Friday, January 18, 2013

Science stuff below the fold

Obesity is due to Diet, exercize, and...genetics....well, yes...

An ultrathin invisibility cloak?

 Those naughty barnacles.

Mona Lisa is beamed to the moon..

Black holes are growing faster than predicted.

Maju is sceptical on that report about India sending migrants to Australia in the distant pass. Quite technical and listed mainly to read later.

Whoops: Whole grain foods might not be the best choice.

no, they aren't talking about our organic brown rice, but high fat high sugar junk food labeled as high fiber.

Instapundit links to this article:CRAB LICE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION due to bikini-waxing’s popularity.

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The politics behind hounding a hacker with jail threats. Hounded by an ambitious prosecutor?
Andrew Greeley had a couple of his novels with similar subplots of ambitious Chicago prosecutors, and wrote this column about the problem.

Aaron Swartz story via wikipedia.
In late 2010 and early 2011, Swartz downloaded about 4 million of JSTOR's collection of academic journal articles—which provides a limited number of articles to students and researchers free of charge.

will someone now discuss how if you don't live near a medical library, that it is difficult to get access to journal articles you want to read? (yes, there is a way for rural doctors to get them via the national library of medicine, but it is so cumbersome that I rarely used it except when I was testifying in court or publishing articles)


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