http://science.absolutegeeky.com Thoughts, ramblings and ideas on science, community and the whole sort of general mish-mash. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:49:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...one giant leap backwards for man. A recent paper out of Richard Lenski's lab at MSU details the evolution of a Cit+ strain of E. coli among the 12 replicate lines that are part of the Long Term Experiment in Evolution running in his lab I haven't read the paper yet, but ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2008/06/11/one-small-step/ Two doctors decided to look through past research papers to see if any of those bits of advice/admonishment about how much water you must drink or how you'd ruin your eyes if you read in candle light had any truth to them. Their research was published this week in the British ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/12/21/but-but-mom-said/ A physicist at Harvard, Lene Vestergaard Hau, slowed down a beam of light and even stopped it inside a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC.) If that wasn't enough, she even moved the frozen one from one BEC to another! http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/11/23/not-so-fast-light/ A physicist, a biologist, and a mathematician are sitting in a café and notice people going into and coming out of the house across the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while, they notice three persons coming out of the house. The physicist: ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/09/04/empty-again/ For all biologists who couldn't think in 3-D, and were bored of illustrations in text books. This will really show you how dynamic life is, even at the level of a single cell. David Bolinsky, former lead medical illustrator at Yale, lead animator John Leibler, and ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/08/11/the-inner-life-of-a-cell/ From the cartoons of R J Matson http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/06/06/the-state-of-evolution/ If you've been following us at the Blogspot blog, its great to see you here! While we're still sort of working out how this blog is going to shape up here (including a name change possibly), the content is not going to change. I guess a science blog will fit right ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/05/15/welcome-back/ It all started with this blog post by John Battelle which mentioned Larry Page talking about AI at an AAAS conference. Who wouldn't be interested? Harish and I watched the short clip on ZDnet and we were both a bit taken aback by what Page was saying. (You can get a ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/02/24/going-google-eyed-over-ai/ Now if only science experiments in schools and colleges were like this! What a great way to learn about the contents of carbonated beverages, a common candy, materials science (the surface of the Mentos), theories about boiling, phase transitions, nucleation sites... and more! (If you're too lazy ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2007/01/02/the-diet-coke-and-mentos-experiments/ Sometimes science can be stranger than fiction. Like this innovative way to settle an age old controversy - that of whether brain cells can form anew after birth it is a well known fact that brain cells once formed are not made again. unlike say for example the skin cells which ... http://science.absolutegeeky.com/2006/12/20/stranger-than-fiction/