A clearly written exploration of the science behind newly passed British legislation allowing for the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos (under specific conditions).

Quoted: Birth, life, death and extinction: an evolutionary biologist's guide to natural selection.

Mark Changizi argues that our visual perception has evolved to anticipate the future. While the actual news isn't as sexy as it sounds, it's still really intriguing stuff.

Quoted: “Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future,” says Changizi. “The converging lines toward a vanishing point are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward—as we would in the real world, where the door frame seems to bow out as we move through it—and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant.”

Exploring the mystery of Stonehenge by digging.

This is pretty fascinating. We've learned that blind people may be able to "see" with other organs wired into the brain.

Quoted: Blind people can now use their tongues to see, albeit crudely, thanks to prototype technology that involves licking arrays of electrodes attached to video cameras.

Scientific American publishes an interesting article on raising children. Focus on teaching kids a good work ethic and how to apply effort to get smart. Don't reinforce the notion that they are innately intelligent.

A somewhat simplistic study points to better click through rates on Yahoo than on Google.

Quoted: Yahoo Inc.'s search engine gets a higher percentage of users to click on the results of a query than market leader Google Inc.

Quoted: There's far more to great reference tools than Wikipedia, here's a guide to twenty great ones!

Reshaping the architecture of memory.

Quoted: If an idea being kicked around in an I.B.M. lab is correct, electronic devices could potentially hold 10 to 100 times more data in the same amount of space.

Class syllabus for "The Structure of Information Networks," replete with many helpful links.