Summary: the pill gives women a sexual preference for men they won’t want to stay with later. They go off the pill, have kids, then discover they can’t stand their partners. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are involved in immune response and other functions, and the best mates are those that have different MHC smells [...]

Energy in Nature and Society is a systematic and exhaustive analysis of all the major energy sources, storages, flows, and conversions that have shaped the evolution of the biosphere and civilization. Vaclav Smil uses fundamental unifying metrics (most notably for power density and energy intensity) to provide an integrated framework for analyzing all segments of [...]

Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside was baffling. The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops. Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the [...]

http://www.alternet.org/story/84190/ – interesting piece about somebody’s observations on Ikea and how it affected her family business, although she still buys it. Bucky called this ephemeralization – stuff gets cheaper and lighter and less complex. Really surprising to see how it is playing out.

http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/04/10/mutualism-inter-species-cooperation/ Very, very cute inter-species cooperation story.