Peter Nixon

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Peter Nixon

Saturday, 31 January 2004

NY Times 25 most provocative science questions. Today's New York Science Times celebrates the section's 25th anniversary. It was perhaps the first dedicated science section (and could be the last the way things are going). See a short history of the section.

Read the 25 questions and answers online. (free registration required)

Naturally, the questions are not the most significant, deepest, hardest or anything else but I think they do a fair job of being the most provocative in the sense that they have in the past and continue to provoke considerable discussion.

Importantly, they address the big question Does Science Matter?

[David Harris: Science news]
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Friday, 30 January 2004

Network: The Victorian Internet. It spawned online subcultures. It spread information yet also fostered crime. Moralists deplored it; legislators tried to regulate it; pundits claimed it made traditional journalism obsolete. It was the telegraph.
[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
9:49:38 PM
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Out with a bang!
Go Pat!
[Eurosport: Cycling]
9:40:38 PM
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opprobrium
[Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
9:33:39 PM
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Goodies for you. Favelets and Linky-poos from us to you.
[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
9:22:05 PM
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Students on suspension tune in to class online - FREDREKA SCHOUTEN, Chicago Sun times. Cameras record every minute of Beverly Pearson's day as a high school English teacher. When Pearson strides to the blackboard, a lens swivels to track her movements. A microphone captures each word. It's all piped electronically to a nearby building a [Educational Technology]
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New York pardons Lenny Bruce. US comedian Lenny Bruce is pardoned by the state of New York 40 years after he was convicted of obscenity.
Lenny will be pleased.
[BBC News | World | UK Edition]
9:03:56 PM
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Tuesday, 6 January 2004

Polymer Snail Crawls Like the Real Thing
So what is life?
[Scientific American]
12:19:43 AM
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Monday, 5 January 2004

Oldest Known Ancestor of Marsupials Discovered in China
Damn! These are OUR animals!
[Scientific American]
11:55:48 PM
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press release. I'm not a biotech expert, so I'll just print the press release and link to the story:

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at a small Boston area biotech company have created the most developed human clone embryo yet. The cloned embryo grew to at least 16 cells, a stage of development where it becomes useful for stem cell research, WIRED magazine reports in its January issue. The magazine will be on newsstands on Tuesday, December 23, and at www.wired.com/wired.
Writing for WIRED magazine, Wendy Goldman Rohm witnessed the breakthrough experiment which in pursuit of stem cells yielded both human clone embryos and human parthenotes, embryo-like balls of cells that have only one set of chromosomes.
The company, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) of Worcester, Massachusetts, has been involved with therapeutic cloning for some time. In 2001, company researchers grew human clone embryos to six cells. Since then, there have been no published reports of human clone embryos surviving more than a few cell divisions.
Although researchers at the company are focused on only therapeutic cloning, the experiment indicates that science has reached a point where human reproductive cloning may be possible.
[Paul Boutin]
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'Lost Tribe' Finds Itself on Front Lines of Mideast Conflict. Some members of the Bnei Menashe community, a group of people from India who consider themselves Jews, now live in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. By Greg Myre.
[New York Times: International]
11:37:18 PM
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Saturday, 3 January 2004

This Modern World. We're with the Patriotism Police, and we'd like to ask you a few questions.
All too real.
[Salon.com]
4:33:20 PM
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