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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss
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Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook — HBS Working Knowledge

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook — HBS Working Knowledge | this curious life | Scoop.it
Leslie K. John and colleagues set out to discover the reason behind a common discrepancy: While many of us purport to be concerned about Internet privacy, we seem to have no worries about sharing our most intimate details on Facebook.
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Artificial Jellyfish Built from Rat Cells: Scientific American

Artificial Jellyfish Built from Rat Cells: Scientific American | this curious life | Scoop.it
The reverse-engineered life form could be used to test drugs...

 

“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,” says Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the work. The project is described today in Nature Biotechnology.

 

Parker’s lab works on creating artificial models of human heart tissues for regenerating organs and testing drugs, and the team built the medusoid as a way of understanding the “fundamental laws of muscular pumps”. It is an engineer’s approach to basic science: prove that you have identified the right principles by building something with them.'

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