Sex on the brain-新科学家封面【小红猪】

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-09 01:45

原文链接: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19926721.600-the-ice-age-that-never-was.html The human brain is complex enough. But imagine if there were not one, but two, says Hannah Hoag BYLINE: Hannah Hoag. Hannah Hoag is a science writer based in Montreal, Canada SECTION: FEATURES; Cover Story; Pg. 28-31 LENGTH: 2098 words ANYONE in a long-term relationship will tell you that, at times, men are [...]

The ice age that never was(《新科学家》9月3日封面)【小红猪】

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-09 01:34

原文链接: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19926721.600-the-ice-age-that-never-was.html The climate changers Were we spared from an ice age by Stone Age farmers? Hazel Muir investigates THE romantic notion that early humans lived in harmony with their environment has taken quite a battering lately. Modern humans may have started eliminating other species right from the start: our ancestors stand accused of wiping [...]

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy-new york times 9-7-08【小红猪】

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-09 01:23

原文链接:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin 说明:由于本文太长(>5000 words),所以完全翻译还是编译,请译者自由选择。 By CLIVE THOMPSON On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt. Zuckerberg, a doe-eyed 24-year-old C.E.O., founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard two years earlier, and the site quickly amassed nine million users. By 2006, students were posting [...]

Why complex systems do better without us(《新科学家》8月6日封面文章)【小红猪翻译小分队】

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-08 12:57

原文链接:http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926681.500-why-complex-systems-do-better-without-us.html   Sometimes life runs more smoothly when you stop trying to control it. Mark Buchanan goes with the flow Why complex systems do better without us  ●WE HUMANS prefer the tidy to the untidy, the ordered to the disordered. We like pristine geometrical regularity, and eschew what is erratic and irregular. We want predictability [...]

The noise within-《新科学家》专题【小红猪翻译小分队】

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-08 10:48

原文链接:http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19826611.400-does-the-brain-feature-builtin-noise.html  Section: Features There's nothing like a burst of random neural hiss to sharpen up the brain, as Laura Spinney discovers DURING the second world war, aircrews who had to calculate mission routes and bomb trajectories found that their instruments - mechanical computers packed with cogs and gears - performed better in the air than [...]

The Sky Line-out of the blocks (《纽约客》2008年8月11日)【小红猪翻译小分队】

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-08 03:15

原文来自《纽约客》,2008年6月2日,链接http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2008/06/02/080602crsk_skyline_goldberger   photo: The steel lattice surrounding the Beijing National Stadium looks like a giganitic sculpture, but most of the beams are structural, not decorative. Photograph by Iwan Baan.   To understand just how important the Beijing Olympics are to China, you have only to look at where the Olympic Green has been built. During Beijing’s [...]

Final Warning (《新科学家》2008年6月25日封面文章)【小红猪翻译小分队】

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-08 03:15

原文出自《新科学家》,链接为:http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826621.500-oil-the-final-warning.html Section: Features Price is just the start of it. We need to kick the petroleum habit or we'll soon be in real trouble, says Ian Sample HOWLS of protest have been echoing round the globe as the price of oil punches through record highs with every passing week. In the UK, last month, hundreds [...]

Gentlemen,start your rockets

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-07 12:03

  What combines the romance of space travel with the visceral thrill of road racing? Welcome to the new era of motor sport, says Greg Klerkx ~THE skies above Oshkosh,Wisconsin, are usually assleepy as the town below, butin August they come alive with the howlof jet engines and whirr of propellers. Oshkosh is home to [...]

How hard can it be?

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-07 11:55

Deliver the solution to an everyday puzzle and you could win the biggest prize in mathematics, says Ian Stewart ~EVER since a Babylonian scribe decided to teach his students arithmetic by setting them problems using the formula “I found a stone but did not weigh it…” mathematicians have celebrated the hidden depths of apparently everyday [...]

The Quest to Read the Human Mind

Filed under: 小红猪 发表于 2008-01-04 09:56

原文 If a few very smart neuroscientists are right, with enough number crunching and a powerful brain scanner, science can pluck pictures—and maybe one day even thoughts— directly from your brain By Lisa Katayama It’s after dark on a warm Monday night in April, and I’m lying face-up in a 13-ton tube at the Henry [...]

Cut!;There's an almighty rumpus over the pros and cons of circumcision. Vivien Marx investigates

Filed under: 健康,医学,小红猪 发表于 2008-01-01 10:17

BYLINE: Vivien Marx, Graham Lawton. Vivien Marx is a writer based in New York SECTION: FEATURES; Feature; Pg. 40-43 LENGTH: 2625 words IMAGINE a quick and simple surgical procedure that trials have shown could give your newborn child lifelong protection against HIV and may ward off sexually transmitted diseases and cancer too. It involves a [...]