July 2008
- Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum
- Solar eclipse of August 1st
- Nonsense Pretending: Probability as a Disguise
- U.S. Should Rethink 'War On Terrorism' Strategy to Deal with Resurgent Al Qaida
- Researchers Identify Drugs that Enhance Exercise Endurance
- Leaked Olympic ceremony: video
- Most researchers don't understand error bars
- Tevatron favors light Higgs and MSSM
- WSJ compensation survey
- Hurwitz’s Theorem
- Plant Parasite 'Wiretaps' Host
- Liver damage in hepatitis C patients could be treated with warfarin
- Bangladesh gained 1000 squared km recently
- Never Give in to the Enemy
- Cow power could generate electricity for millions
- Gummy bears that fight plaque
- New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications
- Drug takes the fun out of booze
- Miscanthus can meet U.S. biofuels goal using less land than corn or switchgrass
- Pre-eclampsia may be autoimmune disease
- Black holes: quantum mechanics at macroscopic distances
- Understanding prescription drug misuse in older adults
- Math shows how insects breathe underwater
- Study identifies DNA changes in major depression, suicide
- I'll bet you still don't understand error bars
- Solving Tic-Tac-Toe: Game Tree Basics
- Hibert
- Obesity predisposition traced to the brain's reward system
- Computing Hilbert Functions
- Health directors see global warming as looming health threat
- Mucous breakthrough in mice holds promise for cystic fibrosis
- Drinking in excess associated with increased risk for metabolic syndrome
- Slavery: the House apology lacks logic
- Revkin & inaccuracies in the media
- Using bumble bees to catch serial killers
- Women end up less happy than men
- New disease-fighting nanoparticles look like miniature pastries
- Smartkit: SpinIn game
- Beyond Cold: How the World Works at Minus 459 Degrees
- The verbal memory hegemony
- Scientists discover new class of glassy material
- Right place and right time can retrigger drinking
- Low climate sensitivity and other inconvenient truths
- Resultants
- Leonard Susskind, global warming, and groupthink
- Carl Wieman on science education
- Still no mark to market
- Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit 'Surgery'
- Hypnosis shown to reduce symptoms of dementia
- A new kind of mirror symmetry
- Compound that helps rice grow reduces nerve damage
- Monkey just discovered already endangered
- 86 Percent of Americans Could be Overweight or Obese by 2030
- A scientist at work: Streetcorner surveying
- Elimination and Extension Theorems
- Joint Attention and Social Compentence, or what a baby pointing at a toy says about well-behaved toddlers
- Impressionist Spacecraft to View Solar System's Invisible Frontier
- Lung inflammation from influenza could be turned off with new discovery
- Researchers map out America's deadliest roads
- LHC: FAQ
- Third World dementia underestimated
- Hawks in U.S. News
- Tate’s proof of the functional equation
- Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
- Scientists spy an electron dance
- Loránd Eötvös: 160th birthday
- Out of Print Math Books
- Satellites Discover What Triggers Eruptions of the Northern Lights
- Organizing the "idea marketplace"
- The Fibonacci Numbers, Coalgebraicaly
- Skype backdoor
- Blogging Heads Science Saturday
- Compositional Machine Learning Algorithm Design
- Cargo cult science: a video
- Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language
- Anti-HIV Therapy Boosts Life Expectancy 13 Years
- Teaching Multiplication: Is it repeated addition?
- Out of town for three weeks: A request for our readers
- Telescope eye glasses to make driving easier for visually impaired
- Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty
- Mindfulness meditation slows progression of HIV
- Mustard – hot stuff for natural pest control
- Limits on futures trading could boost gas prices
- Should we trust experiments on the web?
- Carnival of Math 37
- The Sun seen to repeat the Dalton minimum
- Janet Hyde: boys = girls in math? Not really
- Representations of GL(n)
- Quote: High Priests of Anthropology
- Why do more Asians have perfect pitch?
