June 2008
- New mandible from Thomas Quarry, Morocco
- Colorful quantum black holes at the LHC
- The News Can Wait
- Almost Ready...
- "Market based" College Evaluations
- Watermelon May Have Viagra-Effect
- 320,000 Acres of Forest Protected in Landmark Deal
- Are MMORPGs "addictive"?
- Fortified cassava could provide a day's nutrition in a single meal
- Fast times in Jamaica
- Happiness is rising around the world
- Feds preview long awaited mathematics reference
- Cancer 'cure' in mice to be tested in humans
- Forgetting what you haven't yet learned
- ICML has a comment system
- Some News...
- 'Deformed wing virus' cause of bee mystery?
- Federation of American Scientists Release Video Game 'Immune Attack'
- Review of ONLY A THEORY: EVOLUTION AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA'S SOUL
- Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors
- Higher education and human capital II
- Deutschland über alles, except for Spain
- New pre-Neandertal from Serbia
- Recreating ancient sounds
- New pre-Neandertal from Serbia
- Sun, Jupiter, Saturn: spin-orbit coupling?
- A Tapeworm Mystery: Which Way Is Up?
- A blessed man's formula for holey containers
- Microcosm in tomorrow's New York Times Book Review
- Passports for penguins
- Climate skeptic: Don't panic
- How much data in your genome
- Ancient Earth rocks may be on Moon
- Higher education and human capital
- Ira Flatow interviews Edward Witten
- A Talk With Paul Ehrlich About The State of the World
- Wells on Mathematical Language
- Nice and Weird: Dispatches from The Depths of Parasitology
- Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth
- Casual Fridays -- Summer break
- Basic concepts of physics and quantum gravity: some lore
- Reviewing Horror Stories
- Wonders of Gauge Theory and Supergravity
- Ancient Oak Trees Help Reduce Global Warming
- Women in the classroom
- Supplemental US Science Funding
- Friday Random Recipe: Homemade Tonic Water
- Friday Random Ten, June 27
- July 15 Deadline to Apply for High-Performance Computational Time on Teragrid
- Why Do People Vote? Genetic Variation in Political Participation
- Mystery molecule opens door to quantum computing semiconductors
- Phytoplankton surprisingly destroys a lot of ozone
- An unforeseen delay
- What's your social status?
- Higher Coffee Consumption Associated with Lower Liver Cancer Risk
- The Ten-Mile-Wide Bullet
- How do you make a reputation for yourself?
- NASA Spacecraft Reveal Largest Crater in Solar System
- Device blocking stomach nerve signals shows promise in obesity
- A tough nut in the ED
- The Kingston University Scandal
- Feeling powerless leads to expensive purchases
- Help generate the initial list of subtopics for v.2 of ResearchBlogging.org
- Marketers Are Creating an Imaginary, Cross-Cultural, Asian World
- Black hole information puzzle
- Two-thirds of California's native plants threatened
- Motivations for Science
- Spooks spooked by climate change
- Kids connect alcohol odors with mom's emotions
- Reminder: I'm talking tonight in Los Angeles
- MSSM in string theory: review
- Nilpotent Infinitesimals II
- Female brain: hundreds of genetic differences
- Brain drain: engineers shun defense industry
- Of Bacteria and Throw Pillows
- Complex Cobordism and the Stable Homotopy of Spheres
- Stealing an idea
- Global regularity of wave maps IV. Absence of stationary or self-similar solutions in the energy class
- Major progress in technology needed for 25 percent renewable energy use to be affordable
- Just in: Hidden fat key to youthful face
- Overheard
- Fundies and Limited Deities
- Top 5 Science Standards to Make Carbon Offsets Work Better
- How Ritalin works in brain to boost cognition, focus attention
- On the Radio Today: Mass Extinctions, Past and Future
- Risks for the economy: a poll
- My Microbial Muse
- Mothers’ influence is decisive in tots’ first year
- YouTube & Internet Explorer: this video is no longer available
- Non-standard analysis in economics
- Roger Penrose: Before the Big Bang
- Abandoned farmlands are key to sustainable bioenergy
- Becoming bionic
- The Black Hole War
- From the egg, baby crocodiles call to each other and to mom
- Last UK Neanderthals more sophisticated than realized
- Multi-tasking, task-switching, and humans -- or why I didn't finish writing this post three hours ago
- Gene silencer and quantum dots reduce protein production to a whisper
- A look into the nanoscale
- Primate's scent speaks volumes about who he is
- Torah and Relativity: Attack of The Jewish Cranks
- Microcosm Infects The Journal Science
- Scientists Isolate a Toxic Key to Alzheimer's
- When threatened, a few African frogs can morph toes into claws
- Good bye, Bill Gates
- Repellent Made from Pine Oil
- New study finds that growers do not reap benefits of rising food prices
- James Hansen: 20 years later
- Dubai: living in a turbine
- Archaeology - Hidden City Provides Fascinating Insight into the Structures of Hellenistic Settlements
- The Octopus: Smart, Dumb, Other?
