Tag: science
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New religions
If you were to invent a new religion – a post-enlightnment, post-Darwin, post-DNA, post-space travel religion – what would it look like? Would it scrap a conventional, external deity in…
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Are you a Baconian or a Cartesian?
Freeman Dyson quotes Bacon in his NYRB review of a book about the importance of amateur astronomers: All depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed on the facts of nature,…
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Bioinformatics links
From an overview in last week’s New Scientist:Cytoscape, National Center for Biotechnology Information (US), European Bioinformatics Institute, Gene Ontology Consortium, Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium, The Center for Advancement of Genomics
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Information about energy
Matt Jones has been worrying about information and energy lately. Here are some energy links for him. According to New Scientist (you can get a free 7 day trial for…