It contains carbohydrates but not at high levels.” All these essential fats and nutrients have several health benefits. Madathupalayam Madhankumar, a gastroenterologist, says, “Octopus has good amounts of iron, selenium, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B 12, copper, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. If you would like to comment on this, or anything else you have seen on Future, head over to our or Google+ page, or message us on Twitter.Dr. Here’s one way to think about it: Would you want to eat an alien? The octopus is “probably the closest we’ll get to meeting an intelligent alien”.įor more articles worth reading, visit The Browser. They can open jars and deter predators even “demonstrate personalities”. But their intelligence is “well documented”. In form and function octopuses are “far more distant from humans than the animals we tend to have moral quandaries about consuming”. Silvia Killingsworth | New Yorker | 3 October 2014 But he “shows very little interest in asking what scientific knowledge is or how it comes to be possible”. Dawkins sees science as the triumph of certainty over superstition. Darwin “understood science as an empirical investigation in which truth is never self-evident and theories are always provisional”. Dawkins “sees himself as a Darwin-like figure”. Scathing review of Dawkins’ book An Appetite for Wonder. John Gray | New Statesman | 4 October 2014 A patient may well prefer a quicker and easier death at home, over a life extended marginally by therapy or surgery in hospital. You should not overload very sick people with technical choices you have to find out what their remaining priorities are, and work with those as best you can. Your genotype is the aggregate of these possible variants." The number of factors which make one person taller or shorter than another is “truly infinite”.Ī doctor discusses end-of-life care, and managing death. “You have six billion nucleotides, each potentially variable in one or any unspecified number of a trillion cells. But the process by which they do so is far too complicated to allow for any tracing of particular cause and effect. Ken Weiss | The Mermaid's Tale | 8 October 2014 Soylent-face might become a recognisable look. “The replacement of food with a liquid substitute could result in dramatic changes to the human jaw. But at what cost? Social, obviously, and perhaps physical, too. You don’t have to cook you save 60-90 minutes in your daily routine and make some economies in cognitive effort and nervous energy. The implications of the food substitute Soylent. “Suddenly, quantum mechanics was not just another scientific theory – it showed that the quantum world works very differently from the everyday world." The bewildering implications of the principle caught the public imagination. Interview with Robert Crease, historian of science, about Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, formulated in 1926 while Heisenberg was visiting Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. Philip Ball | Homunculus | 8 October 2014 But I think the principles of alignment are still there. Sergey shows up for the staff meetings but he is busy working on Google X. “With scale has come the need for clarity of decision-making and frankly Sergey and I are gone. Key point: It’s Larry Page’s company now. Interview with executive chairman Eric Schmidt about how Google runs its business. Steven Levy | Backchannel | 7 October 2014
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