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Twitter Links Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes
An excellent example of distributed cognition. The hope that swarms of gamers can help to solve difficult biological problems has been given another boost…

March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments
Twitter Links The Virus Planet
"There are 10 billion trillion, trillion viruses inhabiting Earth... more stars than are in the Universe"

March 9 2012, 4:36am | Comments
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November 27 2011, 4:16am | Comments
Link Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept
Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they…

June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments
Link The New Virology
Largely unseen by the world, two dangerous germs homed in on their targets in the spring and early summer of 2009. One was made by man to infect computers. The…

March 3 2011, 8:45am | Comments
Link Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell
The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium…

January 24 2011, 3:54am | Comments
Link A world without mosquitoes
So what would happen if there were none? Would anyone or anything miss them? Nature put this question to scientists who explore aspects of mosquito biology and ecology, and unearthed…

July 27 2010, 8:17am | Comments

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