Quoting Randi speaks truth! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine:I?ve already mentioned that my man Randi has started a new video series, but I wanted to call your attention to this week?s in particular. Randi is on his game here, funny and fierce and
Quoting The Daily Galaxy (about Garrett Lisi's new radical Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything':The new theory reported recently in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
Quoting from GlobalPost:Venezuela's ghostly Robin HoodsAmid rising crime levels, citizens turn to the spirits of dead criminals for protection.By Charlie Devereux - GlobalPostPublished: January 7, 2009 21:42 ETUpdated: January 10, 2009 13:48 ET CARA
Self-Education Opportunity: If you want to take in some well organized, helpfully illustrated college level e-lectures on general science, astronomy, and cosmology visit the University of Oregon on the web, Professor James Schomberts pages! The bi
Quoting from the html version of Parallel Universes by Max Tegmark:Abstract: I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, which form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generi
Maybe we already link to this: "The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics."
"We are intimately related to fungi. Animals and fungi are part of a larger group called Opisthokonta, that is, we share a common ancestor. The same pathogens that attack fungi attack us - and some of the most promising and effective antibiotics come from fungi. Unlike plants (and like us) fungi inhale oxygen and produce carbon dioxide."
From the webpage: "One of the principle objectives of this research is to identify the cognitive capabilities that artificial agents must posses to enable, in a population of such agents, the emergence and evolution of a language that exhibits characteristic features identified in natural languages."
About Fluid-Construction Grammar and Constraint-based Semantics
From the article: "A fungus that lives inside trees in the Patagonian rain forest naturally makes a mix of hydrocarbons that bears a striking resemblance to diesel, biologists announced today. And the fungus can grow on cellulose, a major component of tree trunks, blades of grass and stalks that is the most abundant carbon-based plant material on Earth."
Go grow FUNGI!
Scientists have pinpointed a new class of gene mutations, which identify cases of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia that have a high risk of relapse and death. The finding suggests specific drugs
Researchers have uncovered a gene signature that may help predict clinical outcomes in certain types of breast cancer. They report that this gene signature -- which is associated with the transforming
Investigators have cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries -- what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine. The once-effective vaccine no longer prevents the bacterial lung infection that k
Amid renewed calls to consider reducing the legal drinking age, a new study finds that lower drinking ages increase unplanned pregnancies and pre-term births among young people.
One well-known and often deadly consequence of alcohol intoxication is impaired driving. Yet still today, it is difficult for even trained observers to fully identify "intoxication," given that so man
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 and were surprised to find that its outer parts have been stripped away by still unknown e
How can companies maximize truck capacity utilization and at the same time plan trips so that the burden on the environment and transport costs are reduced? A new software system couples cargo space u
Minor differences in the timing of cell proliferation can explain the large differences found in the eyes of two species -- owl monkeys and capuchin monkeys -- that evolved from a common ancestor.
Amid renewed calls to consider reducing the legal drinking age, a new study finds that lower drinking ages increase unplanned pregnancies and pre-term births among young people.
Scientists have pinpointed a new class of gene mutations, which identify cases of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia that have a high risk of relapse and death. The finding suggests specific drugs
Investigators have cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries -- what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine. The once-effective vaccine no longer prevents the bacterial lung infection that k
By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor.
A novel method of reconstructing missing data will shed new light on how and why our climate moved us on from ice ages to warmer periods as researchers will be able to calculate lost information and p
Researchers have uncovered a gene signature that may help predict clinical outcomes in certain types of breast cancer. They report that this gene signature -- which is associated with the transforming
One well-known and often deadly consequence of alcohol intoxication is impaired driving. Yet still today, it is difficult for even trained observers to fully identify "intoxication," given that so man
Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide byproduct from the production of cement,
Renal diseases shall be diagnosed earlier and treated more successfully in the future. Towards this aim, researchers have been working for years to create a three-dimensional virtual "Kidney Atlas."
First results from a large tissue survey in Britain of the agent that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are unable so far to establish that the prevalence is lower than that given by pre
Chrome has been used to add a protective coating and shiny luster to a wide range of metal products. But those features come at a heavy cost. The industrial process to create chrome is dangerous for w
First results from a large tissue survey in Britain of the agent that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are unable so far to establish that the prevalence is lower than that given by pre
Renal diseases shall be diagnosed earlier and treated more successfully in the future. Towards this aim, researchers have been working for years to create a three-dimensional virtual "Kidney Atlas."
Researchers in Spain have verified in controlled trials the efficiency of Erica andevalensis, or heather from Andévalo -- an endemic shrub from the province of Huelva and the Portuguese area of the Al
Yellow Springs, Ohio (USA) -- The Buddhist Studies Program of Antioch Education Abroad, or AEA, offers something unique to young people, organizers believe. The young participants not only study Buddh
During the height of the violence in Anbar province in 2006, a group of women began gathering in secret to practice their passion: handball. They played in abandoned schools despite threats from stric
Young people forming a club to support Barack Obama? Not so unusual this past fall, except at Liberty University, the evangelical Christian college in Southern Virginia. But the club was short-lived;