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Antarctica | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. Joan discovers exotic life forms in the Dry Valley lakes of Antarctica–the nearest thing to Mars on Earth. Antarctica–Advance Team Arrives. Dry Valley: Mars on Earth. Frozen Waves in a Volcanic Desert. Three Helicopters and a Floating Rock. Thanksgiving in a Tent. Scott Base: Kiwis and Seals. Leave one →. Mactown: Special People Ultraphyte. Antarctica–Advance Team Arrives Ultraphyte. Dry Valley: Mars On Earth Ultraphyte. Frozen Waves in Volcanic Desert Ultraphyte.
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An Alternative to Schekman’s Boycott of Luxury Journals | Telliamed Revisited
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What We’ve Learned about Evolution from the LTEE: Number 2. What We’ve Learned about Evolution from the LTEE: Number 3 →. December 10, 2013 · 6:41 am. An Alternative to Schekman’s Boycott of Luxury Journals. In a provocative op-ed that appeared in The Guardian. Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman says that he and his scientific team will avoid luxury journals, and he encourage[s] others to do likewise . In effect, Prof. Schekman is calling for scientists to boycott Science. How journals like Nature, Cell and S...
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Bacterium Meets Photocathode | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. April 19, 2015. Headlines promote a breakthrough in “artificial photosynthesis.”. It’s exciting technology, but–artificial? So what are those bacteria doing twined around the photocathodes? The Berkeley scientists’ article in Nano Letters is titled “Nanowire Bacteria Hybrids for Unassisted Solar Carbon Dioxide Fixation to Value-Added Chemicals.”. What they seem to have made is:. In a fuel cell was actually shown a few years ago by Derek Lovley’s lab. The implication i...
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AI on Inside Story | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. AI on Inside Story. May 27, 2015. My appearance on Inside Story. Didn’t work out (travel mixup–someone confused Kenyon with Ohio State) but still generated some blog discussion on one of our favorite themes:. When will computers be as smart as humans? What about their lack of common sense, intuition, and other intrinsically human qualities? What happens to humans once singularity is achieved? From → Uncategorized. Larr; Bacterial Time-Turner. Grow a New Limb →. Additi...
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Joan Slonczewski | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. Has a web page at Kenyon College, and email. Two of Joan’s books won the Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. A Door into Ocean. A Door into Ocean. Was cited by Isaac Asimov for its theme of pacifist revolution. The book depicts an ocean world run by genetic engineers called Sharers who repel an interstellar invasion using methods similar to. Besides writing books, Joan teaches. At Kenyon College, authoring with John Foster the textbook. On bacteria in extre...
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Uncategorized | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. Posts from the ‘Uncategorized’ Category. July 24, 2016. Smart as a Duck. July 9, 2016. July 5, 2016. Oceans Rise or Fall? June 23, 2016. Running Grows the Brain. June 5, 2016. Lost City Of–Microbes. May 14, 2016. April 24, 2016. Sharers of Hawaii Make Super Corals. Laquo; Older Entries. Enter email address to follow Ultraphyte. Smart as a Duck. Oceans Rise or Fall? Running Grows the Brain. Lost City Of–Microbes. Sharers of Hawaii Make Super Corals.
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Mitochondrial Singularity | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. March 25, 2013. The singularity is the day when machine intelligence finally overtakes the human mind. But what if the singularity. And if it is–what does it look like? Suppose it looks like mitochondria. Suppose we’re becoming the mitochondria. How did mitochondria get to what they are today? The (now classic) theory of endosymbiosis began as a New-age feminist plot by Lynn Margulis. To eventual become an organelle. But is it so simple? If that’s all the genes that a...
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If We Don’t, the Microbes Will | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. If We Don’t, the Microbes Will. April 9, 2015. While high-minded researchers earnestly debate. The necessity for caution on editing the human germ line, it appears that everyday bacteria and fungi have done so for millions of years. 8211;perhaps ever since the evolution of multicellular life. That is, how many of the base pairs line up. Class C. Genes (blue) show scores of 30 for all orthologs of the gene in other species; orthologs meaning “the same” gene...Genes (go...
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August | 2015 | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. Archive for August, 2015. August 19, 2015. Join the Antarctic Fire Dept. August 3, 2015. A Day at London’s Natural History Museum. Enter email address to follow Ultraphyte. Smart as a Duck. Oceans Rise or Fall? Running Grows the Brain. Lost City Of–Microbes. Sharers of Hawaii Make Super Corals. Recalling The Forever War. Hungry Bacterium: I Eats Plastic. Bio at Scientific American. Do It Yourself Biology. Food Science and Safety. Blog at WordPress.com.
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The Dawn of the Retroviruses–in Human Embryos | Ultraphyte
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Joan's books and evolving creatures. The Dawn of the Retroviruses–in Human Embryos. April 25, 2015. Human blastocyst (early embryo) produces virus-like particles (green). We’ve discussed before how ancient endogenous retroviruses. Now, researchers show that human embryos produce actual virions. 8211;virus particles–containing retroviral sequence and capsid. These truly endogenous retrovirus particles actually serve as part of the human immune system. The retrovirus studied was HERVK. 3D Printed Tracheal ...