Theres a lot of interesting recent commentary about synthetic biology on Homunculus , the consistently interesting blog of the science writer Philip Ball. Theres lots more detail about the story of the first bacterial genome transplant that I referred

Evidence of recent human adaptation found in genome
A study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began

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South Pole Astronomy III - StarDate: July 12
Drilling into the universe. (Note: Audio will be available tomorrow.)

Outrageous politicization of science leaves citizens breathless
A report in today's New York Times should leave all of us breathless-even if we've seen too many similar stories before. read more

LSD and the Relevance of Computer Simulations to Biological Evolution
No, not lysergic acid diethylamide, but LS-Dyna, perhaps the worlds most sophisticated engineering computer simulation program, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , originally for the development of nuclear weapons. Im studying LS-Dyna