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Nature versus prejudice, or why women don't do sums.
The president of Harvard University thinks that women are under-represented in math and science careers because of innate differences with men. Is this sexist nonsense or cold hard truth?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:49 21.01.05
The Differerce Between Male and Female Brains
Whose brain is the best?
:: STARTED BY Sean the frumious Bandersnatch
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:34 21.01.05
Mammal 1 Dinosaur 0
The discovery raises the possibility that mammals influenced the dinosaurs' evolution, not just the other way around.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:38 17.01.05
Evolve Your Own Animals in Your Computer's Spare Time
Darwin @ Home, Distributed Processing, Screensavers, evolution, biology, networked digital ecosystems
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:47 15.01.05
Fly-Eating Robot Powers Itself. Not A Joke Either.
what the title says. keywords robot power fly-eating crazy!!!
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:21 06.01.05
Improving the Taste of Your Sperm
Apparently eating sweet foods and drink sweetens the taste of your...sperm? Uh, at least this woman thinks so.
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:22 31.12.04
Nanotech Boom Leads To Big Legal Questions
Discuss the ever-growing world of nanotechnology, how freakin' cool it is, and the legal and business questions that arise from ensuing nano-wackniess!
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:07 30.12.04
Don't think about it, just think!
A new study shows that thinking about thinking interferes with learning and other mental tasks.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:28 27.12.04
SwarmStreaming
Now that the MPAA's got it's lawyerhooks in BitTorrent, let's move on.
:: STARTED BY stepinrazor
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:19 27.12.04
Song of the Lonely Whale
Oceanographers have been tracking one unique whale for 12 years. It sings unlike any other whale in the ocean. No one knows why.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:06 13.12.04
Your Name Makes You Sexier
Weird study about names.
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:19 10.12.04
Toyota builds AT-STs.
Toyota unviels 'The Dream, Joy and Inspiration of Mobility in the 21st Century': scary Imperial Walkers and the crazy wheelchair from Roujin-Z
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:56 09.12.04
Monkey Trained to Use Robotic Arm
A robotic arm was wired into a monkey's brain to respond to its thoughts. Hope for people with spinal cord injuries?
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:32 07.12.04
Dolphin Sentience?
"So long, and thanks for all the fish".
Are we chauvinistic in our assumption that we are the only sentient life on earth?
:: STARTED BY Nobody's girl
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:41 03.12.04
"New hope for Aids vaccine"-- VaxGen
New AIDS vaccine claims from biotech company.
:: STARTED BY Less searchable M0rd4nt
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:36 02.12.04
I still dream of Organon
Questions on Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy.
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:07 30.11.04
Hydroden powered truck made by high school students.
Hydrogen powered vehicles are no longer the stuff of science fiction, so what's so special about this one? Read on...
:: STARTED BY lekvar
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:15 27.11.04
Google Mail - would you have one?
1G of free mail space or another step into a Big-Brotheresque internet?
:: STARTED BY H3ct0r L1m4
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:41 24.11.04
Is science the best source of knowledge about the world
think about it
:: STARTED BY luke hugh
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:56 11.11.04
Soda brain
according to researchers, "there are visual images and marketing messages that have insinuated themselves into the nervous systems of humans that consume the drinks."
:: STARTED BY subcultureofone
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:25 01.11.04
Platypus = sexy!
The strangest animal on Earth has 10 sex chromosomes. The rest of us make do with 2. Monotremes are HOTT.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:38 30.10.04
Web Comic: The Guy I Almost Was
A comic that looks at the "Cyberculture" from a new point of view and a take off point for discussion on the "cyberculture" as it is now.
:: STARTED BY Pappa Cass
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:18 22.10.04
Want to Give Birth to a Boy? Make Sure You're Living With a Man.
New research indicates a 14% increased likelihood of having a male baby if a woman lives with her male partner.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:48 21.10.04
New Hughes Lab aiming at consciousness
400 million dolar lab, 280 acre farm, 100 year time frame: thinking, big.
:: STARTED BY sine
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:34 18.10.04
Cryptozoology files: possible new great ape
Peaceful bonobo, meet your opposite -- the lion killers of the Congo.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:52 18.10.04
Trees cause pollution?
Great Scott, was James Watt right?
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:23 15.10.04
Study Finds Mobile Phones Increase Tumor Risk
yikes.
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:49 14.10.04
FDA Approves Placing ID Chips In Patients
Scary times...chips implanted in patients with serious diseases.
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:23 14.10.04
Smart Mobs
What are you thoughts on Smart Mobs. The book/site or the concept? I'll also open this up to general discussion of virtual communities and how they can change/benefit the world around them.
:: STARTED BY tSuibhne
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:04 09.10.04
UFO Researcher John Mack Dies
The Harvard psychiatrist who studied the abduction phenomenon was killed by a motor vehicle in London.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:16 02.10.04
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