Sunday, March 31, 2013

Puzzles

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With a hat tip to Texan99 , a fascinating report on the dynamics of breast milk . There are indications that when a mother senses that the ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Extremophile genetic engineering

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This story suggested they can make fuel from CO2 . A little closer look a the article suggests that the editor had a bit of THC in his CO2....
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Parody

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AVI found a song and the original it was a parody of and commented: It was written as a parody of an American tune, My Nellie's Blue E...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

Extinctions in the news

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Scientists trying to date the end-Triassic extinction (hat tip to SciTech ) say they've used uranium in zircon crystals from the rocks ...
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Drowning

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I swim like a brick, and therefore am not the ideal person to rescue somebody, but maybe someone else would find an explanation of the sympt...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Maybe a different profession? Or maybe not.

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Suppose you spent 30 years as missionary and found one convert. (And you weren't too happy with him ) I hadn't known that about Da...

Pressed on my attention...

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The phrase "weak as a kitten" doesn't seem perfectly apt. They are small and light, but can cling quite tenaciously to a swea...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Nixon again?

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Nixon has several villainies in his record: the wage-price freeze and his effort to be an emperor: above the law and able to command that ...
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Trying to focus on a constellation

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Naviaux et al have a paper out on "Antipurinergic Therapy Corrects the Autism-Like Features in the Poly(IC) Mouse Model" , so nat...

Trying to shape opinion or unable to comprehend?

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On a CBS site I found the following internet poll: Are you surprised it's actually illegal for 140,000 unmarried Virginia couples to b...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Francis

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Don't be just "a compassionate NGO". I like it. He's probably seen NGO's up close and knows the qualifier isn't ...

Correlation and causation and failure of imagination

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The title is invidious: "Half of Michigan Blacks Lose Local Power in Detroit Takeover" When emergency manager Kevyn Orr arrive...
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Karzai and Kremlinology

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When I heard the report that Karzai had claimed that the US was in league with the Taliban to try to stay longer, the first thing I thought ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Black smoke

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I gather that Obama did not win the first ballot. I think it would benefit most reporters to spend 6 months out of the first world with on...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Shortcuts to learning and forgetting?

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Returning the brain to "adolescent levels of plasticity" : learning languages like a child again? The authors studied Nogo Recep...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Tribes blue and green

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AVI has often written about tribes in America; how they show constellations of features that, though not necessarily related logically, sig...
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Saturday, March 02, 2013

Parsifal

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Youngest Son (he likes German) and I went to the Met simulcast of Parsifal this afternoon. The singing was excellent, the casting very good...
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Friday, March 01, 2013

Spinning black holes

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Things get pretty weird near a black hole, and even more so if it is spinning raidly . The problem is that things falling into a black hole...
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Nobel dreams

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The book Nobel Dreams by Gary Taubes is a good description of some of the characters in the UA1 experiment, most notably Carlo Rubbia. I w...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

We knew it had to work somehow

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but we still don't have an agreed-on model for why. The Cassini spacecraft has spotted MeV (million electron volt) electrons coming fr...
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