Friday, March 31, 2017

Open research

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Recent news (1) that the European Commission will soon join the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation to launch an open research publication ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

The economics of health

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The economics of health has been complex. Diverse stakeholders - patients, providers, manufacturers and payors - who all seem to have a par...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Natural Intelligence

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Recent news that researchers could now encode 215 petabytes of data in a single gram of human DNA (1) and possibly all the information crea...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Pipe-climbing bacteria

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Recent news (1) that bacteria can climb up a pipe at an astonishing speed of 2.5 cm/day is a constant reminder that the first inhabitants o...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Forecasting society's prospects

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The future prospects of human societies could be dependent on two important metrics - per capita knowledge and per capita compassion. It is...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Autonomous microbial growth distribution systems*

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As scientists worry about how to protect Europa (1), Jupiter's famous moon that harbors vast subsurface oceans with the possibility of ...
Friday, February 17, 2017

A memory lapse

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Modern science has been struggling to understand human memory for ever. It appears volatile and highly manipulatable but indestructible com...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Expansion of the mind

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When Lucy stood up in the African savannah for the first time, she demonstrated that humans could be fundamentally different from ...