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July 31, 2006

FUV

Category: random

i humped your hummer - video blogs seen on Boing Boing strangely enough this offsets the incredibly obnoxious tofu hummer ad, almost...

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Silver lined snowflakes

Category: science

The issue of what to do with surplus frozen embryos has had high profile recently As has a recent french study on nature vs nurture in IQ development, in particular both the elasticity of IQ (is it sensitive to nurture...

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transcription error breakthrough

Category: science

Good catch by Cocktail Party Physics... Prof Blair Hedges applies genetic error clock techniques to date manuscripts and books!...

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A DNA metacode?

Category: science

About ten years ago I heard Fred Hoyle give a talk where he argues that "junk" DNA segments in fact must code for something else - his particular conjecture was that they coded for structural instructions (the example he...

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in which I create alife...

Category: science

Avida is Caltech's Digital Life Laboratory "auto-adaptive genetic system". I first came across it when I heard one of the DLab researchers (Adami, I think) give talk at Astrobio'04. Thought it was neat. And filed under "check it out...

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alife attacks

Category: science

WaPo ponders the possibilities of synthetic virii and genetically modified bacteria Yawn. been there, done that. Ok, they go in depthish as benefits a proper newspaper. Only slightly hysterical. Or we could just read some Greg Egan, Charlie Stross...

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July 30, 2006

LAT reviews ID

Category: science

Hotz at the LA Times Sunday Book Review looks at three books on evolution and intelligent design.. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution David Quammen Intelligent Thought...

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July 28, 2006

before I forget

Category: academia

So, I never answered the original question: Why do scientists work hard? Because we like it. Science is fun. You get caught up doing it, you can't help yourself. And there is so much to do....

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Astronomy Really Rocks

Category: astro

Bora wants some scientist rock stars Astronomy obliges!...

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iPod iChing - Thar She Blows

Category: random

It is a sticky friday and news are mixed... So, we ask the Mighty iPod One: will RS Ophiuchi in fact become a type Ia supernova?...

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