Nov
16
BartelEye
watching the world through my computer
“There are hundreds of books devoted to 2012, and millions of Web sites, depending on what combination of “2012” and “doomsday” you type into Google. All of it, astronomers say, is bunk.”
Essay - Doomsday Isn’t Coming, NASA Says; At Least Not in 2012 - NYTimes.com
Nov
11
“A scientific team led by Dr. Daniel H. Geschwind of the University of California, Los Angeles, has now completed a parallel experiment, which is to put the chimp version of FOXP2 into human neurons and see what happens. These were neurons living in laboratory glassware, not a human brain, so they gave a snapshot of FOXP2 only at the cellular level. But they confirmed suspicions that FOXP2 was a maestro of the genome.”
FOXP2 Speech Gene Shows Its Bossy Nature - NYTimes.com
“Astronomers have identified an easy-to-measure chemical fingerprint for determining which sunlike stars are likely to host planets. The marker — a low abundance of lithium in the atmosphere of these stars — could prove an invaluable guide for planet hunters trying to determine which of the myriad sunlike stars to select for long-term study.”
Stellar Lithium Points Way for Exoplanet Hunters | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Bing and Wolfram announced Wednesday that Microsoft would begin using Wolfram Alpha’s service to power certain queries about math, health and nutrition as part of Bing’s attempt to differentiate itself from Google, which still controls 70 percent of the search market.”
[Microsoft’s Bing + x(Wolfram|Alpha)] > Google? | Epicenter | Wired.com
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