var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Several months ago I noticed a favorite all-you-can-eat-pizza-emporium I frequent had stopped giving out food trays to their patrons; i.e. a person walking through the line, holding
Euler's Equation
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));This is the month of Leonhard Euler's birth; Euler was one of the most prolific, productive mathematicians of all time. His so-called "Euler's Equation" or "Euler's Identity" is
Mirror Neurons Redux
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Mirror, Mirror... In the Brain
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));One of the most intriguing discoveries of the last decade in neuroscience has been the existence of "mirror neurons" in the primate brain; neurons that not only fire when an
The Size of the Universe
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Transgressing Science...
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Every now and then it's probably worth going back to re-read physicist Alan Sokal's 1996 'parody' paper, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of
"Science and Ideology"
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));E.O. Wilson on "science and ideology" here, briefly reviewing the sociobiology 'wars,' among other things:http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/taboos/wilson01.htmltry {var pageTracker = _
"Gaia is a Tough Bitch"
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Classic Lynn Margulis essay here on the significance of symbiosis in evolution:http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/n-Ch.7.htmltry {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-
The 'Many-Worlds' Postulation
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How Bacteria Communicate
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Pretty and Ugly Words
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Cranes, Revered and Roasted...
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));A wonderful podcast below from Julie Zickefoose on "Life and Death Among the Cranes" --- what happens when an inveterate birdwatcher and nature-lover comes face-to-face with the fact
Of Mice and Men?
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Interesting essay below on the commonalities, from a biological perspective, between humans and lab rats, and addressing the question, 'do we both share the same fate?':http://
April Book Picks
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Imagining 10 Dimensions
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Cosmologists tell us the universe must (mathematically) have at least 8 dimensions, if not in fact 10 or 11; hard to imagine for us 3-dimensional types. But this Friday video
Book Picks From "Discover"
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Epigenetics Redux
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Epigenetics continues as one of the hottest topics in the life sciences. More on it HERE.try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7602120-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(
"Life List"
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));I've got a backlog of books to read at the moment, but one I'll have to add to the queue is Olivia Gentile's new (and first) volume "Life List" (here and here) which chronicles the
We Are One
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Large Hadron Collider
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), out of commission since a failing during its maiden run last September will try again next fall to reveal secrets of the Universe to awaiting physicists (...that would be as opposed to creating a mini black hole that sucks us all into its bowels). Article HERE.try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7602120-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}
"American Earth"
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