Month: January 2013
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Chernobyl, Kara Sea, life…
For more than a decade, Western governments have been helping Russia to remove nuclear fuel from decommissioned submarines docked in the Kola Peninsula, the region of Russia closest to Scandinavia. But further east lies an intact nuclear submarine at the bottom of the Kara Sea, and its highly enriched uranium fuel is a potential time bomb.…
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Seeing trees, Seeing the forest…
Pictures in nature seem to consist of sets of repeated patterns which help the human mind “see” and distinguish objects from each other. It is like Nature has its own “error correcting” mechanism. These building blocks are used by the brain so as to filter out “noise” that occurs naturally on the retina. [1] And it…
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Statistics, data analysis, “science”…
Science from the masses and for the masses. [1] This is how things are done today. Statistics and data analysis is the basis of modern science. Well, actually statistics and data analysis is EVERYTHING there is in science today. Clever and truly innovative ideas are just something one can read only in history of science…
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Armstrong, death, ὕβρις…
The fall of Lance Armstrong will be a remarkable example of how death can change is to the worse. Most people become more humble when they face death, e.g. with an accident or due to a fatal disease. Others can walk into the path of what ancient Greeks called ὕβρις (hybris). They believe that they can win…
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DNA, human mind, categorizations…
Cambridge University scientists say they have seen four-stranded DNA at work in human cells for the first time. The famous “molecule of life”, which carries our genetic code, is more familiar to us as a double helix. But researchers tell the journal Nature Chemistry that the “quadruple helix” is also present in our cells, and in ways that…
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