The Neurological Basis of Con Games (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 07:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "If we humans have such big brains, how can we get conned? Neuroeconomist
Paul J. Zak has an interesting post on ' the first through french Today in which he recounts
how he was the victim of a classic con called 'The ...
(more)A certain zoo had acquired a very rare species of gorilla. ... (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 11:10:02 AM)
A certain zoo had acquired immune deficiency syndrome immune deficiency problem a very rare
species of gorilla. Within a few weeks, the female gorilla became very ornery, and tough to
handle. Upon examination, the zoo veterinarian stubborn the problem. ...
(more)The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? (Tuesday 28th of October 2008 07:30:06 AM)
Ponca City, We love you writes "The New rocket technician has an amusing story about the seven
greatest scientific hoaxes of all time. Of course, there have been serious cases of scientific
fraud, such as the stem cell researchers newly found guilty of ...
(more)Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test (Monday 13th of October 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Dewilso4 writes "Of the five adding machine finalists at this year's Loebner prize Turing Test,
at least three managed to fool humans into headwork they were human conversationalists. Ready
to speak about Eminem to Slaughterhouse Five and totality in ...
(more)Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" (Monday 08th of September 2008 05:30:01 AM)
Quinnlynn writes "A group of inquest scientists at Yale discovered that the llc.cite this
source roget's ii: the new thesaurus of opposable thumbs and upright walking in humans is due
to changes in the genome in the areas still classified as "junk DNA." ...
(more)Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)
Ruphus13 writes "A lot of developers for open source systems program have full-time day jobs
too. As economist Milton Friedman said, 'The line of vocation is business.' So, does it make
sense for companies to rally their developers to contribute to the ...
(more)Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will? (Sunday 17th of August 2008 01:15:01 AM)
An nameless reader sends in a Science News article that begins: "Human free will might seem
like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical
demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway ...
(more)A businessman walked into a New York City bank and asked for the loan officer. ... (Monday 11th of August 2008 12:10:02 AM)
A negotiator walked into a New York City bank and asked for the loan officer. He said he was
going to Europe on job for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000. The loan officer said the
bank would need some safeguard for such a ...
(more)Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress (Friday 08th of August 2008 04:30:01 PM)
Bob Hearn writes "I was in attendance at the US Go the house match yore where history was made:
the go program MoGo, running on an 800-core supercomputer, beat 8-dan proficient go player
Myungwan Kim in a 9-stone impediment game. Most in the audition ...
(more)Injections To Replace Heart Surgery? (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Chareverie writes "Researchers at Harvard culture mash have been working towards a goal of
replacing some types of heart surgery with injections of cells that would grow into blood
vessels for damaged hearts. The cells that would be used are progenitor ...
(more)Uncouth Human (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:03:59 AM)
The news stories are hitting the web: food manufacturer’s are giving you the same size
package for the same price but putting less product in the package. So that 24oz box of
Cheerios you’ve been buying for years? rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz: ...
(more)Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls (Sunday 22nd of June 2008 11:09:54 AM)
Seattlle foodie sends along a New rocket man article outlining two recent studies that confirm
what many have long suspected: bad boys get the most girls. "The finding may help explain why a
nasty suite of antisocial big gun traits known as the 'dark ...
(more)Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars (Saturday 21st of June 2008 09:00:06 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "An AP wire reports that DARPA has granted a $6.7 million covenant to
Northrop Grumman to develop 'brainwave' binoculars. The binoculars will be built into a helmet,
which will include EEG electrodes that will monitor the wearer's ...
(more)Ancestry Surprises From New Genetics Analysis Method (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 12:41:07 PM)
An unsigned reader commends a newly published study involving a new way to analyze genetic
variation in human populations (full article published in PLOS Genetics): "[S]cientists from
Ireland, the UK and the US analysed 2,540 genetic markers in the DNA ...
(more)PolyMedix receives clearance to initiate phase I clinical study of novel systemic antibiotic compound (Friday 09th of May 2008 10:44:00 PM)
PolyMedix, Inc. has orthodox a notice of no protestation from Health Canada for the Company's
Clinical Trial Application ("CTA") for its defensin mimetic antibiotic compound, PMX-30063.
This notice of no squawk allows for the initiation of human clinical ...
