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Science On Tap
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Book reviews, essays, thoughts etc. for folks who relish science and nature writing
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Well, I\'ll Be an Orangutan\'s Uncle (Maybe)
Controversial study wants to alter our family tree: http://tinyurl.com/l7cok6 try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7602120-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}...
Genetic Dating
Based on the results from well-preserved penguin bones in Antarctica, the accuracy (and assumptions) of genetic dating is being questioned by researchers at Oregon State University: http://www.physorg.com/news177083943.htmlvar gaJsHost = (("ht...
Asteroid Near-Miss
Asteroid misses Earth by 14,000 km last Friday : http://tinyurl.com/yd9a8bx (...I thought I felt a breeze!) var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(u...
Genomes \'R Us
Got $1700 to spare... get your genome sequenced: http://tinyurl.com/yj5aegj Got $1700 to spare... get your genome sequenced: http://tinyurl.com/yj5aegjvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : ...
"...craziness has a fine history in physics"
...so says a NY Times piece on the start-up attempts for the Large Hadron Collider, and a new theory pushed by some that the device is doomed or at least jinxed, by the very Higgs boson for which it is searching... this is cosmology gone wild... but,...
Are We Rare or the Norm?
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