"Everyone experiences the Link differently. We will try to get the patch into a primary or secondary sensory cortex, but it's never perfect. It will take some months getting used to. Once you become familiar with your own personal cognitive manifestation of the Link, I'm told the boys have a sort of language worked out for communication....
"Forget Jurassic Park, forget digging through fossilized and shredded remnants of DNA. With modern informatics algorithms and the vast database of genomes gathered by robotic sequencers, we are able to travel back in genetic time. We can statistically infer the genome of any common ancestor of any surviving group of organisms. We can even...
September 1, 2009 6:20 PM
Bye bye to the 100W bulb
Shanta Barley, reporter
Europeans bid farewell to the 100 watt bulbs today. From now on, Edison's brainchild can no longer be legally made in or imported into the European Union, thanks to a Union-wide ban which kicks off today.
Shed a tear, but don't let your sentimentality tempt you into...
My grandmother is writing a novella about a young woman who begins a journey through time to discover her family secrets. Because this woman is a geneticist, grandma must explore this field
to get familiar with the basics. This is how she found this site...
I could never grasp the size until I actually travelled from a coffee bean to a...
With the release of the movie "2012" a curiosity of the date has humans across the globe. What does it mean? When will it happen and Why?.
First we look at the date December 21st 2012. The date in which a major astronomical event occurs. This is when our little piece of space dust aligns with the center of the Universe. This is a...
Recently during #journchat, I saw a reference to a post titled Does Your Twitter Handle Belong on Your Resume? The author is a PR college student, and the conversation around the post is mainly tactical, but the bigger picture surrounding our online identities is one I've been wanting to address for some time, so this gives me the opportunity....
Beyond race, gender, class and nationality one can define a human by personal type. Two tests exist readily available online.
At Human Metrics I answered 72 Yes/No questions to find out that among 16 possible types I am an INFP, or a Healer, which apparently only pops up 1 in 100, so if the permanent colony is 100 people divided by world...
I get stuck when thinking about my future form and environment, because I am thinking in my current form. My current form has physiological limitations--including my brain's limitations. My limitations make me ask questions, irrelevant ones I think, such as "How/Why/When do I ___?" I say irrelevant, because these questions relate to the...
That's right! I, Aaron Kinney, atheist and anarchist, have just become an ordained minister at the Universal Life Church.
Ordination is free, and getting licensed to conduct weddings is only $5. You can even get a doctorate of divinity for only $29.99!
If you are like me, and you don't dig that dogmatic religious stuff, you'll be pleased...