- Buckminster Fuller profile in New Yorker
- Drug reverses mental retardation caused by genetic disorder
- The value of a practical education
- Philosophy of Science on Bloggingheads.tv
- Casual Fridays bonus round: Does anyone like Brazil nuts? Anyone?
- Chronic grief activates pleasure areas of the brain
- Dimensions movie
- Darwin's savages
- Notes in practical evolution
- Casual Fridays: Do grocery stores give us the right mix of nuts?
- Parallel universes
- Common cooking spice shows promise in combating diabetes and obesity
- Elderly's restless nights helped by ancient martial art
- Apollo Relic Reveals its Secrets
- 'Feeling fat' is worse than being it
- New discovery proves 'selfish gene' exists
- Czechia and Treaty of Lisbon
- Mental and physical exercise improves genetic mental impairment
- Craigslist scammers
- Does your child have philosophical potential?
- Quick Question for the readers…
- Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers
- Conventional wisdom wrong about Arab journalists' anti-Americanism
- System helps cops match tattoos to suspects, victims
- Stem cells give old muscles new pep
- Desert plant may hold key to surviving food shortage
- Common knowledge
- Could exposure to low doses of radiation cure our ills?
- Does music help us learn language?
- AP and Tom Chałko: global warming and earthquakes
- Ancient fort opens new chapter in First Nations' history
- The strong law of large numbers
- Blaise Pascal: 385th birthday
- Hormones prepare seabird chicks to kill their siblings
- Tegmark: The world is made of mathematics
- Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment
- Lady chimps like quiet sex
- Ocean temperatures and sea level increases 50 percent higher than previously estimated
- Los Angeles Is About To Get A Case of E. coli
- The Twenty-Seven Lines on the Cubic Surface
- NASA: Black holes have simple feeding habits
- Great apes plan ahead
- Don't ask the experts if they can't agree on the question
- Unlocking genome of world’s worst insect pest
- DNA Knot Keeps Viral Genes Tightly Corked Inside Shell
- Birds communicate reproductive success in song
- Leonard Susskind: 60+ hours of lectures
- The sum-product phenomenon in arbitrary rings
- Gore's personal electricity consumption up 10%
- Is the Universe Actually Made of Math?
- Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem
- Microsoft scientist highlights need for new computer models to address climate change
- Asian-White IQ variance from PISA results
- Grape seed extract may reduce Alzheimer's cognitive decline
- New insight into what makes things appear "glossy"
- New weight loss diet recommends high-carb and protein big breakfast
- Latrines trounce toilets?
