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SCIENCE-Y!!

OK. This post is gonna be totally dedicated to Science, specifically the articles of NewScientist. I bet some of us may not gonna like it, but trust me. They ARE pretty interesting articles. In this post, there are going to be 6 NewScientist Articles. Enjoy! (I hope.)


Tonal languages are the key to perfect pitch

* 06 April 2009 by Hazel Muir

IF YOU want your child to have perfect pitch like musical maestros Mozart and Chopin, then start them early on Mandarin or Vietnamese lessons. The likelihood of developing perfect pitch seems to be strongly linked to the language people speak, confirming that children can pick up the ability when they are very young.

For full article, click here.



Quantum arguments for God veer into mumbo-jumbo

* 18:00 06 May 2009 by Andy Coghlan

Not only does God exist, but he intervenes in our lives – at least according to Francis Collins, the former head of the human genome project.

Collins recruits quantum physics to make his religious case, and has set up a website called Biologos. The site is funded by the Templeton Foundation, which seeks to find common ground between science and religion.

For full article, click here.



Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island human



* 18:00 06 May 2009 by Ewen Callaway

The tale of Homo floresiensis – aka the hobbit – is beginning to read less like a Tolkien epic than an Agatha Christie whodunit.

Two studies add a new twist to the plot. One claims that the skeleton's ape-like feet push back its ancestry near the dawn of Homo. Another argues that the hobbit is a later offshoot of Homo erectus, dwarfed by aeons of island isolation.

For full article, click here.


Five futurist visionaries and what they got right



* 18:00 06 May 2009 by Michael Marshall

Within 50 years humans will merge with machines and become both superintelligent and immortal, in an event known as the technological singularity. So says the ever-controversial futurist Ray Kurzweil. We pick his brains on his latest initiative, the Singularity University, and on his plan to use advancing technology to bring his father back from the dead in our exclusive interview with him this week.

For full article, click here.


Hunting the mysterious monopole



* 06 May 2009 by Eugenie Samuel Reich
* Magazine issue 2707. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.

THEY seem magical: magnets, every child's favourite science toy. Two otherwise ordinary lumps of metal draw inexorably closer, finally locking together with a satisfying snap. Yet turn one of them round and they show an entirely different, repulsive face: try as you might to make them, never the twain shall meet.

For full article, click here.


Ray Kurzweil: A singular view of the future

* 06 May 2009 by Liz Else

Read more: Five futurist visionaries and what they got right

For inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, being human with limited intelligence and doomed biology was never good enough. So he came up with an idea called the Singularity - a time when humans merge with machines, become smart and live forever. From MIT to the White House, people either hate the idea or can't wait for it to happen. So, asks Liz Else, will any of us live long enough to see it?

For full article, click here.