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Extremists destroy kids summer camp in Gaza, threaten UNRWA
Armed, masked men torched a UN run Summer Camp for Gazan children this weekend. They also threatened UNRWA, and its director in the Gaza Strip John Ging, when they left three bullets along with a letter demanding an end to these kinds of UN activities. UNRWA claims that around 250,000 children were due to use these... »
First synthetic cell created at Venter Institute
Dr. J. Craig Venter and his team at the Venter Institute have synthesised the first cell to have its DNA artificially engineered by a computer, rather than generated from a “parent” cell or parent organism. It is a major step in gene manipulation which has been variously compared to other great feats such as the cloning... »
My Top 10 TED.com talks
1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on... »
Stephen Wolfram shifts it up a gear … then hits the turbo boost button!
It’s a modest goal really. Wolfram only wants to be able to model the universe with computational knowledge. Hold on to your socks – they’re about to be blown off . . . »

