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• Piglet Squid, Football Octopod, Other Bizarre Underwater Species Found

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 140
  Be amazed! Deep within the dark ocean depths are bizarre and odd-shaped deep-sea creatures that were discovered during the ten-year Census of Marine Life, which ends in 2010. This is what they found. Video Courtesy: Census of Marine Life Piglet Squid Helmet Jelly Sea Angel Football Octopod Jewel Squid ...
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• Origin of Life: RNA molecules forming in warm water

  
  Eideard — Authority: 492
  Origins of life, generating RNA molecules.
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• Quantum gravity abandons General Relativity

  
  Later On — Authority: 455
  At least, at high energies, as I understand this article by Zeeya Merali in Scientific American : Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity. Physicists have struggled to marry ...
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• Astec Lifesciences Ltd - to list November 25, 2009

  
  Stock Advice — Authority: 136
  Astec Lifesciences Ltd. The equity shares of Astec Lifesciences Limited will be listed and admitted to dealings on the Exchange in the list of B Group effective from Wednesday, November 25, 2009Astec Lifesciences IPO Listing Details:ISIN: INE563J01010IPO Listing Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009BSE Script Code: ...
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• Four in 10 ‘coma patients’ may be conscious, says expert (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 24 (IANS) The doctor who discovered a Belgian patient presumed to have been in a deep coma for 23 years while being conscious all along has said the breakthrough highlights a ‘locked-in syndrome’. The condition is described as one where patients are unable to show that they are conscious.Steven ...
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• The Manhattan Declaration: Religious Liberty

  
  A Blog by Randy Thomas — Authority: 122
  152 Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical leaders created and signed a declaration concerning Life, Marriage and Relgious Liberty.  As of this post The Manhattan Declaration has crested over 62,000 signatures. I posted the marriage section over on the Exodus blog earlier today. I really like the humility I see in ...
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• Wood, It’s What’s For Dinner

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 496
  A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, ”Where’s the bar tender?”Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land.  Most deep-sea dwellers rely on  marine snow (detritus raining from the surface), large food falls like dead whales, or chemosynthetic pathways like those at hot vents and cold seeps. ...
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• Are We Alone for 11/23/09 - Carbon Your Enthusiasm

  
  Cloudymidnights — Authority: 124
  Are We Alone - Carbon Your Enthusiasm Bond it to oxygen and it’s the scourge of climate change. But earthly life wouldn’t be possible without carbon, and maybe that’s true for alien life, too. And carbon has other exciting forms: tiny diamonds may be evidence of a catastrophic comet impact 13,000 years ...
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• Are We Alone for 11/23/09 - Carbon Your Enthusiasm

  
  ASTRO LINK — Authority: 123
  Are We Alone - Carbon Your Enthusiasm Bond it to oxygen and it’s the scourge of climate change. But earthly life wouldn’t be possible without carbon, and maybe that’s true for alien life, too. And carbon has other exciting forms: tiny diamonds may be evidence of a catastrophic comet impact 13,000 years ...
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• Re-engineering the Food System for Better Health

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 420
  Good food nation According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 1980 and 2006 the percentage of obese teenagers in the United States grew from 5 to 18, while the percentage of pre-teens suffering from obesity increased from 7 to 17. … Obesity is widespread due to our national-scale system of food production ...
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• Professor Nancy Klimas talks about XMRV and ME/CFS

  
  THE NICEGUIDELINES BLOG — Authority: 134
  Dr Nancy Klimas, from the University of Miami, talked about the XMRV retrovirus link with ME/CFS when she was interviewed yesterday on the South Florida Today news programme.
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• After Re-Engineering Itself, Verdezyne Sets Course to Develop Biofuels and “Green” Industrial Chemicals

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  Synthetic Biology , Industrial Chemicals , Biofuels Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: After Carlsbad, CA-based Verdezyne disclosed last month that it plans to raise more than $15 million in venture funding, I arranged to sit down with Damien Perriman, the company’s vice president of business development. As ...
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• Is the City of Toronto anti-car? Say it isnt so.

  
  Jim Kenzie's The Driver's Seat — Authority: 129
  Because the City of Toronto keeps doing things like assigning scarce road resources to the half-dozen bicycles which will soon be plying our streets come January and taking those resources away from the twelve million cars that really need them, you might think that The Big Smoke is somehow anti-car. Now, for once ...
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• Medical Literature Search Engine Quertle Announces Full Text Searching

  
  RockyRadar.com - On the Radar — Authority: 123
  Quertle LLC today announced the release of version 2.0 of its free medical literature search engine available at quertle.info. Quertle uses advanced semantics optimized for scientific literature to enable users to more easily find relevant results. The new release features full-text content from over 60,000 articles ...
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• Web Gadget to View Cell Sizes to Scale

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 420
  Image of cell size gadget from University of Utah The Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah has a nice web gadget that lets you zoom in on various cells to see how large they are compared to each other. Above see a red blood cell, x chromosome, baker’s yeast and (small) e-coli bacterium. A red ...
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• Life Science Opportunities

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 159
  At Brunel Recruitment We Get Technical People, and we want to get you! Brunel Recruitment have clients across the country in the following areas: Medical Device ( Class I,II, and II ) Pharmaceutical ( API/ Solid Dose/ Sterile Injectables/ Oral solutions) Food Science/ Nutrition Biotechnology CROs - Contract ...
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• Sharklet Scores SBIR Grant for Catheter Development

  
  RockyRadar.com - On the Radar — Authority: 123
  Sharklet Technologies, Inc announced that it has been awarded a $168,000 SBIR grant to develop a urinary catheter with the Sharklet micro pattern. When imprinted on surfaces, the Sharklet micro pattern, modeled after the naturally occurring patterns on shark skins, inhibits bacterial growth by creating an ...
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• The science of success

  
  Later On — Authority: 455
  Very interesting article by David Dobbs in the Atlantic Monthly. The blurb: Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. ...
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• Is free will all in your head?

  
  Later On — Authority: 455
  Interesting article by Christof Koch in Scientific American : Surely there must have been times in high school or college when you laid in bed, late at night, and wondered where your “free will” came from? What part of the brain—if it is the brain—is responsible for deciding to act one way or another? One ...
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• How to remember things

  
  Later On — Authority: 455
  Very interesting article by Alex Lickerman, MD: I once came up with a metaphor I thought perfectly captured the sheer mass of material my classmates and I were expected to memorize in our first two years of medical school: it was like being asked to enter a grocery store and memorize the names of every product in ...
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