We still know stunningly little about the heart
These SNPs – by far the most important ever found in terms of understanding genetic risk to heart disease and diabetes – were found in a “gene desert” as one researcher put it to me. They’re not part of any known functioning gene, they’re in what’s now known as the non-protein-coding DNA, meaning it appears to do nothing. These regions were formerly known as “junk DNA” but no longer are, for obvious reas
SciGuy
Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes
However, a recently published academic paper from the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego throws cold water on skeptics of cold fusion. Appearing in the respected journal Naturwissenschaften, which counts Albert Einstein among its distinguished authors, the article claims that Spawar scientists Stanislaw Szpak and Pamela Mosier-Boss have achieved a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) that can be replicated and verified by the scientific community.
Cold fusion has gotten the cold shoulder from serious nuclear physicists since 1989, when Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann were unable to substantiate their sensational claims that deuterium nuclei could be forced to fuse and release excess energy at room temperature.
DailyTech
Bowling in Haskell: A response to Ron Jeffries
Bowling is a tricky game to score. It’s just complicated enough to act as a good programming exercise. And Ron Jeffries has performed this exercise many times, in C#, Smalltalk, and other languages. He’s been searching for a tidy and elegant solution, one which makes the rules of bowling as clear as possible.
Eric Kidd, Random Hacks
The Haskell API Search Engine
I bought my copy of CLtL second hand during a trip to the east coast of the US in the late 80s. I found it in a curious little bookshop whose owner was, perhaps, a little more strange and unpleasant than the owners of second-hand bookshops usually are. I was only learning Lisp at that time, and perhaps did not realise the significance of what I’d found.
Tim Bradshaw, comp.lang.lisp
cPanel to Bundle in Support for Ruby
cPanel 11 supports the up and coming Ruby on Rails framework for web application development. Simply run /scripts/installruby to install both Ruby and Ruby on Rails. RubyGems can then easily be added through WHM or cPanel.
James Britt — This is really good news.
The web can bring out the worst in people. Some idiots have been DOS attacking jquery.com, and their hosts offered such good service that instead of protecting them, they shut off their service and told them to move.
Ajaxian — Good move! Now, tell us to the host is.
