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A crowdfunded device to'fix' colour-blindness?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015
A crowdfunded device to'fix' colour-blindness?
Are we living through the seventh mass extinction event?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015
Mass extinctions…they are a bit like buses. You wait an epoch for one, then two come along at once.…
The unbearable lightness of shrimp
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2015
It is, we sometimes find; sitting here eating doughnuts and drinking sweet tea, easy to forget the …
The crazy dinosaur denialist movement
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2015
The crazy dinosaur denialist movement
Here we look at some stats on the visual cortex
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2015
Visual illusions trick our brain into perceiving things that do not correspond to reality. Here we …
Stop bleeding on my floor!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2015
One of the parts of my job that I really enjoy is teaching the younger generation of scientists. Sh…
There's only one way to settle this
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2015
Debate. It is, in so many ways, the bedrock of science. Without dissemination and, more importantly…
The never ending dream of perpetual motion
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2015
When a moment’s idleness leads Russ Swan back to his childhood dream of perpetual motion he is surp…
Stats on mitochondria
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2015
Last month the house of Commons voted in favour of mitochondrial transfer, here we look at the stat…
Are you a science socialist?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2015
Social media and science is not for everyone. I am a prolific user of Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram an…
Are we making money from Ebola?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2015
Marketing buzz-words are, sadly, a staple of modern life. And it’s a staple that is often served up…
We are feline good
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2015
“Hits…we need more hits.” A cry oft heard from our Editor. Far from developing some kind of ‘Cowell…
Scientists - we are basically rock stars...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Feb 2015
In a clarion call to his fellow geeks – Russ Swan implores us to revel in the now; for we have neve…
Dear laboratory supply companies...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2015
Dear laboratory supply companies…
Statistically significant idiocy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2015
The New Year, a time to be candid – painfully so if necessary.
Here are some artificial intelligence stats
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2015
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy coined the term ‘artificial intel…
Rise of the machines?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2015
Rise of the machines? Snuff and nonsense says Russ Swan – when it comes to sensors, there is an awf…
Another year, another set of impossible resolutions...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2015
It's a brand new year and as tradition dictates, a time when we make impossible promises we have ab…
Why did you become a scientist?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2015
I ask because at the tail end of last year the Government published the much anticipated science an…
Merry Christmas…we think
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2014
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, etc e…
