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Jorden van Munster

Research indicating new info about how to manage green house gasses . . . .

"This research indicates that we can no longer avoid significant warming during this century,"

Posted by Jorden van Munster on April 17, 2009 at 10:40pm

Jorden van Munster

Chameleon-like camouflage: 'Nano-camo' for fashionistas and environmentalists

Camouflage outfits that blend with a variety of environments without need of an outside power source

Posted by Jorden van Munster on April 17, 2009 at 10:19pm

Jorden van Munster

A new form of microscope

By clipping the CellScope to a camera-enabled cell phone, PDA or netbook, people in the field, with relatively little training, can collect and organise data . . . .

http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/telemicroscopy-disease-diagnosis

Posted by Jorden van Munster on April 16, 2009 at 3:00am

Andrew Dutton

Your inner fish

The concepts in this book were so nicely laid out that you keep saying to yourself, "Of course, it is so obvious!" This book reinforces the notion that nothing in biology makes any sense without evolution. My thoughts turn to intelligence and consciousness - hard to measure and describe, but surely based upon our physiology, which we seem to share with just about everything. So if all creatures great and small are using the same molecular machinery to get around, it seems resonable that they wou… Continue

Posted by Andrew Dutton on March 13, 2009 at 5:23pm

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PaulaT

Oxygen 2 Replies

Started by PaulaT in An Ocean of Air by Gabrielle Walker. Last reply by Albert Friske May 31.

John Karabaic

Mlodninow article in NYT

Started by John Karabaic in Mlodinow's Drunkard's Walk May 24.

 
 

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