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		<title>&#8220;A false sense of precision&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/a-false-sense-of-precision/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/a-false-sense-of-precision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Whenever you hear the term ‘Darwinian’ from anyone other than historians of science, assume the crash position; it’s going to get real ugly.&#8221; The quote is from a blogger known as Mike the Mad Biologist. The title of the post is When Economists Misunderstand Biology, an entry he wrote in response to economist Russ Roberts&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brain, the computer, and the economy</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/the-brain-the-computer-and-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/the-brain-the-computer-and-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The brain, the computer, and the economy: all three are devices whose purpose is to solve fundamental information problems in coordinating the activities of individual units – the neurons, the transistors, or individual people.&#8221; Robert J. Schiller I have a love-hate relationship with the idea of neuroeconomics. The materialist neuroscience side of my brain likes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY biotechnology</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/diy-biotechnology/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/diy-biotechnology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I Fear These Things]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do it yourself molecular biology, viewing biological systems as equivalent to electronic or software systems. It looks to me right now that it's at the DNA equivalent of <a href="http://www.telephonetribute.com/phonephreaking.html">phone hacking</a>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Who Let the President Have a Cell Phone?</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/i-fear-these-things-wetware-and-hard-sciencewho-let-the-president-have-a-cell-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/i-fear-these-things-wetware-and-hard-sciencewho-let-the-president-have-a-cell-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stearns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I Fear These Things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inventing the Future]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is so Sundman that I&#8217;m not sure I didn&#8217;t already read about it in one of John&#8217;s novels are this here Wetmachine. MIT researchers have shown that a magnetic field applied to a very specific part of the surface of the brain can suppress moral reasoning, influencing the person to coldly judge other people&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The human genome sequence&#8217;s 10th anniversary collided with the invalidation of a major DNA patent</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/the-human-genome-sequences-10th-anniversary-collided-with-the-invalidation-of-a-major-dna-patent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The US patent office has made it very clear that purified DNA is not the same, in their view, as the DNA in each of our cells. Myriad Genetics used this ruling to put a choke hold on medical tests for BRCA1, which was first identified not as a gene, but as a region of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA, it&#039;s not just for genetics any more</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/dna-its-not-just-for-genetics-any-more/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/dna-its-not-just-for-genetics-any-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wetware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetware and Hard Science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[presence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology Review has an article about a paper in Public Library of Science Biology titled Solid-State, Dye-Labeled DNA Detects Volatile Compounds in the Vapor Phase . In other words, DNA is being used as just a polymer, not the Stuff of Life. Why is this cool?]]></description>
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		<title>A slice off the old epidermis.</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/a-slice-off-the-old-epidermis/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/a-slice-off-the-old-epidermis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wetware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human cloning work moves away from the embryo, but the reasons aren't moral. A recent Nature News article (abstract only) reports on the advances in stem cell cloning published in the last week.]]></description>
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		<title>Creating reality</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/creating-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/creating-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I Fear These Things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetware and Hard Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[william gibson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've always been interested in the fake it to make it credo, which is pretending that you are something until you become that thing. Fiction writers contiually create realities that exist on paper until someone later makes it real (like Heinlein's waldos).]]></description>
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		<title>quantum theory and relativity finally wed</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/quantum-theory-and-relativity-finally-wed/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/quantum-theory-and-relativity-finally-wed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetware and Hard Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is causality an inherent and necessary characteristic of the Universe, or just an illusion produced by the way our brains interpret the world? That's the opening line of an article in Nature news titled How to Build the Universe]]></description>
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		<title>Nature&#039;s take on Bush V. Kerry</title>
		<link>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/natures-take-on-bush-v-kerry/</link>
		<comments>http://wetware-and-hard-science.wetmachine.com/natures-take-on-bush-v-kerry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetware and Hard Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bush administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nature, of course, I mean the the magazine .  In a (mostly) free area the position of the candidates on various scientific issues is discussed, from stem cells to climate change to nuclear waste and weapons. Also, they rehearse the Bush administration's apparent manipulation of science for its own ends.]]></description>
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