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The Road to Reality

Who could resist a book subtitled “A Complete Guide to the Laws of The Universe”? If you didn’t know that the author was Roger Penrose, you could be forgiven for assuming that The Road to Reality was one of the very many quasi-scientific, faith-based, wild-eyed polemics that appear each year under increasingly garish covers, [...]

Getting to grips with “Freedom Evolves”

Just getting to grips with Freedom Evolves

The periodic table of dessert

The Periodic Table of Dessert - not just fun, has some logical structure too! [via Apothecary's Drawer]

English is a small world

Azeem points to this article in Nature from last summer that reports work by Adilson Motter and colleagues at Arizona State University. The researchers traced the links between 30,000 English words in an online thesaurus. For example, the word ‘actor’ can be connected to ‘universe’ through two intermediaries. The thesaurus lists ‘character’ as a synonym for [...]

Genes for depression are gender specific

Sex-Specific Genes for Depression reports on work at the University of Pittsburgh. Depression in women and men could have different genetic origins, a finding that underscores the complexity of depression… Thanks to Rebecca’s Pocket Technorati Tags Science

The Science of Scrunch

Article - in Science Guardian about research into the way things crumple - whether it’s a crisp packet or the metal skin of a car … Technorati Tags Science

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