Posts for November, 2009
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The National Security Agency testified that Microsoft let the agency “enhance Windows 7.”
From NSA Information Assurance Director Richard Shaeffer’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security:
“Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of system threats and vulnerabilities [...]
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I was invited to be a guest on The Peter Mac Show last night and ended up staying on for both hours. It was a pretty in-depth interview. The host asked impressively intelligent questions for someone who had just started coming around to the anti-IP position (after reading my Intellectual Property and Libertarianism just [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Farming from space.
(Part of) the history of nutmeg.
“Eat Like a Pilgrim.”
Biggest fungal collection in the world created.
Loss of indigenous grape varieties not holding Moroccan winemakers back.
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Silliman University Physics Blog
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 24, 2009, the Junior Philippine Physics Society will be visiting a traveling science exhibit called SCIENCE ON THE MOVE.The exhibit is held at the Negros Oriental Convention Center in Dumaguete. The exhibit is a joint effort of the DOST, the Philippine Foundation for Science and Technology, and the Confederation [...]
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Björn Brembs
A colleague just asked for an email-attachment after I invited him to collaborate on a Google-Doc grant. Copied the document and pasted the raw text into the reply
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Dr Shock MD PhD
Based on the results from functional neuroimaging studies, lesion patient studies and brain stimulation studies two important brain areas play an important role in the pathophysiology of depression. These two brain area s are the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is depicted in red on [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Prospect, a “union for professionals” in the UK reports that the University of Warwick plans to close HRI Wellesbourne, home of a Genetic Resources Unit that is effectively the vegetable genebank for the UK. None of the reports I’ve seen mentions the genebank specifically, and it is only one aspect of HRI’s activities [...]
Science For SEO Partial
I’ve been catching up on all my reading these last couple of weeks and I particularly liked “From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search”. It’s by Paul André from Southampton University together with Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais from Microsoft Research.
Louis Pasteur once famously said: [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
We’ve been almost silent on the massive effort this past week announcing the full sequence of the corn (maize) genome, mostly because we don’t actually have that much to contribute. Corn News Central this past week has been James and the Giant Corn; here’s his summary post. One of the things he linked [...]
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Dr Shock MD PhD
Dr Shock is a soccer fan, he’s Dutch, no wonder. One of the out most important topics discussed about the game is Off side. So much discussion is going on that people hope new technology will help with judgment of the off side rule. During a soccer game the referee as well [...]