Billions of years ago, organic chemicals in the primordial soup somehow organized themselves into the first organisms. A few years ago scientists found that something similar happens every once in awhile in the cells of all living things: bits of once-quiet stretches of
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Feed SubscriptionThe Evolution of Overconfidence, as explained by a shot of Jager and the boys from Jersey Shore
Sci saw this paper being tweeted around the internets recently, a paper on the evolution of overconfidence . It seemed like a really interesting and cool paper, and I was kind of surprised that no one had covered it
Read More »The Renaissance Man: How to Become a Scientist Over and Over Again [Video]
Erez Lieberman Aiden is a talkative, witty fellow who will bend your ear on any number of intellectual topics. Just don’t ask him what he does.
Read More »Chimps give birth like humans
By Joseph Milton of Nature magazine A key feature of human childbirth, long thought to be unique to Homo sapiens --the arrival of the baby facing backwards relative to its mother--has been observed in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.
Read More »SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: "Machete"’s Danny Trejo and Robert Rodriguez, and Some Slightly Creepy Clay
What's cooler than Danny Trejo as a knife-wielding outlaw in Machete?
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