Research to find effects on brain of bilingualismThere is evidence bilingualism can sharpen the brainA project at Bangor University aims to explore the benefit of being bilingual.Researchers will be recruiting 700 people aged between two and 80 to take part in the £750,000 programme.Prof Virginia Gathercole said the obvious benefits included being able to converse and to participate in two cultures.
via BBC News – Research to find effects on brain of bilingualism.
U.S. researchers have created the worlds first “synthetic life,” a strain of bacteria created with man-made DNA.”This is the first self-replicating cell weve had on the planet whose parent is a computer,” team leader Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., told USA TODAYs Dan Vergano. Venter has been a leader in human genome mapping as well as synthetic biology.The breakthrough is “a defining moment in the history of biology and biotechnology,” Mark Bedau, a philosopher at Reed College and editor of the journal Artificial Life, toldScience magazine.
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BOULDER, Colo. — Sixty engineers, entrepreneurs and financiers were sipping yerba mate tea at a coffee shop down the street from a bong-and-lingerie store on a recent sunny Tuesday in Boulder, and discussing how Boulder — usually seen as an enclave of hippies, marijuana dispensaries and rock climbers — has become a hotbed of capitalism.
Experienced tech entrepreneurs and investors sat alongside people who had just moved to Boulder hoping to start a company in this small city, which is breeding tech start-ups at an attention-grabbing rate. In the first three months of the year, 11 Colorado tech start-ups raised $57 million in venture capital, solidifying Boulder’s place among the country’s up-and-coming tech centers.
via Boulder, Colo., a Magnet for High-Tech Start-Ups – NYTimes.com.
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