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Hidden DNA Gene Regulation

A new form of DNA gene regulation has been reported by scientists at Harvard University.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/expanding-genome/

Kessler Syndrome. Debris Belt.

An article on Wired.Com describes how a prediction has come true for the Kessler Syndrome. This prediction published in 1978 described how accidental collisions between satellites and other metallic items in orbit would create many smaller pieces of debris, with the potential for creating a "Debris Belt" around the earth.

Congress Opens Investigation Into Genetic Testing Companies

Wired.Com headlined a US Congressional inquiry into several companies offering genetic testing to the public.

Lost Cure For Scurvy

Essay on the blog of Maciej Cegłowski detailing the historical tale of how the cure for scurvy was discovered and lost.

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

Drosophila Fruit Fly Changes Genus

Scientists have changed the Genus for the major Fruit Fly used in genetics research. The old name, Drosophila melanogaster is changed to Sophophora melanogaster. The name change was covered in SlashDot.Org, and refers to Nature.Com.

Hacking Bodily Bacteria. Wired.Com

            Article in Wired.Com supporting that view that certain autoimmune diseases, like ezcema, are increased by the anti-microbial culture of modern life.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/04/bacteriahacking

Common Cold

Today I am suffering from the ailment that many characterize as the most common disease of humanity: the Common Cold. Starting with the info in Wikipedia, this "upper respiratory virus" is most commonly due to:

• Rhinoviruses
• Coronaviruses

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold

CERN Hadron Collider

A video on YouTube.Com summarizes the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

> http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

The video has a dozen dancers singing to a rap tune describing the features of the Collider. This "race track" in Switzerland and France accelerates particles to try to understand ideas like how "dark matter" is made, and how the universe was created.

This Collider is a top research facility for physics.

Cooking food .. human evolution -- Wired.Com

An article on Wired.com dated Feb. 13, 2009 describes some potential effects that cooking food may have had on the evolution of humanity.

> http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/cookinghumans.html

The article showcases a future book by Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham at a 2009 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dr. Wrangham's book in the field of Anthropology is titled "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human", and is due out in June 2009.

Bibsonomy .. Social Bookmarking using BibTeX format

A social bookmarking website from Knowledge & Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany.

It combines features of several types of bookmarking sites. Though I could not master it in my first exposure, it appears to use the Free and Open Software format "BibTeX" for publication management. It links to JabRef, a free program that uses BibTeX.

http://www.bibsonomy.org/