- Decline in cigarette smoking offset by increase in cigars, snuff
- Claims linking health problems and the strength of cannabis may be exaggerated
- US could face shortage of 44,000 physicians
- Closing ozone hole could help reverse some climate change
- Computer predicts anti-cancer molecules
- Compound may treat acute diarrhea
- Leonard Susskind: The black hole war
- Gay brains structured like those of the opposite sex
- Nanotechnology, biomolecules and light unite to 'cook' cancer cells
- Perfecting a solar cell by adding imperfections
- What sound are you hearing? It may depend on the words you read
- Are we more moral than cavemen?
- Heightened sense of taste can promote weight loss
- Mini subs to probe odd structures in Canadian lake
- WIRED: 10 green heresies
- Neal Stephenson on wiring the world
- Some patients may not need insulin for long-term control of type 2 diabetes
- Cloak of silence realized with metamaterials
- Anti-booze drug helps pathological gamblers
- Hunger hormone increases during stress, may have antidepressant effect
- Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events
- Nanosuds last more than a year
- Study links sleep apnea to memory loss
- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope
- How Montezuma gets his revenge
- Predictions vs understanding
- Universal Family
- Quick! I'm On the Radio
- The van der Corput trick, and equidistribution on nilmanifolds
- What's wrong with selling kidneys?
- How to play golf
- Categories of polynomials and comonadic plumbing
- Microchip sets low-power record with extreme sleep mode
- Confirmed: Earliest genetic material may have come from the stars
- Hot Times in Deep Time: My New Piece for the New Yale Environment 360
- Mathematics and gravitation theory
- Perpetual Motion via Fuel Cell
- Casual Fridays: The right mixture of nuts
- Equities vs real estate
- A New Step In Evolution, Cont.: Read the Paper
- What makes an old geyser faithful?
- Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images
- NASA awards contract for spacesuit of the future
- Reverse engineering the brain to model mind-body interactions
- Main tumor can cause distant offspring
- New Whitefly Vexes Growers
- Ireland rejects Treaty of Lisbon: 53.4% "No"
- Go nuclear!
- Nathan Berkovits: constructing a proof of the AdS/CFT correspondence
- Field With One Element
- The Koranic Speed of Light
- How aging brain brings a healthy dose of perspective
- Dinosaur bones could be new species
- Clues to Climate Change in Remote Atmospheric Region
- Feynman and Fermi: radio play
- Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale
- Babies have boundary extension, too
- NASA gets one in the oven
- Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than anyone thought
- HIV prevention gels safe for pregnant women, their babies?
- Crude 'oil' from pig manure
- U.S. still leads the world in science and technology
- "Great minds think alike"
- Why can't they see themselves in the mirror?
- Back to the Beagle
- On Crick and Watson
- Atiyah on Atiyah-Bott
- Woolly-Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory
- Insight into how we tell whether something's alive
- Bee species outnumber mammals and birds combined
- Microcosm: Ars Technica feature, and more podcasts
- Hawks: the wired professor
- Designing microchips that contain multiple selves
- GLAST blasts off
- BP: peak oil reached
- Rats in the radiocarbon (or vice versa)
- Light therapy may help dementia
- Memory loss linked to common sleep disorder
- Sex offenders register provides limited protection for children
- I'm on Google's blacklist
- Apologies
- Spencer, Braswell: Fixing feedback diagnosis
- Prehistoric beta testing led to perfected weapons
- Scenes of nature trump technology in reducing low-level stress
- Parasite Rock
- Solving Linear Programming Problems
- Office noise: Are your homicidal thoughts about your noisy office-mate justified?
- More (morons?) on the Singularity
- Confessions of a car dealer
- How the Brain Can Protect Against Cancer
- 'HiCy' drug regimen reverses MS symptoms in selected patients
- We know toddlers can't count, but they are good at statistics
- Not the parrot sketch
- WMAP power asymmetry: FAQ
- Monkeys found fishing in Indonesia
- Virginity pledges may help postpone intercourse among youth
- Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice
- Hubble’s sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster
- To have, and have not
- ADHD an advantage for nomadic tribesmen?
