Posts for October, 2009
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
All go at FAO again with the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture holding its 12th meeting. One of the things on the agenda is consideration of the 2nd report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the final version is available online as a [...]
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In a recent online publication about another form of brain stimulation in treatment resistant depression showed promising results. The electrodes are placed on the brain instead of in the brain as with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS):
A new neurosurgical procedure may prove helpful for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Bilateral epidural prefrontal cortical stimulation [...]
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Björn Brembs
Entering Buddy Guy's Blues Bar in Chicago #SfN
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There hasn’t been much on the rating agencies role in the financial disaster last year, but there is now link here. Details on the failures of Moody’s, S and P, and with a little about Fitch are now available via Kevin G. Hall from McClatchy Newspapers.
I won’t repeat it all because the [...]
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
TRegs in normal skin
Tumors are supposed to be destroyed by our immune system. So how come we still see tumors?
A big part of the answer is probably that our immune system is very good at destroying proto-tumors, but is not so good at handling those that manage to sneak through [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Woman discovers marketable new apple. Good news.
Mongolian blogger thinks rangeland sustainability “projects should do more work in people’s mind than on the rangeland.”
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I don’t think I made it sufficiently clear when I last blogged about the FAO publication Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, published with the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE) that it is available in its entirety online as a pdf (9MB). Thank you, FAO!
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Social Capital Divide between the young and the elderly
A social capital divide between elderly and younger people on the Internet is best described as a difference in resources that are created in social networks and relationships between people and that have a certain value or benefit for individuals participating in this network/relationships. [...]
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Actually, it was a farce from the beginning. But what do you call it when an inherent farce devolves into a an even bigger farce?
Details here and here.
This is an increasingly familiar pattern. Otherwise truthful people seem to have no problems lying in legal proceedings when they perceive the underlying laws and system is [...]
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
We’ve blogged about permaculture before, actually several times, and I follow the goings on at the Permaculture Institute of Australia via their RSS feed. They define permaculture as
…the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape [...]
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The human genome contains some 25,000 genes. Where did they come from? How are new genes formed? Before continuing with the Origins Series and The Origin of Cognition, I wanted to take a step back…
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Amazing demonstration by Apollo Robbins at SfN 'dialogue' presentation.
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It’s Carver Day at the Missouri Botanical Garden today. Sounds like fun. We’ve blogged about George Washington Carver and his pioneering interest in, and work with, agrobiodiversity before. He was a Missouri native, which I think is his only connection to MoBo, but that’s ok, any excuse is good to celebrate such a [...]