Contrary to yesterday's post, the Sex & Recombination meeting has now been cancelled. The flooding is bad and is getting worse in Iowa City. This turn of events is very disappointing, but necessary.
Some of us who were combining this meeting with the Evolution meetings will be spending the first part of next week hanging around in sex-less Minneapolis. Post a comment here if you want to join us.
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Remote control of peptide screw sense
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As is well-known, peptides helices can be right or left handed. Many details
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Altruism has 3 degrees of separation
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One of the mysteries of human behaviour is why we sometimes act with
completely selfless altruism. When asked to play totally anonymous games in
which we c...
Inside a Nuclear Reactor
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A poem from Poor Mojo's Almanac(k):
Inside a Nuclear Reactor
by Alice Mullen
Whole lives begin and end
in a thousandth
of a thousandth
of a thousandth of a ...
Class Notes: Why linguistic judgments are fuzzy
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Buried towards the end of a 1991 paper by Fisher, Gleitman & Gleitman is a
strikingly useful -- and I think, correct -- observation on the limits of
gramma...
Gene-culture Co-evolution
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A while ago, I wrote on the hypothesis that humans have essentially stopped
evolving genetically, because of our cultural emphasis on keeping all humans
al...
Alternative Research Blogging Widget(s)
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[image: Research Blogging Badge]Recently John sent me the code for a ResearchBlogging.org
widget that he wanted added to his sidebar. While adding the widge...
Funny advert placement
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I'm sorry to my more serious readers, but I just could not resist when I saw
this. The ad placement next to a story about our work on sexual *versus*asexual...
My failure or his?
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"The wind blew autumn leaves into intercalated lines and arcs of force so
regular you could photograph them for a textbook on Cramer's Rule and the
cross-p...
3 Comments:
Some of us who were combining this meeting with the Evolution meetings will be spending the first part of next week hanging around in sex-less Minneapolis. Post a comment here if you want to join us.
total bummer, dude. let's hope the weather isn't bad for next year's big meeting.
Sex...Floods...
pretty Biblical stuff! Maybe it's a sign.
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