Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off

Blog Posting from Wired Blogs about multitasking - you're not as good as you think!

Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off

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New Scientist Article: The Fat that Makes You Thin

An article about the latest fat to hit the news: Brown Fat.

The fat that makes you thin - health - 14 August 2009 - New Scientist

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Blog Watch: Olivia Judson on Bacteria

Thoughtful blog entry on the diversity of microbes in us:

Olivia Judson: Microbes ‘R’ Us
Published: July 21, 2009

Summary: The human body is home to a vast array of bacteria. So what are they up to?

For more about our bacterial live-ins, Ms. Vannoy recommends: Good Germs, Bad Germs. (on my to-read bookshelf!)

Why do we have to learn order and naming?

Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World.

Article from the NY Times about the lost art of taxonomy and an argument for learning the names and order of life.

Quiz to see if you can identify bird names in a language you don't know.

Take it as a listening quiz if you can - which *sounds* like it goes with a bird?

Space at the Wired Blogs

This week the Wired Blog has had several fantastic astronomy posts.  Even if you aren't interested in the astronomy side of things, the pictures are fantastic:

Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen from Space

New Supernova Images Reveal Third Dimension

Giant New Exoplanet Goes the Wrong Way

Stunning View of Martian Impact Crater

Nasa Falling Short of Asteroid Detection Goals

Summer Update

This is my 2nd week at the Hutch's SEP program - which has been a lot of work but overall fantastic for bettering my understanding of biotech.

Through tomorrow I am shadowing a researcher at Amgen who is working with glycolysis.  Yes, glycolysis.  It exists in the real world!

I also had the opportunity to visit the sequencing group (yes, they figure out the order of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs) and the antibodies group.  I am going to spend some time in antibodies this morning as they do ELISAs.

Hope you're having an excellent and safe summer!

Bees!

Watch this. (fascinating video about how honeybees attack hornet predators)

Then read this. (more to the story, it's not just the heat!)

And as a side note, I was recalled to IHS!