- Numeric Pareidolia and God in Π
- Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets
- Chemist goes nano with CoQ10
- Lenses galore - Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies
- Wy do we remember so little of what we see: Results from an experiment
- Groebner Bases and Buchberger’s Algorithm
- Google Knol
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking & society
- Wordle
- Worms do calculus
- Asset-backed oversold? Paulson ready to get back in!
- Polarizing filter allows astronomers to see disks surrounding black holes
- Elementary Proof of Hairy Ball Theorem
- Graduate students and blogging
- Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners
- Commercially-bred Bees Responsible for Decline in Bee Population?
- Examples of Moduli Spaces
- Licking your wounds: scientists isolate compound in human saliva that speeds wound healing
- Roy Spencer in the U.S. Senate
- Binford blogging
- Security flaws in online banking sites found to be widespread
- Cats, instincts, and evolution
- Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
- Schellekens & anthropic principle
- Robot playmates may help children with autism
- The joy of gender imbalances on campus
- Nakayama’s Lemma
- Dr. Horrible goes to Broadway?
- Flattening Stratifications
- Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies
- Outflow from World's Largest River --the Amazon-- Powers Atlantic Ocean Carbon Sink
- Gauge Theory and Langlands Duality
- The Emperor’s Last Clothes?
- Scientists figure out how the immune system and brain communicate to control disease
- New project to develop GPS-like system for moon
- Why are older people worse at only some visuospatial tasks?
- Cranberry juice creates energy barrier that keeps bacteria away from cells
- Monckton, APS, and Medusa
- Timing Y-chromosome STR evolution
- Oceans, not CO2, drove continental warming
- Utility Functions
- Brightest Star in the Galaxy Has New Competition
- Moving Forward In Addressing Health Care Inequalities In The Black Community
- Beijing pollution may trigger heart attacks, strokes
- New evidence of battle between humans and ancient virus
- Constructing the Hilbert Scheme II
- Publishing scientific results: a timeline
- Mangroves key to saving lives
- Carl Icahn, now on Yahoo's board, will help Microsoft
- Video released of rapid Alzheimer's improvement after new immune-based treatment
- A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels
- Bimetric pseudoscience and ghosts
- Massive greenhouse gases may be released as destruction, drying of world wetlands worsens: UN
- Pregnant mice block out unwelcome admirers to protect their pups
- Bay area housing market begins to crack
- How to blog, get tenure and prosper: Starting the blog
- Spectra of gravitational waves
- Lateral gene transfer in evolutionary history
- A new "Wizard"?
- Raw deal for foreign brides in Taiwan: study
- Eruptions wiped out ocean life 94 million years ago
- You don't say: Coffee and cigarette consumption are high among AA attendees
- An ID for Alzheimer's?
- Sunday: Questioning the science of climate change
- Epistasis and Fisher
- Notes from Altenberg
- Global existence and uniqueness results for weak solutions of the focusing mass-critical non-linear Schrödinger equation
- Black holes are politically incorrect
- The mtDNA sequence of Paglicci 23
- Studies refute myths of obese in the workplace
- Wonderlic fun
- Friday Random Ten, July 18
- Cancer researchers call for ethnicity to be taken into account
- Phun: physics fun
- Quote: Scientists and politics
- The Hilbert Scheme
- Bullying-suicide link
- Saharan dust storms sustain life in Atlantic Ocean
- EUR-CZK: Black swan No 23 goes mainstream
- Hendrik Lorentz: 155th birthday
- From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species
- Russian antihistamine shows promise treating Alzheimer's
- Single Boulder May Prove that Antarctica and North America Were Once Connected
- Topologically Non-Trivial Highway
- One more way video games might be good for you
- EPA Releases Report on Climate Change and Health
- Book review: Spook, by Mary Roach
- Iowa Group To Provide Home For Orangutans From Entertainment Industry
- Awaiting a Messenger From the Multiverse
- WSJ on income stagnation for college graduates
- Hydrogen vehicles making impressive progress toward commercialization
- Genetic variant increases triglyceride levels in Asian-Americans
- Moduli Spaces and Base Change
- Indiana Jones IV: very good
- War Nerd interview
- Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars
- (Timothy Chow) Out-of-print math books
- Can you be born a couch potato?
