Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
There's a ton of great research being done on wakefulness and sleeping drugs - it's so far beyond GABA and amphetamines now that it's ridiculous. Check out this nifty overview from the New Scientist if you're interested.
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Via collision detection, a British study on the relationship between your personality and your strategy when solving jigsaw puzzles.
I've always been a huge fan of jigsaw puzzles - my mom likes to tell the story of how my brother and I would sit at the kitchen counter when we were ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2004
So I'm minding my own business, reading along, when I happen across this post at The Panda's Thumb - it's a response to an essay by a lecturer (not, as the post indicates, a professor) in the UNC-Chapel Hill philosophy department.
I went to UNC as an undergrad; I double-majored in ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2004
Cool article at the New York Times on a recent study on dogs - turns out some geneticists (those darn scientists!) have discovered some interesting facts about the genetic relationships among the various breeds. They're saying they can correctly identify a dog's breed 99% of the time from a DNA ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2004
The BBC is reporting that Library of Alexandria has been discovered. That's fantastic - anybody up for a trip to Egypt?
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