Happy Saturday. Science links:
Gene and protein annotation: it's worse than you thought
The Platypus Is Cute but Far From Harmless
Slime Mold Beats Humans at Perfecting Traffic Networks
Most Britons descended from male farmers who left Iraq and Syria 10,000 years ago (and were seduced by the local hunter-gatherer women)
Scientists Find a Shared Gene in Dogs With Compulsive Behavior
Other:
Massachusetts revolts against the little kings and queens
Security theater jumps yet another shark
Will the Base Abandon Hope?
Sigh
Are You into the Easy Way out?
- Log in to post comments
More like this
In the annals of they had to do "research"?, Researchers identify 'male warrior effect'":
In experiments with 300 university men and women students, Van Vugt and his team gave the volunteers small sums of money which they could either keep or invest in a common fund that would be doubled and…
There are many fallacies that undergird alternative medicine, which evolved into "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM), and for which the preferred term among its advocates is now "integrative medicine," meant to imply the "best of both worlds." If I had to pick one fallacy that rules…
When the adaptive acceleration story hit the wires I started wondering if population size wasn't the only parameter that might have changed in the past 10,000 years. To make it short, perhaps a small-world network model is more much accurate now with the rise of complex societies (the complexity…
Somewhere in my mind, I like to try and construct a timeline of all of human history. Yes, there's the obvious stuff, like the discovery of fire, the learning of what foods will and won't kill you, the domestication of the dog, and all the similar things that led us to become successful hunter/…