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Envoronment
July 6, 2009
Uncertain Principles
Why Traditional Publishing Is Better Than Blogging Blogging offers a lot of nice features, but it's not a replacement for a book. If you thing that the existing apparatus of conventional publishing-- editors, publishers, and all the rest-- is something that will inevitably be swept away by Web 2.0, compare the book to the blog. It's a nice way to see that there really is value added by the editing and publishing process.
July 5, 2009
Gene Expression
Desktop blogging An Index Of Blogging Clients: Blogging clients allow you to prepare posts and then upload them directly. Useful for -composing drafts of posts offline -easier editing of HTML -easier inserting and handling of photos -easier editing of existing posts Here's...
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 for everybody....
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 will sequence your entire genetic code -- and throw in a Mac -- for $48,000: So far, personalized genomics make up just...
A Blog Around The Clock
Lindau Nobel conference - the boat trip to the island of Mainau Friday was a special day at the Lindau Nobel conference. The official program was over but, instead of letting us all go home, the organizers did something better - a day trip on a boat to the island of Mainau...
July 4, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
Does your Windows have a bad virus? How to fix with Linux Using the safe, stable, and sexy live CD: Remember. Linux is not for everyone....
Greg Laden's Blog
Reinstalling Grub I recommend avoiding dual booting if one or more of your systems is Windows, because Windows does not play nice with other operating systems. But if Windows messed up your booting software (Grub) this is how to fix it....
July 3, 2009
Uncertain Principles
In Which I Cave In to the Current Social Media Fad-of-the-Moment, Purely for Book-Publicity Purposes, You Understand, Not Because I Need Another Time-Waster http://twitter.com/orzelc That is all....
July 2, 2009
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 us. Sue left a comment that the vendor basically acts like she's alone in this - and they say that to me,...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
What is the Difference Between Russian and Asian Brides? 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
Greg Laden's Blog
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 feature....
White Coat Underground
Bad ads In case you hadn't noticed, the advertising present on the top and right of the blog has been a bit odd lately. Dr. Oz's smiling face has been showing up above mine, you may have just won $59, your teeth...
bioephemera
Artomatic 2009: Forrest McCluer I'm not even going to start "deconstructing" the layers of meaning in Forrest McCluer's giant model of a biological virus, made out of discarded, outdated computers. . .
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Eva Amsen The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back...
The Quantum Pontiff
ArXiview 1.2 for iPhone OS 3.0 Out ArXiview, my arXiv browsing iPhone app, has been updated for the new iPhone OS 3.0. New features include:Search fields now accept boolean queries and exact phrase queries. Touch the little (i) icon to get info on this feature from the...
The World's Fair
Gladwell Calls Out Insipid Digital Utopian Basing utopian visions or economic predictions or public policies on an impoverished view of technology will always be wrong. Gladwell notes this about Chris Anderson's "Free."
A Blog Around The Clock
Lindau blogger meetup There are a bunch of bloggers here at Lindau, wearing Press badges, going to Press meetings and generally behaving like Press. Apart from PZ and myself, most of them are German sciencebloggers who are posting their interviews and dispatches on...
July 1, 2009
Guilty Planet
UK Neighborhood Captures Litterbugs on Film Neighborhood uses technology to catch litterbugs.
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
A Jam too Hot Even for Isis..... I saw this leaked on Monday and have had it on constant replay. I promise some English jams eventually, but this is smokin' hot little chickens... Video 1: Shakira's Loba (She-Wolf)...
The Energy Grid
Escaping the Progress Trap The growth opportunities of developing countries will rely strongly on the availability of cheap energy only if those countries wish to pursue an economic model now proven by the developed world to be nothing more than a massive progress trap. If anything, as compared to developed nations, many developing countries are positioned in a better place strategically because their economies have not locked them into self-defeating infrastructure choices such as highways, suburban sprawl, big box chain stores, fast food, expensive health care, resource wars, and so on.
The World's Fair
John Stuart Mill on Digitized On-Line Collections Deliberative processes cut short? We have a lot more information. But we don't know any more.
June 30, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
Palm Pre v. iPhone 3Gs v. 3G v. speed tests Powerup: 3G by a mile, Palm Pre pwnd Browsing: Palm Pre wins, 3Gs slowest Real World Test: 3Gs broke, Palm Pre wins....
Sciencewomen
Bloggy goodness I'm going to share a few wonderful links to ease my transition back into the on-line world. First, there's a new photoblogger on the Scienceblogs' Photo Synthesis blog. BJ Bollender is the training coordinator for disability awareness and assistive technology...
Gene Expression
FireFox 3.5 this week A new version of FireFox is coming out today. You can already test drive the latest pre-release already. I've been using Chrome since last year for 95% of my browsing needs because of the speed. I miss plugins, and there...
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SB Basics
Avian Flu
The recent swine influenza outbreak has brought the fear of a global pandemic to the forefront of the public consciousness. But before pigs, the suspected carriers of the next pandemic were of the avian species. But what does it mean to have swine or avian influenza and how do they differ from the regular flu? Can you be vaccinated against it? How do these viruses spread from animals to humans? Read the ScienceBlogs posts below to find out!
Effect Measure December 28, 2008
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.
Aetiology January 26, 2006
Pandemic Influenza Series
Day 1: History of Pandemic Influenza. Day 2: Our adventures with avian flu. Day 3: Challenges to pandemic preparedness. Day 4: 1918 influenza virus reconstructed. Day 5: How ready are we, and what can YOU do?
