Links of Interest

Stanford releases a series of “TED-like” neuroscience lectures on YouTube. 
An incredibly insightful blog post on evolution at the Falkenblog. 
Muzak for sad times: the company responsible for Muzak has declared bankruptcy.

The Science of Push and Pull

Two fascinating articles. First, the mysterious push. Princeton chemists and biologists have discovered an engine within the mitochondria that serves to push organisms towards greater evolutionary fitness. The press release is a bit opaque, but the men in New Jersey say, “What we have found is that certain kinds of biological structures exist that are [...]