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This method, if it pans out, could not only be clean, it could make the
environment even cleaner.
Jonathan Trent, the lead research scientist on the Spaceship Earth
project at NASA Ames Research Center, has been working on a method to
produce oil from algae. Their Algal Biofuels Team appears…
When I first heard about the American Medical Association (AMA)
opposing Obama's health care reform, I was troubled. I almost
wrote a post about it, but by the time I got home, I found that others
had beaten me to it.
href="http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/06/…
This is one of those "interesting, wonder if it'll ever pan out"
studies. So far it has been presented at a meeting, but not
published. The study was summarized in an article on
Medpage Today (free registration):
href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/APSS/14689#ayk"…
Market Folly writes of a new hedge fund strategy, and asks if there are
any more ideas
href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/141982-hedge-funds-latest-idea-investing-in-lawsuits">like
this:
We came across this interesting piece in Dealbook the other
day and thought it was very intriguing.…
In 2008, we
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7574684.stm">were
informed that a kind of cloud formation had been named: the mammatus
formation, so-called because it resembles a breast. Sort
of. Whatever.
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7574684.…
Business Matters has posted interviews
about the financial crisis. these interviews provide a good
overview of the origin of the crisis, plus some clues as to where we
are headed. The first interview is with
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts">Paul Craig…
Some may recall Brodmann
Area 25
(a part of the brain also known as the subgenual area or area
subgenualis). It was mentioned by Orli Van Mourik (
id="a028464"
href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurontic/2006/08/much_ado_about_area_25.php">Much
Ado About Area 25) in 2006, and by me in 2008 (…
It has come to my attention that Kalamazoo is on the map, again.
The last time was is 1942, when the Glen Miller Orchestra played
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28I%27ve_Got_a_Gal_In%29_Kalamazoo">I've
Got A Gal In
Kalamazoo (lyrics).
Now, Ratebeer.com has included TWO…
Last night I heard a snippet of an interview with some Senator, who
expressed fear that the Supreme Court candidate, Sonia Sotomayor, would
let her feelings interfere with her judgment. Evidently, this
was based upon Obama's characterization of Ms. Sotomayor as "emphatic."
Although I…
Courtesy of Chart of the Day...
href="http://www.chartoftheday.com/20090522.htm?T">
Click on the graphs to see the Chart of the Day explanations
for the data.
The top chart shows the aggregate earnings, over time, of the companies
in the S&P 500 Index. The second chart shows the…
Traumatic Brain Injury
href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/08/traumatic_brain_injury_on_the.php">has
been called the "signature injury" of the Iraq War, due to the
reported high prevalence of the injury there. This is in contrast
to previous wars. It's not that head…
This is a continuation from
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2009/05/peak_oil_imminent_public_healt.php">last
time. Sort of. Last time I wrote about some things from
a recent program at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of
Public Health, in conjunction with…
A post at Energy Bulletin recaps a recent presentation at the
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, in
conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
href="http://www.energybulletin.net/node/48895">The post is U.S.
public health community begins…
Revere has an alarming post about one potential problem. This
could occur if there is a serious influenza pandemic:
href="http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/05/swine_flu_breaking_the_acute_c.php">Swine
flu: breaking the acute care system
[H]hospitals and emergency departments…
Patti Smith reads the Declaration of Independence, in a rousing
performance. She follows it with an indictment of George W.
Bush. She speaks in English, but with German subtitles.
In a way, I'm hesitant to dignify Bush by mentioning him on my
site. But the performance is worth…
I've been trying to figure this out. I don't think I need to
include any links to the evidence, because it's all over the place.
Some people think there is a ridiculous amount of hysteria
about H1N1/2009, others think people aren't worried enough.
It is abundantly clear that…
Not sure what to make of this, as the prediction appears to be based entirely upon the intuition of an experienced pediatric infectious disease specialist. It is reported on Medscape (open access, free registration required).
PAS 2009: H1N1 Flu Predicted to Wane and Reemerge in Fall
Martha Kerr…
The Union of Concerned Scientists
has issued a press release:
href="http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ucs-gives-obama-high-marks-on-0229.html">UCS
Gives Obama High Marks on Scientific Integrity for First 100 Days.
Granted, after suffering through eight years of the Bush II…
Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money
Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy, has a
nice, terse, thought-provoking post on his blog: The Big Picture:
href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/05/us-vs-europe-who-is-the-welfare-state/">US
vs Europe:…
If you encounter a web site that contains malware (virus, trojan,
etc.), how do you report it? I had a devil of a time finding
out. A friend had forwarded a suspicious email to me. The
email contained a link. The link indicated that it would take you
to a text file that…
One of the strangest things I've ever seen. The
photographer's identification is tentative: Vespula
pensylvanica. Personally, I'd never try to identify
an unfamiliar insect.
One summer, I took classes at the UM Biological Station near Pellston, MI.
My cabinmate was…
Just to let everyone know, if they don't already: freebooks4doctors has a downloadable text, Influenza Report 2006. It is a 225-page, 2.7 MB PDF. Being from 2006, it does not specifically cover the current situation. Rather, it focuses a bit on avian influenza. Still, it is a reasonably good…
Well, maybe not Malthus, but Garrett Hardin and Paul Ehrlich -- the
1960's-era neomalthusian academicians -- have been right on the
money. There are hard limits to growth, and those limits are
upon
us. This is the contention of Charles A. S. Hall and John W.
Day,
Jr., two systems…
Just a few quick interesting links:
href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=47.100045,9.316406&spn=34.792294,79.101563&t=h&z=4">
Google Map of H1N1 Swine Flu Cases
(HT:
href="http://casesblog.…
I had to look this up, so to save others the trouble of finding it,
here is the WHO
href="http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html">explanation
of pandemic alert levels:
In
nature, influenza viruses circulate continuously among
animals, especially birds. Even though…
The NASA Earth Observatory site is holding a photo contest to celebrate
and popularize their 10th anniversary. It is a contest in which
users vote for their favorite images-of-the-day. Here's my
favorite:
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This is an image from the
href="http://www.nasa.…
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Amy Goodman,
the lead journalist for Democracy
Now!, has been traveling around the country, giving talks, and
promoting her book
href="http://www.democracynow.org/store/product/5/BKSUTMHC">Standing
Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times.
This…
Michelle Obama's White House garden has
href="http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/1309/">attracted some
attention, as noted on La Vida Locavore:
Did you hear the news? The White House is planning to
have an "organic" garden on the grounds to provide fresh fruits and
vegetables for the…
his is a photo of a mask from an ancient Peruvian tomb. The mask
is about 1,500 years of., made of copper and seashells, among other
items.
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href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/king-bling-moche-tomb-pictures/index.html">
It is…
This obviously is the second part of the part I put up a couple of days
ago:
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2009/04/reset_button_for_dsm_diagnosis.php">Reset
Button for DSM Diagnosis? (Part 1). It may not make much
sense unless you read the first part.
In order to…