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CultureLab Loves... 6 May 2011 edition
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 1:56)
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CultureLab's pick of this week's science-inspired arts, books and culture
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Unnatural selection: Living with pollution
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 1:45)
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Other species may evolve to cope with the poisons we dump into air, land and water? but we may pay a price, says Michael Le Page (full text available to subscribers)
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Cultural collaborators twisting through space and time
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 0:33)
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Beyond Entropy, a collaboration between scientists, artists and architects, reconfigures how we think about energy
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Infant recall: The birth of memory
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 0:13)
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Babies absorb information like a sponge. So why do we struggle to recall our first few years? (full text available to subscribers)
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Out-of-Africa migration selected novelty-seeking genes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 0:09)
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As humans migrated around 50,000 years ago, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness
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'Dwarf' black holes might help explain dark matter
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 23:45)
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Black holes might come in more sizes than small, medium and large? if so, mini black holes could contribute to the universe's mysterious dark matter
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Obama is right to withhold photos of bin Laden's corpse
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 23:11)
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The US president is showing astute caution in refusing to release the photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse, says Andrew Silke
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Breath, body parts and what lies beneath
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 23:10)
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Helen Pynor uses real organs in her work, but avoids sensationalism to take a delicate look at the body parts we take for granted
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MI5's software made it hard to track 7/7 bombers
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 23:00)
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A report published today reveals that software issues made it hard for MI5 to identify files relating to the perpetrators of the 2005 London bombings
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Easily distracted people may have too much brain
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 22:47)
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People who often find their mind wandering have a larger volume of grey matter in a part of the brain called the left superior parietal lobe
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