Ah, evolution at work. Isn’t it wonderful? đ
Category: evolution
Google Wave
Google Wave completely obliterates business models and entire verticals of companies left and right. You must watch this right now. At least the first 40 minutes.
This is amazing. Via Seth Godin
Man-made chemicals evolve into life-like ecosystem
(…) 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.
Ghosts & Darwin
According to a recent survey, Americans think the existence of ghosts is as probable as Darwin’s theory of evolution:
- Slightly more people – but both are minorities – believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution (47%) than in creationism (40%).
- Sizeable minorities believe in ghosts (44%), UFOs (36%), witches (31%), astrology (31%), and reincarnation (24%).
I wonder what these numbers look like for my ultra-liberal corner of Europe.
Building a life-sized dinosaur
From the show “Walking with Dinosaurs – The live experience” – which unfortunately hasn’t toured Europe yet.
How humans conquered the world
Using genetic information, scientists have come up with this history of how humans conquered the world. Link to original New York Times article.
