Rare Gene Mutation Keeps People Alert on Less Sleep | Popular Science
Scientists find a genetic mutation that allows a mother and daughter to feel fine on six hours of sleep.
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TommyWonk: What Is Folk Music?
“Most people, when they hear the word folk music , just assume it’s any sort of pop-derived music that features an acoustic guitar centrally,” he says. “That’s the late-20th-, early-21st-century definition of folk music .” …
Energy and Global Warming News for August 14th: US marines in …
Decades of languishing industrial pollution, combined with emerging threats like invasive species and a spike in a new chemical compounds known as endocrine disrupters, have rendered large sections of the Great Lakes inhospitable to …
Which print method to use for your T-shirts | Clothes 2 Order …
Screen printing is where a design is separated into its individual colours and a separate screen is produced for each colour, with a light reactive chemical used to mark off the spaces through which the colour should be printed.
ohnotheydidnt: the new Seth Green animated comedy, Titan Maximum!
the new Seth Green animated comedy , Titan Maximum! Here’s a video of the new Seth Green animated comedy , Titan Maximum. source: me at the robot chicken on skates tour 8/12/09. (Post a new comment) …
Beyond Limits: How Travel Pushes Your Personal Boundaries
If you don’t push yourself into new and uncomfortable experiences, it’s unlikely you’ll ever discover how adaptable you really are.
Art, science and politics | Filipino Voices
Professor Flor Lacanilao has thrown in his bit on the national artists fiasco. He writes in a post for a Pinoy scientist blog The naming of National Artists.
Typhoon Morakat damages undersea cables, disrupting Internet and …
Typhoon disrupts Asia Internet , telephone serviceTAIPEI, Taiwan — Seabed movements believed caused by Typhoon Morakat damaged seven undersea cables linking Asian nations, disrupting Internet and telephone services, a Taiwanese telephone …
Doing what the brain does — how computers learn… ( Researchers …
Researchers at the Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive an…Many people will have personal experience of how difficult it is for c…
The ChamberPost: Health Reform: Rhetoric and Reality
by James Gelfand There has been a lot of talk about misinformation in the health reform debate – fishy emails, conflicting statements by politicians, allegations.