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As I note in my article “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way,” Mises Daily (Oct. 1, 2009), there is a growing clamor for reform of patent (and copyright) law, due to the increasingly obvious injustices resulting from these intellectual property (IP) laws. However, the various recent proposals for reform merely tinker with [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Resource list for setting up a school garden. Take that, Flanagan.
Gary “Eco-gastronaut” Nabhan goes viral.
Smithsonian goes native. Trees, that is.
GRAIN video delves into origin of H1N1.
There are boar farms of England?
Nutrition advice needs to take genetics into account.
Tracing the changing morphology of British post-medieval sheep. Well, someone has to do it.
Thai floating [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
an amazing, highly personal talk from magician David Blaine describing what he went through in order to break the world breath-holding record. It will change your concept of what a human body is capable of
Video from TEDMED 2009, TED’s medicine-themed conference, are finally starting to be released on the Web.
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The Multiverse According to Ben
This blog post is an edited version of a comment I made on Robin Hanson’s recent China Ascendant post on the Overcoming Bias blog. So, read Robin’s post before reading this one!
Also, it is best read as a sort of post-script to my recent article on the Chinese Singularity in [...]
The Multiverse According to Ben
Today (as a consequence of my role in the IEET), I gave a brief invited talk at the National Defense University, in Washington DC, about the ethics of autonomous robot missiles and war vehicles and “battlebots” (my word, not theirs in general….
Part of me wanted to bring a guitar [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Seed Media Group’s Research Blogging Awards honor the outstanding bloggers who discuss peer-reviewed research. With nearly 1,000 blogs registered at ResearchBlogging.org and 8,500 posts about peer-reviewed journal articles collected, it is time to recognize the best of the best.
Any blog that discusses peer-reviewed research is eligible for nomination, and the winners will [...]
Against Monopoly
An interesting lawsuit complaint as reported by CourthouseNews.com:
Andy Warhol’s estate is behind an “insidious” conspiracy to monopolize the authentication and sale of the late artist’s work, according to a complaint in Federal Court. Susan Shaer claims that the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board routinely defaces authentic Warhol artworks with a “DENIED” stamp, thereby creating [...]
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Daniel Lemire
Researchers—at least in Computer Science—spend most of their days at a desk typing. Picking the right software for writing is important.
Most of my writing time is spent on LaTeX documents. I have tried typical Word processors in the past, but they get in my way. Indeed, by mixing document content and document presentation, Microsoft Word [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Dr Hari D Upadhyaya, head of the ICRISAT genebank, has just been honoured as a Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA). Hari has done a huge amount of work on the theory and practice of core collections, among other things. Congratulations, Hari. Richly deserved.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
A fascinating post from our friends over at The Ethicurean makes the case for backyard livestock as a valuable component of making life dirtier so as to avoid the diseases of cleanliness. Marc R. writes:
[R]ecent science is hinting that early childhood exposure to domestic animals can actually protect against the chronic condition [of [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you The Fever Districts of the United States, as of 1856:
Note the outlining of the Intermittent Fever districts, including Lansing, MI, where I live. Note the intense yellow rim of Yellow Fever. Note the Small Pox Measles Scarlatina Consumption Endemic region along the Eastern seaboard, the [...]
Against Monopoly
An executive at Lilly, Bernard Munos, has written a very revealing and candid article in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery link here.
The article, “Lessons from 60 years of pharmaceutical innovation” confirms what many already know – that the productivity of the pharmaceutical R and D enterprise is declining and has been for some time. [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
963. Atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before 200,000 supporters to call for racial equality, in what would become the defining moment of the African-American civil rights movement — and a turning point in human history.
On Martin Luther King Day this video of his famous I [...]