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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
If you’re interested in Central Asian biodiversity and its products you might enjoy some recent photographs of mine from Tashkent’s central fruit and veg market. And if you recognize something interesting, and know its local name, do please leave a comment.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Head of Convention on Biological Diversity says nothing to Reuters about climate change and agriculture.
Link farm lists Top 50 Botany Blogs. We reciprocate.
“[M]ost of us are the beneficiaries of millennia of acclimatization“. Rachel disses the Columbian Exchange.
“Men didn’t grind, let alone gentlemen.” Rachel disses Iberian explorers.
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Dr Shock MD PhD
Amazing extensive Medlib round this time on Knowledge | Beyond Words. I especially liked:
A review of the main reference management softwares on Knowledge beyond words by Valentin.
Interestingly, most of them are free and web-based. Therefore they are accessible from anywhere through private account and remain free. We will present the main reference [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
We’re just dipping our toes into the oceans of information from large-scale genome sequencing. We’re at the point now where sequencing a human genome is, not routine, but not extraordinary. The most recent examples of this are two groups who sequenced the genome of a cancer (one group did [...]
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Björn Brembs
World-learning and self-leaerning: two biological processes underlying operant conditioning – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Our first paper of 2010: an invited review (1000 words, open access). Link: http://www.landesbioscience.com/journal… …
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Against Monopoly
Pipapics: A Case Study in Innovation by Glenn Thorpe
For the past couple of months I have been working on developing the pipapic concept and the tools to generate pipapics – you can find out about it at my website www.pipapic.org.
Here is the idea: Take a color cube. Pull out an evenly spaced palette. Place [...]
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I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
The relationship between personality and political preferences is not the simple relation between conservatism and negative personality traits on the one hand and liberalism and positive personality traits on the other hand. Personality is understood as the combination of innate dispositions and personal experiences that guides behavior in a stable and predictive [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Worth at least 1000 words:
The Seed Industry (Click to enlarge)
And another 1000:
Just one company (Click to enlarge)
Thank you Phil Howard, Michigan State University.
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
In 1872, a pandemic influenza outbreak brought the US to its knees:
“The streets are almost deserted.” –Washington, D.C.
“A Sunday quiet prevails upon the streets.” –Springfield, OR
“The streets yesterday looked deserted.” –San Francisco, CA
“The street cars have stopped.” – Erie, PA 1
And yet, if you look at the mortality rates for influenza in [...]
Against Monopoly
Dear Professors David K. Levine and Michele Boldrin,
I agree with much of what you say in your Christian Science Monitor article
*The patent system: End it, don’t mend it*. I disagree with the implicit
argument that the purpose of a patent for an innovation in an invention is
given for the purpose of giving a reward for [...]
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I was a guest on the Bill Handel Show yesterday discussing the libertarian perspective on blackmail, with reference to the Tiger Woods and other cases. (See my post Blackmail should be legal: the case of David Letterman.) We also touched on common law versus legislation [see my Legislation and the Discovery of Law in [...]
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I’m really proud that I can organize and run the world’s first university credit course focusing on Web 2.0 and medicine at a medical school. This was the third, and so far most successful, semester with 115 students who filled a survey before and after the course. I hope I can publish the results in [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
It was barely in evidence in the original text for the Copenhagen Climate change meeting, though there are hopeful signs that it may be creeping in. Now comes further evidence that the world at large, or at least the rich, well-fed world, basically doesn’t give a stuff about agriculture. 2010 is the official [...]