September 30, 2007
Category: Medicine & Health
The word eugenics immediately makes one think of the racial hygiene programs of the Nazis and the experiments performed by Joseph Mengele on those held in the concentration camps, but far fewer are aware that there was a large...
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Category: Links
Below are a few quotes from this interview with theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, whose new book, A Many-colored Glass, is about to be published.On science, religion and Richard Dawkins: I think it's only a small fraction of people who think...
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Category: Iran
According to Pullitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the answer is yes....
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September 29, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
The former Larsen Air Force Base Complex 1A Titan ICBM Facility is listed on eBay.The facility comes complete with 16 underground buildings, including three 160 ft. tall missile silos, three 4-storey terminal equipment buildings, two antenna silos and a 100...
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Category: Links
Ed Boyden, leader of the Neuroengineering and Neuromedia Group at MIT, has just started a blog.I wrote about some of Boyden's work earlier this year. His is one of several groups that have used a light-sensitive bacterial protein called channelrhodopsin...
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Category: My photos
I took this photograph about three years ago, while on holiday in the Charente region of central France....
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Category: Microbiology
Over the past few days, there have been numerous scary news stories about a "brain-eating" amoeba that has killed six boys and young men this year (three in Florida, two in Texas and one in Arizona, the most recent case...
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September 28, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
At Wired, filmmaker Ridley Scott discusses the forthcoming remastered final cut of Blade Runner. This classic 1982 film depicts a dystopian futuristic society based on artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, and was recently voted as the best science fiction film...
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Category: Miscellaneous
Today's issue of Science contains the winners of the 2007 Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, and the journal's website has an online exhibit that features all of the winning images.The competition is co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, who...
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September 27, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
This image from Google Earth shows the swastika-shaped barracks at the Coronado Naval base near San Diego. Following objections from the Anti-Defamation League, the U.S. Navy has set aside $600,000 of its 2008 budget for landscaping and rooftop adjustments...
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