37. The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter by Katherine Ellison Lots of studies done on rats in this one. The author is an investigative journalist, and that is evident throughout. She reports...is a history of libraries, but much more. It delves into libraries' role in our societal conscious and continually praises the beauty of books. Lots to learn from this book, and just as much to enjoy

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...of Georgetown. Extensive photos and fossils from the forest will be presented at the lecture. (If you'd like to see some of the fossils and can't make it to the lecture, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry coal mine exhibit includes a section of the shale "roof/forest floor" that visitors can see.) Local Forest Makes History The discovery of the underground forest made Discover...

I felt positively evil today as I thought warm thoughts about Global Warming. It was over 20 o and I was outside wearing just a T-shirt. And it's almost November. If not for instant darkness and leaveless...true. Because everyone should know that when your beheaded you still have time to understand the situation before you check out. Beats headless chickens running around your backyard, doesn't it?

I was working on my dissertation when I heard about how laugher could be complex. And it truly is! Have you even wonder why do you laugh when someone trips or you don't when that person gets real hurt...find out more about laugher: - http://people.howstuffworks.com/laughter.htm - http://men.webmd.com/features/why-we-laugh By the way, my portable lives again! YES :D Now let's see for how long.

Британские ученые установили, что осы Liostenogaster flavolineata , ведущие общественный образ жизни, тем охотнее помогают родственницам в выкармливании потомства, чем ниже их шансы занять место «царицы»...не противоречит классической эволюционной теории. Источник: Jeremy Field, Adam Cronin, Catherine Bridge. Future fitness and helping in social queues  // Nature . 2006. V. 441. P. 214-217. 

Программа конференции Модели квантовой теории поля – 2008, посвященной Александру Николаевичу Васильеву 5 – 7 ноября 2008 Конференц-зал им. В.А.Фока 5 ноября 10-00 Открытие 10-30 – 11-00 Д. В. Ширков...ноября 10-30 – 11-00 А.Н. Манашов 11-05 – 11-35 Е.В.Дамаскинский 11-40 – 12-10 А.Г. Басуев 12-15 - 12-45 Н.Е.Савицкая 12-50 - 13-20 М.Бордаг 13-25 - 13-55 В.А.Андрианов 14-30 Обед (в голубом зале

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At the Seasteading conference Patri mentioned something about the Fermi Paradox , which I didn't remember having heard about. It goes like this: even at very small rates of appearance of intelligent life...light years, thus even by the time they happened to notice we were here it would already be too late to contact us by radio before we happened to hit upon their "better" communications technology.

I used to be, or would have been be if I was more important, a little outspoken on the common wisdom about entropy. For a long time, I was unconvinced of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which states that...guy down, and email him the URL to this blog post, because everyone likes good-natured ribbing from an internet stranger. If anyone wants to make fun of the stuff I wrote in college, please contact