“Genetic Deterioration over Nine Generations of Cloned Gingerbread Men“, by Ken Ralphs, appears in the special Cloning & Evolution issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. (The article is also online.) It begins: This preliminary study of the long term generational effects of cloning was carried out on gingerbread men for two important reasons. First and […]
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Evolution of Complexes from LEGO™ Bricks in a Washing Machine
“Evolution of Complexes from LEGO™ Bricks in a Washing Machine“, by Ingo Althöfer, appears in the special Cloning & Evolution issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. (The article is also online.) It begins: Disclaimers: This work has not been supported by the LEGO Group or any other brick toy company This work has not been sponsored […]
Dr. Schwab’s eon-spanning look at the eye
Dr. Ivan Schwab has done at least two spectacular things. First he accepted an Ig Nobel Prize, in 2006, for explaining why woodpeckers don’t get headaches. Now he has produced a momentous book called Evolution’s Witness: How Eyes Evolved. Hank Campbell of Science 2.0 interviewed him: Eye Evolution Gets Its War And Peace We’ve been […]
Interview with Professor barefoot & pregnant
Claudia Dreyfus interviews Daniel Lieberman (who shared the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in physics, for or analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over) about his research on barefoot running and other things. It’s in the New York Times. Here’s a snippet: Among his academic peers, Daniel Lieberman, 47, is known as a “hoof and mouth” […]