links for 2007-05-07

• Chips & Processors – IBM Uses Nature’s Recipe for Chip Breakthrough
  The new process completely skips the masking stage, with researchers instead pouring the right mix of compounds into a silicon wafer with the wired chip patterns and baking it. Trillions of uniform, 20-nm holes are then created as insulation.
  (tags: hardware computing cmos)
• Vonnegut For Screenwriters
  (tags: writing)
• Dahlia Lithwick on threats
  Dahlia Lithwick discusses threats against female bloggers.
  (tags: gender security blogging)
• Why women shouldn’t apologize for being afraid of threats on the Web. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine
  (tags: gender blogging)
• Hot rice, just add cold water
  (tags: food innovation)
• Annals of Medicine: The Way We Age Now: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  (tags: research science health medicine)
• Can “neurotheology” bridge the gap between religion and science? – By George Johnson – Slate Magazine
  (tags: neuroscience religion)
• A bizarre story – the parasite that lets cats eat rats
  From Sapolsky’s lab at Stanford
  (tags: neuroscience)
• Slate’s special issue on the brain. – – Slate Magazine
  Welcome to “Brains!”, Slate’s special issue on mind science and the state of neuro-culture.
  (tags: neuroscience)