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by prat 17y ago
a google search got me another article "Genetic Mechanism In Mole Rats Can Be Targeted In Cancer Research" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315223845.ht... "Researchers have found that subterranean mole rats have developed
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by prat 17y ago
I am not sure of the source of this post (newscientist - they haven't mentioned any references) but I found a paper describing the new animal model using naked mole rat in the area of aging. The paper also talks about highly reduced inciden
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by prat 17y ago
Great guy. Gotta get his book "Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind"
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Naked mole rats never get cancer(newscientist.com)
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Details of Galactic Core Revealed(wired.com)
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by prat 17y ago
>A mere 50 grams of brown fat - well within the range of what some of us already have - could dissipate around 500 calories a day. Amazing.
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Fat that makes you thin (newscientist.com)
22 points by prat 17y ago|7 comments
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A Quick Guide to Intel’s Chips(wired.com)
1 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
Amazon has ready competition (Newegg) waiting for it in this area. But of-course newegg should be worried right now.
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by prat 17y ago
I think if the cable industry had a platform for developers to make apps (like on iphone/android etc), the cable software could have been much better. Look at time-warner/comcast/at&t interface - they all suck so much yet there is no on
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by prat 17y ago
>"intermeddling with goods belonging to someone else, or altering their condition, is a trespass to goods and will entitle the photographer to claim compensation without having to prove loss." The goods belonging to someone else (papara
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by prat 17y ago
Would also like to point out that culture driven entrepreneurship may be slightly of a different kind than we are acquainted with (startups/VCs/business plans etc.). These people may have for example started with being a taxi driver and gro
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by prat 17y ago
Another dimension that would have been interesting to consider in this study is immigrant entrepreneurship. http://www.forbes.com/2007/07/02/immigration-india-china-ent...
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by prat 17y ago
"Fear of the unknown" - very well said. In fact, there are some communities (sindhis, marwaris, parsis in India for example) where the culture of entrepreneurship has been handed down through generations. Like getting a job is a way of life
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by prat 17y ago
>Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business. the converse of this is more surprising. The ball-park null hypothesis is that only
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Bacteria make nanomagnets for navigating the oceans (newscientist.com)
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Genetics may determine age of first sexual experience(newscientist.com)
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Very interesting. This will most probably be a big boost to neuroscience.
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This is probably off-topic so deleting.
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Musharraf may have continued the trend of not caring about the purpose towards which the US aid was used. http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/14/stories/2009091458281100.htm How credible can the current Pakistan govt be? Even with a strong base
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by prat 17y ago
>they used their private knowledge of 10 people in the network who were gay but did not declare it on their Facebook page as a simple check. They found all 10 people were predicted to be gay by the program. Does the author care to give
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Venture capital is just the fuel that is required to keep an innovative enterprise running. Can oil industry take the credit for bringing industrial revolution? No. Education, innovation and hardwork of entrepreneurs is what keeps the VCs a
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by prat 17y ago
This argument is purely hypothetical - purely a thought experiment. Observation on the other hand is that provocative fashion statements being made by younger population more than the older, by blacks more than whites and finally (this is n
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by prat 17y ago
One of my previous roommates wouldn't wake up if there was a garbage truck inside the room. Nothing short of hitting him would do the trick. That's another idea for an alarm clock.
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by prat 17y ago
I would like to find out how this relates to how people laugh - I have an intuition, that a bigger bolder laugh correlates with high testosterone.
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High testosterone - smaller smiles(springerlink.com)
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I like the hypothesis but I was expecting a better description of the experimental design. What kind of patterns were found by people who read Kafka that were missed by others. Were the subjects tested before reading - it doesn't say so. I
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When Nature Is Freakier Than Sci-Fi(wired.com)
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by prat 17y ago
I agree about the child bearing age point..resistance to infectious disease may have been a better example. but re your last point, being prone to cancer could speed up evolution but at the same time could wipe out a sub population? infact-
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by prat 17y ago
That is possible, but the gene for blue eyes may also be linked with some other characteristic (biologically more relevant than attraction - like resistance to cancer) that might provide selective advantage. Linkage (close enough genes trav

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