Marc Canter blogs about QuickThread, one of the new services at Steve Yost's QuickTopic.
It's a great concept. Want to take a thread offline, or share it as a dedicated forum of its own, without losing the concept flow? Just select all the context messages, forward as attachments by mail to the QT site, and it'll create a new thread with that context intact. Totally simple. (see the Pictures).
Science: In this interview with Matt Ridley at edge.org, Matt notes:
... There's another phenomenon going on too, which is equally important and which again people in these kinds of debates over human nature have missed. ... behavior affects genes. It doesn't change the code of the gene, and it doesn't change the encoded genome ... what I'm talking about is changing the expression of genes through things you do in your life.
(for example:) ... When you're under stress, the physiological result is that cortisol increases in your body and has a lot of effects. Cortisol is a transcription factor; it actually alters the expression of certain genes. It does so largely in the immune system, which results in the suppression of immune activity.
Wow. I never realised hormones could have that effect. Good article, as usual...