MetaFilter posts tagged with NewScientist and research

thekorruptor — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:36:07 -0800

Stranger is as stranger does Lets see, the older I get, the more eccentric I become. Boy, am I in trouble.

AsiaInsider — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:35:56 -0800

China hopes to make a great leap forward in Stem Cell Research Does anyone else find this a little troubling? Are all the clones going to look like Jiang Zemin?

homunculus — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:18:28 -0800

In Canada, the creation of new stem cell lines from discarded embryos is now eligible for federal funding. And in the UK the first licenses to create new stem cell lines have been granted, as has governement approval to pursue therapeutic cloning. The chief executive of the UK's Medical Research Council predicts a "reverse brain drain" of stem cell scientists to the UK. If the US Senate votes to ban all human cloning this spring, even for research purposes, I suspect that America will lose a lot of great minds.

NortonDC — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:39:44 -0800

Anger plays a key role in human cooperation. And not only that, anger is altruistic! The link covers a behavioral experiment probing individual versus group benefits, freeloading, punishment and altruism.