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The 2006 Society for Neuroscience Meeting is approaching (in October), and I just wanted to repost this about the Dalai Lama’s speech at SFN last year, from the “archives.”
First, this post is a summary of online accounts from people that heard the Dalai Lama’s speech at the Society for Neuroscience; I was unable to […]

The new trend among professional soccer players is storing their children’s umbilical cords. They’re hoping the cells might treat future cartilage injuries. In Bodyhack.

Footballers Save Umbilical Cords
Originally from Wired News: Top Stories

From MSNBC:
At Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology near Tokyo, Hiratsuka and his colleagues experimented with one of the most rapid crawling bacteria, Mycoplasma mobile. This pear-shaped microbe, a millionth of a meter long, can glide over surfaces at up to seven-tenths of an inch an hour. Translated to a 6-foot-tall […]

Firefox extension GTDGmail integrates your Getting Things Done implementation directly in your Gmail acount.
Gmail has always been a good GTD tool, but GTDGmail makes setting up of all your contexts, projects, and next actions a breeze. Honestly, I already have my own system of labels and whatnot in Gmail that I love, but after […]

Merci à Cedric Giorgi d’attirer mon attention sur la version 2006 du Gartner Hype Cycle. Ils placent le Web 2.0 à moins de deux ans d’une adoption “mainstream”. Intéressant. Cédric a plus de remarques, en particulier une comparaison avec la version 2005… ZDNet en parle aussi.

Le Gartner Hype Cycle 2006 for Emerging Technologies
Originally […]

Want to be a millionaire? The Business Opportunities Weblog suggests that you ask yourself three questions:

First, what comes easy to me, but harder to others?
The second question is, what would you do for work for years and years and never have to get paid for it?
And the third question is, how can you be […]

From Nature:
Genetic mutations that increase lifespan also seem to be particularly good at fighting tumours, a worm study suggests. The finding could shed light on why cancer risk increases as we get older, and may also suggest new targets for cancer therapeutics.
You might expect that genes that promote long life and fight cancer […]

Jeff Hecht in New Scientist:
Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? This simple question is splitting America apart, with a growing proportion thinking that we did not descend from an ancestral ape. A survey of 32 European countries, the US and Japan has revealed that only Turkey […]

From New Scientist:
A new silicon chip capable of manipulating the spin of a single electron could ultimately allow futuristic quantum computers to be built using conventional electronic technology, researchers say.
A quantum bit, or “qubit”, is analogous the bits used in conventional computers. But, instead of simply switching between two states, representing “0″ and “1″, quantum […]

From Scientific American:
Television can act like a painkiller when it comes to children and is more effective than a mother’s comforting, according to a small Italian study. The University of Siena study, published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, was based on 69 children aged seven to 12 who were divided into three groups to […]