October 2011
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“The dead horse that is the sanctity of marriage just got up and reached for a...”
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your...”
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Physicist Lawrence Krauss
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The Adaptationist Program
What’s your view on the adaptationist program and natural selection? Here is the copy from a paper I wrote for my seminar in Psychobiology.
“Natural selection does not work like an engineer. It works like a tinkerer.” (Jacob, 1977). This statement, repeated twice throughout our readings (both in Coyne and Mayr), best captures the real nature of natural selection. Genetic variance across...
September 2011
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“I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to...”
– Abraham Lincoln, read to a mother who lost five sons in the civil war.
August 2011
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“Our head waiter was very good and did very well to check up on us for drinks and...”
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1-star review of Providence by Kenny K.
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Dark Matter May Be Illusion Caused By The Quantum... →
“…one of many scientists who have become somewhat skeptical of dark matter, CERN physicist Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic has proposed that the illusion of dark matter may be caused by the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum.”
But uh, that does nothing to explain the Bullet Cluster. Dark matter still seems very probable to me.
Andres Behring Breivik's Brain →
jtotheizzoe:
Can we ever really understand this neurobiology? The resulting psychology of (his perhaps lack of) nature and nurture? The sheer complexity of the individual brain and the lack of overlap between certain “normal” and “diseased” ways of thinking make understanding Breivik a extreme challenge.
After all, we are each constructed from a genetic blueprint, and then born into a world of...
July 2011
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Why Google Knows More Than You Think
It’s a familiar picture. You have a problem, need to solve it & your first response is to Google it. You scan the first few links, pick the one that looks the best and bingo- problem solved. Done it a hundred times- quick & easy every single time.
What about your email? I personally have a Gmail account, have for years. They’re easy to use and I can access it anywhere (also,...
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“It isn’t the consumers’ job to know what they want.”
– Steve Jobs
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“Which came first, time or the human brain?”
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June 2011
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scipsy:
Being closed-minded means being intolerant of the beliefs or opinions of others, or to ignore the evidences disconfirming your beliefs.
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Klout Is Stupid.
I get the whole “influencer” in marketing thing. You find one person who has a big, devoted, network and get them to bat for your team. Or maybe you try to become one yourself. But if you do your research, you’ll see the concept of “influencer” comes from the Malcolm Gladwell book “The Tipping Point”. Well written book, but only based it’s...
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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Insecurity is the root of all evil”
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Why Twitter Matters In Biotech (& Other Life...
Note: Edited on 6/14/2011
This morning, I came across a very interesting article written by Luke Timmerman in Xconomy.
Obviously, finding information online is not only the future, it’s now. Whether Biotech (& even highly regulated Pharma) wants to admit it or not, they will need to get online. We’ve all heard it over & over again- engage with the customer - but what does...
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A DNA printer? →
“Using the new chip reduces costs to less than half of one cent per base pair.”
The implications of being able to clone a genome for so little are immense.
Will there be differentiation between “natural” life and “sequenced life”?
Cloning of human genome for good (research)
Cloning of human genome for bad
What does it mean to be called...
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“The message I’m taking away from the E.coli news coverage is all...”
– @edyong209 Knew it all along.
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What Would You Try If You Had No Fear →
This woman, only known as SM, has brain damage to her amygdala- making her entirely incapable of experiencing fear.
What would you be capable of if you were afraid of nothing?
Everyone on Google today....
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“A “social media consultant” will become what an “internet...”
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“The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.”
– Jean Bryant
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“If you look at the sites of those brands known for their social success, you...”
– http://http://searchengineland.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-stole-your-search-traffic-what-to-do-about-it-78916
If people don’t care about your brand, why would they talk about you?
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The Right Way To Argue →
Discussing religion is touchy. That’s always been a fact.
But I admire Sean Carroll, an atheist, and his respectful approach to writing a guest post for an Intelligent Design blog.
When was the last time you forced someone to see it your way and they agreed?
Show, don’t tell.
The end is always nigh in the human mind →
ohyeahdevelopmentalbiology:
Why are we so attracted to prophecies of doom, from religious raptures to environmental collapse? It’s part of our psychology
IN 1919, William Butler Yeats wrote The Second Coming, an allegory of the atmosphere in Europe after the carnage of the first world war.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is...
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I Feel Like The World's Gone Crazy →
Do you think any of the people who are violently protesting GMOs actually understand what they’re protesting?