October 2008
4 posts
An End to Endless Forms →
“Researchers have put forward a simple model of development and gene regulation that is capable of explaining patterns observed in the distribution of morphologies and body plans.”
From Old Vials, New Hints on Origin of Life →
A classic experiment exploring the origin of life has, more than a half-century later, yielded new results - via io9.
Synesthesia and Cross-Modality in Contemporary... →
“In the age of ubiquitous digital media, synesthesia is everywhere. In human, neurological form, it is rare: for perhaps three in a hundred people, a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically induces a sensation in another. Auditory-to-visual synesthesia, or “colored hearing” is much rarer still. Yet now this phenomenon is realised, apparently, inside every digital music player, on VJ...