Co-operative evolution of the immune system in humans?
Lee and Mazmanian, from Caltech, published this great review in Science on microbes in the gut and how different bacteria might have been involved in the evolut...
Author: charlie
links for 2011-01-13
Polaroid chairman pictures a bright future – The Boston Globe Analyst says, "“If someone is taking pictures at a party, those are almost immediately ...
More on bacteria and asthma
There’s a theory going around to explain the rise in asthma: we’re too clean. Research in the past 5 years has slowly been teasing out how this might be. Link (...
links for 2011-01-12
Social Cruft "I think we’re in the awkward, adolescent stage of Mass Media adoption of social media. Eventually more sane minds will prevail and attention ...
links for 2011-01-11
The Great Beyond: A load of carp "Fear the Asian carp. The fish jump several feet into the air. And they are big–up to 80 pounds. They'll slap a...
The new germ theory
Lizzie Buchen from Nature (link below) wrote a great article on some cool work folks are doing to change the way we view bacteria. For example, one group (like ...
links for 2011-01-10
To Fight Global Warming, Eat Bugs – ScienceNOW "Oonincx says that based on these results, insects do seem to put more of their food into growing plum...
links for 2011-01-09
Gulf Oil Spill Surprise: Methane Almost Gone "After months of speculation about what will happen to the Gulf oil spill, it turns out Mother Nature has roll...
links for 2011-01-07
Breweries of Vermont – Boston.com Thirsty. (tags: beer brewing vermont) Minimalist sneakers send runner limping away – The Boston Globe "'...
Monkey Business
Y’see, the monkeys, while smoking dope, set the stash on fire. They’d have gotten away with it had the crow not squawked. At first, the cops had accused the oct...