/disasters This conference is convened at a time at which we are seriously threatened by an increasing number of disasters of all kinds: those conventionally considered ?natural,? like hurricanes and ... (Read on Source)
Market of ideas
In this essay, I would like to meditate about the analogies between the markets and the value of ideas in pure science. The musings will be somewhat similar to the text about the depth of ideas but the goal will be more quantitative because we will really try to determine something like a monetary value of ideas, including those without any ... (Read on Source)
Philips 2Q Profit Up Sharply
(AP) -- Royal Philips Electronics NV, a maker of medical and lighting equipment, said Monday net profit for the second quarter rose on the sale of its stake in a Taiwanese semiconductor company, but that exchange rates hurt sales. (Read on Source)
Kepler Team Cuts Costs, Avoids Cancellation
Threatened with cancellation, the team building NASA's Kepler planet-hunting telescope found a way get the spacecraft to the launch pad by early 2009 without a new infusion of cash. (Read on Source)
Progress Seen on Internet Radio Talks
(AP) -- Internet radio broadcasters and the music industry appeared to be moving closer Monday to resolving a dispute over a new system mandating higher royalty fees for streaming music online. (Read on Source)
Quake revives fears over Japan's nuclear industry
TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake-triggered leak and fire at the world's biggest nuclear plant have renewed safety fears in energy-hungry Japan, which relies on nuclear technology for about a third of its electricity. (Read on Source)
Neuer Raumanzug macht mobil für Mars-Mission
Schwere, unförmige Raumanzüge bieten zwar Sicherheit, aber kaum Bewegungsfreiheit. US-amerikanische Forscher wollen das ändern: Sie bauen einen Raumanzug, der schützt, aber nicht belastet. (Read on Source)
Mehr Alternativautos durch Design und Vorbilder
Saubere Autos zu produzieren ist die eine Sache, sie zu kaufen eine andere. Zwei MIT-Forscher haben nachgedacht, wie man Menschen motivieren könnte, schneller auf saubere Autos umzusteigen. (Read on Source)
Bird flu in poultry: it's not over even when the Fat Lady sings
In the world of opera a diva is a prima donna, often problematic in behavior, but in the world of bird flu, DIVA stands for differentiating infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA). The bird flu DIVA relates to a problematic behavior of vaccinating poultry: after you've artificially induced them to produce antibodies against bird flu, you are ... (Read on Source)
High Blood Pressure Medication Strategy Proves Effective In Hispanic Women
Hispanic women with hypertension and coronary artery disease respond better to drug regimens aimed at controlling high blood pressure than non-Hispanic white women, University of Florida researchers report. Researchers studied 22,500 patients and tracked a subgroup of 5,017 Hispanic and 4,710 non-Hispanic white women who were randomly assigned to ... (Read on Source)
Astronomy Picture of the Day for Tuesday,
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. (Read on Source)
Surgical Technique Helps To Reanimate Paralyzed Faces
A surgical technique known as temporalis tendon transfer, in conjunction with intense physical therapy before and after surgery, may help reanimate the features of those with facial paralysis, according to a report in the July/August issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. (Read on Source)
New Ferret Model May Measure Pandemic Potential Of H5N1 Influenza Viruses In Humans
Researchers from the U.S. and abroad used a contact ferret model to evaluate transmissibility of influenza viruses in humans and found that some strains currently circulating throughout the world may transmit better than others in mammals. (Read on Source)
VoIP Provider SunRocket Suddenly Closes
(AP) -- Internet phone service provider SunRocket, which had as many as 200,000 customers nationwide, has ceased operations without warning. (Read on Source)
Want a mumps vaccine with that beer?
