Monthly Archives: February 2013

Our common ancestor is a huge disappointment reveals Tree of Life

The project Assembling the Tree of Life is trying to map all species in a huge Darwinian tree and filling in the blanks. By combining all known common genomes and resulting physical traits, out came the below image. An ugly … Continue reading

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Project Aperio: organized crime and doping rule Australian sports

The Australian Crime Commission has done its research and the results are shocking. Performance enhancing drugs are in wide use across all professional sports in Australia. The trade in them is controlled by organized crime, but even more shocking: the … Continue reading

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Amazon will introduce ´Amazon Coin´ aka how to make a larger profit

The largest online retailer of the world announced today that they will accept their own payment system: the Amazon Coin. Let´s have a look at the business model behind it. It´s not yet clear how you can buy them, but … Continue reading

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King Richard III or just an anonymous skeleton: science will tell

Yesterday the remains of King Richard III were found under a parking lot in the UK. Not the best of places for a king, but that´s probably what happens if you make a lot of enemies 😉 But how did … Continue reading

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Widely available cheap clean water is the holy grail and Coca Cola will be the knight to deliver it

At least that´s what Segway inventor Dean Kamen claims now that he found a distribution partner in Coca-Cola to bring his fresh water machine to the masses without access to ordinary tap water. His machine, – the Slingshot- promises to … Continue reading

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