Brains on Cosmic rays, Webcomics and/with Robots and Women of Historic Proportions

Historical Anatomy

• "1912's Perfect Woman Was From Brooklyn, Weighed 171 Lbs, Had Pear-Shaped Body"

Horizontal Biology -- no, not that.

• "How a quarter of the cow genome came from snakes". Horizontal gene transfer of the jumping genes BovB and friends.

Economics

• Peltzman effect/Risk compensation
• Robots Will Take Our Jobs

Webcomics

• Ars staff picks for best of 2012
• Ars readers' picks for best of 2012

Computing

• StackOverflow: Books on Haskell and Compilling
• Ubuntu's new phone OS
• Array Slices in DDD and GDB

Spaceflight

• "Galactic Cosmic Radiation Leads to Cognitive Impairment and Increased Aβ Plaque Accumulation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease"
  • Reddit discussion including paper author

Time

• Systems of Time