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What We're Talking About Friday, July 3, 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
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Channel Surfing
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Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
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I don't care if my sex slave speaks Russian or Thai, do you? Apparently, there's a difference to Google
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Flickr's Sneak Attack
I am really mad at Flickr for enforcing rules that did not exist when I established my accounts with them five years ago
Teather your iPhone to your computer. Now.
This is not 'legal' so don't do it. Later in the summer it is expected to become a...
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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
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Via Lance Fortnow's Twitter post, it's interesting to see Communications of the ACM editor Moshe Y. Vardi on...
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The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the...
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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.
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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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