The author’s heavy hand

According a Canadian press report: Margaret Atwood, author of futuristic fantasies The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake, has invented a prototype remote autographing device that has the potential to revolutionize book signings. (Thanks to investigator Genevieve Reynolds for bringing this to our attention.)

How to fix a biologist

Do you, a biologist, feel intimidated by how complex everything is? Try reading Yuri Lazebnik‘s essay " Can a biologist fix a radio? –Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis," which was originally published in the journal Cancer Cell (vol. 2, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 179-82). (Thanks to Karen Hopkin for bringing this to […]

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