| technology/science news |
[Dec. 11th, 2002|10:48 am] |
Stanford to develop human embryonic stem cells for research
Stanford has released a statement distinguishing what Stanford is doing from reproductive cloning.
The Biology Of Induced Memory
This time Dr. Nader's findings may also explain why the memory we have of an accident scene, for example, can be tampered without our knowledge. In this instance, you witness a car crash and you hear someone saying "Oh! see what happened to the poor guy in the red jacket" . You will remember the red jacket although there was no one on the accident scene wearing the garment. This is called false memory syndrome. Dr.nader has now shown the biological basis for it.
Frogs Adapts Call Frequency to Maximize Babes
slashdot.org: BKize writes "Like a teenager turning his guitar amp up to 11, Nature magazine has an article on the discovery that a male Bornean frog tunes its mating call to its home tree cavity to maximize the sound volume, and thereby increase the odds it will attract a female. A lab experiment revealed the frog dynamically adjusts the frequency of the call if the acoustic properties of the cavity change."
Shapes of Time book review
Kenneth McNamara's Shapes of Time is a popular study of the role of growth and development in evolution, following in the footsteps of Stephen Jay Gould's influential Ontogeny and Phylogeny. |
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