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Synthetic biology is not engineering, it's a programming, written 1 week ago, Image via Wikipedia Topic of this post has been sitting in my head for the very long time, but I couldn’t come up with a good enough opening. I’ve found it recently in the comments thread under the post on systems bio...

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Re-Reading Tolkien at Tor, written 4 hours ago, A while back, Kate started doing a chapter-by-chapter re-read of The Lord of the Rings on her LiveJournal. Life intervened, though, and the project fell by the wayside. She's re-started it, this time as part of the Tor media empire. So far, there'...

Collecting Toadstools, written 1 week ago, A week ago I took part in a field trip in the Lance Rosier Unit of the Big Thicket Preserve conducted by the Big Thicket Association (BTA) of which I’m a member. This field trip is part of an ongoing project known as the “All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory...

Too much commitment may be unhealthy for relationships, written 1 hour ago, Romantic relationships establish special bonds between partners. Oftentimes, passionate rapport leads to permanent partnerships, and ultimately, the start of families.

This is my newest blog that's picking up steam. This one is all about science and a little in between. but when you come to this blog don't expect a whole bunch of rambling about evolution, its all about the fun of science and my commentary on certain new

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Climate Change News and closing in on 100 episodes, written 3 days ago, This week on the podcast, we take a look at the latest climate change news, and start reflecting on the science year that was, as we close in on 100 podcast episodes (this is episode 92). The news items we discuss this week are...

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Scott's Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar - December 2nd, written 16 hours ago, The 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar Countdown continues. With 23 days remaining until Christmas, today's cover is Polly Pigtails #23. I don't know much about Polly Pigtails, other than it was published in the mid-...

Sullivan Catches Lopez, written 9 hours ago, Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review Online seems to be rather fact-challenged. Andrew Sullivan catches a glaring error in this Townhall column. She writes: This initiative protecting traditional marriage won by the same margin as Barack Obama d...

Google Earth Miniature San Francisco: Tilt Shift, written 1 day ago, We have been quite taken with fake tilt shift imagery recently - its a unique way to visualise the city in model form. Google Earth of course makes the perfect candidate for fake tilt shift images and videos, Inoue_k3D's example o...

City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 26-27, 2008, written 6 days ago, Looks like you can go to City Hall Council Chamber (?) or attend the webcast. They have a gigantic speakers list, including Ken Cochrane, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Government of Canada and Peter Cowan, Director of Ent...

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Sterling Crashes - The effects on gap years and hedging, written 22 hours ago, photo: Peter I received an email from a friend yesterday. She is currently taking a year out and taking on some voluntary work to promote peace in the middle east. It’s such a fantastic thing to do in my opinion and I h...

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Endeavour to land at Edwards Air Force Base, written 2 days ago, With the forecasts predicting unfavorable weather at Florida's Kennedy Space Center proving true today and little hope of better conditions tomorrow, NASA has decided to divert space shuttle Endeavour's landing to the backup site at Ed...

How Childhood Leukemia Fights Back, written 3 hours ago, What makes a cancer come back? No one really knows, but for a long time researchers have thought that certain DNA changes in cancer cells may protect them from chemotherapy and allow them to stage a resurgence. Examining one of the most studie...