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Nature has put a grouped a bunch of free access articles about the paper on its site. http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/brain/index.html

They have been playing Arrested Development here lately, which is a pretty good show. Shame they aren't producing any more.

I don't think there's alot of support within the Pakistani government for terrorism. Remember that terrorists have tried to kill Musharraf four times now. Also, terror acts between Shia and Sunni groups have a destabilising effect. In the past there was some support for terror groups. This seems to have dwindled with pressure from the US and India. But terror groups still operate within Pakistan and there's perhaps not enough being done to stop them.

I think noto needs a chordial welcome. Anyway for working at a desk, -Get enough sleep -Have an uncluttered place to work -Take a 10 minute break every hour -Try to keep the temperature and noise levels reasonable -Caffiene In sporting environments, -Practice -Practice -Practice

Perhaps earth sciences would be good again. They were a dud before but with all the climate change threads around it might be an idea. Maybe as subsection of physics, dealing with climatography, physical oceanography and geology. There's two places to sign in. I don't see why. That weird blike character. Sexy dames and plenty of 'em.

It looks more like a shrimp than a scorpion to me; the carapase, uropods and antennae are all shrimpy.

Right, but what you've been are talking about here is humans tampering with nature, i.e. killing bonobos.

I got one of those flyers from a local politician in the mail today, asking me what my priorities are and the like. The politician was still in university, so probably in her early twenties. I thought this was probably a bit young and inexperienced in the ways of the world to represent me in parliament. So I wondered what everybody else thought.

I don't think the collection of cases so far would count as a pandemic. The threat is that the strain will mutate so as to be able to pass from person to person, rather than from birds to people. If that were to happen there could be a pandemic.

We can't make essential amino acids.

Because after that they can get a seven figure book contract, give up their job and travel where ever they like.

It's not necessaily miraculous because we can provide a natural explanation.

It's often called metabolic engineering. http://www.metabolicengineering.gov/ DuPont is spending 10% of their research budget on it, and have patented a GM bacteria that takes high dextrose corn syrup and produces a precursor for a textile polymer. In terms of fuels the idea is to generally to produce fuels from broadacre crops. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/ The main part of these crops is cellulose, and breaking down cellulose to produce fuels on a significant scale is the main long term goal. The US wants to have 20% of transportation fuels produced from renewable feedtocks by 2030.

Some antioxidants are also vitamins, eg. vitamin C. In the case of these you should get a reasonable amount of them because they are vitamins. For other antioxidants the results of clinical trials have been mixed. It's important to distinguish between randomised clinical trials and epidemiological studies. There have been studies showing that people who have high intake of various antioxidant supplements have lower incidences of heart disease and cancer. But it's hard to tell whether this is because of the antioxidants or whether the kind of person that takes supplements is in generally better health.

There's a certain amount of irony here as the word chauvinistic is derived from the name of one of Neopoleon's military leaders who was considered to be blindly nationalistic As far as all this goes, I see it as part of the shifting of American isolationist ideology to the Democrats. Isolationism in various forms has been part of US foreign policy talk for quite some time, but like alot of issues in US politics it is becoming increasingly polarised by the strengthening association of particular ideology with particular parties.

Why doesn't a 15 year old girl have choice? Is she some kind of automaton? I want the biological explanation. If 15 year old girls are automatons, can someone turn them down several levels?

How did they lay the primary foundations for the problems we see today, when we saw those problems prior to the British invading the region?

Well the mess has been going on for thousands of years. Throughout the Ottoman period there were problems with the region, the same problems as after the Ottoman empire, Kurds and Arabs fighting, Ottomans (who were sunni) and Persians (who were shia) fighting.

These growing feathers that we pull from Caesar's wing Will make him fly at an ordinary height, When otherwise he would soar too high to be seen and keep us all under him and afraid.

It works out well if you are really lazy, if all you do is laze about in the sun then you don't even have to digest your own food. It takes lazy to another level. I like it. Most animals that do it are sessile, such as coral and clams. These guys are molluscs like slugs. They don't have shells either, and they live a similar life, moving around and rasping away food with their tongue. When they travel about they leave a trail of slime even though they are under water. Other ones will follow these slime trails. Probably for food I guess, but maybe for sex. But they can release an alarm chemical, which persists for some time, and if others follow the slime trail and come across this alarm chemical they will turn around and travel as fast as a sea slug can.

Assuming Krypton is in our galaxy, perhaps he could stand for truth, justice and the milky way.

Sea slugs are pretty cool. Some of them look amazing. They do some really interesting things like incorporate chloroplasts and cnidocytes from their food into their body. They also incorporate many chemicals, which makes them a source of pharmacologically active compounds. They must have alot of admirers because they have a great forum that I happened across recently. http://www.seaslugforum.net/ If you have some free time there are some great pictures on there.

Interesting figures quoted in a magazine called Australasian Science. Annual growth of the number of people enrolled in a "PhD by research" programs in Oz is 13.5%. This compares with annual growth of the number of researchers of 3.5%. Less than 25% of US post docs completing fellowships obtained a tenure-track position. 22% of Euro PhD graduates get tenure-track careers. The author is the president of the Australian Academy of Science, so it's not just some embittered post doc. He pins part of the blame on supervisors who want cheap student labour and part on governments for not funding more intermediate level positions. But he says that science students need to be advised of other career options.

Ah, but has anyone looked into the risks associated with second-hand flag smoke?

It's pretty useful for grazing mammals to be able to move from birth because the herds are constantly moving. They don't have a den they return to every night that they can drop the kids off at. They are always looking for new pastures. It's mainly these animals (mostly ungulates) that are developed at birth. Most of the other things are pretty similar to us.