The laws of physics have always been considered immutable, but physicist Paul Davies suggests in a recent "New Scientist" article that we need to start...
from a recent article in National Geographic: "When it comes to deciding what to do next, most ants don't have a clue." Although ants aren't smart, ant...
If recursion is what Chomsky and Hauser and Fitch have called 'the essential property of language', the essential building block, then the fact that recursion ...
David Gelernter discusses in a recent article what will replace the Internet. http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0507/156.html Well, I guess it will be...
Can we build a consistent mental model for reasoning about concurrency ? Since this is difficult, it is perhaps easier for developers to think in terms of...
Dear all, The program of ECAL2007, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, is now online in www.ecal2007.org. We invite you to have a look to the titles...
While we are not yet running out of oil, even oil optimists expect energy demand to outstrip supply, as a new science article says. That means oil and fuel...
"The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds" William Sims Bainbridge, Science Vol. 317 (2007) 472-476 Abstract: "Online virtual worlds, electronic...
Journal Club is a weekly column published in Nature's Research Highlights pages. Each column presents a researcher's choice of paper from the past year. In...
Tumours on tumours - hypertumors - might limit lethal disease in large animals, see http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070730/full/070730-3.html "Cancer may be...
The famous musician Stevie Wonder is a victim of ROP. Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a dangerous eye disorder that primarily affects premature infants ...
Unicode 5.0 encodes exactly 98,884 graphic characters on different planes. Here you can see them all: What does it stand for? In which languages is it used?...
The idea we might live in a computer simulation is not new. Could it be that our universe world might be somebody else's hobby ? Or an accident in an attempt...
Is there anything you'd like to say to the one who is simulating our world? -The game sucks but the resolution is great! -Is it possible to leave the simulated...
Team finds way to create cancer stem cells http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/breast-cancer-0813.html A way to eliminate them would be much better.. -J....
From the biggest companies of the world, nearly all have something to do with oil and automobiles, except Wal-Mart. 9 out of 10 from the biggest companies of...
Philip Ball writes in Nature about the two new books from Miller, Page and Epstein (Philip Ball, Social science goes virtual, Nature Vol. 448 August 7 (2007)...
The complexity of ageing and cancer does not allow simple generalizations. If it is possible to draw a simple connection, then one could say: -Accumulated...
What do administration, aliens, space-flights, ball games and wars have in common ? Long periods of boredom interruped by moments of terror: Weeks and months...
Dear all, The definitive and detailed program of ECAL2007, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, to be held in Lisbon (10 - 14 September), as well as a ...
from a book review in Science (Eric Werner, "How Central is the Genome", Science Vol. 317 August 10 (2007) 753-754 about the conductor metaphor: "Even though...
Death seems to have provided William Shakespeare the best route to superstardom Chicago Tribune Book review by Art Winslow: "Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely...
Some call it the Primordial Existential Question, or PEQ. Why is there something rather than nothing? The PEQ question can be traced at least back to Leibniz ...
I've always wondered why do we not view "life", "intelligence" as an emergent property of a complex system of collaborating cells which again could be seen as...
Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfoot Indians said 1890: "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time....
Very interesting point of view, Jochen. I never thought our life as an exception. Since kid I was taught that life is wonderful, life is a bless. Now I know...
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