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What if he'd called it PIGS?

September 26, 2008 8:07am

I wish Langley would go a step further, and explain why we never see the COPS deal with suspects that actually demand to see a lawyer.

WikiProteins: a collaborative space for biologists to annotate proteins

May 28, 2008 9:36am

Efforts like this will never reach their full potential

a) Vastly improve the ability to automatically mine known publications

b) Train biologists in some sort of new nomenclature and descriptive language to describe proteins and their functions/interactions

I really do not see most scientists having time to visit and maintain efficient entries on external websites while simultaneously fulfilling the requirements of the journals they publish in (a core part of their work). It's going to take an enforcement effort by the journals. It worked with the PDB... journals began requiring their submitting authors to deposit their structures in the PDB as a precondition to their publication being accepted.

Brain uses a third of its energy on "housekeeping"

April 30, 2008 5:19am

No wonder being completely sedentary is so exhausting. I've got an area of low entropy to maintain!

NYPD cops videoed illegally warring on photographers

April 29, 2008 11:39am

#14

I was photographing a KKK rally, and I was glad the cops were there. Idiots on both sides of the issue were foaming at the mouth and just waiting to mix it up.

They didn't even bother me about my DSLR and Telephoto. Granted, this was small-town Alabama, not a locked-down metropolis.

Watercolors of irradiated mutant bugs

April 26, 2008 11:42am

I'm glad you guys are all over the weakness of the argument that these are mutant bugs resulting from radation.

So many of the deformities seen her are "missing sections", many times at the extremities. Insects are fragile, with snappable exoskeletons, and lose bits all the time. Look around in any garage and you can find accumulations of bug bits.

As art, though, I find these quite beautiful.

Paleo-Internet videos digitized

March 18, 2008 7:36am

This may be useful to people who never got on the web... This is stuff that my dad would actually find useful and novel.

Niagara Falls's secret tunnel

March 6, 2008 12:39am

This is what it looks like when traveling down the trachea where it splits into the two bronchi. Choose the left or right lung.

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