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What We're Talking About Monday, July 6, 2009

Blogging from Lindau

1901

Year the first Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Jacobus H. van 't Hoff.

Context By Seed

This week, the town of Lindau in southern Germany is playing host to 23 of the most illustrious chemists alive—and 580 other scientists—as they gather for the 59th Nobel Laureates Meeting. Each year, the meeting concentrates on a different discipline; this year, the program includes "Chemistry of Bioluminescence" and "Molecular Darwinism." ScienceBloggers PZ Myers and Bora Zivkovic are among the scientists attending the meeting, and ScienceBlogs.de is also blogging the event on the ScienceBlogs editorial blog, Page 3.14. Head on over for photographs and reviews of lectures and panels.

The Conversation

Picturesque impressions from the opening day in Lindau

Page 3.14June 29, 2009

Photos of the opening ceremonies, Lindau Harbor, and more

Naked chemists!

Page 3.14July 1, 2009

Phew. The fourth day in Lindau is about to end and I think I speak for everybody when I say extreme humidity is not exactly our favourite aggregate state concerning the weather in this town. Nevertheless we've had another great day at the Nobel Laureates Meeting and would like to share thus with you, fellow readers...

Mario Molina: Energy and climate change: is there a solution? (And More)

PharyngulaJune 2009

The Lindau category thread on Pharyngula, including "Martin Chalfie: GFP and After," "Roger Y. Tsien: Building and Breeding Molecules to Spy on Cells, Tumors, and Organisms," and "Richard Royce Schrock: Recent Advances in Olefin Metathesis Catalyzed by Molybdenum and Tungsten Alkylidene Complexes."

Lindau - I have arrived (And More)

A Blog Around the ClockJune 2009

The Lindau09 category thread on A Blog Around the Clock, including "Lindau Nobel interview - Corinna Reisinger," "LindauNobel interview - Wojciech Supronowicz," and "Lindau blogger meetup."

Community

We know our ScienceBloggers are a talented bunch, but we love to see them acknowledged in other places, too. At the World Conference of Science Journalists in London July 1, Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science was awarded the Best Newcomer prize for 2009, by the Association of British Science Writers. Now that word is out on Ed's talent, we can recommend Not Exactly Rocket Science—the book—all over again. Congratulations, Ed!

Community

On Living the Scientific Life, ScienceBlogger GrrlScientist—a.k.a. Devorah Bennu—brings her readers daily photographs of New York City's flora and fauna, in addition to her popular Mystery Bird series. Now, Devorah has entered a contest to become the official blogger on a Quark Expeditions voyage to a more remote latitude: Antarctica. If you've enjoyed her blog, repay her by voting for her essay on the contest website here. Might we see penguins in Mystery Birds soon?

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In Conversation

“As a good half century of scholarship in the history of technology and technology studies has found, technologies are systems, not isolated artifacts. Basing utopian visions or economic predictions or public policies on the impoverished view of technology will always be wrong.”

Gladwell Calls Out Insipid Digital Utopian

The World's Fair

July 2, 2009

Channel Surfing

Life Science

The Primate Diaries

Bonobo Mother and Infant at Play

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Greg Laden's Blog

Genome Size and Flight in Bats

The best of last June Continuing with our discussion of the Evolution 2008 conference, I was hoping to...

A Blog Around The Clock

Waltzing Matilda - why were the three Australian dinosaurs published in PLoS ONE?

As I was traveling, I only briefly mentioned the brand new and exciting paleontology paper in PLoS ONE...

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Physical Science

A Blog Around The Clock

Lindau Nobel interview - Jennifer Murphy

A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Jennifer Murphy from...

A Blog Around The Clock

Lindau Nobel - interview with Ghada Al-Kadamany

A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Ghada Al-Kadamany from...

A Blog Around The Clock

Lindau Nobel interview - Jan Wedekind

A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Jan Wedekind, formerly...

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Environment

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

Update: Antarctic Vote Count

Still in second place, but with your help, I can close the gap and reach first place once again!

Stoat

More foam

A little while ago I was ratty at Romm for being ratty at Peilke. All very exciting, but...

SciencePunk

As rain moves north, Galapagos could be left high and dry

According to a press release from the University of Washington, tropical islands may become deserts as the climate...

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Humanities & Soc. Sciences

Gene Expression

Attitudes about evolution across countries

I have posted Creationism as a function of geography before. John Lynch pointed me to a new poll...

