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@ChonTam Actually, it's 12s and it's three for flies with ADHD (i.e., radish mutants)
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Science Commons
Science Commons needs a new t-shirt design. Sure, the “e=mc(shared)” shirts are great – mine gets worn more than any other shirt in the dresser – but after years of having that design, we think it would be nice to have a new one. We are turning to the crowd to find [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Where indeed.
Via.
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Scienceroll
Dean Giustini, the real pioneer of web 2.0 and medicine, published a great slideshow again:
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Scienceroll?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" …
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
Last week, the Effect Measure blog1 talked about a paper that offered a new way of treating influenza.2 Briefly, the approach is to attack the virus by treating the host cell: Eliminating host functions that the virus requires, but that the host cell does not.
The authors of the paper commented [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
The attachment theory from the sixties of the previous century is still used e.g. in psychotherapy but also in research such as shown in a recent post on:How do social relationships function online. Is attachment theory also useful in medical education, does it explain the poor performance by some doctors? After all [...]
Against Monopoly
Patent lawyer Gene Quinn has been sued
by Invention Submission Corporation (dba Invent Help) in the United States Federal District Court for the Northern District of New York. The complaint … alleges that I have engaged in false and misleading advertising that has cost Invent Help business. They apparently do not like the [...]
Against Monopoly
As Huebert notes in his post Fighting IP Absurdity: The South Butt Strikes Back, the saga of The North Face Apparel corp. vs. The South Butt continues. As noted on his attorneys’ website,
The South Butt is the local case of a Missouri teeanager, Jimmy Winkelmann, frustrated with his classmates’ sheep-like following of [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Science: Biodiversity is good even for biofuels.
Science: Lack of annual diversity is bad for no-till maize (corn).
Science: “Dead” bananas can still transmit banana bunchy top virus BBTV.
Science: Potential biological control identified for coffee berry borer. (Eeeyew warning.)
Art: Biological control (Lilioceris near impressa) of air potato (Dioscorea bulbifera). (Gorgeousness warning.)
Science: Farmers brought farming to [...]
Scienceroll
I was featured on the Doctor Anonymous online medical radio show in March, 2008 (had to wake up at 2:30 AM but really enjoyed it). You can listen to it or download it (23MB). Doctor Anonymous was the pioneer in this field and has been running his quality radio show for years.
I’ve recently come [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
If you have to present a conference room presentation but people expect a slideshow or you just don’t want to loose the beamer and the feel of presenting, you can use Prezi. Conference room presentation is a presentation for small groups like presenting a study design, case presentation, results from a study [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Conservation International’s blog has a post on the problems faced by pollinators. A nice enough summary, but what struck me was the mention of CI’s new Food Security Strategy.
As a part of CI’s new Food Security Strategy, CI recognizes the critical role that native pollinators play in food production. The conservation and [...]
Against Monopoly
Save the whales and solve all other social ills…
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Following that piece a few days back about how social networking can help taro breeding, I posted a note on GIPB’s Plant Breeding Forum in a thread about the usefulness or otherwise of producing a directory of plant breeders. I suggested that rather than a conventional directory some kind of social network might [...]
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Björn Brembs
How we discovered that an attention drug successfully treats a fruit fly memory mutant – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Björn… have I mentioned yet that your blog colors hurt my eyes? I just caught myself giving up reading the above blog post, just because it took so much [...]