Performing Evolutionary Feat in Sixty Days

E. coli evolve a capacity to exploit a new carbon source in >30.000 generations

Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information

Individualized medicine

How to survive the health care system (About the corruption of the system)

Everybody wants the same financial equality in the US – very interesting article (and statistic).

Truthiness – how presentation of facts/claims matters. What to learn from this: a) Accompany information with pictures, b) think about the processing the viewer is doing in his/her head. That'll help you get through to them better.

‘t Hooft and quantum computation – our path to quantum computation might be longer than expected. Math shows why.

Why I hope this is the last paralympics – „I'm a swimmer, not a disabled person.“ It is true that I think of Stephen Hawking as a brilliant physicist first and as a disabled person second. The paralympics should join the olympics as suggested in the article.

Epigenetics gives Darwin the finger – a really well written article on epigenetics propagating through genes. (Sweden: if a grandfather lived through a famine, the grandchild has a lower risk of cardiovascular and similar disease. If a grandfather lived through a good harvest year, the grandchild has a higher chance of diabetes. an environmental condition was imprinted on the genes and passed on to the next generation)

What infants teach us about preventing obesity – the differences in NEAT (Non-exercises activity thermogenesis) among people are huge and could explain why some tend to be obese more than others, and why they stay that way even if they change their diet somewhat substantially.

Why we are slaves of food obsession – maybe the key to fighting obesity is in hacking hormones which drive us to food / make us overeat.

Humanities aren't a science, stop treating them like one – an encouraging article about humanities and maybe even their relationship with „hard“ sciences.

Reclaiming the sacred gift – a post-scriptum to the previous article.

What makes beauty subjective? – a Self-determination theory look at beauty, how it came about, how it's not serving us the best in the age of billboard models and how to hack it so we love what we want to love.

What makes us accept unacceptable acts – if we agree with an event in its benign beginnings, we're more likely to find excuses for when it turns evil (think 9/11 → torture).

Kids who sleep later do better in school – 'nough said.

Unified theory of dark matter & dark energy?

Robbers cave experiment – intergroup conflict genesis and resolution.