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[American Scientist Online] Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence » American Scientist: Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected.

[Zantive Forums] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence: For instance, Clune has found that unlike old-school neural networks, brains evolved with HyperNEAT tend to be symmetrical and ordered - like real brains. His analysis of the networks shows this comes from having evolved symmetry and pattern-generating instructions right at the start of the series of instructions.

[Bloggingheads.tv] Bloggingheads.tv - Science Saturday: Ancestors and Offspring: Granted, alot of the shows are Darwinius-esque hype machines trying to convince you that Discovery Channel is more worth watching than HBO, but generally speaking, I think it's a good thing that kids can see on tv and the web, the idea affirmed in practice that it's ok to be excited about learning, or more particularly science. Shit, if I had had MythBusters when I was a kid...

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[ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] A new modern mammal for Madagascar : Tetrapod Zoology: However, all Madagascan mammals aren't lemurs, and the island continent has a fascinating assemblage of tenrecs, rodents, bats and carnivorans too. Madagascar's endemic carnivorans include a motley assortment of weird, unique species (like the Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox and Falanouc Eupleres goudotii) as well as a number of bushy-tailed, often striped 'mongooses'.

[Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society] Article round up: July 2010 « Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and ...: quality of life as well as bringing new ethical dilemmas. As medical science continues to advance, significant numbers of the reproductive-aged population are living with chronic and/or terminal conditions but have reasonable odds of lengthy survival and wish to have children.

[Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Life From Scratch - Science News: Craig Venter. Venter's team is using chemical sequencing machines to make a panoply of genes for the highly evolved parts of a modern .

[Britannica Blog] Science Up Front: Born Identity: Elizabeth Marquardt on Anonymous ...: The lack of donor tracking also means that persons conceived via artificial insemination are unable to obtain information about half-siblings, and hence the possibility of accidental incest is very real.  “The American Society of Reproductive Medicine has a professional recommendation that 25 or fewer offspring should be conceived from the sperm of any one donor, but this is only a recommendation, not a law,” Marquardt said.  “And to know you could have even 25 unidentified half-siblings is mind-boggling and disturbing to people conceived in this way.”

[HealthMinistry Blog] Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds ...: The toxic effects of fluoride on the central nervous system was subsequently confirmed by previously-classified government research. Two new epidemiological studies which tend to confirm fluoride’s neurotoxic effects on the brain have shown that children exposed to higher levels of fluoride had lower IQs.”

[Bruno's Mauritian Blog] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08 | Bruno's Mauritian Blog: Buy-out arm of BofA is spun off: Bank of America has spun off its mid-market private equity arm to form Ridgemont ”¦ http://bit.ly/bhnScZ #; I have some Pop Candy 3-D glasses left over from Comic-Con ”¦ ..... Colophon. This blog contains the ramblings and various thoughts of a physicist, amateur guitarist and Manchester United fan. The blog also endorses economically liberal values and is generally supportive of the Lib Dems UK and the Mouvement Militant Mauricien. ...

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