- Incorrectly cleaved protein leads to schizophrenia
- Oxygen therapy might help migraine, cluster headaches
- Scientists close in on source of X-rays in lightning
- Neandertal, other ancient DNA review
- Back to Math: Solving Zero-Sum Games
- For toy-like NASA robots in Arctic, ice research is child's play
- Interesting analyses of monumental scientific research
- Darwin, emotion, and WALL-E
- Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel of HIV
- Underwater search for early Americans
- Hawking to Perimeter?
- Representable Functors
- The Giant’s Shoulders 1
- McCain, computers, and Czechoslovakia
- Julian Schwinger died 14 years ago
- Supervillain Musical
- A New Crack Detection Methodology for Composite Wings
- New page!
- A Colorful Approach to Solar Energy
- Liang Bua cave
- Pigment use and symbolic behavior in the Neandertals
- Classification of Almost Quarter-Pinched Manifolds
- Today, global warming causes...
- Going green can help bottom line
- Flat Modules and Morphisms
- Vonnegut on writing style
- Growing up amid war affects children's moral development
- Kidney transplants less successful at night
- Researchers generate hydrogen without the carbon footprint
- Tracking the location of objects in your mind: It depends on what you believe
- Leon Lederman: 86th birthday
- Sizzle: A Review of the latest from Randy Olsen
- Interesting papers at COLT (and a bit of UAI & workshops)
- Cargo cult science: sociology of science
- Sad news
- Life history and disease in Tasmanian devils
- Edward O. Wilson profile
- Fairly new blog
- New report: Greatest value of forests is sustainable water supply
- Surfing the Universe
- iPhone 3G
- Summer Storms Could Mean More Dead Zones
- Conversion of solar energy in a mechanical form
- Benefits of closing coal plants on childhood neurodevelopment
- Foo camp 2008 coverage
- Ammonia: Proton-electron mass ratio constant for 6 gigayears
- The PZ Cracker Mess
- LHC doomsday: humor
- Tuberculosis is interesting, but a lot older than 10,000 years
- Physicists tweak quantum force
- Bertini’s Theorem
- 150-meter ice core pulled from McCall Glacier
- Excavated Jericho bones may help combat tuberculosis
- Positive thinking is prescription for the heart
- Clay Mathematics Institute Library
- Happy Bastille Day
- Intute
- The Mobius function is strongly orthogonal to nilsequences
- Hearing at Atapuerca
- Japanese build DNA sewing machine
- Wasps and Bumble Bees Heat Up With Protein-Rich Food
- Magnolia Compound Hits Elusive Target in Cancer Cells
- Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant Universe
- 36th Carnival of Mathematics
- Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts
- Beijing ballers
- Olivia Judson: "Read the 'Origin'"
- Middle Eastern families yield intriguing clues to autism
- Carnival of Mathematics
- Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread
- Children are naturally prone to kindness
- 'Cross fire' from the brain makes patients tremble
- Myths about epicycles
- Tullio Regge: 77th birthday
- Nano-sized Circuit Promises Bright View of Early Universe
- Gene Wiki
- New hearing aid technology passes the restaurant noise test
- NASA Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Energy Sources
- Upside of $4 gas? Fewer road deaths!
- Zimmer "flounders"
- Foo camp 2008
- A/c helps footballers avoid illness
- Predicting Barack Obama
- Interesting papers, ICML 2008
- George Musser: The complete idiot's guide to string theory
- Begging for Submissions
- Scientists learn how food affects the brain
- Room temperature superconductivity
- Gender, Time of Day Affect Response to Vaccination
- Police (usually) are able to curb racial bias in shooting suspects
- Feds to probe German subs sunk off Carolina coast
- Fascinating analysis of pioneer anomaly
- Big brains arose twice in higher primates
- Cybernetics and the brain-controlled robot
- Blowing things up
- Cousin marriage and flatus?
