by | Dec 23, 2015 | Weirdness
from The New Yorker Can CRISPR Avoid the Monsanto Problem? BY MICHAEL SPECTER Because it makes manipulating genes so much easier, CRISPR offers researchers the ability to rapidly accelerate studies of many types of illness, including cancers, autism,...
by | Dec 22, 2015 | Weirdness
from TIME Magazine FLOAT HOPES: The Strange New Science of Floating STORY BY MANDY OAKLANDER They started late one night, the tremors that shook Michael Harding’s whole body when he lay down to sleep. “A bit weird,” thought Harding, then a 23-year-old Australian...
by | Dec 20, 2015 | Weirdness
from The Express Tribune US military developing radical ‘tail-sitter’ drone that lands anywhere PHOTO: US Navy and US federal government/ Mail Online The design for a flying-wing tail sitter drone which lands on its tail, has been revealed by the Northrop...
by | Dec 19, 2015 | Weirdness
from The New York Daily News I ate my placenta like Kim Kardashian, and you should too: Brooklyn mom BY JENNIFER MAYER Eating your placenta sounds like something only Kim Kardashian would do – but Prospect Heights mother Jennifer Mayer, 32, has been...
by | Dec 11, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
by | Dec 7, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Independent Prehistoric rock carvings ‘were humanity’s earliest architectural plans’ Researchers say 14,000-year-old carvings by ‘Paleolithic Picasso’ depict a campsite built by early hunter-gatherers by Cahal Milmo | Chief...