How to Grow Your Own Army of Citizen Scientists – ScienceInsider
"Astronomy, the oldest science, is one of the few that still has ample room for citizen scientists. We can't all build particle accelerators or experi...
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An Infant’s Refined Tongue – ScienceNOW
"Your baby's language skills may surprise you. Before they speak—before they even crawl—infants can distinguish between two languages they've nev...
There is nothing wrong with your TV
You really shouldn’t be concerned with my machinations behind the curtain. I’m just moving sites from one provider to another and merging some other...
links for 2011-02-25
How to make your original yeast water Culturing yeast off of raisins, using the raisins as sugar source. Indeed, sima, a lightly fermented spring drink from Fin...
Kickstarting a great new documentary
I'm a film hack. Yeah, some of my short vids have hundreds of thousands of views or even millions, and some (nameless) have contributed to big donations, b...
links for 2011-02-21
MIT snags UCSF synthetic biology expert Chris Voigt | San Francisco Business Times "One of UCSF’s brightest young scientists and a key member of the Bay Ar...
links for 2011-02-20
IBM's Most Disruptive Acquisition Of 2010 Is Netezza — InformationWeek "I've pulled out from Baum's comments a range of timely ideas t...
links for 2011-02-19
The Mad Fermentationist: Bohemian Ale (Czech Pilsner Fail) The odd thing is that I too had my smack-pack liquid yeast not really take in my boho pils. Panicked ...
links for 2011-02-18
Microbes I have known and loved: anti-mega Excellent overview of all the ways we use microbes (useful bugs!) in the production of food. I learned that cacao is ...
links for 2011-02-15
We Make Getting Fit Easier | Koko FitClub A personalized computerized fitness center, with visual guidance, and a hat tip towards quantified self nuts. Haven�...