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Lindau Nobel - interview with Bente Flier [A Blog Around The Clock]A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Bente Flier of the University of Constance, Germany: Read the comments on this post... ... |
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Lindau Nobel conference - the Lindau island [A Blog Around The Clock]It's a beautiful place: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ... |
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Friday Follow: Neurophilosophy [The Primate Diaries]Or, Why I Love ScienceBlogs Reason #372: Mo at Neurophilosophy has a fascinating article on the evolutionary origins of the nervous system: THE HUMAN BRAIN is a true marvel of nature. This jelly-like 1.5kg mass inside our skulls, containing hundreds of billions of cells which between them f... |
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A Pacemaker is a Network [A Blog Around The Clock]This is going to be a challenging post to write for several reasons. How do I explain that a paper that does not show too much new stuff is actually a seminal paper? How do I condense a 12-page Cell paper describing a gazillion experiments without spending too much time on details of each exper... |
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Morning Sickness is an Adaptation, not a ... Sickness [Greg Laden's Blog]The best of last June There is new information from an older idea (from about 2000) by Paul Sherman and colleagues. The idea underlying this research is simple: Symptoms of illnesses may be adaptive. Indeed, this may be true to the extent that we should not call certain things illnesses. ... |
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CJR: The health-care reform debate as Groundhog Day [Neuron Culture]It's been 26 years since health-care reform failed. Does the debate reflect anything that's happened since? From The Columbia Journalism Review:"The idea that we've made a great breakthrough just isn't so," says Jonathan Oberlander, a health-policy expert at the University of North Caro... |

