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Like an old friend who struck it rich by bringing clean drinking water to the impoverished millions, Episode 4 of Grand Unified Weekly does well by doing good.
Episode 4 includes: Move over Baby Einstein, helicopter parents have a new weapon of choice: a genetic test that will tell them whether those after-school sports clubs are a waste of time; H.M., the world’s most famous amnesiac and friend-to-science, dies at 82; and a new techno-trick will help you swap your brain into a body that is way more ripped than you were even in your salad days. SABROSO!
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Like the vampire-eating supervampires in Blade II, a soul-sucking nudibranch that feeds on the sun-sucking organelles of plants has proved that being an animal doesn’t mean that you can’t be born with plant genes that somehow got mixed up in your nuclear DNA zillions of years ago, or that keeping part of your victim alive inside your gut is beyond the powers of the ‘lowly’ sea slug.
Plantnimal, NASA hijinks and a compelling physiological explanation for why we sleep comprise the third installment of Grand Unified Weekly, up now at SlateV. If you’re not watching, you need to turn in your AAAS membership card.
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The second installment of the weekly science news roundup for the rest of us is burrowing into the collective unconscious like one of those mind-control worms from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan — catch it at SlateV.
In an age when even Gawker has figured out how awful most science reporting is, isn’t it time you turned your friends on to the good stuff? Go - do it now. We’ll wait.
In this episode: The untold story of the race between the two fastest supercomputers on earth, the epidemiology of viral videos, and sticking a fly inside a Max Headroom synopticon locked into a feedback loop with a robot… for SCIENCE!
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Episode 1 of Grand Unified Weekly has landed at SlateV like a Megatherium brought down by a pack of Smilodons, and the world can never be the same again.
In this episode: Obama’s got a plan — for SCIENCE; the plot of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind came true, at least for a mouse; and headline-grabbing science papers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the most likely to be wrong.
Oh god, it’s finally over. just beginning.
Today’s launch couldn’t have happened without the following individuals, whose incessant givingness challenges all theories of kin selection-based altruism to a duel and stomps their beady-eyed heads in.
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