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Submission + - Man Uses Drake Equation to Explain Girlfriend Woes (foxcharlotte.com) 2

Submitted by artemis67 on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @04:23PM

artemis67 writes: A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus , a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, " Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK ," used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote "the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy."

Submission + - President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act (medicalnewstoday.com)

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artemis67

on Monday May 26, 2008 @10:08AM

artemis67 writes: "Technology development guru George Church is playing a salutary social role with his Personal Genome Project. Church is in the process of gathering phenotypic data and sequencing portions of the genomes of ten volunteers. He intends to study how the genes of these people influence their phenotypes, and to make those data public. Church's point is simple: information, including genetic information, can and should be freely available. Whether or not one agrees with him, society had better be ready to deal with the results of such research, which is occurring against a background of explosive growth in the availability of genetic information. This past week, President Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which would protect people from being discriminated against by health insurers or employers on the basis of their genetic information."

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