Bill Gates was at TED and got his rant on.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates took on climate change during his TED speech Friday. He told those gathered at the conference that “What we’re going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system… So we need energy miracles.”
Bill, your company has a [...]
Robin Cook may be trying to drum up business for a book he wrote in 1995, but he can sure scare the hell out of me this year.
But that is not the case with another flu subspecies that originally appeared in 2006 and which is now slowly spreading from Southeast Asia, particularly in its normal [...]
Junk DNA is the stuff in our genome that doesn’t seem to do much.
From Slashdot:
A group of scientists led by Nitya Venkataraman began with the knowledge that Old World monkeys have a built-in immunity to HIV: a protein that can prevent HIV from entering cell walls and starting an infection. They examined the human genome [...]
Slate has a good article about Utah and the Mormon church.
What’s the matter with Utah? The most Republican state in the nation is drifting to the left. In the last few months, Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican and a practicing Mormon, has come out in favor of civil unions for gays and repeated his support [...]
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I was dreaming and I heard a voice say clearly to me, “Turn on the light”. I awoke with a start. I tried to lie still and figure out where I was.
Bed. Which bed? I tried to map the shadows I could see to the dream I had been having. My bed.
As I pulled myself [...]
When I first saw it, I thought it was chivalry. That is funny.
Chirality relates to the way molecules are organized:
The technique the team has developed for detecting life elsewhere in the universe will not spot aliens directly. Rather, it could allow spaceborne instruments to see a telltale sign that life may have influenced a landscape: [...]
ADHD is in the news again. I have never understood the benefit of giving kids diagnosed with ADHD drugs like Ritalin, which is like speed, but some doctors and parents are okay with it. But a new study has been done and the researchers who did the work are split on the results. [...]
Nova had a show about rats; it is available on line. It was on the Tivo and I watched it with JMan and Bookzilla before going to school. There is a place in northeast India, where the bamboo blooms and seeds on a 48 year cycle. A rat plague accompanies the cycle and, after the [...]
Via PZ Myers, to mark the birthday of Charles Darwin, the Daily Show has put together a collection of video clips from their show about evolution. Check it out.
The Daily Show’s Best Evolution Moments