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October 18th, 2013

10/18/2013

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Superenhancers are the new super thing!
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2813%2901227-0
Awesome paper. Soon I will have to regret my rants about "OmicOmics".

Take that, nerds! Exercise makes you smarter:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311300377X
But not any kind of exercise (see below)...

Here are the English (with some help from the Canadians) sticking it to the Americans: your football is worse than ours!
http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/131017/srep02972/full/srep02972.html
Who would have thought that banging your head may have negative consequences for your brain? Not the NFL. Oh wait, some of these NFL talking heads came up through the (head-banging) ranks. Oops. How about fMRI on Beavis and Butthead?

This was all over news this week, so I have to chime in too. Newsflash: all Homo erectus may not have looked exactly the same:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/297.summary
At least we modern humans all look exactly the same.

I dread the day when bench science becomes obsolete...
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6155/186.full
Take note: the illustration is in the best tradition of fake science. All of the information displayed on the 20+ screens would fit on one regular computer screen just fine. But then it would not be "big science" :-)

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