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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)

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 05:13 in Evolution

    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

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 14:16 in genetics

    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

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 10:05

    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

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 04:52 in genomics

    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"

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 05:18 in cosmology, large hadron collider

    ...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?

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 07:54

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=will-e-t-look-like-usvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJs...

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