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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Lots of fish stuff on the tubes today, mainly from the CITES conference in Doha. There’s of course news of the rejection of the proposed ban on bluefin tuna. But the beluga is also in trouble. Why are such fish threatened? Increasing consumer demand large, predatory — and therefore rarer — species, says [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Another feel-good genebank story. Eric Vercoe, now 85, grew rice in the 60s in TePuke near Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. Alas, the project eventually came to a stop because of flooding problems, but there has been some interest recently in re-establishing the crop, using [...]
Against Monopoly
I’ve always thought that in a copyright free world (and de facto that is our online world now – whatever they law may proclaim) DRM had a role to play. Not the role of permanently putting content under lock and key – that isn’t feasible. But it is possible to use DRM on a [...]
Against Monopoly
The Amazon one-click patent examination is now over – you can read here what our friend igdmlgd who forced the reexamination has to say about it. I think there are a couple of lessons here. First the patent office is hopelessly corrupt. This is an expected consequence of a regulatory system – money talks. [...]
Silliman University Physics Blog
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Dr Shock MD PhD
They’ve calculated that a blog with 15,000 visits a month has a yearly carbon dioxide emissions of 8lb. To neutralise these emissions they have created “My blog is carbon neutral” buttons so bloggers can demonstrate that they care about the environment and the carbon footprint of their blogs. They’ve found [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
Various workers affected by measles punish a god of measles, while a doctor and drugstore keeper try to protect the god from them. (1862
Well, here we are already at Part IV of Measles Week. Doesn’t time fly? Remember how young we all were, back at Part I, when I raised [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Chromosomes can hop from one pathogenic fungus to another. Probably not a good thing.
Dogs originated in the Middle East after all. Decide, already, will ya?
IUCN also has a Protected Area of the Day. Genebank of the day, anyone?
Problems with bananas in Uganda surprisingly mainly abiotic. Live and learn.
Vaviblog celebrates Gary Nabhan’s birthday. Kinda. [...]
Science For SEO Partial
Yes, it does already have a name and we’re already wondering how best to avoid it. Meta-tags have been rendered untrustworthy because of dishonest manipulation (honest manipulation is ok), especially the keywords tag which is pretty much useless now. Search engines depend on a wide variety of variables collected from web pages [...]
Scienceroll
On the 5th week of my Internet in Medicine university accredited course, I talk about e-patients and how they will change medicine. Last semester, Kerri Morrone Sparling kindly accepted my invitation and uploaded a video to Youtube which students could watch during and after the course. It was a personal message for them about how [...]
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Science Commons
Wonderful news out of the Bradley laboratory at Drexel University. Edition 3 of the Open Notebook Science (ONS) Challenge book is now available, including the raw data files and notebooks. The ONS Solubility Challenge book – a bound version of the ONS Solubility database – was first announced back in December 2009 by Jean-Claude [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
Continuing my series of (hopefully edu-taining blog posts presenting speculations on goal systems for superhuman AGI systems, this one deals with the question of how to create an AGI system that will maintain its initial goal system even as it revises and improves itself — and becomes so much [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Yes, fungi have genebanks too.
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
This is part III of Measles week. In Part II (“Emerging disease”) I talked about the origin of measles; in Part I (“Introduction”), I posed the question of why measles case-fatality rates dropped so dramatically over the first half of the 20th century (example chart of death rates here). Today [...]