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» Génome : la mère de toutes les jobs de moine | Sciences dessus dessous Il y a eu 10 ans la semaine dernière que les revues savantes Nature et Science publiaient conjointement l’ensemble du génome humain, qui venait à peine d’être décrypté en entier. Je souligne cet anniversaire dans un article paru dans Le Soleil, où je tente de répondre à une question lancée récemment par Science : où est passée la révolution promise ? Les promesses étaient immenses, mais 10 ans plus tard, les applications pratiques sont relativement peu nombreuses, selon le magazine… À part le fait qu’il faut presque toujours au moins 10 ans pour passer du labo à la clinique, on peut résumer les réponses que j’ai recueillies en disant que si l’on avait vu, en 2001, le décorticage des 3 milliards de paires de base de notre génome comme une job de moine — qui prit d’ailleurs plus d’une décennie à compléter —, on avait tort.
openSNP Social Psychological Phenomena: Granfalloons etc. ...attribute the statement to Nostradamus and the dynamics change. Nostradamus was a man who supposedly cured plague victims, predicted who would be pope, foretold the future of kings and queens, and even found a poor dog lost by the king's page (Randi 1993). Such a great seer and prophet can't be wrong. 4. Where would a leader be without something to lead? Granfalloons are powerful propaganda devices because they are easy to create and, once established, the granfalloon defines social reality and maintains social identities. The classic séance can be viewed as an ad-hoc granfalloon. Essential to the success of the granfalloon tactic is the creation of a shared social identity. (a) rituals and symbols (e.g., a dowser's rod, secret symbols, and special ways of preparing food): these not only create an identity, but provide items for sale at a profit. 5. 6. Joseph Stalin once remarked: "The death of a single Russian soldier is a tragedy.
Biotechnologie Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. L’OCDE définit la biotechnologie comme « l’application des principes scientifiques et de l'ingénierie à la transformation de matériaux par des agents biologiques pour produire des biens et services »[1]. La biotechnologie, ou « technologie de bioconversion » comme son nom l'indique, résulte d'un mariage entre la science des êtres vivants – la biologie – et un ensemble de techniques nouvelles issues d'autres disciplines telles que la microbiologie, la biochimie, la biophysique, la génétique, la biologie moléculaire, l'informatique… Par abus de langage, on la restreint souvent au domaine du génie génétique et aux technologies issues de la transgénèse, permettant en particulier d'intervenir sur le patrimoine génétique des espèces pour le décrypter ou le modifier (voir organismes génétiquement modifiés). Histoire[modifier | modifier le code] A la fin des années 1990, des sociétés spécialisées en biotechnologies apparaissent.
Becoming Human: Series Overview Becoming Human – Hour 2 PBS Airdate: November 10, 2009 NARRATOR: Humans: without a doubt, the smartest animal on Earth. Yet we're unmistakably tied to our ape origins. Millions of years ago, we were apes, living ape lives in Africa. So how did we get from that to this? The questions are huge. At the threshold of humanity, one ancestor contains tantalizing secrets. RICHARD WRANGHAM (Harvard University): Homo erectus had a slightly smaller brain, slightly bigger jaw, but it's basically us. NARRATOR: Basically us, almost 2,000,000 years ago. New finds are revealing the truth about the ancestors at the heart of our evolution. JOHN SHEA (Stony Brook University): These creatures were capable of analyzing possible uses of tools and coming up with a technological solution to the problem: how do you kill a big, dangerous animal without getting killed yourself. NARRATOR: Homo erectus pioneered what it means to be human, colonizing whole continents and creating the first human societies. And David H.
Bradley Manning and the Future of Punishment Yeah! Kill the guy who revealed to the rest of America what lies their government had been keeping from them. I love how Americans are so ready to just string up the guy who finally pulled back the curtain on the horrific actions being taken in their name. You want to bitch about 'criticizing' president Karzai (whom Bush installed there) and then you say "The U.S. does not want to repeat its Cold War mistakes of aiding corrupt governments for political expediency. " in regards to Ecuador. "Is this embarrassing? —Robert Gates, Unites States Secretary of Defense in regards to the Leak Americans should have the right to know about — and be ashamed of/infuriated at — what went on in Iraq under their banner and using their tax dollars. Including interesting facts like: - U.S. officials were told to cover up evidence of child rape by contractors in Afghanistan. - There is an official tally of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. - U.S. This and much more — find out the details here:
Fragrant Flashbacks Memory and smell are intertwined; it’s through memory that we learn to remember smells, and disorders that take away memory also take away the ability to distinguish scents. Some of this learning starts even before we are born, when fetuses learn about their mother’s preferences through the amniotic fluid. Flavor, like that described by Proust (see sidebar), is what happens when taste and smell come together. Technically, “taste” refers only to the senses that are associated with receptors on the tongue: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and — some people argue — umami. “What everybody calls ‘smell’ is when you sniff through your nostrils to get an odorant. Getting back to Proust’s madeleines, Maria Larsson studies how smell evokes autobiographical memories at Stockholm University. Other researchers have found that the formation of autobiographical memory peaks between the ages of 15 and 30. Just finding the smells to test people with was tricky, Larsson says. Mennella, J.
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich by Ivan Illich I owe my interest in public education to Everett Reimer. Until we first met in Puerto Rico in 1958, I had never questioned the value of extending obligatory schooling to all people. Since 1967 Reimer and I have met regularly at the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Universal education through schooling is not feasible. On Wednesday mornings, during the spring and summer of 1970, I submitted the various parts of this book to the participants in our CIDOC programs in Cuernavaca. Reimer and I have decided to publish separate views of our joint research. CIDOC Cuernavaca, Mexico November, 1970 Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. In these essays, I will show that the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence: three dimensions in a process of global degradation and modernized misery. Footnote: * Penrose B.
A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman Smell Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away. -- Helen Keller The Mute Sense Nothing is more memorable than a smell. People of all cultures have always been obsessed with smell, sometimes applying perfumes in Niagaras of extravagance. Our sense of smell can be extraordinarily precise, yet it's almost impossible to describe how something smells to someone who hasn't smelled it. Breaths come in pairs, except at two times in our lives -- the beginning and the end. Try it now. Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute. Smell is the most direct of all our senses.
Best of TED: Hans Rosling | Epicenter Hans Rosling is probably the only academic who ends his PowerPoint presentation by swallowing a sword. He does this while wearing a muscle-T bedazzled with lightning bolts made from shiny, gold sequins. Rosling is probably also the only academic who can make dry sta tistics dance like musical theater stars while revealing startling facts about the world and debunking preconceptions. Think the developing world is less developed than the western world? Professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Rosling developed a Flash program called Trendalyzer that allows people to easily compare and contrast large volumes of data with animated charts (Google has since acquired the software). He designed the software with his son and daughter-in-law after surveying Karolinska’s top medical students and discovering how ignorant they were about the world. Wired: How did the idea for Trendalyzer come about? HR: But they’re not uninteresting! HR: It’s about 30-40 percent higher.
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