Serious games
…12 May 2006 entry. For more of our game news, see re Budget Hero, a 2005 Washington Post story, a 2004 story on the Serious Games movement, and an entry…
…12 May 2006 entry. For more of our game news, see re Budget Hero, a 2005 Washington Post story, a 2004 story on the Serious Games movement, and an entry…
The springboard for a recent news@nature.com item by Hannah Hickey “Butterflies poke holes in DNA barcodes” is a report by Gompert et al in press in Mol. Ecology on genetic…
The New York Times reported 8 December that USA corn yields have risen 31% since 1995. Despite the drought in Illinois in the summer of 2005, that State produced a…
…range 14-28%). Blastn GenBank searches with these divergent mtDNA sequences showed very limited identity to anything, and the closest matches were short stretches (100-150 nucleotides of the 678 full-length barcode…
Jesse’s niece, Ramona Ausubel, has published a novel, The Last Animal, about a woolly mammoth starting a modern life. A companion essay, Science and Fiction Are Experiments That Ask the…
The newest version of PHE’s Loglet Lab software, LL5 is now available to users online. Software improvements in LL5 include more tools for statistical analysis, cleaner graphs, and a ‘Get…
To lift enthusiasts of distributed generation to heaven, our 1996 paper Elektron on pp. 157-158 proposed a “splicerâ€, a multi-purpose household energy alliance of 5 kW, to produce electricity, heat,…
“The reduction in life hours of work since 1850: estimates for Dutch males” by Jaap de Koning follows the 1995 paper by Jesse Ausubel and Arnulf Gruebler Working less and…
We laughed from beginning to end reading the novel of our Mayo Clinic colleague Michael Joyner MD, Michelle the Archangel, a story of the 2020, 2024, and 2028 US presidential…