Redefining the concept of organism
A while back, I stumbled upon an article by Freeman Dyson on Carl Woese. Carl Woese is a long time scientist studying the origins of life and revolutionized thi...
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Funny story about common chord progressions
I read this funny article about how the ‘Sensitive Female Chord Progression’ has infiltrated so many songs. Link: Striking a chord – Boston Gl...
Help NPR plan their social media activities for the US presidential inauguration
Cool. Via Perry Hewitt. Link: NPR: Help NPR Plan Our Social Media Activities for the Inauguration: Help NPR Plan Our Social Media Activities for the Inauguratio...
At least I like some of the predictions RWW made for 2009
Yup. Yup. And yup. “One word son: filters.” 2009 Web Predictions – ReadWriteWeb. – Apps that do filtering, inferring and recommendation ...
Phylostratigraphy: Genetic Archeology
The Economist reports on some scientists that did some phylogenetic comparisons to see when certain genes arose. The scientists noticed that genes that appeared...
Presidential DNA tested for 2012 election?
Wow. This is a deep topic. While I think the discussions around DNA testing will start raging in the next 12 months, for sure there will be a question of whethe...
A wander through personal genomics
So, I’ve been talking about trends in biology that I think are significant (maybe because I’ve only started following biology again in the past year...
Potential of immune system reboot?
This is cool (below). Gene therapy combined with a re-install of the immune system. I am writing a story where the main character basically gets an immune syste...
Hm. Just noticed changes in Google Search
Hm. Just noticed changes in Google SearchOriginally uploaded by schickr When was the last time Google messed with their search page? Seems like in this past wee...
A good warning for writers, by Joel
Another great article by Joel Spolsky on, basically, literary laziness. Link: Anecdotes – Joel on Software This is not the way to move science forward. On...