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Shorter Stephen C. Meyer
Category: Evolution
Brazen stupidity has been given a national soapbox.
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:09 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
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Evolving an Altruistic Robot
Category: Evolution
Jen finds a story about a Swiss research group which made a little ecology of robots with neural-network brains and let their wiring be crafted by natural selection. The most entertaining line of the pop-science writeup: At intervals, the robots...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 5:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Finding Your Inner Fish"
Category: Evolution
Renowned palaeontologist and author Neil Shubin will be speaking at the Harvard Museum of Natural History this Thursday evening. His talk is entitled "Finding Your Inner Fish". To celebrate the opening of EVOLUTION, the museum's new permanent exhibition, Shubin will...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:04 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today in Bookwormery: Remarkable Creatures and The Monty Hall Problem
Category: Bibliophilia
Yesterday evening, I came home to find a new piece of swag waiting for me: a brown paper parcel, lined with bubble wrap and containing Sean B. Carroll's Remarkable Creatures (2009). I flipped it open immediately after extracting it from...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:15 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Currently Reading
Category: arXiv
On the arXiv: Cong-Xin Qiu, "AdS/CFT Aspect of the Cosmological QCD Phase Transition" (arXiv:0812.2601). Published in Phys. Rev. D 79, 063505. Recently, deeper understanding of QCD emerges from the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence. New results include the properties of...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From Genomic Ghosts to Pervy Placoderms
Category: Carnivalia
It's nice to look back and remember we've had reasons to be happy. Dicyemid mesozoa Reproductive history writ in the genome Four bad arguments against evolution Basics: How can chromosome numbers change? Still just a lizard Who needs a vat...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Book News
Category: Bibliophilia
Ah, Darwin Day. A day for all of us to reflect on the accomplishments of those past, and find pleasure in learning of the progress which has been made since. A day to spend time with one's fellow-travellers on the...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:04 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Scientist Editorial Efficiently Dashes Hopes of Effective Communication
Category: Physics
The story so far: New Scientist magazine publishes an issue with a heartbreakingly sensationalist cover, and biology experts across the Blogohedron get up in arms. (See Sandwalk, Ecographica, Evolutionary Novelties and Genomicron for sample critiques of both cover and content.)...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:11 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Downside of Monomania
So, there's this video. It's apparently for a German electronics retailer whose motto is, roughly translated, "We hate expensive". Phil thought it looked really kewl. P-Zed agreed, but he said that it portrayed evolution as a linear progression along a...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ooh, Shiny
How about a blog carnival devoted to the union of evolution and medicine? Coming from the perspective of an individual who conducts medical research in evolutionary genetics, I have found that very few people outside of the world I work...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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