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Google begins launching Internet-beaming antennas into stratosphere via giant, jellyfish-like balloons: apne.ws/12xUYOF -RJJ
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felineMRI is here: "With proper procedures, it is possible to perform fMRI experiments with untrained awake cats." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2376551…
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@carlzimmer Spent mine watching them cooperate/cheat. I couldn't tell which they were doing... #goodmorning pic.twitter.com/JbhurMcXmX
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Spending my Saturday morning listening to David Queller talk about cooperation and cheating among slime molds. #goodmorning
@cascapital: “@carlzimmer: Squirrels live for 24 years? For some reason, I find this deeply unsettling.” They're also polygamists...
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@carlzimmer dont grudge the squirrel 24 years but 1-2 years for an octopus is a cosmic injustice.
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@carlzimmer By contrast, pity the poor opossum: an average lifespan of 2-3 years
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Squirrels live for 24 years??? For some reason, I find this deeply unsettling.
Whew--the end of a busy week. My review of a great book on memory runs tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal: online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
"For cancer, the patient is the biosphere." -- heard at #evocancer
Is #Saudi meeting IHR reporting rules on #MERS? 1 of 3 new cases reported today had already died. How does that qualify as timely reporting?
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Does aspirin fight cancer by putting the brakes on evolution? I look at a new study that suggests so, on the Loom: phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/13/put…
My rant, with cat pictures too, on the #WIJF blog- TV Nature Documentaries: Why Bother? goo.gl/KPbpB Please add Comments!
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in inevitable melding of anti-science wackaloonery, anti-GMO crowd is opposing new flu vaccine because it's GM facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
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Hello, San Francisco & #evocancer ! Here's a post on aspirin & the evolution of cancer, in honor of the meeting. phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/13/put…
Scientists optimistic about personalized medicine after SCOTUS ruling on gene patents. Great reporting by @amymaxmen. to.pbs.org/1389hu8
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@Tingwall: @carlzimmer If I get a tattoo of the opinion on my back can I be in your book?” CZ: Yes. Must include Amicus briefs
Retweeting comments on #Myriad is what I do in lieu of blogging when stuck on a plane. #nohurtfeelingsifyouunfollow
No worse than software patents... RT@rob_carlson #Myriad decision about DNA #SCOTUS just made info patentable. Really bad juju @carlzimmer
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#Myriad decision about DNA as chemical. In real world DNA transcodable w/ bits. #SCOTUS just made info patentable. Really bad juju here.
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forbes.com/sites/stevensa… Supreme Court gets a failing grade in Bio 101, but gets the decision right.
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RT @BigyanBista: @carlzimmer Great review from last year by Sean Morrison: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… CZ: Thanks!
Interesting analysis based on new #MERS CoV sequences. Suggestive of ongoing transmission, most likely in a reservoir epidemic.bio.ed.ac.uk/coronavirus_an…
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US believes it has definitive proof that #Syria has used chemical weapons on rebels. nyti.ms/12JCrAo
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Wow. Diabetic collapses on our flight & we have four doctors helping, and passengers passing back multiple glucometers. #crisisaverted
My NPR interview on the science of swarms and collective behaviour is up. npr.org/2013/06/13/191…
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Tornado and severe thunder storms moving through Maryland now. Time to head to the basement with Toto.
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Any cancer biologists have a particularly favorite recent review of the cancer stem-cell model?
@carlzimmer The PLoS blog is wrong on pseudogenes. Composite cDNA is only in the summary; Thomas gets it right. My comments at the post.
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Composite DNA, complementary DNA, pseudogenes…man, the Supreme Court needs a biology lesson. blogs.plos.org/dnascience/201…
Thomas: “lab technician unquestionably creates something new when cDNA is made.” // So do I when I make a sandwich. onforb.es/16iBFI7
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SC: "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and is not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated" Woo Hoo!!!
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The first paragraph of the Supreme Court's Myraid ruling botches the science. I'm not optimistic here.
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.@carlzimmer what it means is that the #SCOTUS justices clearly do not understand the core dogma of molecular biology.
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I'll be reading SCOTUSblog to figure out what the gene patent case means scotusblog.com/2013/06/live-b…
In #Myriad, as expected, #SCOTUS rules that isolated #DNA not patentable; cDNA is. Unanimous decision: supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf…
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My new Matter column for the NYTimes: Rising mountains, dying oceans, and other stories hidden in gems. nytimes.com/2013/06/13/sci…
Steven Brenner took his Nature pub on genome leaks nature.com/news/be-prepar… & rigged mini-end-run around copyright compbio.berkeley.edu/proj/leak/
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New on the Loom: A picture of poisonous frogs that captures evolution's blurriness phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/12/poi…
Even at age 15, @ebertchicago was already a critic. johnschoenherr.blogspot.com/2013/06/amazin… (Scroll to bottom of post)
The sea floor is ALIIIIVE. Good write-up of a new study on the Deep Biosphere from @Douglas_Main news.yahoo.com/thriving-micro…
How Conan Doyle got duped. publicdomainreview.org/2013/06/12/sir… via @JenLucPiquant Read Doyle's "The Coming of the Fairies" here: archive.org/stream/comingo…
Please welcome another derecho. bigstory.ap.org/article/unusua… And to think, last year we hardly knew the name...
China's promise to cut greenhouse gases is film-flam, says @dbiello blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2…
This Friday in San Francisco I'm giving a free public lecture about cancer and the definition of life. Details: cancer.ucsf.edu/events/2013/06…
Wow @laurahelmuth reports on RFK Jr's call to to her set the record straight on vaccines. Pure high-octane nonsense. slate.com/articles/healt…
The champions of the cold: My new article on psychrophiles for Nova Next. pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next…
New Haven's Festival of Arts & Ideas is coming. I'm moderating an event bringing artists & scientists together 6/19 artidea.org/event/2013/1337
Carl Zimmer @ Reintegrate: Enhancing Collaborations in Arts & Sciences | International Festival of Arts & Ideas bit.ly/1a0BQdF
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