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In pursuit of a happiness geneThe pursuit of happiness characterizes the human condition. But for those suffering from stress, money trouble or chronic illness, a positive outlook on life can be difficult to find. Now, a Tel Aviv University researcher says we should look to our genes.Initial research findings have made Prof. ...
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The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock : Rolling StoneAt the age of eighty-eight, after four children and a long and respected career as one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists, James Lovelock has come to an unsettling conclusion: The human race is doomed. "I wish I could be more hopeful," he tells me one sunny morning as we ...
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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Why ET's genetic code could be just like oursWhy ET's genetic code could be just like ours A new thermodynamic analysis suggests that 10 of life's 20 amino acids must be common throughout the cosmos One of the great outstanding questions in biology involves the evolution of the genetic code and the fact it relies on 20 amino acids. ...
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No Sponge In Human Family Tree: Sponges Descended From Unique AncestorAn international research group led by LMU Munich Geobiology Professor Gert Wörheide and colleagues from France and Canada has now managed to explain the relationships between some of these very early animal groups with a high degree of confidence. In the most comprehensive study of its kind, ...
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Our Panarchic Future | Worldwatch InstituteHolling and his colleagues call their ideas "panarchy theory"-after Pan, the ancient Greek god of nature. Together with anthropologist and historian Joseph Tainter's ideas on complexity and social collapse, this theory helps us see our world's tectonic stresses as part of a long-term global ...
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How HIV stays one step ahead of immune system - Los Angeles TimesHow HIV stays one step ahead of immune system HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the fastest-evolving entities known. That's why no one has yet been able to come up with a vaccine: The virus mutates so rapidly that what works today in one person may not work tomorrow or in others. A ...
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El Camarote » Archivo del Blog » El futuro según Downes (I)Stephen Downes (National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology, New Brunswick, Canada) nos ha dado permiso para traducir y publicar su artículo The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On. Debido a su extensión, hemos preferido dividirlo en tres entradas. A continuación ...
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Pretty Women Make Men Shortsighted | Scientific BloggingAristotle figured out pretty early on that human beings are by their nature constantly pulled by two opposing forces: on the one hand their propensity to go after immediate rewards, even though they are often deleterious for them (akrasia, or “weakness of the will”); on the other hand the ...
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