Monthly Archives: August 2007

How much information is needed for Life?

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Adam

I’m sick to death of people claiming ridiculous amounts of information in genomes. Pundits with an axe to grind against materialism like to liken the information in a simple cell to the Encyclopaedia Britannica – all of it. But we’ve … Continue reading →

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Milky Way Census

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Adam

Stars and life-homes estimated for you Continue reading →

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Engineer the Sun!

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Adam

Trying to imagine Life billions of years from now seems kind of futile to me. But if there’s any trace of us left then I can imagine they’d be familiar and yet very strange too. Certainly no end of SF … Continue reading →

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Clovis and after…

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Adam

North America was devastated by a cometary explosion as recently as 12,900 years ago, according to a bunch of geoscientists at a recent meeting. Now a palaeoanthropologist has chipped in… Comet theory collides with Clovis research …pointing to the apparent … Continue reading →

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Plasma life

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Adam

New research on plasma crystals raises the prospect of inorganic helices encoding genetic information… ‘It might be life Jim…’, physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities …for a long time I have pondered the possibility that UFOs – unexplained ones, … Continue reading →

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Palaeoanthropology chaos

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Adam

Old bones speak volumes, but how we understand them depends on our prejudices. The latest news about Homo erectus and Homo habilis is that they aren’t a simple ancestor-descendent set of species. Instead they co-existed… Fossils Could Force a Rethink … Continue reading →

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