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Alan Turing’s Patterns in Nature, and Beyond | Wired Science
Near the end of his life, the great mathematician Alan Turing wrote his first and last paper on biology and chemistry, about how a certain type of chemical reaction ought to produce many patterns seen in nature.<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-52328" title="chemical_barrels" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/02/chemical_barrels.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="440" /> CHICAGO — Contrary to claims made by informants within the Sicilian Mafia, sulfuric acid will not dissolve a corpse in minutes, a new study finds. The research, reported Feb. 23 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, was part of a wider effort to test claims about the mafia’s “lupara bianca,” or “white shotgun” murders, wherein the subject is known to be dead but a body is never found.
Mafia’s Corpse-Dissolving Claims Exaggerated | Wired Science
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Possible Early Warning Sign for Market Crashes | Wired Science
Primordial Soup’s Missing Ingredient May Be Sulfur | Wired Science
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Help Make Better Map of Global Light Pollution | Wired Science
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Flawed Diamonds Could Store Quantum Data | Wired Science
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-55314" title="tinfoilhat" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/03/tinfoilhat.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="474" /> Over the course of the 20th century, fantasies of persecution became the defining modern delusion, suggest a pair of studies on long-term trends in psychosis. The first, published Mar. 18 in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry , was based on 102 patient records from a psychiatric hospital in western Pennsylvania.
Persecution Complex Is the Defining Modern Psychosis | Wired Science
The Strange Past and Promising Future of the Lobotomy | Wired Science
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-55559" title="lobotomy_tools" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/03/lobotomy_tools.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="455" /> By Annalee Newitz, io9X-Rays Reveal 19th-Century Artist’s Cover-Up | Wired Science
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-55629" title="pauline_combo" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/04/pauline_combo.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="479" />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-55627" title="Antikythera at UW" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/04/Antikythera-at-UW1.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="371" /> The world’s oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism used pure geometry, as well as flashy gears to track celestial bodies’ motion through the heavens.
Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker | Wired Science
Geologists routinely find themselves in some of the most remote, beautiful and strange spots on Earth.
Hot Rocks: Geology Photo Contest Winners | Wired Science
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-56165" title="arctic-stratospheric-clouds-ross-j-salawitch-university-maryland" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/04/arctic-stratospheric-clouds-ross-j-salawitch-university-maryland.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="483" /> In mid-March, our online story about the thinning of stratospheric ozone over the Arctic noted that conditions appeared primed for regional ozone losses to post an all-time record. On April 5, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud announced that Arctic ozone had indeed suffered an unprecedented thinning.
Unprecedented Arctic Ozone-Thinning Drifts South | Wired Science
Real-Time Debate Feedback Distorts Democracy | Wired Science
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56459" title="cnn_graph" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/04/cnn_graph.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="448" /> During the 2008 presidential debates, CNN unveiled their latest onscreen gimmick: A real-time graph depicting the averaged reactions of 32 supposedly undecided voters, who expressed favor or disfavor by turning handheld dials as they watched.Lies and half-truths have a way of catching up to you, largely because nobody has a good enough memory to be a successful liar for long.