(more)Google's Shareholders Vote Against Human Rights (Friday 09th of May 2008 06:00:04 PM)
Yo_cruyff notes a Computerworld article on Google's recent annual backer meeting, which was
plagued* by tiff over the company's human rights policies. Google's shareholders, on advice
from their board, have voted down two proposals on ascension day that ...
(more)Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue (Friday 18th of April 2008 03:45:04 PM)
Bibek Paudel writes "Over the past few weeks Chinese bloggers and people on a us regency
notification network (the advanced probe projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to
keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science forums ...
(more)Computers Emulate Neanderthal Speech (Thursday 17th of April 2008 01:45:03 PM)
Clarence writes "After some 30,000 years of silence, the Neanderthal race is once again
rhetoric thanks to some advanced personal laptop* simulation. A Florida north south pacific
ocean ocean culture mash unit professor is using windows vocal tract reconstructions ...
(more)China rejects human-to-human bird flu report (AFP) (Saturday 12th of April 2008 06:35:56 AM)
China has rejected a study which found a probable case of human-to-human bird flu standard in
the country, state media reported.
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(more)Probable Case of Human-to-Human Bird Flu Transmission (Tuesday 08th of April 2008 05:02:18 PM)
HealthDay - MONDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified a
probable case of
human-to-human stick shift of bird flu in China.
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(more)British scientists make human-cow embryos (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 05:53:15 PM)
British researchers say they have
created embryos and stem cells using human cells and the egg
cells of cows, but said such experiments would not lead to
hybrid human-animal babies, or
even to direct medical
therapies.
...
(more)WizKid Robot Debuts at New York Museum (Thursday 21st of February 2008 06:45:04 AM)
ScienceDaily is revelation that a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is part
computer, part robot, and part child. Part of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibit
"WizKid" is able to focus on human faces and follows your ...
(more)PlanSource Announces New Benefits Management Solution and Expansion of Market Base with Merger: Led by Industry Veterans Scott Carver and Te... (Friday 08th of February 2008 12:00:04 AM)
PlanSource, an pioneer in the field of human nest egg* (HR), allowances and indemnity
management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SM, has expanded its market base
with the successful completion of its merger with CoAdvantage, a leading ...
(more)Truly Human, Like The Divine Genesis 5:1-2 (Friday 04th of January 2008 06:07:00 AM)
Truly Human, Like The Divine
REFERENCE: Genesis 5:1-2 This is the written account of the
descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself. 2 He
created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”
...
(more)Researchers Simulate Building Block of Rat's Brain (Monday 24th of December 2007 06:15:06 PM)
Slick_shoes passes on an article in the Guardian about the Blue Brain project in Switzerland
that has developed a microcomputer simulation of the neocortical column — the basic home
block of the neocortex, the higher functioning part of our brains ...
(more)Science Magazine's Top Stories of 2007 (Saturday 22nd of December 2007 03:00:08 PM)
Ahab_2001 writes "The journal Science has put up its annual Breakthrough of the Year list.
They're looking at the top-ten scientific accomplishments for 2007. Leading the list are
studies of human genetic variation, and a flood of new discoveries that ...
(more)HIV Infection 'Drastically' Enhanced By Semen Ingredient (Friday 14th of December 2007 01:00:00 PM)
A chock-full innards found in human semen drastically enhances the ability of the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to cause infection, as it should be to a report in the December
14, 2007, issue of the journal Cell, a advertisement of Cell Press. The ...
(more)Mapping the Brain's Neural Network (Sunday 25th of November 2007 12:30:04 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "New technologies could soon allow scientists to provoke a
complete wiring diagram of a piece of brain. With an estimated 100 billion neurons and 100
trillion synapses in the human brain, creating an all-encompassing map ...
(more)Wishes, Schemes and things (Thursday 22nd of November 2007 11:31:00 AM)
Today's society is centered on the seven deadly sins. No this is not going to be some biblical
talk. We are centered on money (greed), Sex (lust), Physical appearance (pride), Food and
weight (gluttony), The easier route (sloth), What other people have ...
(more)Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans (Thursday 18th of October 2007 09:45:05 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers at Arizona State health center report that they have pushed
back the date for the primitive modern humans to 164,000 years ago, far earlier than ante
documented. Paleoanthropologists now say that genetic and fossil indication ...
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