By Maegan Boutot, Science Writer for Clue
Co-written with David Rothschild
The current state of public and political discourse is in disarray. Politicians lie with impunity. Traditional news organizations amplify fact-free assertions, while outright fake news stories…
I recently encountered a fascinating line of thought on the internet. Someone…
Richard Dawkins’ 2012 television series, Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life, is now available to…
Learn what holds structures together and gain interesting insight in material engineering
In reference to: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/49972.html
Letter sent to Sir Peter Gluckman and the members of the panel who I had the privilege to meet in person on January 17.
This morning I attended a session with the CIHR Peer Review Expert Panel to discuss ways forward from the current chaos/cull/innovative vision of a trainwreck that has been barreling in slow motion through Canadian health research. I was invited as a representative of the…
“They drone on in their lives…they don’t care about contradictions or hypocrisies. They’re accepting, focusing instead on the simple pleasures; eating, drinking, sleeping. Well not me! I am awake and aware. I see the mental paradoxes all around me. I walk that thin line between intellect and…
You may not know it by name, but panspermia is kind of a big deal.
If you are looking for a Career in research, it becomes important to understand that research is actually a broad field that encompasses a career with a wide range of responsibilities in a number of industries. For instance, when you take the case of researchers…
Midway through 2007, my first encounter with the God Delusion had moved to the back of my mind, but my faith in the Church as a guiding light for my life was pretty much gone.
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
“Art is never finished, only…
We recently released a set of Seeq features that allow you to contribute your genome to different projects. One such project is Open Humans. We interviewed Open Humans co-founder Madeleine Ball…
Mystery of the universe and aliens
Consider this a personal postulate I hope to be true. Are you ready for it? Here it goes.
Cretaceous South America was home to some of the largest dinosaurus known to science, and among them was Mapusaurus, a theropod…
We, our health and nature
Our journey from animals to cultural beings
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I have worked on my Unified Field Theory for many years. Since it is sourced through my mental filter, it is written in…
A crystal is a solid that consists of the various atoms, ions, or molecules being arranged in a…
The international academic journal Cancer Research has just published the latest research progress in an article titled “SRSF2 regulates alternative splicing to drive…
Rubber vulcanization process can be divided into four curing stages: scorch stage, pre-sulfur phase, sulfur phase, over-sulfur phase.
(1) Scorch stage, also known as the curing induction period, at this stage, cross-linking has not yet begun, the…
As a scientist, I find myself in my most fulfilled and happiest state of flow when I am working on and discovering scientific models and their impact on available observations. Testing models with data, and uncovering new phenomena is in essence what science is. This breakthrough activity is what…
CAMBRIDGE, UK, Friday, January 13, 2017 — Authorea, the leading online editor for writing and publishing research documents, is integrating eLife into its submission system to give authors more options for direct submission…
I’m reminded of a story I once read somewhere:
At a chemical production company, there was an important chemical reaction to be initiated in some very specific way. One chemical was intended to be reacted by another with even spread between a liquid and a powder…
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A team led by University of Cambridge and Georgetown University has revealed that an aminosterol known as squalamine is able to prevent the accumulation of α-synuclein which is associated with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease…
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Six-ish things for you today: an explanation of the very cool-sounding word funktionslust, an article on using light to turn normal mice into killer mice, updates on sweat bathing, Zen Buddhist philosophers and…
Existence could be from 1 being or many so Creator will be both the 1 and the many. Just like science and some religions believe, in the beginning there was a big bang. It is the plans laid out by the creator coming together to form existence. These plans are complex beyond our understanding but general in…
The implosion of a star occurs when it has run out of nuclear fuel
Collapsing under its own gravity, the weight of its existence
So heavy with matter and thoughts
No longer glowing
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.
The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of…
Interpenetrated
There’s a lot of great content on Medium, but sometimes great pieces go unnoticed. Here, are some of this week’s best articles with very few or no recommends, despite being excellent reads. Organized by general category.
A quick blog today, focusing on a couple of things. First, like most of us, my annual…
La modernité est la religion de la règle.
When a virus hijacks a bacterial cell, it quickly destroys the cell’s normal structure including its DNA and then constructs a new structure which is very similar to the nuclei in animal, human and plant cells, according research using recombinant rat proteins.
Cement Mixer
The Cement Mixer, known otherwise as the concrete mixer, is a construction device used to mix aggregates into a homogenous substance called concrete. To form concrete, building materials like cement, water, and some other aggregates are needed to form it. Different combinations of building materials are needed…
