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Genetics of tamability. Can a zebra be domesticated?(newscientist.com)
4 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Throw a Proper Beer Pong Shot(howto.wired.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Microbial Fuel Cells: Potty of gold.(itotd.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|1 comments
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2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Telomeres, Telomerase and Cancer(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
Interesting. But shouldn't the title be something like "Those better at counting pulse are better at decision making". Right now it suggests that if you count before making a decision, it will be a good decision.
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by prat 17y ago
"[A]s Elizabeth Warren has argued, the idea that most Americans have been spending frivolously on consumer goods actually isn’t true. Instead, a hefty chunk of the increase in consumption in recent decades has been the result of higher hous
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by prat 17y ago
some maps in pictures. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8284655.stm
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People-powered maps(news.bbc.co.uk)
7 points by prat 17y ago|1 comments
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A sprinkling of nanotubes makes plants shoot up (newscientist.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Much ado about multipliers(economist.com)
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by prat 17y ago
Unless there is a contractual clause saying that google employees shall have no services provided to them from another company (and from the word "forces" I assume there is not), google should not have forced this employee. Insecurity is no
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Schrödinger's virus(economist.com)
4 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Huge dinosaur eggs found in India - video(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone.(newyorker.com)
42 points by prat 17y ago|57 comments
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The costs of a split brain(sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
6 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
Here is the publication http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v3/n10/abs/nphoton.200...
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'Time telescope' could boost fibre-optic communication (newscientist.com)
8 points by prat 17y ago|3 comments
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by prat 17y ago
There is a huge and growing R community. I am using randomForest (originally in Fortran) package as a classifier for my dataset.
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by prat 17y ago
Here is the detailed article http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/17523/
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An Artificial Heart That Doesn't Beat(straitstimes.com)
4 points by prat 17y ago|4 comments
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Immigrant species aren't all bad (newscientist.com)
1 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Orgone: The strange theories of Wilhelm Reich(itotd.com)
1 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
This is completely new!
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by prat 17y ago
That's true. I also think that differences are natural and so is the propensity for like-featured (race/religion etc) people to stick together. But again natural is not necessarily good. But as I write that, I wonder how the global culture
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by prat 17y ago
Original Nature article http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/full/nature0...
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Years of caste system in India restrict genetic variablity(newscientist.com)
3 points by prat 17y ago|3 comments
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by prat 17y ago
There is a problem with observing changes in a single protein and reversing them to see if it all fits again. Evolution doesn't necessarily changes single proteins - it changes whole pathways (that define a biological function) - that inclu
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For proteins, evolution can't go backwards (newscientist.com)
1 points by prat 17y ago|1 comments
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Gene for memory and IQ gives students low grades (newscientist.com)
15 points by prat 17y ago|9 comments
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by prat 17y ago
> Thus, my cell lines will undergo somewhere between 20 and 50 more cell divisions than a cell in a living mouse. Just curious - is cell division time period same for humans and mice?

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