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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Finding the fountain of youth in the genome.
The Long Game: Google-Backed Calico Partners With Ancestry to Beat the Specter of Aging By Mark Bergen RECODE How much would you pay to live longer? What if Google were making the pill to do it? On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal [...]
Science vs. Hype: of pot, the climate and the Pope
Whether it is King Canute or the Republicans, passing laws that insist the tides will tun back will not work. Senator Jame Imhof even criticized the Pope for carpeting the science of global warming, .. saying tha Francis ought to leave science to the legislators. Of course God determines[...]
So .. which of our ancesters were “Black?”
Afrocentric claims that early human civilizations were black skinned may now get real data! Figuring out skin color from ancient Egyptian or Mesopotamian statues of paintings is at best confusing. But we do have bones from those eras. Genomes can do better but skin color is determined by at lea[...]
GOP Denies Earth is Round
GOP Science Committee Chair Begins Hearing By Saying Scientific Climate Change Consensus Has Been “Debunked”[...]
Bringing Science to The Third World
I really love science and all that it has done and can do for the world! We scientists also have to work on not thinking science is the only game in town though. Investment in science in the developing world in particular needs to be done with respect for the cultures and traditions in these [&helli[...]
Ed Clark: Phony Sexism
I did a mini sabbatical with Mary Collins, who is shown in this photo with her husband, Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt. He was forced to resign from an honorary university post after he allegedly made sexist comments during a talk in Korea. This article shows that in fact he was joking and made self-de[...]
June 8: 60th anniversary of Alan Turing’s suicide
Just Before Christmas, Alan Turing finally gets pardon for being Gay! Last year about this time, a pardon was given to the man whose code breaking prowess helped the Allies outfox the Nazis, whose theories laid the foundation for the computer age, and whose work on artificial intelligence has[...]
Global carbon dioxide concerns
The Earth’s CO2 levels have reached 400 parts per million globally for the first month since record keeping began. The Earth is already dealing with rising seas, storms of monumental proportions, wildfires, and extreme weather all caused by global warming. As CO2 levels increase, what el[...]