Bruce, Brenda and the Roots of Gender Identity
When I was a graduate student at UCLA, I came across this sad and tragic story in neuroscience class of a young boy who had a circumcision that went awry. …
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Dengvaxia is No Excuse to Fail in Preventing the Measles Outbreak
Recently, the party-list candidate group ANA Kalusugan staged a rally and press conference in Manila, holding the former in front of the Department of Health. They charged that the DOH …
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Can Filipinos build their own rockets?
It’s not a question of ability. The Philippines produces a staggering figure in terms of brain power for engineering, science, IT, and mathematics. It’s really a question of why: why …
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FACT CHECK: Is God stupid?
No he isn’t. Any garden variety theoretical physicist and mathematician will know that he isn’t, because there is a vast coherence in the universe that can be described consistently by …
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A Tale of Three Genetic Mutations: Aquinos’ Rare Deleterious Alleles, Genghis Khan’s ‘LCT Gene’, and Charles II’s Inbreeding Depression
A Piece of Chalk Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg is one of the deepest and most original thinkers in modern physics. His research has mostly been in the theory of …
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Is athletic ability dictated more by genetics than environment in the NBA?
NBA superstar Lebron James of the fourth-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers clinched his eight straight NBA Finals appearance after the four-time MVP led the Cavaliers to an 87-79 victory over Boston in …
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Do people really know who Stephen Hawking was?
Do we really know who Stephen Hawking was? We know what he looks like and that he contributed much to science. But asking exactly what he contributed will likely leave …
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Knowing the Mind of God: Einstein’s unfinished symphony, Hawking’s partial unification (part 2)
General Relativity + Quantum Mechanics = Troubled Marriage in Short Distances One of the biggest scientific challenges today is the unification of gravity and quantum mechanics. Einstein’s baby or prima …
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