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Researchers Reverse Evolution Of Fruit Fly - In Real Time

Jan 11, 2009
In his book, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould speculated about an experiment of ‘replaying life’s tape’, wherein one would go back in time, let...

Titan 80-300 Cubed: The World's Most Advanced Microscope Goes To School

Oct 20, 2008
The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet—capable of unprecedented resolution—has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University. Introduced last year, it is called the...

Polite Societies Foster Violent Drinking Cultures, Says Anthropologist

Oct 1, 2008
Countries with strict social rules and behavioral etiquette may foster unruly drinking cultures and characteristic bad behavior, according to a new report on alcohol and violence released today by International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP). The...

Carbon Disclosure Project, Make Goals And Laws Clear, But Let's Also Have A McCain-Obama Debate About It

Sep 22, 2008
Global corporations view climate change as a driver of risk and opportunity but they'd like to know what works, what doesn't work and what the regulations will be before they make strategic investment decisions, according to this year's findings from...

Less Sex, Less Food, Longer Life

Jul 23, 2008
A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva. The findings in Nature represent the first ti...

The Problem Of Machine Intelligence

Nov 10, 2009
There have been many discussions relating to transhumanism and augmenting intelligence as well as just intelligence itself.  However, at the heart of many of these discussions the subject of Artificial Intalligence (AI) emerges.  This raises the...

When Even Lego Metaphors Fail. . .

Nov 10, 2009
I imagine that, if you locked xkcd creator Randall Munroe and myself in a room with a bar, we would buy each other too many beers and then develop the definitive baseball euphemism lexicon*, firmly establishing the definition of the nebulous "third...

Cariboo Mountain Geology

Nov 10, 2009
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Ten Laws Of Geekdom*

Nov 10, 2009
*Laws that should be formally on the books but sadly are only known in the collective Geek conscious. Matt Blum of Wired writes, "There are many, many laws having nothing to do with government, that are useful to know because they tell you something...

The Hunt For Red Martians, 1924

Nov 10, 2009
While today we're pretty darned certain there is no intelligent life on Mars, in the early 20th century, it was still an open question.  So-- about four decades before the publically known Project Ozma search-- the Navy stepped up to find...


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