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Answers to these questions should be expressed numerically, where possible, but no number should be given without a justification for the sp

Daniel Kahneman is being interviewed on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 right now (09:00-09:45 BST). The recording should be permanently

A current article in Science reports on this study about how good people are at predicting what their future selves will be like. Not very g

Half-closing my eyes and looking at the recent topic of morality from a distance, I am struck by the following trend. In mathematics, ther

"A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype" by Jonathan Karr et al. This paper appeared a few days ago in Cell, an

It appears that standard lab rats and mice are all morbidly obese. Using them as model organisms may give misleading results that fail to tr

I don't know how well this is going to work, but I mention it here because it's actually going to be done in a few weeks time at a day-long

A recent article in PloS Computational Biology suggests that memory is encoded in the microtubules. "Signaling and encoding in MTs and other

Thus the subtitle of this blog posting at PLoS, referencing this article on "Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endura

I have just received a survey questionnaire regarding future directions in EU (European Union) research funding, and thought it would be int