Links for 26-09-2007
History of ARPA and the space age, bacteria toughened by space travel, the exercise myth, the evolution of language …
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1 – Spaceflight makes bacteria more deadly
“Space flight has been shown to change the way disease bacteria behave, making them much more virulent. This has worrying implications for astronauts whose immune systems are already weakened in space.” Crichton novel plot ahoy!
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2 – Four Ways to Make More Money with Adsense’s Firefox Referrals Program
“Google Adsense has a referral program which will allow you to earn up to US $1 everytime you refer one new user to install the Firefox browser.” Intriguing … and curiously underhanded of Google.
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3 – Does Exercise Really Make Us Thinner?
“If lean people are more physically active than fat people—one fact in the often-murky science of weight control that’s been established beyond reasonable doubt— does that mean that working out will make a fat person lean?” Food for thought. Arf!
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“Why are humans the only species to have suddenly hit upon the remarkable possibilities of language? If speech is a product of our DNA, then surely other species also have some of the same genes required for language because of our basic, shared biochemis
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5 – Happy Birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet)
“Fifty years ago, a small Soviet satellite was launched, stunning the U.S. and sparking a massive technology research effort. Could we be in for another “October surprise”?” A potted history of ARPA.
