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"Ein paar Wochen später: Valentin Möller schickt einen weiteren Youtube-link. Diesmal auf ein Video in seinem offiziellen Kanal mit fast 35.000 Abonnenten. Der Titel: „Fünf Gründe für ein Tablet!" Eine Argumentationshilfe, wie man seine Eltern davon überzeugt, dass so ein Tablet total gut ist. Grund No.1: „Fortbildung" - zum Beispiel in Form von „Spektrum - Die Woche". Das Video wurde bislang fast 10.000 mal angeguckt - virales Marketing für 8 Euro! Einfach, weil der Verlag das gemacht hat, was selbstverständlich ist. Nur dass es dank Social Media auch andere mitbekommen haben."

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"Last Summer, our Open Wetlab organized a workshop DNA fingerprinting at the Observe Hack Make festival, to bring hackers in contact with the Open Wetlab and Do-It-Yourself biotech. During the hands-on workshop hackers were guided by Pieter van Boheemen (DIY biologist - Open Wetlab)"

Labor aus dem Drucker

Three new genes associated with Alzheimer's have been discovered, to the delight of researchers in the field. In two papers published in Nature Genetics, two teams describe how they compared the genomes of sufferers to healthy controls to identify potential gene variations leading to the disease.

Researchers have cracked the long-time mystery of how sex is determined in birds: A dose-dependent effect of a single gene on one of the sex chromosomes does the trick, according to a study published this week in Nature.

Not quite there yet for human teleportation, but at least they are thinking about it.

The universe bounces back, & robots fight humans: Today on New Scientist: stories from 13 October 2010

A new study in The Lancet rates the harmfulness of 20 psychoactive drugs according to 16 criteria and finds that alcohol comes out on top. Although that conclusion is generating headlines, it is not at all surprising, since alcohol is, by several important measures (including acute toxicity, impairment of driving ability, and the long-term health effects of heavy use), the most dangerous widely used intoxicant, and its abuse is also associated with violence, family breakdown, and social estrangement. A group of British drug experts gathered by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) rated alcohol higher than most or all of the other drugs for health damage, mortality, impairment of mental functioning, accidental injury, economic cost, loss of relationships, and negative impact on community. Over all, alcohol rated 72 points on a 100-point scale, compared to 55 for heroin, 54 for crack cocaine, and 33 for methamphetamine. Cannabis got a middling score of 20, while MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms were at the low end, with ratings of 9, 7, and 6, respectively.

A bit of backstory is required here. I spent half of my life as a Christian minister. I am no longer a Christian, and obviously not a minister. Today I am an atheistic blogger, although the focus of my blogs is unrelated to atheism. I tell you this not to offend those of you who believe in God, not to curry favor with those of you who do not. I only mention it because I will quote some scripture in this post, but the post is about religion. It is about the singularity, transhumanism, and radical life-extension. So please bear with me.

Researchers attempting to create something reminiscent the earliest life, based on RNA instead of DNA, achieve a success.

An illness that has been decimating US honeybees for more than three years probably isn't caused by a single virus, but by multiple viruses that wear down the bees' ability to produce proteins that can guard them against infection, according to a new study.

Peer review within science journalism

Is there something special about exact supersymmetry that precludes complex life?

What do quantum particles do when we're not looking? Probably not what you'd expect.\n\nWhile the mathematical formalism 'behind the scenes' is perfectly well-defined and the predictions by the theory are completely sensible (and rigorously tested), it is often difficult to interpret the mechanism of quantum theory into ideas that make sense relative to everyday experiences.

Differentiated human cells have been reprogrammed to an embryonic-like state with the addition of only one gene, rather than the standard four. This should advance techniques for the efficient production of high-quality patient-specific stem cells.