Dan Bartlett

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• Extending Darwinism: Epigenetics

  Is there more to heredity, natural selection, and evolution than genes and DNA? This is the future of evolutionary theory! I also have further links and a book summary on my website if you want to read more about epigenetics. The author of this article also co-wrote a book called Evolution in Four Dimensions, which tries to expand and reinvigorate the rigid modern evolutionary synthesis.

• The Atheist Bus Campaign

  800 buses around the UK are now carrying an advert reading There#039;s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life, in a publicly-funded response to earlier Christian bus advertising which lead to a website stating that non-Christians will be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all eternity in torment in hell.

• What's going on in Gaza?

  Great collection of information on the Gaza situation

• Inventing a New Kind of Family for a New Era

  I think this is a more important issue than most people realise. Community is a fundamental platform which helps in every aspect of the problems we face: crime, violence, family support, trade, democratic discussion, information sharing, skill sharing, goods sharing...

• Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009

  An overview-discussion of Things in General, the State of the World, Where We have Been and Where We are Tending, by Bruce Sterling and others.

• Petaflop Desktop Computing With Graphene Chips

  Ever since the discovery of carbon nanotubes, companies have recognized the huge potential carbon can play in future computers. Carbon as a computing material has two main advantages. First, it does not suffer from the heat limitation that silicon does, allowing chips to run at terahertz frequencies. This represents more than a 1000 fold increase in raw computing speed. Second, carbon transistors operate better the smaller you make them.

• Urban Farming

  An interesting photo-essay from TIME.

• It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

  Matter is built on flaky foundations. Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.