http://yeschaton.org Documenting the Impending End of Everything since 1998 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:38:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/03/10/nervous-sounds/ http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/03/10/nervous-sounds/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:20:35 +0000 mark http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/03/10/nervous-sounds/ Danish scientists are claiming that nerves transmit their signals by sound, not by electrical charges…

]]> http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/03/10/nervous-sounds/feed/ 0 http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/23/the-six-degrees-of-our-brains/ http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/23/the-six-degrees-of-our-brains/#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:03:36 +0000 mark http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/23/the-six-degrees-of-our-brains/ The connections between our neurons seems to obey the same principles as the rules which govern social networks…

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]]> http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/23/killer-chimps/feed/ 0 http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/14/becoming-transsimian/ http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/14/becoming-transsimian/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:05:22 +0000 mark http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/14/becoming-transsimian/ Archeologists have discovered stone tools – used by chimpanzees 4300 years ago…

]]> http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/14/becoming-transsimian/feed/ 0 http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/stopping-light/ http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/stopping-light/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:29:11 +0000 mark http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/stopping-light/ Researchers at Harvard have stopped light, stored it, and released it again…

]]> http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/stopping-light/feed/ 0 http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/autism-reversed-in-mice/ http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/autism-reversed-in-mice/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:23:30 +0000 mark http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/autism-reversed-in-mice/ Scientists have done a neat bit of genetic tinkering which reversed one of the most serious forms of autism – in mice…

]]> http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/09/autism-reversed-in-mice/feed/ 0 http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/02/nanomotors/ http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/02/nanomotors/#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:26:29 +0000 mark http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/02/nanomotors/ Scientists have produced a working nano-scale motor…

]]> http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/02/02/nanomotors/feed/ 0 http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/01/31/have-we-already-discovered-the-cure-for-cancer/ http://yeschaton.org/index.php/2007/01/31/have-we-already-discovered-the-cure-for-cancer/#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:18:40 +0000 mark http://yeschaton.org/?p=11 A simple drug, used for over forty years, may be the single-point cure for nearly all cancers…

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