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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!
Interview with Aaron Ciechanover on ScienceBlogs.de: Selectivity and Specificity in a Destructive ProcessCommunity
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
July 2, 2009
Channel Surfing
Life Science
Bonobo Mother and Infant at Play
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As I was traveling, I only briefly mentioned the brand new and exciting paleontology paper in PLoS ONE...
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Lindau Nobel interview - Jennifer Murphy
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Jennifer Murphy from...
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...
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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Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
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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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Dispatches from the Culture Wars
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Here's a crazy hand I played on Friday night at the casino. It's a $1/$2 no limit hold...
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Here's another cop getting violent with someone and lying about it on his police report: Prince George's County...
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UK Health Minister: exponentially dumb
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Fountain Pens
On July 4th at 5 a.m., I'm loading the family into the car and driving very far away,...
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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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...
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...
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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Desktop blogging
An Index Of Blogging Clients: Blogging clients allow you to prepare posts and then upload them directly. Useful...
Installing Linux in Under 5 minutes
I recommend not going the dual boot option. Just wipe the Windows install. But remember: Linux is not...
The Illumina whole-genome-sequence
I notice that Fortune has a story on personal genomics up, Genetic sequencing gets personal Biotech firm Illumina...
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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...
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
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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...
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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.
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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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