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Howthe NBAhasevolvedover time Have you ever watched a NBA game before? The gamehaschanged a lot over time. One way the gamehaschanged is the size of the players. Therehasalso been some rule changes since the start off the game. Players in the NBA had endorsements and a yea...
I have a personality that's very comfortable with uncertainty. I actually stayed a couple of extra years at Stanford in graduate school (doing the research equivalent of three Ph.D. theses) because I loved having tot...
The ability to quickly alter the code of life has given us unprecedented power over the natural world. Should we use it?
However, one of the key things that Occam's razor reveals is the subjectivity with which we view the universe. Sure the sky is blue, we know that by looking at it, but what shade of blue is it exactly? Anyone who has ever engaged in a debate over whether a dark-colored sock is bl...
one is through overt manipulation, which is to collect political power to yourself and then exert it to enact change, and the other is covert manipulation, which is to enact change subtly enough that the political organism doesn't react. (sometimes called "triggering the antibodies").” (sourc...
ethology has been shaped by Tinbergen's four "why" questions that deal with mechanism, adaptation, ontogeny, and phylogeny. In other words, how is a behaviour executed, what is its adaptive value, how does it develop during an organism's lifetime, and how has it evolved over the ...
A research group led by Christen Mirth at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) uncovered that the development of wings in fruit flies does not progress synchronously with the organism's development. Instead, it is coordinated with the whole body o
Nature did not create any perfect organism; it created organisms perfectly. It’s time to remember that life can be a bumpy road, butWinston Churchillreminds us,“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ...
aOnce upon a time, people over the weekend, spent more time at home, and new inventions have changed weenkends 从前,人们在周末期间,在家花费了更多时间,并且新的发明改变了weenkends[translate] a因为有你,我不再彷徨 Because has you, I no longer pace back and forth[translate] ...