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Your article refers to Stephen King's e-book saying, "His experiment proved a point: the middleman is endangered...And if you're already a star, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to keep most of the money yourself." King used every available middleman to publish this...
These results have clearly raised the interest of many states. But unlike innovations in elementary education, such as charter schools and voucher programs, changes to public university systems happen to an entire state at a time - and that's a pretty big chunk of the population to experiment with. The...
Unfortunately, we are stymied by the fact that our knowledge about life must, at least for now, be limited to studies of a single experiment on Earth. All earthly life shares a remarkably complex set of biochemical features, but does this commonality record the only conceivable building blocks for any...
Of course, there will be teething troubles--literally. Or somebody might have forgotten to cut out the songbird's voice genes, so the first struth chirps like a sparrow. Or maybe the brain development did not quite hang together and the creature is born incapable of normal movement. As this...
The life that we know, however wondrous in extent and variety, all proceeds--or so our best inferences tell us--from one single experiment. The biochemical features underlying this amazing variety and the coherent fossil record of 3.5 billion years (implying a single branching tree of earthly life with a...