Archive for January 9th, 2009

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Man-made chemicals evolve into life-like ecosystem

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(…) Joyce and his graduate student Tracey Lincoln, added the enzymes into a soup of building blocks, strings of nucleic bases that can be assembled into RNA, DNA or larger strings, and tweaked them to find pairs of enzymes that would reproduce. One day, some of the enzymes “went critical” and produced more RNA enzymes than the researchers had put in.

It was an important day, but Joyce and Lincoln wanted more. They wanted to create an entire population of enzymes that could replicate, compete and evolve, which is exactly what they did.

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9

The best stats you’ve ever seen

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Hans Rosling debunks myths about third world countries with the best stats you’ve ever seen:

Jan

9

Browser wars

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How Porsche made over €6 billion by buying Volkswagen

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Porsche gamed the financial system and made a fortune:

Porsche’s move took three years of careful maneuvering. It was darkly brilliant, a wealth transfer ingeniously conceived like few we’ve ever seen. Betting the right way, Porsche roiled the financial markets and took the hedge funds for a fortune.

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