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On 31st of August 2010 Pavlovsk Experiment Station of VIR had an unscheduled inspection. The station was visited by representatives of the Public Chamber, the Accounts Chamber as well as representatives of the Russian Housing Development Foundation. This inspection was a result of instruction given by Dmitry Medvedev for this situation to be [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Resilience is in psychiatry the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. In this post it’s used as having an adaptive system that uses exposure to stress to provide resistance to future negative events.
Stress can lead to depression accompanied by atrophy and loss of neurons in the adult [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Resilience is in psychiatry the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. In this post it’s used as having an adaptive system that uses exposure to stress to provide resistance to future negative events.
Stress can lead to depression accompanied by atrophy and loss of neurons in the adult [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
HapMap 3, officially announced in today’s issue of Nature,1 is an “integrated data set of common and rare alleles” in human populations, built from “1.6 million common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 1,184 reference individuals from 11 global populations“.
As well as being a resource for genome-wide studies, there are a number of [...]
Against Monopoly
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated is a mass collaborative artistic re-envisioning of George A. Romero’s 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead.
International artists and animators were invited to select scenes from the film and reinvent them through their artwork.
The full and complete re-imagined work is currently available:
http://www.notldr.com/next/main.html
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Living-Dead-Duane-Jones/dp/B003GUGB8G
A similar artistic endeavor was performed [...]
Scienceroll
86% of MDs use Google on the the Job (Digital Pathology Blog)
It’s not just patients who turn to Google or other search engines to research medical information. According to Google, 86 percent of doctors say they now use Internet on the job. Of that group, the majority start at Google, which they use as a source to [...]
Against Monopoly
Conor Friedersdorf over at Andrew Sullivan’s much-trafficked blog points to “an interesting post about craft cocktails and the impulse to protect certain recipes as intellectual property” as well as the reaction to the concept from a third blogger.
Read all about it and get the discussing links here:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/09/keeping-government-out-of-cocktails.html
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
There’s a very good report from Pavlovsk on Al Jazeera’s youtube channel.
Click here to view the embedded video.
My only objection is to the reference to Pavlovsk as “one of only two botanical repositories on the planet.” And since we’re being all multimedia and social networky, I’ll also mention the photos on the Global [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Resilience is in psychiatry the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. In this post it’s used as having an adaptive system that uses exposure to stress to provide resistance to future negative events.
Stress can lead to depression accompanied by atrophy and loss of neurons in the adult [...]
Scienceroll
When preparing for this year’s Researchers’ Night (details below), I was trying to collect some information and updates about the consumer genomics market for my presentation and found great slideshows. Enjoy!
If you thought that research was all about lab coats and Bunsen burners, think again. Like everyone else, researchers come from numerous backgrounds, [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Email heaven or not?
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Chris Pietschmann
Today is the last day to enter the 2010 Community Coding Contest for a chance to win an MSDN Ultimate Subscription plus a total of approximately $20,719 worth of prizes!!
All you need to do is write some source code to do something, and enter it into the contest. Who know, you could be one [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
And a big welcome to all of you who have ended up here from the 31st Berry-Go-Round. Have fun! Everybody else, off you go to Seeds Aside.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Bioversity International and UNEP jointly pile on the pressure to preserve Pavlovsk …
… as do plant professors from University of Wisonsin.
Mexican maize farmers using CIMMYT genebank materials to adapt their varieties. Why not in Africa, then?
High praise for a novel on opium.
Mat Kinase takes Time to task over lacklustre organics article.
King Goodwill Zwelithini [...]