NCBI ROFL: That’s one miraculous conception. | Discoblog | Discover Magazine
Girl with no vagina accidentally gets pregnant under, um, remarkable circumstances. Has the flavour of an urban myth but was published in an actual scientific journal… so I guess we take it at face value.
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accidental mysteries: How Genetics Works
Geek humour.
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Darwin’s finches tracked to reveal evolution in action : Nature News
More fascinating results from the legendary research by Peter and Rosemary Grant into Galapagos finches. If you haven't read 'The Beak of the Finch' – why not?
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Video: Atul Gawande: New Yorker Festival : The New Yorker
A very interesting talk [...]
The swine flu outbreak had me thinking: presumably the very nature of infectious diseases means that, if you want to beat them, you have to act fast and take large-scale measures. You have to act, every time, as though this one is The Big One because if it is, then time is of the essence.
But [...]
I’m fascinated by this story—that the British government is considering changing organ donation to an opt-out system. So the surgeons would be able to presume consent unless the patient had specifically asked that his organs not be used.
I think it’s such an interesting ethical question. In some ways it would so clearly be a good [...]
I highly recommend this fascinating book; it seems to be out of print, but there are lots of second-hand copies on Amazon. As the title suggests, it’s about poor mad George III. And even Americans, brought up to think of George III as a tyrant, might have a little sympathy for him after reading this.
It [...]
Actually it’s not a self-portrait—I certainly wasn’t operating the camera—but it is a picture of me. Since my blogging is generally short on personal details and I’ve never even posted a photograph of myself before, I suppose a shot of the inside of my colon seems like a rather radical step. But what the hell, [...]