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"And, does it reflect reality? Do new populations really preserve the prexisting culture in practice?" I'm not totally sure what you're presuming integrating with a community shoul…

Were the MIT journals previously behind a paywall? Is there any info about the move?

Could you explain how the need for two mutations refutes the idea of an adaptive walk? The elife article just seems to suggest that walk may have been a more complex process.

While the worm in question, C.Elegens, is vastly simpler than the human brain, the numbers don't paint the complete picture. When you look at the product of evolution in such a sys…

> To test these predictions, we conducted a double blind, sham-controlled, within-subjects experiment using EEG and high-definition tACS (HD-tACS; a form of tACS that provides more…

From the article: "They looked for a link between a child’s behavioral problems at age 7 and his or her mother’s post-natal acetaminophen use, and found none. They looked for a lin…

Also isn't clear at all if they're accounting for multiple comparisons. Given they're looking at (glancing through they paper) at least seven or eight cell phone related factors, i…

Just curious, what's wrong with this?

To get a structural MRI scan, you need the subject to both be willing to lie inside a a scanner and capable of holding still for a few minutes. This can be challenging in populatio…

For human trials of this nature, typically at-risk populations can be used, and it's seen if there's a reduction in infection rates.

Yeah, this is what I was going at. As well, when a language like sanskrit is spoken as vernacular, then you end up with exactly what we have now: a bunch of related languages that …

Much like Latin, a good deal of the regularity is because Sanskrit is only a written language.

The sentiment has value, but it feels misleading to need to back it up by aligning the idea with the Nazi Germany. (The closest quote by Goebbels appears to be about England rather…

I wouldn't put so much emphasis on the source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#Misattributed

I'd guess two is a limitation of the Thunderbolt controller they're using, and adding the HDMI is a cheap way to free up one of those ports.