小红猪，翻译
[小红猪]神经编织网
作者：Michael Brooks，原文 译者：Robot ——这是你从未见过的人脑 当马乔里•泰勒（Marjorie Taylor）第一次看到大脑图像时，她简直就被迷住了。那些鲜艳的粉色和蓝色，精致的细节设计，好像就在对她说话。“没办法，我看它们的眼神完全就是一个手工布艺者的眼神，”俄勒冈大学的心理学家泰勒这样说，“我觉得大脑皮层的摺皱要是用天鹅绒来做就太棒了。”
[小红猪]吃袋鼠，救地球？
原文，译者，山寨盲流。 一头名叫Metana的牛是阿根廷农业技术研究所一项实验的主角，旨在减少牛肠胃排放的甲烷。甲烷促进了引发全球变暖的温室效应（图片：Redux / Eyevine）（译者：既然是甲烷研究的牛就应该有个甲烷的名字，就叫萌萌吧。） 牛，绵羊和山羊表面上只是人类的盘中餐，可暗地里却在影响气候。它们在绵延起伏的牧场悠闲地游荡，一边咀嚼着反刍的食物，浑然不知自己的饱嗝（还有一小部分排放来自放屁）正在使地球变暖，不要说汽车飞机，有可能连发电厂都不如它们的危害大。
[小红猪]流光不溢彩
原文刊登于《新科学家》2008年10月29日号 作者：Mark Buchanan 译者：Sunny0302 Sunny同学是我们的发文编辑，她的另一篇译文可以在这里观看 关于爱因斯坦的狭义相对论，有一件奇怪的事情是：即使其中的一个必要假设已经错了，它却仍然如此的准确。Mark Buchanan找到了质能方程（E=MC2）的阴暗面。
The Jellyfish Factory
原文链接 Cutting the jellyfish rings with scissors was impossibly slow; we could not produce the amount of aequorin that we needed using this technique. This problem was solved primarily by Dr. Johnson. He constructed the first model of a jellyfish-cutting machine in the summer of 1967; it was essentially a strip of wire screen that [...]
The Town Dock
原文链接 In 1962, using the methods that had worked in the previous year, we obtained an additional amount of aequorin and began to study various aspects of the molecule, including its application in the measurement of calcium ions. We also wanted to know the mechanism of the luminescence reaction and the structure of the light-emitting [...]
A Short Story of Aequorin
原文链接 This story has three parts, Discovery of Aequorin, The Town Dock and The Jellyfish Factory. This was written by Osamu Shimomura, who discovered Aequorin and last year won the Nobel Prize of Chemistry for the discover of the Green Fluorescent Protein. Read and enjoy!! by OSAMU SHIMOMURA Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Discovery [...]
Stereo Sue
原文链接 Why two eyes are better than one. By Oliver Sacks When Galen, in the second century, and Leonardo, thirteen centuries later, observed that the images received by the two eyes were slightly different, neither of them appreciated the full significance of these differences. It was not until the early eighteen-thirties that the English scientist [...]
The Gospel of Well-Educated Guessing
原文链接 By Tom Bartlett Rick Friedman for The Chronicle Sanjoy Mahajan, a lecturer in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, uses paper cones to find the relation between drag force and velocity. How much money is in a Brinks truck? A lot, certainly, assuming it's full. But is it a million? A hundred [...]
Rough calculations
原文链接 Sanjoy Mahajan’s new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office Graphic: Christine Daniloff Time for some quick arithmetic: Is 3600 x 4.4 x 104 x 32 larger or smaller than 3 x 109? Finding the right answer, says Sanjoy Mahajan, associate director for [...]
FAQ about InnoCentive
原文链接 What is InnoCentive? InnoCentive is a global, online marketplace where organizations in need of innovation–companies, academic institutions, public sector, and non-profit organizations–can utilize a global network of over 160,000 of the world’s brightest problem solvers. How did InnoCentive begin? InnoCentive began as a start-up incubated through the e.Lilly division of Eli Lilly and Company-a [...]
Rough calculations
原文链接 Sanjoy Mahajan’s new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office Graphic: Christine Daniloff Time for some quick arithmetic: Is 3600 x 4.4 x 104 x 32 larger or smaller than 3 x 109? Finding the right answer, says Sanjoy Mahajan, associate director for [...]
