Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous means I cannot think what category to put the post under and not wanting to create another category.

Dr. Venturer’s Synthetic Life and Life As We Know It

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Shawn Du'Mmett

The question of ‘What is Life?’ is an important one. It is one that has enormous implications for us and sits in the boundaries of religion and philosophy without really entering into science except for a definition that covers the signs of its existence. So where is it in regard to the rapidly mechanical view that you must take when considering Dr Venturers recent report in Science, magazine. He has, with his team, transplanted DNA to a host cell from what was originally software. Continue reading →

Posted in Science Stuff | Leave a comment

Life Version 0.1 Beta

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Shawn Du'Mmett

A new revolution is underway that is going to further stretch our understanding of what life is and how it presents itself in the material world. Another step forward has been made and the first synthetic life form has been created by a team led by Dr. J. Craig Venturer and the results published in Science, magazine. Continue reading →

Posted in Science Stuff | Leave a comment

Why We Exist: Proof Matters, That Matter Wins By One Percent

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Shawn Du'Mmett

What’s the matter with antimatter, where has it all gone? Results of eight years of Tevatron collider data at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, USA suggest that ‘matter’ won, by one percent. Continue reading →

Posted in Science Stuff | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Shawn Du'Mmett

Memory and Doing the Impossible: http://EzineArticles.com/4267527 # Memory Faults – From the Seven Sins of Memory: http://EzineArticles.com/4267477 # Memory Incomplete – No Pictures Exist Within Our Mind: http://EzineArticles.com/4267581 # Get Rid of the Fluffy Stuff!: http://EzineArticles.com/4267616 # Seven Bits of … Continue reading →

Posted in Twitter | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Shawn Du'Mmett

Success Systems Are Not Worth Anything – There's Something Very Important Missing: http://EzineArticles.com/4209026 # If only all software testing was this creative and interesting http://tcrn.ch/9oWcxj – though probably just as useful. # #Social #Network #Media #Facebook #Twitter #World #Marketing #FF … Continue reading →

Posted in Twitter | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Shawn Du'Mmett

@IckleAndy Thanks Andy – Good to hear from you 🙂 in reply to IckleAndy # For a fascinating and perfect moment of inspiration – He did nothing # The Internet is only 100M big – It's TRUE!!! Everything else has … Continue reading →

Posted in Twitter | Leave a comment