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...lies the problem. Without a peer review process to separate the revolutionary papers from the merely good from the rubbish, scientists will have no way of knowing which discoveries and experiments merit their time and interest. Instead, they will spend inordinate amounts of time wading through the quicksand of junk science to get to truly interesting work. Peer reviewers are chosen as peer reviewers for a reason—unlike the hoi polloi that roam the Internet, they have the knowledge and experience to judge scientific research on its merits. Furthermore, the peer review process strengthens papers, as authors...
Trash is indeed cash for an increasing number of firms--from 1-800-GOT-JUNK, the garbage collector that's grown more than 400% in five years, to municipal recycling depots nationwide. It's hard to measure the scope of the waste-recovery industry--as Szaky says, garbage is only called garbage until enough people want it. But demand for trash is evident in growing markets and rising prices for by-products that used to be dirt cheap, free or off-loaded with a cash kicker--such things as tire chips and crumb rubber, organic waste, even restaurant grease. "Resource...
Using castoffs can have hidden costs. When you take someone else's junk, it's hard to know exactly what you're getting. "The waste streams aren't always consistent--or consistently available," says Betsy Cotton, TerraCycle's CFO. Pacific Biodiesel has run out of cooking-oil suppliers and is exploring the idea of growing crops like soy or sunflower to provide oil for fuel...
...much would you pay for an extreme makeover of your garage? For Michael Cardenas, a restaurateur in Malibu, Calif., the bill hit $30,000. That's a steep price, you might think, to remove some junk and add some fixtures. Yet before the transformation, the place was a disaster zone: crammed with catering equipment, an antique bar and dozens of cases of wine--including bottles Cardenas would have loved to uncork, if only he could find them. "It was definitely ugly," says his wife Madoka...
Those molecular switches lie in the noncoding regions of the genome--once known dismissively as junk DNA but lately rechristened the dark matter of the genome. Much of the genome's dark matter is, in fact, junk--the residue of evolutionary events long forgotten and no longer relevant. But a subset of the dark matter known as functional noncoding DNA, comprising some 3% to 4% of the genome and mostly embedded within and around the genes, is crucial. "Coding regions are much easier for us to study," says Carroll, whose new book, The Making of the Fittest...