Archive for the ‘news’ Category
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
New Scientist reports on DNA Origami:
A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed "DNA origami".
According to the map's creator, Paul Rothemund at Caltech in Pasadena, US, DNA origami ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Coffee enriches my life in so many ways: socially, gustatorily, as a surrogate for other vices, but most of all by fighting the somnolescence induced by a historical avoidance of any kind of regular sleeping pattern. Not being a morning person, my business probably would cease to function if ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Science News reports that experimental evidence continues to mount that mammals who exercise demonstrate both better cognitive abilities and regenerative healing of nervous tissue.
When they dissected the rats' brains, Gage's team found changes similar to those that they'd seen in the previous study's mice: The runners had more new neurons ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
Google takes baby steps into hosting as we predicted here. Looks like they are starting with e-mail, which as we have mentioned is probably their "stickiest" service. Interested organizations are encouraged to sign up for the beta service here. What they say:
Bring Gmail to your domain.
This special beta test lets ...
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Funny if you have a "crackberry" or know someone who has one:
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
With all the political turmoil in the US in the past year, Canadian politicians have been getting envious of the attention. So they've decided to go and do their own boneheaded grab for some media spotlight. And based on over 1000 references in Google News, I would say that it ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
We've been car shopping lately since the 1995 Passat is starting to be less reliable than ever (which is saying a lot) and doesn't cut it for travelling to the country with a dog or going to ultimate tournaments with a bunch of teammates and lots of gear. Storage and ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
I've been watching the whole intelligent design (ID) controversy from the sidelines for some time with mixed feelings. My focus in university was evolutionary biology. I spent quite some time working in a laboratory for experimental evolution (working with microbes with no artificial genetic modifications - strictly natural processes were ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
STEP UP FOR THE CURE - 2005
"The team was triumphant, totalling a distance greater than 20 times Mt. Everest"
Total Stairs Climbed : 789,184 Total Vertical Distance : 301,136 m
I was expecting it ...
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Saturday, September 10th, 2005
Here is where I will be this weekend: http://www.stepupforthecure.com
I have no idea how hard 24 hours of stair running might be, but I imagine it will sorely test our limits. When I make it through I will be sure to pass on what I have learned.
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Andre Agassi defeated James Blake in the quarterfinals of the US Open tennis tournament a few moments ago. This in itself is not amazing unless you consider that Blake has been playing the tennis of his life and was up 2 sets 6-3 6-3 against the 35 year old Agassi. ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Watching the news in the last few days following the disaster in Katrina's wake has provided lots of opportunity to remember what we take for granted in modern society. Many of the images of anarchy and unattended suffering recalled my (probably flawed) memory of Mad Max movies. Imagining oneself in ...
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