Infectious disease experts are considering some creative and unusual vaccination strategies as they try to prevent more cases of the mumps in Nova Scotia. (Read on Source)
Thomas Friedman on carbon offsets
While I'm in Canada I'm catching up with posts that should have gone out last week. I'm able to perform these menial tasks even after consuming huge amounts of Alberta beef. Speaking of beef ... There is no such thing as a free lunch (Live Bad, Go Green):... I raise... (Read on Source)
New orchid smells like 'sweaty feet'
AP - A foul-smelling orchid that flourishes only in Yosemite National Park and was first collected in 1923 is a distinct species, scientists announced Monday after re-evaluating the flower. (Read on Source)
Russian Flag to be set up at 4 300 meters Below Sea Level
Russian oceanologists are going to set up Russian flag on the bottom of the Artic Ocean. The flag will be fixed at the depth of 4 300 meters near Artic pole, claims RIA News. (Read on Source)
It's too early to speculate
About the full meaning of this, from the Denver Post's coverage of today's shooting at the Colorado state capitol: A group on a tour of the Capitol saw a man in a tuxedo kneeling in the hallway praying. A few minutes later, they heard someone yell, "You're going to pay for this, you (expletive)." (Read on Source)
Speeding kills bears
On the Tioga Road near Porcupine Flat. (Read on Source)
Super-Speicher lässt Computer schneller starten
Das Warten auf das Hochfahren des Computers könnte in Zukunft entfallen. Forscher der Universität Würzburg haben einen Speicherchip entwickelt, der die Zeit, bis der PC einsatzbereit ist, um ein Vielfaches verkürzt. (Read on Source)
Researchers Predict 'Dead Zone' Growth
(AP) -- Researchers predict that the recurring oxygen-depleted "dead zone" off the Louisiana coast will grow this summer to 8,543 square miles - its largest in at least 22 years. (Read on Source)
Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
000 ABNT20 KNHC 170905 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 530 AM EDT TUE JUL 17 2007 FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO... TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS. $$ FORECASTER FRANKLIN (Read on Source)
Bill McCoy and Mike Culver visit Nature
Last Friday we had the pleasure of welcoming Bill McCoy, General Manager of e-Publishing Business at Adobe Systems, to speak about their next-generation digital publishing technologies. A while back, we were also lucky enough to play host to Mike Culver, Web Services Evangelist at Amazon. I was travelling so much after Mike came to see us that I ... (Read on Source)
Unconscious beauty primes positive emotions
We can correctly classify faces as attractive or unattractive, even when they appear so quickly that we're not conscious of seeing them. This is according to a study that also found that subliminal attractive faces also prime positive emotions. Profs Ingrid Olson and Christy Marshuetz flashed up photos of faces previously rated as either ... (Read on Source)
Let Me Tell You About My Doctor
Wow, Dinah brought up a great topic . She said: "So how come it's okay for patients to blog about their psychiatrists, without disguise, without permission, without hesitation?" I just had to address this because this one-sidedness (if that's a word) is something I see in the correctional world. Here's how it happens: Inmate X gets released and ... (Read on Source)
Mexican volcano is test bed for trees on Mars
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Scientists are using the pine-forested slopes of a Mexican volcano as a test bed to see if trees could grow on a heated-up Mars, part of a vision of making the chilly and barren red planet habitable for humans one day. (Read on Source)
The Fires of Heaven
In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times best seller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world.... (Read on Source)
Pirate anniversary
It was 380 years ago today that "turkish pirates" raided the southwest of Iceland and took 242 slaves into captivity in Algiers... Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
Forschungsquote: Österreich über OECD-Schnitt
Die österreichische Forschungsquote, also der Anteil der Ausgaben für Forschung und Entwicklung (F&E) am Bruttoinlandsprodukt, lag 2005 mit 2,42 Prozent erstmals über dem OECD-Schnitt von 2,25 Prozent. (Read on Source)
TB-infected flyer prepares for lung surgery
The U.S. tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health scare in May and subsequent lawsuits by travellers who flew with him was scheduled for surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of his right lung. (Read on Source)
Abortion pill could become daily contraceptive
The "abortion pill" RU-486 could become a new form of daily contraceptive. The pill usually contains oestrogen and progesterone, but oestrogen increases the risk of breast cancer. Progesterone-only pills often cause irregular bleeding and spotting. (Read on Source)
UCI stages mock shooting to test emergency response
Click "continue reading" for the daily science quiz. SCARY SCENARIO UC Irvine tested its ability to respond to deadly violence last Wednesday by staging a drill in which police pretended to shoot and kill a man who attacked students in a theater and in campus housing. "The drill was inspired by the shootings at Virginia Tech," said Cathy Lawhon, ... (Read on Source)
07-16-2007: Corona Above Veszprem, Hungary
On an early April day in Veszprem, Hungary, iridescent clouds were visible throughout the morning. I took a walk to a small hill side looking to photograph spring flowers. However, my attention was captured by the breath-taking corona shown above in the arms of an old locust tree. Coronas are produced from diffraction of sunlight (or moonlight) ... (Read on Source)
