Wired: Alt Text: Cleaning Up the Olympics, Genetic-Engineering Style

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/07/alt-text-olympics-genetic-engineering An interesting proposal to fix the unfair genetic advantage that some people have over other people in the olympics (or any competition at all). He proposes: “To begin with,…

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Big Five’s Openness to Experience and declicious correlations (yummy!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience Lots of interesting correlations! “Intelligence and knowledge Openness correlates with intelligence, correlation coefficients ranging from about r = .30 to r = .45.[11] Openness is moderately associated with crystallized…

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More research is paving the way for gamete selection, not just embryo/zygote selection

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/07/genome-sequencing-of-human-sperm.html   The entire genomes of 91 human sperm from one man have been sequenced by Stanford University researchers. The results provide a fascinating glimpse into naturally occurring genetic variation…

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John Graham-Cunning on Charlges Babbage’s machines, and other things

  He is a pretty cool guy himself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham-Cumming   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage “In 1838, Babbage invented the pilot (also called a cow-catcher), the metal frame attached to the front of locomotives…

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