January 2008
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Neuroscience: One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And... →
Thankfully this only seems to work on mice… For now.  I’m not a neuroscientist, nor do I play one on TV, but I don’t think that dicking around with brain chemistry in order to induce a debilitating disorder is a good idea.  It’s not like you can take a pill and suddenly do differential equations in your head.  Savantism is a very rare side effect of certain varieties of...
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Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic... →
I should probably be welcoming our new human-synthesized overlords by now, but lets face it, that joke is getting pretty old.  (via Digg)
Jan 26th
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UC Berkeley’s marching band does up some classic 8bit and 16bit video games.  (via Boingboing)
Jan 21st
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