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Corrected: 'Life's Greatest Secret' by Matthew Cobb
'Life's Greatest Secret' focuses on those efforts to explore the DNA that were only a sideshow in 'The Gene' but possess intrigues of their own.
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Anthropocene
It’s an epoch whose centre of attention de facto is the human even as the attention makes us more conscious of the other multitudes with which we share this universe.
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UCal Irvine’s ‘fifth force’ farce
If a journalist buys into a UCI press release about some kind of ‘confirmation’ of a fifth force, and which is subsequently found to be simply false, an editor wouldn’t be faced with a tough choice whatsoever about which section she has to axe.
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Some notes and updates
Four years of the Higgs boson, live-tweeting and timezones, new music, and quickly reviewing an Erikson book.
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Talking about science, NCBS
On June 24, I was invited to talk at the NCBS Science Writing Workshop, held every year for 10 days.
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Tom Kibble (1932-2016)
Kibble was one of the six theorists who, in 1964, came up with the ABEGHHK'tH mechanism to explain how gauge bosons acquired mass.
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'Infinite in All Directions', a science newsletter
The idea for the newsletter is a derivative of a reading challenge a friend proposed: wherein a group of us would recommend books for each other to read, especially titles that we might not come upon by ourselves.
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A universe out of sight
We've been able to find that the universe is expanding faster than we thought. The LHC has produced the most data on one day. Good news, right?
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Stenograph the science down
Is it that we're paying no attention to the science and instead reproducing statements line by line because they're made of gold?
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No Space Age for us
We are proud of ISRO's being removed from bureaucratic interference and we are also okay with ISRO giving access only to those journalists who have endeared themselves by reproducing press releases.
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An identity for ISRO through a space agreement it may or may not sign
ISRO will have to take a call about whether it still thinks of itself as vulnerable to getting “priced out” of the world market for commercial satellite launches or is now mature enough to play hardball with the US.
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So what's ISRO testing on May 23?
ISRO has said that the RLV, should it someday be deployed, will be able to bring down launch costs from $5,000 per kg to $2,000 per kg.