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http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2004-04/1080923553.An.r.html

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/step_away_from_that_ladder.php

Unintended Consequences - arguing the opposite to get outcome

Wil's Ernst Mayer's cybernetics

Social Software

Voting

simple neurons vs. smart einsteins

"hey run the danger of undermining their position by their own success if they push it too far." http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=302089593&rid=-50

"Forgetting part of Remembering" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/health/psychology/05forg.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=77514628fd5ab650&ex=1181275200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1181152268-68/CMNlAXIn5+XmfGXsVdg

Problem: throw lever, kill 1 and save 10; throw man, kill 1, save 10
Princeton neuro scientist; parts of brain
This american life, about july 10, 2007
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~jgreene/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814150630.htm - interstellar dust has properties of life

http://discovermagazine.com/2004/jun/cover/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C= - what came before DNA?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/artificial_life_5

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/09/25/is_she_conscious/

Evolution of language:

http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense

Can an open system do anything? http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/sewell/articles/open.pdf

Framing science

http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/matthew_nisbet_says_entire_environmental_movement_should_just_shut_up/

http://karmatics.com/docs/evolution-and-wisdom-of-crowds.html