Molecularist

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

Absolutely brilliant.

"Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor?"

"Researchers gave single-celled slime molds a “food test”"

"Dyer thinks ants could be having landscape-scale effects in other ecosystems too, including forests in the American tropics where some common plant species are defended by ants."

"Mearns sees reason for optimism. He says with Hazen's data and the rest of the data streaming in from elsewhere, scientists are now starting to think the oil will be gone much sooner than people thought before. "We're talking days to months.""

"Butler is no longer at Texas Tech, but several reports identified him as a current or former professor at Ross University in Dominica. He is listed in a 2009-2010 academic catalogue as a member of a university medical facility in the Bahamas."

Shifty fellow.

"In 2003, researchers figured out the culprit behind a massive die-off of Asian vultures first noticed in the late 1990s: the veterinary drug diclofenac—an antinflamatory painkiller given to cattle. Vultures ingested the drug by eating the carcasses of treated cattle, then died of kidney failure. The scope of the problem is huge. Populations of Asian vulture species are down more than 96% since the early 1990s."

Interesting story on what happened when vulture numbers went down.

"Most computers are prison cells for pixels."

You have to check this out. It's a projector, camera, computer – and can fit into a standard desktop lamp. The video shows the robotic version with gestural control and stuff. Really cool.

The state prepares fro Earl and reminisces about older storms. I remember a few of these and have read about some of the others.

"To paraphrase Mark Twain’s famous remark about the weather: Everyone complains about Facebook, but no one does anything about it."

Nice article on happiness and consumption. [and of course, the gratuitous Apple reference]

"For the most part, the studies confirmed ideas about BRCA2 function. "But we also uncovered some aspects of protein function that you couldn't have known unless you did the biochemistry," Kowalczykowski says."

There will always be a need for basic biochemimstry.

"What will the future hold for our smellscape? Will globalization completely deodorize our world, making everything smell of soap? Perhaps, but perhaps biology, with all its living smells, will be re-introduced into our lives. As we better understand how our bodies are made up of marvelously diverse communities of bacteria and human cells living in evolutionary harmony, and as synthetic biology pushes to replace many of our industrial processes with living systems, perhaps the definitions of "good" and "bad", "natural" and "synthetic" will begin to change too. Artwork that can provoke us to think about and reconsider how we've constructed our world, what we think of as "normal," can be tremendously powerful, can offer potential for radical change–"We must provoke one another to think differently. If we get to the moment of provocation, then there is hope.""