07-17-2007: Barsinghausen Corona
The photo above showing an unusually bright and strong solar corona was taken from Barsinghausen, Germany. Notice that the multiple rings composing the aureole are clearly visible. See also yesterday's Earth Science Picture of the Day. Photo snapped on May 18, 2007 during the late morning. (Read on Source)
Gehässigkeit ist Schimpansen fremd
Anders als Menschen sind Schimpansen nicht gehässig. Sie rächen sich zwar, wenn sie ungerecht behandelt wurden. Aber sie strafen keinen anderen Artgenossen für von außen zugefügtes Unrecht - selbst dann nicht, wenn dieser von dem Unrecht profitiert. (Read on Source)
British Explorer Becomes First Person to Swim at North Pole
Lewis Gordon Pugh took to the freezing waters on Sunday to highlight the devastating impact of climate change on the natural world. (Read on Source)
The Official Grand Rounds, Volume 3, Number 43
Having used Grand Rounds as a springboard into the world of medical blogging when I first started reading medblogs, it is truly an honour to be hosting Grand Rounds. (Read on Source)
Speaker for the Dead
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared... (Read on Source)
I Am Legend and Other Stories
In I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and those unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night.... (Read on Source)
RNA Interference Decision-Making Processes On A Molecular Level
"How does RNAi work?" Researchers across the world have been trying to answer this question for a number of years. Science has now come closer to finding the answer thanks to a research group headed by Prof. Renée Schroeder (MFPL) and Dr. Javier Martinez (IMBA) based at the Campus Vienna Biocenter. [click link for full article] (Read on Source)
Earth's Northernmost iPhone
Editor's note: I am currently on Devon Island, in Nunavut, Canada less than a thousand miles from the North Pole as part of the Haughton-Mars Project's activities. It would seem that I also have in my possession Earth's northernmost iPhone. Check out the video. Click on Image to play. (Read on Source)
Case Studies for "Green" Corporate Marketers
The Business Development Institute and PR Newswire are putting on a half-day conference in New York on Tuesday, July 24th that will feature "green communications" case studies presented by corporate executives from Ford, HSBC, Interface, National Geographic, and the U.S. EPA. If you can't be there in person, sign up to view a free webcast of the ... (Read on Source)
Healthline Get’s $21 Million and Some New Friends
Healthline has dipped it’s hand into a $21 million series B financing led by GE/NBC Universal?s Peacock Equity Fund, a joint venture between GE Commercial Finance?s Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal. This is on top of their $14 million round last January. The round also includes smaller investments ... (Read on Source)
Intel launches Extreme mobile dual-core processor
Intel Corporation rolled out its first Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile dual-core processor Monday, marking the first time the Extreme nomenclature has made its way over to Intel's mobile processors. The Intel Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile dual ... (Read on Source)
Vision molecules change shape inside nanotubes
High-resolution images of shape changes in retinal ? a molecule important for vision ? may help us to understand how we see, report researchers in Japan. Using a transmission electron microscope (TEM), Kazu Suenaga and colleagues at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) imaged a single retinal molecule by ... (Read on Source)
Directing Digg
Kevin Rose, the founder and chief architect of Digg.com, started the social bookmarking site as a kind of experiment. At the end of the 1990s, Rose dropped out of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where he had been studying computer science, in order to pursue dot-com wealth in San Francisco. He didn't find fortune, despite working at a ... (Read on Source)
U.S.-born panda finds double happiness in China
Reuters - A U.S.-born giant panda has given birth to twin cubs in a research centre in southwest China, state media reported on Tuesday, its third pair of twins so far. (Read on Source)
The Original Alien 3 Trailer: Aliens on Earth
After writing my recent Give Alien 3 A Chance post — which I expect will result in more than a few people arching their eyebrow contemptuously in my direction and calling me an idiot — I decided to hit YouTube, check out some old clips of Alien 3 and just satisfy myself that I was not quite the buffoon that the vast majority of Alien ... (Read on Source)
Sony Gives Online Outlet for New Talent
Sony Pictures Entertainment is set to relaunch its online video site, once known as Grouper and now dubbed “Crackel.” The goal of the site is to look for up-and-coming actors, directors and producers to post clips that could eventually be turned into films or TV shows, according to Reuters. At one time Grouper was a pioneer in [...] (Read on Source)
The Big Ask
This is the month for celebrities to show their stuff in support of climate change. Many are advocating political action to pressure governments to act. First we had Live Earth and now it's the Big Ask, an on-line petition. Started by Friends of the Earth, the campaign hopes to force the government to cut CO2 emissions by three per cent each year. (Read on Source)
LaBeouf This Generation?s Indy Jones?