- Toxic algal blooms may cause seizures in sea lions
- The Minimum Sample Complexity of Importance Weighting
- Research refutes myth of pure Scandinavian race
- Octopods, squid show signs of contamination
- Who Shalt Not Kill? Brain Power Leads to Level-Headedness
- Attention Nutmeggers: Microcosm in Madison, Connecticut
- My Pseudo-year at Free MIT
- Diet prior to pregnancy determines sheep's gender
- Chemistry Video
- More marital happiness = fewer sleep complaints
- World's oldest woman had normal brain
- Report confirms drilling, not earthquake, caused Java mud volcano
- Breaking Boundaries
- Hints of ‘time before Big Bang’
- MacKenzie on the credit crisis
- Sherwood, Allen, and radiosondes
- Obamanomics
- String theory animation
- A "shout out" for summer science
- Film content, editing, and directing style affect brain activity
- Drugs, Kate Moss, and Intuitionistic Logic
- Euro 08
- Only His nonexistence could excuse Him
- Serotonin may affect our sense of fairness
- Mystery of infamous 'New England Dark Day' solved by tree rings
- 285G, Lecture 19: The structure of Ricci flow at the singular time, surgery, and the Poincaré conjecture
- Brain stem cells can be awakened
- Eavesdropping On My Readers' Minds
- Lensing and algebra: Where mathematics and astrophysics meet
- $45 trillion needed to fight global warming
- Another new wrinkle in treating skin aging
- The Evolution of Mind: My Talk Online
- Smartkit: I/O game
- Weaknesses of evolution
- When golf threatens the archaeological record
- The Singularity, AI and IEEE
- Microcosm on MSNBC, Podcasts
- Sonofusion with tritium
- Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
- Body position affects memory for events
- A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells
- More Goings-on at the Scienceblog Book Club
- E. coli Evolution Follow-up
- Cassini sees collisions of moonlets on Saturn's ring
- Piracy, terrorism at sea on the rise
- Harvard Laboratory of Developmental Studies summer internship program
- A new way to protect computer networks from Internet worms
- Mortgage Basics (part 2): The System is Broken.
- What's more convincing than talking about brains? Pictures of brains!
- Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs
- Substance in red wine found to keep hearts young
- 285G, Lecture 18: The structure of high-curvature regions of Ricci flow
- Do vaccines cause autism?
- Handling exponential growth in demographic models
- UAH MSU: May 2008 cooler than April by 0.19 °C
- Stockholm Syndrome For Moths
- Carlzimmer.com Will Not Bite You
- NASA: We marginalized, mischaracterized climate change data
- Researchers find human virus in chimpanzees
- Objects changing right before our eyes -- and still not being seen
- Eating and weight gain not necessarily linked
- Small Planet, Small Star
- Two Unrelated Topics
- Majority of Uganda depressed
- Reminder: A Double-Header in Seattle Today
- Fearing the Terminator
- Vindication! Sad children out-perform happy children in attention-to-detail tasks
- Numbers, Amazon-style
- New Paleolithic cave in Israel
- F-theory and experiments
- A New Step In Evolution
- IIT uber alles?
- Experimental Predictions From F-Theory
- Riemann-Roch Theorem for Curves
- 285G, Lecture 17: The structure of κ-solutions
- How hints help speed up math performance -- and what this says about memory
- Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head
- LHC alarmists and the culture of superiority
- Global regularity of wave maps III. Large energy from R^{1+2} to hyperbolic spaces
- A Computer That Can 'Read' Your Mind
- Large-Scale Experiments Needed to Predict Global Change
- Microcosm in the Boston Globe: You Get Old, I Get Old...E. coli Gets Old
- Psychologist runs for Congress
- NASA's Phoenix Lander Makes an Impression on Mars
- Waiting room gadget may prove to be a life-saver
- It's Okay to Keep Those Feelings Inside
- Genetic mutation linked to walking on all 4s
- More girls than boys benefit from breastfeeding
- Reminder: Talking Tonight at Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park, CA
- Shoup on Algebra