Archive for March, 2013
You Have 46 Chromosomes. This Pond Creature Has 15,600 – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science
March 24, 2013non-coding elements removed from “active” genome !
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/06/you-have-46-chromsomes-this-pond-creature-has-15600/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20130210ph-chromopond&utm_campaign=Content
E-cigarettes: Vape ’em if you got ’em | The Economist
March 24, 2013of toasters and twitters
March 24, 2013http://qz.com/65565/future-of-twitter-is-robots-tweeting-at-each-other/ QT:”
Twitter is full of weird stuff none of us ever notice because it mostly just looks like spam or nonsense. But if you look closely, as some have, you’ll find spies using Twitter to communicate with each other in code, environmental sensors broadcasting useful data, a toaster with 2,000 followers and an artificially intelligent chat-bot that debates deniers of climate change.
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Evolution versus “intelligen… Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf. 2006 – PubMed – NCBI
March 24, 2013http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17369648
Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf. 2006:299-310.
Evolution versus “intelligent design”: comparing the topology of protein-protein interaction networks to the Internet.
Yang Q, Siganos G, Faloutsos M, Lonardi S.
Paperless
March 23, 2013this is very funny and perhaps a good reason not to go completely paperless
Social science: Dr Seldon, I presume | The Economist
March 23, 2013how psychohistory (from the Foundation Trilogy) is finally coming into its own!
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i
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