Monday, October 28, 2013

NIFting LIFE

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Recent news that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has surpassed a critical benchmark – obtaining more energy than provided in a fusion e...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Music to the inventors

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Research from Michigan State University shows a high positive correlation between involvement in arts and crafts in childhood (<14 years)...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Option value of organs

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A recent study in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology argues that assigning a benefit, say $10,000, to a kidney donor...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Lonely baby

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Recent discovery of a lonely planet without a star, a mere 80 light years away from the Earth is interesting from many angles. The newborn, ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Efficient Chicago

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The idea was simple but the implications are huge. It is clear to those who understand frameworks but less so to others. The notion that inf...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Fusion, fusion everywhere but not here

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Recent news that NASA may be making progress toward fusion rockets for inter-planetary travel is encouraging. Given the level of knowledge h...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Connected brilliance

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A recent article in the journal of Brain hypothesizes that the unusual level of high connectivity between the left and right hemispheres ...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Simulated colonies

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A recent article in the Journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that a simple mathematical simulation explains the...