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• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

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  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

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  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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  Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

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  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

  February 6 2012, 1:21am | Comments

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  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

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  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every…

  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory conditions…

  December 13 2011, 12:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

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  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

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  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments

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  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

  September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

  August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

  August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

• Bookmark On Discovering Life

  There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

  July 27 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Regulations proposed for animal–human chimaeras

  The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimaeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. Last year, scientists used new stem-cell technologies to create a mouse with a…

  July 22 2011, 1:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History

  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

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• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

  February 6 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every…

  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory conditions…

  December 13 2011, 12:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

  September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

  August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago. Montgomery…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

  August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

• Bookmark On Discovering Life

  There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

  July 27 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Regulations proposed for animal–human chimaeras

  The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimaeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. Last year, scientists used new stem-cell technologies to create a mouse with a…

  July 22 2011, 1:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History

  On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught…

  July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

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