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Category Archives: Science

Scenes from Antarctica - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Who needs science fiction?

Who Are We? - ChronicleReview.com

I am the family face;/ Flesh perishes, I live on.

Dr. Robert Epstein: McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging

the highest mental age we can achieve is fifteen and a half

ENIGMA’S SECRET TWIN

Bodyguard of lies

Moonshot

NASA - Doomed Moon of Mars

137 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

15 more than twice 61>

Narrow Gates of Inevitability

My guess is that the narrow gates of life’s evolution do not restrict how often it happens as much as it restricts how often alternative foundations (like DNA) happen. There may be only a few basic ways to construct a self-evolved, extropic self-reproducing life form.  Once you have that, then possibilities open up. And if [...]

Tighten up or loosen up?

If panicking is conventional failure, choking is paradoxical failure.

Beyond Carbon - Scientists Worry About Nitrogen’s Effects on Planet - NYTimes.com

The weakening of biodiversity, the pollution of rivers, these are local issues that need local attention. Smog. Acid rain. Coasts. Forests. It’s all nitrogen.

Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: Re: [HM] Coauthorship (was: Oskar Morgenstern)

All this issue began in the late forties when, at Levi-Strauss’s request,
Andre Weil wrote an appendix (pp 278-285) to Claude’s famous book ‘Les
structures elementaires de la parente’”