Monday, January 10, 2005

Unconstitutional Provision? U.S. House passes 'doomsday' provision that would allow a handful of lawmakers to run Congress if a terrorist attack or major disaster killed or incapacitated large numbers of congressmen. 7:37:24 AM     Synthetic biology Life, Reinvented. A group of MIT engineers wants to model the biological world. But, damn, some of nature's designs are complicated! So they start rebuilding from the ground up -- and give birth to synthetic biology. By Oliver Morton from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 7:33:52 AM     Positivity gets you nowhere Was the recent political season so negative because politicians are bad people, or because negativity works? 7:30:35 AM

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