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I haven’t seen Julie vs. Julia, but this is the best thing to ever appear on the interwebs.

Julia Childs teaches about the possible conditions which created the so called “Primordial Soup” in contemporary theories of Abiogenesis. The video is [...]

I just came across this hilarious and fascinating look into the not-so-distant past: a news report from 1981 about an experimental service to distribute newspapers over a telephone network which pre-dates the internet! It’s interesting to hear them make the prediction that print newspapers would be made obsolete within a “few years”. Clearly that hasn’t [...]

Two things recently have got me thinking about our perception of beauty – particularly in music – and the extent to which this is a universal trait, or a product of culture.

The first is a study by Fritz T. et al., described over at Cognitive Daily. The study concerned the Mafa people, a [...]

While some of us may be planning the relatively harmless pranks we will play on our roommates and co-workers, computer security experts are bracing for the activation of the most wide-spread computer-virus infection in several years. The Conficker worm is estimated to infect between 9-15 million Windows machines, and the truly frightening thing [...]

In response to the shocking revelation of comments by Canada’s Minister of State for Science and Technology on evolution.

(see here for some great responses from the research community)

To the office of the Prime Minister of Canada:

As a student in scientific field, I wish to express the deep concern I felt [...]