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• Radiation Levels on Mars Are Safe for Humans

  

  Curiosity is up (down?) there for three months now, and the space agency have some good news about radiation levels on the Red Planet. Read more

  The 17 November 2012 by   Ningauble
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• Titles in Evolution Overload

  

  There are simply too many interesting papers published in evolutionary biology to keep up with. Not even just reading the abstracts is feasible. Read more

  The 17 November 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• PharmaEconomics: Are We Duped Or Accomplices?

  Most americans probably own some big Pharma stock in their portfolio and/or retirement account. If sales increase, the stock value increases and the investors d... Read more

  The 17 November 2012 by   Fadi Bejjani
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• Discussing Instead of Defending

  

  A colleague of mine passed me in the hallway yesterday and causally asked, "Hey, Terie--when are you free to talk about standards-based grading? I'd love to kno... Read more

  The 17 November 2012 by   Mrsebiology
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• Top Ten Amazing Higgs Boson Facts

  

  image credit What's with the Higgs boson? After its initial still non-comfirmed discovery last July we haven't heard much about it. Read more

  The 15 November 2012 by   Gerard
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• Meet Liew Thow Lin, The Human Magnet

  

  If you’ve thought the Magneto from X-Men is awesome, wait till you meet Liew Thow Lin, a 78-year-old man from Malaysia who has a strange ability to attract and... Read more

  The 15 November 2012 by   Nrjperera
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• Knowing What I Know Now...

  

  I'm an evolutionary and computational biologist doing my second postdoc at Michigan State University. I have learned all sorts of thing in this short career, an... Read more

  The 14 November 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• Real Life Inception – Getting Closer to Social Dreaming

  

  Daniel Oldis, a software engineer and former teacher from Costa Mesa, Calif. uses little more than a special EEG headband called the Zeo, a red light bulb,... Read more

  The 13 November 2012 by   Ningauble
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• Could Pterosaurs Really Fly?

  

  image credit Just what evidence is there that these ancient animals really could take to the skies? Pterosaurs are a group of flying reptiles that are close... Read more

  The 13 November 2012 by   Gerard
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• Economic Growth and Reversible Computing

  In my previous post on the debt, a commenter made the important point that there are limits to economic growth. USCD physicist Tom Murphy has some thoughtful... Read more

  The 12 November 2012 by   Ccc1685
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