Posts for August, 2009
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria in Argentina has a new online pest and disease atlas out. It’s in Spanish, but pretty intuitive to use. You can search by host or by pest/disease organism. And you get a bunch of references, descriptive notes, photos and a map, albeit a static one — [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
I blogged a couple years ago about what might be called the “1491 controversy,” which hinges on whether you think the Amazon and adjacent areas were densely populated and closely managed before Columbus arrived, or an unproductive, largely pristine wilderness. One of the areas in question is the basin of the Beni River [...]
Chris Pietschmann
I’ve gotten a couple questions lately about extending the jHtmlArea WYSIWYG editor, so I thought I’d post a little bit about how to add your own custom toolbar buttons to it. There is one example that is included with the component, but that doesn’t cover inserting some html into the editor, so I’m going [...]
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Björn Brembs
A "Complex" Theory of Consciousness: Scientific American – http://www.scientificamerican.com/article…
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"This situation is scandalous! We have a detailed and very successful framework for matter and for energy but not for the mind-body problem. This dismal state of affairs might be about to change, however." – Björn Brembs
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Monty Python – ministry of silly walksdoor Van_Lock
Encephalon 74, the best of the best in brain and mind blogging on Neuronarrative in Monthy Python Theme.
We’re rabid Monty Python fans here at Neuronarrative, so this edition is crafted in the tradition of that estimable show without equal. And here we [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
“Disappointed chimpanzee” – J.M. Wood (from Darwin,
“The expression of the emotions in man and animals”, 1872)
Untreated HIV has very, very high mortality, but there are a few people who manage to survive for quite a long time without progressing to AIDS. These long-term non-progressors somehow keep their HIV levels quite low, [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
After a year’s travel in search of seeds, Adam Forbes turns in his report.
The genetics of orange-fleshed cucumbers elucidated.
Tea and hibiscus booze.
Video of honey harvesting.
Maps of sea level rise. All somewhat unsatisfying, somehow.
“Because we are poor, we shall suffer first but, ultimately, we shall all die together.”
SADC Plant Genetic Resources Centre (SPGRC) director [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
After a year’s travel in search of seeds, Adam Forbes turns in his report.
The genetics of orange-fleshed cucumbers elucidated.
Tea and hibiscus booze.
Video of honey harvesting.
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Chris Pietschmann
A few months ago I posted some code that I originally wrote back in about 2004… Well, I was looking through some more of my prototypes that I’ve written and I came across the following example of how to use the IProgressDialog Win32 Interface to harness the power of the Built-in Progress Dialog [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Matoke, spinach (local, or genuine Spinacea oleracea?) and rice (why not sorghum, or millet?) about to be served at a Nairobi restaurant. The photo illustrates an article in the Daily Nation, following up on Agriculture Minister William Ruto’s call for traditional crops to be given a greater role in Kenya’s food security plan. [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
File this one under spooky. Yesterday, walking in the Italian countryside, I spotted an unusual sign. It says, in effect, Permaculture, Fukuoka Method. How many people passing that sign would have the faintest idea what it meant? My companion had no idea who had put it up, or why. I told him [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
That’s Javier de la Torre talking about ecological niche modeling at GeoWeb. Well, I would qualify that by saying we have too little digitized data. Certainly for many crop wild relatives, for example. Javier was involved in a recent online mashup of the global protected area database. His GeoWeb slides are below, catch [...]
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Björn Brembs
Scientists of today are so lucky – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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This is from an excellent overview about video games and the brain: Video Games Affect the Brain—for Better and Worse. The most important conclusion to be drawn after reading the post on Cerebrum of the Dana Foundation is:
With the exception of educational games, most video games’ effects on brain and behavior are [...]
Against Monopoly
The problem of unauthorized book sequels have been with us since the beginning of copyright. Charles McGrath brings us up to date on it here. By his account, if the originator doesn’t object, the sequel writer can get away with it. If not, he can be made to pay or be banned completely. [...]