Anisotropic Perspectives

From New Scientist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8Yw19bn7Q

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Hey, I’m standing in for Grant again today.
The New York Times has an interesting article about a berry known as the “miracle fruit.”  It is native to West Africa and looks like an unassuming red berry.  But, when the fruit is chewed and its flesh allowed to coat the tongue, for at least 30 minutes [...]

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Celebrating the life of DNA (Douglas N. Adams).  Don’t forget your towel!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Y4BppbBFo

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slickdeals
Ben’s Bargains
Wow-Coupons (US and UK)

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From the National Human Genome Research Institute, reported in the NYT…
Dr. Segre and colleagues report their discovery of the six tribes in a paper being published online on Friday in Genome Research. The research is part of the human microbiome project, microbiome meaning the entourage of all microbes that live in people.
The project is an [...]

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A team from Carnegie Mellon proposes a new method for homology identification.  More at Science Daily.

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Nothing but palindromes.  Do geese see God?  Hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgeTNnYywg

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This is a cute collaboration between NASA, the LRO Project, JHU’s Applied Physics Lab, and the Planetary Society to promote public awareness of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.  Names are submitted online and entered into a database that is stored in a chip on the orbiting spacecraft.

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For those days…
Science Magazine
Nature
The Naked Scientists (from Cambridge)
The Sounds of Science (from The National Academies)
Scientific American
Science Friday (from NPR)
NASA
The Brain Science Podcast
PROTEOMICS

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