Rumors in the Hollywood tabloids and on the Net are rampant that “Transformers” star Shia LaBeouf has signed an exclusive contract with Paramount that allows the studio to option the rising young star for up to three, possibly four, sequels to the Indiana Jones legacy. Even though Harrison Ford is said to be doing most of [...] (Read on Source)
Treatment and Diagnosis Trends in Children with Depression
Two studies were recently published that pretty clearly indicate that since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory about antidepressant medications being prescribed to children in March 2004, prescriptions of antidepressants to children declined. We reported on the negative effect of prescribing behavior to depressed ... (Read on Source)
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Many of us will agree that Buckminster Fuller was way ahead of the crowd with his thinking on sustainability and eco-friendly designs. In his time he was considered an eccentric inventor with impractical ideas, now we think he's a genius! Not all of us can be ahead of our time, but we can at least try to be in our time. Here is a chance for ... (Read on Source)
Serves the Leopards Right!
Some of you may remember this post about leopards killing australopithecines. I am happy to report that one species of primate is getting revenge : Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
FDA approves first molecular-based lab test to detect metastatic breast cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first molecular-based laboratory test for detecting whether breast cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes. The GeneSearch BLN Assay, which is manufactured by Veridex, a Johns ... (Read on Source)
Today in Science
1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. (Read on Source)
SWELL RIDGES
left image by Jim Phillips, and right from Clementine Lunar domes have many forms, including the rough textured and relatively steep-sided Arago examples and the classical hemisphere with a pit at its summit. There are also other types including one variant I call a swell because it is often lower and wider than typical domes. Jim [...] (Read on Source)
Historic moon launch 38 years ago
Burst: The start of Apollo 11's historic adventure: Images courtesy NASA via Wikimedia Commons. On this date (July 16) 38 years ago, a Saturn V rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning the most extraordinary and historic adventure in human history: the first manned mission to land on the moon. The Apollo 11 crew included ... (Read on Source)
Intercropping Discovered To Decrease Need For Inorganic Phosphorus Fertilizer
"The practice of inter-cropping ? which Chinese farmers have practiced for thousands of years ? involves growing two or more crops in alternate rows in the same place and at same time, and can greatly increase grain yields. Li Long, Zhang Fusuo and colleagues at China Agricultural University looked at below-ground biological interactions ... (Read on Source)
Microsoft's Copy Protection Hacked Again
The FairUse4M program, whose third version was just published, can crack Microsoft's digital rights management system, allowing users to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies. Microsoft says it is aware of the hack. (Read on Source)
Google cookies will 'auto delete'
Google says its cookies will auto-delete after two years in an effort to "improve privacy" for users. (Read on Source)
Experts seek to save rare turtle
Conservationists and scientists are meeting in Malaysia to hatch a plan to save one of the world's most critically endangered sea creatures. Experts say there are fewer than 5,000 leatherback turtles left, but with swift action they believe that their decline can be reversed. (Read on Source)
A thought on nodalpoint
When I first started perusing nodalpoint I wasn’t a frequent visitor. Those were the days when the site was very slow, but that was all in the past. The site is slick, fast, and one that I visit often. The other day I responded to Neil’s post about nodalpoint being the [...] (Read on Source)
The Inoculated Mind
Episode 69 of the Mindcast is up! Download it here . Show topics: KDRT threatened by another station, the good and the bad of San Francisco banning plastic grocery bags, new biodegradable plastics sink in seawater, batteries that run on sugar, new type of twin called semi-identical, and the more perfect you look - the less evolvable your immune ... (Read on Source)
Manipulating Cell Signaling For Regeneration
As reported by Forbes , researchers continue to make progress in manipulating cell signaling to spur regeneration - a path that can be distinct from stem cell or gene therapy . This is a comparatively simple example of the type, and at an early stage in development, but still progress: "Normally, adult human hearts do not regenerate because the ... (Read on Source)
Free Nitrogen Fertilizer for Tropical Agriculture?