- Obese men should lose weight before trying for a baby
- Unusual Nanoscale Mound Formation
- Global warming: slogans of the day
- Weeds and climate change
- Insect warning colors aid cancer research
- Zeresenay Alemseged profile
- This and That
- Infant formula as Alzheimer's treatment, preventive?
- Study points to cocktail therapy for Alzheimer's
- Protein marker for schizophrenia risk
- Euro-update update: Is a photo about whether science is art, art?
- Fish oil, red yeast lower cholesterol?
- Social Networking Site
- Normalization and Normal Varieties
- Genetically identical stem cells
- How Much do you Know?
- Finer lines for microchips
- Condi Rice signs Czech-U.S. radar treaty
- Women's genes more prone to alcoholism?
- Hassell’s proof of scarring for the Bunimovich stadium
- Membrane minirevolution escalates
- Weed species (part 1)
- Baseball diamonds: the lefthander's best friend
- Back to the Future
- Parents of twins report more mental health problems
- LHC Update
- Will video games solve sex-discrimination in science?
- Shanidar photo
- A revelation
- Annals of psychometry: IQs of eminent scientists
- Take it from a scientist: Children are weird
- Cognitive Daily reviews study on reputation-building
- Fungi the cause of many outbreaks of disease but mostly ignored
- Tofu linked to poorer memory
- A baby's smile is a natural high
- PTSD causes early death from heart disease
- NASA cracks the speed of light
- To Dual or Not
- Popgen ramblings on range dispersals
- B-Trees - Balanced Search Trees for Slow Storage
- Topical oral syrup prevents early childhood caries
- Geologists study China earthquake for glimpse into future
- Aardvarchaeology reviews "Journey to 10,000 BC"
- Take a whiff of this book
- Pigliucci on agenda for Altenberg meeting
- Excitement about numerical coincidences
- Jaromír Jágr: from NHL to Omsk
- Interview With Atle Selberg
- Petabyte Scale Data-Analysis and the Scientific Method
- "Walden", evolution and climate change
- Research sheds light on the molecular basis of crib death
- Volcanic Activity Shaped Mercury After All
- Sanger Institute sequences a trillion bases in six months
- More Presentation Preparation
- Resolution of Singularities
- Happy Independence Day
- Problems with some permalinks
- Paleolithic multimedia
- Interference in Memory
- Xian-Jin Li: a wrong proof of the Riemann hypothesis
- Sewall Wright and migration
- Li’s Preprint
- Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market
- High-pitched voices are most attractive -- with a few exceptions
- Gary Marcus on Jindal, Intelligent Design
- Sherlock Holmes on the nonimportance of theories
- Resveratrol found to improve health, but not longevity in aging mice on standard diet
- Ajit Varki profile
- Woman aquires new accent after stroke
- UAH: June 2008: still negative anomaly
- LHC to be cooled down by July 14th
- Washington Post covers mold at Lascaux
- Notes of a Japanese soldier in the USSR
- Paisley Caves Jenkins interview
- Missing chimpanzee in LA
- Hewlett-Packard: Czechia wins Euro 2008
- Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis?
- The body's own 'cannabis' is good for the skin
- Communication not language in the brain
- Big archaeology find in Egypt
- Experimental philosophy movement explores real-life dilemmas
- Proprietary Data in Academic Research?
- Weight Watchers Versus Fitness Centers
- Synthetic molecules emulate enzyme behavior for the first time
- Quantum Dots Can Penetrate Skin Through Minor Abrasions
- A new look, a new server
- Erectile dysfunction lower in men who have intercourse more often
- Lindau: Half of Nobel prize winners are skeptical about AGW orthodoxy
- Rocketing through water
- 'Hibernation-on-demand' drug significantly improves survival after extreme blood loss
- The Black-Scholes equation
- Zimmer moves Loom to Discover
- Effects of Healing Touch Therapy Being Studied
- The Loom Ends. The Loom Lives!
- Neuroscience that matters
- Physics Nobel Laureates at Lindau
- Two roads from N=8 SUGRA to string theory
- New mandible from Thomas Quarry, Morocco