Friday, November 29, 2013

Free-less education

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The rise in freelance lecturers in US educational institutions is concerning from many perspectives. The first question is why this is happ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Network dominance

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A recent study in the Proceedings of Royal Academy: Biological Sciences shows that the breadth and depth of one’s network are important dete...
Friday, November 22, 2013

The value of time

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A recent study from the Mayo clinic that shows extremely high mortality in patients who are over 75 years old who have elected to undergo di...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Intelligent evolution

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A recent article published in the journal of PLOS pathogens show data indicating that evolvability is an important characteristic of selec...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Horizontal innovation

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Recent research from MIT shows structural and mechanical guidance from snails and clams improve the designs of robots. This is in a favorabl...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Involuntary terraforming

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News that a new species of bacteria was found in two category 4 clean room facilities used for assembling payloads for space in two differen...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Maximum MOM

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India’s successful launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is good news. After a few weeks in the Earth’s orbit, the orbiter will be headin...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Behavioral flexibility

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A recent study in The American Naturalist suggests that animals show an equal level of behavioral unpredictability as humans. Observations o...