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The Chaos Inside a Cancer Cell:
A striking feature of many cancer cells is that the DNA in their chromosomes is all jumbled up. Chunks of DNA containing one or more genes have been ripped out of their chromosome and reinserted in a different place. Other lengths of DNA have been transferred to a different chromosome altogether.
December 29th, 2008
A Mysterious Link Between Sleeplessness and Heart Disease:
People who don’t get much sleep are more likely than those who do to develop calcium deposits in their coronary arteries, possibly raising their risk for heart disease, a new study has found.
December 29th, 2008
Drug Rehabilitation or Revolving Door:
Many clinics across the county have waiting lists, and researchers estimate that some 20 million Americans who could benefit from treatment do not get it. Yet very few rehabilitation programs have the evidence to show that they are effective.
December 28th, 2008
A Highly Evolved Propensity for Deceit :
Deceitful behavior has a long and storied history in the evolution of social life, and the more sophisticated the animal, it seems, the more commonplace the con games, the more cunning their contours..
December 28th, 2008
CSPO In the News
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Overcoming Stone Age Logic.
In this Issues in Science and Technology Perspectives, CSPO Co-Founder and ASU President
Michael Crow discusses the need for society to move out of our stone age logic to
find solutions to challenges facing us.
Three Rules for Technological Fixes.
Not all problems will yield to technology.
Deciding which will and which won’t should be central to setting innovation policy,
say CSPO Co-Director Daniel Sarewitz and Richard Nelson in this Nature Commentary.
For a copy, contact: cspo@asu.edu
The Sociology of the Future: Tracing Stories of Technology and Time.
CSPO Assistant Research Professor Cynthia Selin introduces the sociology of the future
and suggests some ways the field is taking definition in an article in Sociology Compass.
Civic Epistemologies: Constituting Knowledge and Order in Political Communities.
How do we know things? In this article in Sociology Compass, CSPO Associate Professor
Clark Miller notes that the question of epistemology is crucial for political sociology.
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