A new journal will challenge publishing behemoths such as Science, Nature and Cell by offering free access to research articles immediately upon publication on the Web.

Its about time Science got alittle more open source.

A Challenge to Science and Nature

"officials of the National Institute of Health are hoping genomics can get its face on a postage stamp"

oooo....hell yeah

DNA Seeks Stamp of Approval

Bullet-proof wearable computer created
Werd!

New Scientist

Genetic algorithms are a generic way to find 'good' solutions to 'hard' problems. This is a fun introduction, especially the traveling salesman applet.

Introduction to genetic algorithms with Java applets

This is funny.

[ Hee hee, -Rek ]

[The funny part about this is the people responding. I mean...do they really not know how this is "working"?!? God I hope their responses are jokes....if not, oh how I weep for the future of humanity.:) - Nanochick]

Cliff Pickover - ESP Experiment

Brown-Forman Beverages Worldwide and Miller Brewing Co. said Monday their joint flavored-malt drink, Jack Daniel’s Original Hard Cola, will join the race among alternative alcoholic drinks this summer.
Jack Daniel’s Original Hard Cola “has a cola base flavor in which you can taste Jack Daniel’s,” said Erin Schlader, director for the Jack Daniel’s brand. He said that some consumers said the drink has some vanilla flavor to it, while others said it tastes a little bit like root beer.
The drink has 5 percent alcohol by volume.
The dark cola-colored drink will come in 12-ounce amber longneck bottles, Schlader said. Its label is evocative of the classic black and white label for Jack Daniel’s Whiskey.

Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *I am such a lush*

Jack Daniel%u2019s cola drink to debut

The device is so simple and elegant that it almost looks like a toy. A tiny magnet jumps into a well of fluid, grabs some DNA, jumps into another well to rinse itself off, then another. In the last well, it spins around and releases the DNA of interest and makes it ready for a clinician to identify.

Handheld Delivers the 411 on DNA

... Fukuyama told Salon why he thinks that the right to be cloned and to tinker with our offspring's genes aren't liberties that we should all enjoy, and what should be done to restrain the onrush of biotechnology.

I am going to wait until I finish the book to comment.

Salon.com Technology | Clone free

"In the Brave New World, erotic sexual activity is encouraged and freely practised but completely divorced from the process of reproduction. Huxley wrote his novel in 1932, before the contraceptive pill had arrived. By the 1970s, however, sex and reproduction had branched into two separate realms, thanks, in large part, to the pill. It is also interesting to note that the pill made its debut at about the same time that researchers first began to use artificial insemination on a wide scale. While the pill revolutionised sex, removing it from the process of reproduction, artificial insemination, then later in vitro fertilisation, egg donation, surrogacy and, soon, cloning further separate the components of reproduction from the biological act of mating. The artificial womb completes the process. "

See, I think we need artifical wombs, but not for these reasons. We need artifical wombs so that when babies are born prematurely, they still have a chance to develop and live.

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The end of pregnancy

"Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism."

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