Nitrogen can be a problem- especially for farmers. Although our atmosphere is full of nitrogen gas (N 2 ), the bond between the two nitrogen atoms is so strong that the molecule is virtually inert. But life needs nitrogen to grow - in fact all life requires nitrogen to be pulled apart and react. Which is why we throw excesses of fertilizers ( ... (Read on Source)
Today's prices at Shetland
Www.fishupdate.com is published by Special Publications. Special Publications also publish FISHupdate magazine, Fish Farmer, the Fish Industry Yearbook, the Scottish Seafood Processors Federation Diary, the Fish Farmer Handbook and a range of wallplanners. (Read on Source)
Outspoken Icelandic fishing MP dies suddenly
EINAR Oddur Kristjánsson, a highly respected Icelandic MP and one of the country's most outspoken critics against the current fishing quota system, has died suddenly from a suspected heart attack. (Read on Source)
Bustling Shanghai to turn suburb into wetlands
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's financial hub is planning to set aside 15 sq km (6 sq miles) of its suburbs as wetlands to improve the quality of its water, a major priority nationwide, state media said on Tuesday. (Read on Source)
Death of swollen-tongued whale probed
AP - The unusually swollen tongue of a dead humpback whale may indicate that it perished after colliding with a ship in the waters of southeast Alaska, scientists said Monday. (Read on Source)
The Canon by Natalie Angier
The Powers That Be at Seed were kind enough to send all the ScienceBlogs bloggers copies of the new book by Natalie Angier, The Canon , which is being pushed fairly hard by the publisher. I've been reading a lot more pop-science stuff recently, for self-interested reasons, and this was pretty attractive, so I carried it around for a while, ... (Read on Source)
Priorities and Practicalities
Anne C. on the practicalities and priorities of working towards healthy life extension technologies : "While the idea of saving lives in general is neither new nor remarkable, the idea of saving the lives of people 100, 110, 120, and even older is often considered to be radical at best. And while there are indeed various technical and practical ... (Read on Source)
Software enzymes for genetic programming
Andrew Arensburger presents a neat idea: use the metaphor of the lock-and-key hypothesis for enzymes to route data in genetic programming. Briefly, imagine that each function in the program is a biological structure sitting inside a cell. The structure has a number of binding sites where enzymes can bind to it. The structure is inactive [...] (Read on Source)
Look, Ma - No Hard Drive!
What happens when a computer runs on a solid state flash drive instead of a hard drive? There are definite advantages, says CBS News technology analyst Larry Magid. (Read on Source)
Chimps get angry but not spiteful, study finds
LONDON (Reuters) - An angry chimpanzee will take revenge but -- unlike a human -- it will not do so out of spite, according to a study published on Monday that offers insights into how people perceive what is fair. (Read on Source)
Can Diaphragm Prevent HIV in Women?
Not significantly, according to the result of a clinical trial that involved 5,045 women in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Used with a spermicide cream or jelly, the diaphragm is a shallow, dome shaped cup with a flexible rim that fits... Continue . (Read on Source)
Rob gets a second life
Speculations on astronomy, astrophysics, news I find interesting, theoretical issues, science and science policy. I will digress into computational physics, science fiction and general issues and basically whatever I feel like whenever. And, of course, cats. (Read on Source)
I?m all over the map!
I don’t know why I did this, but I typed my name into Google maps. Evidently, I’m everywhere but here. Where are you? (Read on Source)
Upgrading the Cephaloblog
Upgrading the Cephalopodcast blog to WordPress 2.2.1. Molting our old shell and pumping pixels into our digital skin to test out the new one. (Read on Source)
Principals gather to find new ways for future-oriented education
The 2007 Beijing International Principals Summit, sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, was held in Beijing on July 13th. The summit aimed to establish a platform for cooperation and exchange between foreign countries on ... (Read on Source)
Prestigious universities worldwide enroll new Chinese students
Many of the world's prestigious universities including Moscow State University, Hiroshima University, and Rowan University, all revealed at 2007 Beijing International Education Expo that, even without TOEFL and college entrance examination ... (Read on Source)
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