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UCLA says: "Sexual Identity" hard-wired by genetics
Researchers find that gender identity is indeed genetic. Is that related to, and where does that leave sexual orientation?
:: STARTED BY Querelle
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:39 20.10.03
Electricity from water!
Wow. 2 scientists in Alberta have found a way of generating electricity from water!
:: STARTED BY Baz Auckland
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:17 20.10.03
Does humanist egalitarianism stagnate evolution?
Is Rage spewing immature-delusional-extremist-rhetoric, or is she actually onto something?
:: STARTED BY Rage
:: 59 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:23 19.10.03
So long Concorde - a new era?
Little Science?
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:33 18.10.03
Cafe Scientifique
Science, conversation and cake - what could be finer? (Crossposted in Gathering)
:: STARTED BY Scrubb is on a downward spiral
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:17 18.10.03
The Government Information Awareness filesharing service.
File under: GIA, Napster, peer-to-peer, smart mobs, terrorist, Patriot Act, IAO, Big Brother, networking, watching the watchmen.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:23 15.10.03
We're in trouble now
could real live walking, talking,teenage mutant ninja turtles be far behind?
:: STARTED BY nowthink
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:21 14.10.03
Gene Therapy, Age, Organ Repair
Faster than a speeding bullet - repairs on the human body, ceullular and genetic-level healing... And we have framework to put it in...
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:10 14.10.03
Vatican says: condoms don't prevent AIDS
Condoms and the Church and HIV. Possibly the most horrible thing ever.
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:45 13.10.03
Music of the Spheres, on average....
MIT has created a program that samples radio stations, combines their musical wavelengths and plays the statistically averaged output. It's called Eigenradio. Keywords: music, synthesizer, computers, entropy, statistics, digital art.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:34 13.10.03
Big Rock Causes Concern for 2014
Asteroid warning
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:40 12.10.03
Copy-proof CDs Vs. Markers : Markers Win!
Sony's plans to prevent piracy side-stepped by creative use of office supplies.
:: STARTED BY Matthew Fluxington
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:18 10.10.03
GM crops fail trials in UK
Some GM crops have failed trials in the UK.
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:08 08.10.03
Macroscopic Entanglement
Quantum entanglement detected on a macroscopic level
:: STARTED BY LVX23
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:27 07.10.03
Partial-Birth Abortions?
What are 'partial-birth abortions'?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady of The Two Towers
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:55 06.10.03
Cryptozoology: Bigfoot "inventor" dies; son claims it was all a hoax.
Ray L. Wallace, "Mr. Bigfoot," may have been lying all along.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:49 02.10.03
Systems Thinking
What is systems thinking?
:: STARTED BY Hieronymus
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:52 01.10.03
The Overdue Big Earthquake?
Earthquake in Japan, 8.0 on the U.S. scale, earthquake prediction and earthquake science.
:: STARTED BY Mazarine
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:32 26.09.03
Cities of Gold?
The findings show the Amazon was not, as was once thought, all an untouched wilderness before Columbus came to the Americas
:: STARTED BY unheimlich manoeuvre
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:30 25.09.03
A clock in the head
How does the brain measure the passing of time? Is something ticking in there?
:: STARTED BY Smoothly
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:55 24.09.03
Seomhting Iterensintg
Interesting example of language pattern matching in the brain, and proof that bad spelling doesn't really matter so much.
:: STARTED BY cusm
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:20 24.09.03
Origin of life: plasma?
Physicists, not biologists, discover new possible origin for life, in the form of self-replicating energy bodies. File under: Origins, evolution, primordial, living cells.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:21 22.09.03
Planetoid Named After Rain God
Planetoid named after the Venezuelan rain God Juya (or "Huya") - cool!
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:04 22.09.03
Piracy extends to GM cotton seeds in India...or does it?
BBC say farmers in Gujarat (india) are pirating Monsanto GM cotton seeds. Rebuttal.
:: STARTED BY bjacques
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:20 17.09.03
Help me Obi-Wan...holo
Just like in Minority Report and Star Wars..Interactive holograms!
:: STARTED BY Saint Keggers
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:38 16.09.03
The Badgers' Revenge
on the practical problems with culling, or how any environmental tampering has chaotic results.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:24 15.09.03
The Alphabet and Synaesthesia
Lionheart puts out a theory of how the alphabet could be a creation of synaesthetic perception where sounds where also seen as shapes.
:: STARTED BY Lionheart
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:45 11.09.03
Bioculture art
Biological art - the manufacture of shapes and forms using living cell cultures.
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:26 06.09.03
Video Game Characters with a Soul?
Artificial intelligence and the ethics of video game characters.
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 38 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:51 05.09.03
Nutrition & the brain
Michael A. Crawford argues that we did not evolve in the African cradle.
Rather, going by what stimulates a growth of the human brain, DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), the human race evolved living by rivers and consuming enough quantities of fish meat.
:: STARTED BY 000
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:30 04.09.03
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