In what sense can we distinguish reality from technology? How far can we go before our words become so inter-defined that there is almost nothing we can say without saying everything?
Stanford Report, April 1, 2009
Molecules key to immune system also play role in brain
BY BRUCE GOLDMAN
Carla Shatz
Molecules assumed to be in the exclusive employ of the immune system have been caught moonlighting in the brain—with a job description apparently quite distinct from their role in immunity.
Carla Shatz, PhD, professor...
Just the first few paragraphs of the paper.
Leaving it up here for archive and for comments! :-)
In a time where physical possessions begin to lose their once-crucial roles, where more and more live in multiple countries and spend much of their time traveling, where identity is becoming less rooted to a physical form and more to an...
Original article at
May 1, 2009
Doing science in the open
Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration
In your high-school science classes you almost certainly learned Hooke’s law, relating a...
Human progress : first it was exponential, then climate change brought it down to linear, until our energy capture capacity brought everything to a slow and final halt. It took hundreds of years past the third world war to finally reach our carrying capacity. It is a state in which we let all go to waste, smothered and drowned in petrochemical...