Could you use a third set of teeth? I know I could, and there’s some interesting progress on growing new teeth with mice.
This just in! Sperm gets retracted! Er, I mean, a paper on sperm creation gets retracted…
Today’s Science Headline Standouts Progress in the hunt for dark matter. A tree in New Zealand still harboring genes it really hasn’t needed … for 500 years. A look at a new approach to do-it-yourself microevolution.
I grow increasingly worried about Scott Carson. Facebook is sucking him away from his blog and, as a result, I have no direct way to link to various gems of his, such as this one: Like a stopped clock that’s right twice a day, Nietzsche hit the nail on the head in Beyond Good and… Continue reading
The Possibility of Impossible CulturesImagine Finnegan’s Wake written in an impossible language. I imagine many people who’ve tried to read it have already concluded that it was written in an impossible language. But in fact what makes the book so nerve-wracking is that it was written in syntactically recognizable English, but with a slew of… Continue reading