Did you know that when you drink water, you are not really being vegetarian?I didn't either. It turns out that when you drink water, it could have microbes and other small stuff - well, I knew that part. What I did not know is that viruses and bacteria and such were considered animals to vegetarians. So even if you purify water by boiling it and killing the germs, you are still drinking dead...
read moreImagine a world where the tedious moments of life, cleaning or driving a car or whatever, could be spent visiting the Louvre or meeting new people or learning history. The whole universe of information is at your fingertips. The only evidence of intelligence is how well you utilize the system, multitasking and parsing information while chatting and even letting someone ride shotgun in your...
read more20 years ago, your parents knew there were two things you did not discuss with dinner guests. Your grandparents knew it, your great-grandparents knew it. 2,000 years ago people knew it. In 2014, we are so much smarter we no longer know it. Maybe some surveys will help. And so to help us out, two papers address the most pressing topic in popular culture - how people feel about being...
read moreLast week, the L.A. Times was able to post an article about an earthquake 3 minutes after it happened.No human could write that fast. And no human did. read...
read moreWhen you think of systems biology, you don't ordinarily think of process verification and methodology.Sure, there has been data verification in biology and clinical trials in pharmaceuticals, but best methods and best practices don't really exist for systems biology.And when you think of systems biology, you really don't think of Philip Morris, the cigarette folks.It may be time to rethink both....
read moreThere's no greater feel-good fallacy than the belief that organic food is somehow superior to conventionally farmed food. In reality, organic food isn't more environmentally responsible, it is worse, it isn't better for your health, it is worse and, for the most part, it isn't even grown by small farmers, it is giant conglomerates who, like with gluten-free, fat-free or any other food fad,...
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