Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net This is possibly one of the weirdest things I have read this year. You (yes, you) are more likely to die around 11:00 am than any other time. That is, provided your death is the sort that happens in old age, as opposed to, say, being hit … RT @BoingBoing: The circadian … Continue reading The circadian rhythms of death
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Open science event in London this weekend
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net If you’re in London this weekend, you should know that the Wellcome Trust is sponsoring a two-day bioscience hackathon with prizes awarded for the best ideas in four categories: Open Me — collecting data on yourself and making it use… RT @BoingBoing: Open science event in London this weekend http://flip.it/kqy0Y Open … Continue reading Open science event in London this weekend
Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost … Continue reading Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley
Digital tracking reveals the relation between birds and cigarette butts
What birds are doing with your cigarette butts Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net Nicotine is one of nature’s bug zappers. Seriously. Lots of plants have evolved to produce bug-repelling chemicals as part of their defense mechanisms and tobacco happens to be one of those plants. So when city-dwelling birds use the… RT @BoingBoing: What birds are doing … Continue reading Digital tracking reveals the relation between birds and cigarette butts
The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I really enjoyed reading a recent story in The New York Times Magazine about attempts to understand extreme longevity — the weird tendency for certain populations to have larger-than-average numbers of people who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles … Continue reading The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100
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