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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

August news

Modularity and abstraction in a computer language? Its about time! Deep Thought not far away.

A robot controlled by artificial brain built from rat neurons. I wonder who got to say "its aliivve!"

Walpiri people here in Australia also fascinatingly have no words for numbers, yet they can count.

Dung beetles evolving

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    • ►  March (1)
      • March 09 update
  • ▼  2008 (51)
    • ►  November (4)
      • Giant cell leaves tracks
      • Life and thermodynamics
      • Entropy and evolution
      • Update overdue
    • ▼  September (2)
      • LHC booted up
      • August news
    • ►  July (9)
      • New stuff
      • OOL and evolution part 2
      • cell signalling breakthroughs in the ancient world...
      • Hadean life
      • Origin debate on Pharyngula
      • Book Reviews: Margulis + Dawkins
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      • Neanderthal nerds
    • ►  June (11)
      • Google and the brain
      • Kepler mission
      • Wasp voodoo
      • bee sting
      • Murchison nucleobases
      • Evolution in a test tube
      • Influx June links
      • Bo Diddley 1928 - 2008
      • Little creatures
      • Ocean floor origin of life
      • First contact
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      • Shrimp and holes in the net
      • Deep biosphere confirmed?
      • More satay prawns anyone?
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      • Rosenhouse unmasked
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      • Intelligence and complexity
      • Diversity in human mtDNA
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      • Science and skepticism
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      • Free will in question
      • Species merge
      • Internet black holes
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      • Chirality of amino acids due to meteorite star exp...
      • 35,000yr old Pilbara tools