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  • The circadian rhythms of death

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net This is pos­si­bly one of the weird­est things I have read this year. You (yes, you) are more like­ly to die around 11:00 am than any other time. That is, pro­vid­ed your death is the sort that hap­pens in old age, as opposed to, say, being hit … RT @BoingBoing: The circadian…

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  • Open science event in London this weekend

      Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net If you’re in Lon­don this week­end, you should know that the Well­come Trust is spon­sor­ing a two-day bio­science hackathon with prizes award­ed for the best ideas in four cat­e­gories: Open Me — col­lect­ing data on your­self and mak­ing it use­… RT @BoingBoing: Open science event in London this weekend http://flip.it/kqy0Y Open…

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  • Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

                Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 bio­med­ical and life sci­ence com­pa­nies are clus­tered in Genome Val­ley, a research park in Hyder­abad, India. (Via Joanne Man­aster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost…

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  • Digital tracking reveals the relation between birds and cigarette butts

    What birds are doing with your cigarette butts Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net Nico­tine is one of nature’s bug zap­pers. Seri­ous­ly. Lots of plants have evolved to pro­duce bug-repelling chem­i­cals as part of their defense mech­a­nisms and tobac­co hap­pens to be one of those plants. So when city-dwelling birds use the… RT @BoingBoing: What birds are doing…

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  • The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I real­ly enjoyed read­ing a recent story in The New York Times Mag­a­zine about attempts to under­stand extreme longevi­ty — the weird ten­den­cy for cer­tain pop­u­la­tions to have larger-than-average num­bers of peo­ple who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles…

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