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转一篇文章(2006-12-11 16:08)

 
生命是一种长期而持续的累积过程
                                                                                                                   ◎彭明辉(台湾清华大学)
许多同学应该都还记得联考前夕的焦虑:差一分可能要掉好几个志愿,甚至于一生的命运从此改观!到了大四,这种焦虑可能更强烈而复杂:到底要先当兵,就业,还是先考研究所?
我就经常碰到
 
Since earthly life is so hasty compared to the following eternal one, does it mean it's insignificant? If so, we must be confused with the reason for deviding life into prelude and theme rather than a continuous process. Designer of human must have a specific purpose to the special separation.
  
Prelude defines the basic the tune of theme and contents serves as the frame of book. Likely, within human logic and imagination, the conceivable presumed function of prelude life it to set the tune for later eternal life. Though short it is, prelude life, with all experiences, thoughts and behaviors, determines how we live and what we undergo in eternity. Hesitant prelude leads to swaying theme, disorderly content invites chaotic text, and peaceful title brings tranquil story.
 
If only we regard life as the rehearsal of eternity, all mistake, depression, grief, animosity and hardship should be acceptable as they are no more than
Article is cited from <Economist>:
 

Playing a different game

Oct 26th 2006
From The Economist print edition

Does Nintendo's radical new strategy represent the future of gaming?


AP

IF TALK of synergistic processing elements, parallel floating-point shader pipelines, vector units and 1080p high-definition video sets your pulse racing, you are probably looking forward to the launch of the PlayStation 3 (PS3), Sony's new video-game console, which goes on sale in Japan and America next month.

Most people find such technical trivia baffling, however. As a result, the video-games industry's relentless pursuit of ever more computing power and graphical detail might ultimately pro

Article is cited from <Economist>:
 

The Allen brain atlas

Network navigator

Sep 28th 2006
From The Economist print edition

Neuroscientists now have an atlas of which genes are active in the brain


MENTION the words “billionaire” and “Microsoft” in the same sentence, and the mind turns naturally to the name William Henry Gates III. But Bill Gates's original accomplice, Paul Allen, is not short of a dollar, either. Like Mr Gates, Mr Allen has devoted part of his fortune to charity. But whereas Mr Gates's billions are combating various diseases that plague poor countries, Mr Allen's cash has been focused on a single project. The full title of his organisation is the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the project—just completed—is an atlas of the brain.

The brain is the most complex organ in the body. Indeed, it could be argued that it is the most co

If numerous and mecurical molecules are not complex enough, the relationships between them should ultimately knock down the will of biologists. Destiny of each organ, each piece of tissue, each cell or even each molecule is collectively determined by variant factors, including local ones such as enzymes, feedback regulation and systematic ones such as body temperature, oxygen level of blood. And each of these millions of factors are determined by others themselves. Within such an anfractuous relationship network, alteration in a point may never be conclusively identified.
 
Focused on the most elaborate architecture on the planet, namely human body, medical science should be suffering entangling biochemical network the worst! Without a clear, or even conclusive understanding of human physiology, millions of patients may die from variant diseases and even more may be tortured by myriad chronical disorders. Therefore
As commonly admitted, biology, even after the foundation of biochemistry, genetics and molecular techniques, is still at a cumulation stage. That means brief theory is still based on massive experiment but not vice versa. As antithesis, physics has strided out of the tentative experiment for centuries ever since its combination with mathematics. Even Einstein's Relativity is created with pencil and paper. Even chemistry research benefits from pre-analyze the formulae on paper or screen. 
 
Spending numerous time in labs, biologists feel so envy to physicists and chemists. Then they hit upon on a short-cut called bioinformatics. All data from tentative experments are systematically collected and analyzed in hope of eventually materializing the substitution of simulation for experiment in biology research someday.
 
However, we found the road is never that straight forward, for reasons more
Article is cited from <Newsweek>:

The world's longest-running experiments

Some experiments run well after scientists who began them are gone

 
One Lost, More Gained.(2006-08-25 22:29)
Article is cited from <New York Times>:

Ex-Planet’s Fans Voice Dismay and Sorrow

Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times

Visitors to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on Thursday viewed Pluto, the tiny dark circle dwarfed by Jupiter, at middle.

By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: August 25, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 — Sitting in

Why We Fell Crazy? (2)(2006-08-25 22:21)
Why we can think?
 
Everyone with high school education or higher may hit up on the basic units of brain, neuron, which receive information from other neuron and pass it to downstream ones. A network composed by zillions of neurons generates thinking my inter-transforming chemical and electrical signals.
 
However, thinking is never that simple. And expert on AI(artificial intelligence) understand that pretty well. All efforts of simulating central nervous system by electric loops comes to failure and even the latest achievement can not match child's acumen.
 
Progress in biochemistry technology assisted us to know more about brain. It's never a unalterable structure, rather, brain is a dynamic system thats constantly prunes and rebuild itself.
 
As we all know, cell's destination is primarily and eventually determined by germ plasm. Because of different combination and quantity of gene expression_r, there are variant cel