HENRY

I’ve been rather quiet for the last few days, having been at the fantastic Evolution 2007 meeting, but here’s a quick post to catch up:

•   Dosenbach et al in P.N.A.S. report on Distinct brain networks for adaptive
  and stable task control in humans.
• David McDonald has a fun paper on Predicting fate from early connectivity in a social network.
• Shī Shì shí shī shǐ:
  • The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (Simplified Chinese: 施氏食狮史; Traditional Chinese: 施氏食獅史; Pinyin: Shī Shì shí shī shǐ) is a famous example of constrained writing by Zhao Yuanren which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound shi in different tones when read in Mandarin.
•   35,000-Year-Old Mammoth Sculpture  Found in Germany:
  • Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen have recovered the first entirely intact woolly mammoth figurine from the Swabian Jura, a 220-meter long plateau in the state of Baden-Württemberg, thought to have been made by the first modern humans some 35,000 years ago. It is believed to be the oldest ivory carving ever found. “You can be sure,” Tübingen archaeologist Nicholas J. Conard told SPIEGEL ONLINE, “that there has been art in Swabia for over 35,000 years.”.
• “burro, burrow– A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.“
• For the phylogeneticists here, Daniel Huson’s got a new app, Dendroscope which
  is “an interactive viewer for large phylogenetic trees”.

Posted on June 21st, 2007 by Simon Greenhill