Uncertain Principles

Death to the Un-Noted Endnote

I'm not sure what the logic process behind endnotes without textual anchors is-- I suspect it's an impression on somebody's part that having actual note symbols would feel too intimidatingly academic. Whatever the logic for it, though, it's an absolutely horrendous decision.

bioephemera

Artomatic 2009 (Last Day!) Kurt Peterson

Artomatic just wouldn't be complete without a sinister cephalopod, and luckily Kurt Peterson stepped in to make it happen.

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Education

Greg Laden's Blog

SkepchickCon was an unmitigated success

...SkepchickCon is all this and more put together into a fine piece of meet-up, conversation, social intercourse and slack-jawed gawking at zombies and stuff....

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

Last Call: Scientia Pro Publica

Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is seeking hosts and your submissions for its upcoming edition

Pharyngula

One more from Lindau

Tom Paulson gets the student perspective on Lindau. He got a quote from me, too, although I think...

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Politics

Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Another Crazy Poker Hand

Here's a crazy hand I played on Friday night at the casino. It's a $1/$2 no limit hold...

Dispatches from the Culture Wars

The Award For Most Uncomfortable 4th of July Holiday Goes To...

Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina: Gov. Mark Sanford will spend the long Fourth of July holiday weekend...

Dispatches from the Culture Wars

New Professionalism in Prince George's County, Maryland

Here's another cop getting violent with someone and lying about it on his police report: Prince George's County...

The Politics Channel RSS Feed

Medicine & Health

Effect Measure

UK Health Minister: exponentially dumb

Stupidity, doubling every week.

White Coat Underground

Fountain Pens

On July 4th at 5 a.m., I'm loading the family into the car and driving very far away,...

Respectful Insolence

Oh, no! Orac the "Scientific Fundamentalist" has been too insolent!

Last week, I wrote about how Senator Tom Harkin is up to his old shenanigans again, trying at...

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Brain & Behavior

A Blog Around The Clock

Flirting under Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night, or, The Secret Night-Life of Fruitflies

As we mentioned just the other day, studying animal behavior is tough as "animals do whatever they darned...

bioephemera

Telegraph: blame the rape victims - science says you can!

Wow. . . coming off the Silence is the Enemy rape awareness initiative, it's more depressing than usual...

A Blog Around The Clock

New and Exciting in PLoS this week

Just trying to catch up with the publicartions in various PLoS Journals this past week. Here are...

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Technology

Gene Expression

Desktop blogging

An Index Of Blogging Clients: Blogging clients allow you to prepare posts and then upload them directly. Useful...

Greg Laden's Blog

Installing Linux in Under 5 minutes

I recommend not going the dual boot option. Just wipe the Windows install. But remember: Linux is not...

Gene Expression

The Illumina whole-genome-sequence

I notice that Fortune has a story on personal genomics up, Genetic sequencing gets personal Biotech firm Illumina...

The Technology Channel RSS Feed

Information Science

Walt at Random

Cites & Insights 9:9 (August 2009) available

Cites & Insights 9:9 (August 2009) is now available--just in time for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. That's...

Christina's LIS Rant

More on feedback

In a recent post I mentioned giving real feedback to vendors and people designing systems and services for...

Confessions of a Science Librarian

The Association for Computing Machinery on Open Access

Via Lance Fortnow's Twitter post, it's interesting to see Communications of the ACM editor Moshe Y. Vardi on...

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Another flu paper that "unlocks the secret" of 1918 virus virulence

We're learning important things. This evidence strongly suggests that some feature of the polymerase complex allowed the virus to invade the lower respiratory tract and lung tissue of ferrets. Understanding that is a big step forward, a direction different than we have been looking up to now, where much work has gone into the difference between bird and human receptors in the upper and lower respiratory tracts.

Not Exactly Rocket Science June 21, 2008

Round peg, square hole - why our bird flu drugs are a fluke

The world's nations are stockpiling two drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, to counter the threat of a bird flu pandemic. These drugs work by blocking a key protein that allows the virus to spread. But two years ago, a study revealed the structure of this protein and in doing so, shown that both Tamiflu and Relenza only work through a fortunate fluke.

Effect Measure August 6, 2008

What killed people in the 1918 flu?

Most people in 1918 who got flu didn't die of it and the ones that did probably died mostly from secondary bacterial pneumonias. But now we have to ask what this has to do with today's pandemic planning assumptions.

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Pandemic Influenza Series

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