Posts for February, 2010
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Björn Brembs
Religiosity Tied to Socioeconomic Status — Paul 327 (5966): 642 — Science – http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi…
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"Religion thrives when the majority seek the aid and protection of supernatural powers because they are impoverished, as in the third- and second-world countries or, in the case of the United States (the most religious and [...]
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From the BBC:
Earlier this week, a federal court in Sydney ruled that Men at Work had plagiarised Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree in its 1983 hit, Down Under.
“It’s all about money, make no mistake,” said Down Under author Hay.
But Norm Lurie, owner of Larrikin Music who filed the case, said it highlighted [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
After searching for websites about depression (‘‘depression,’’ ‘‘depression treatment,’’ and ‘‘depression help’’) with a popular search engine: Google, the authors of this work carefully examined the websites. The websites were evaluated on accountability, interactivity, esthetics, readability and content quality. They also used the brief DISCERN as a content quality indicator for general [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Guests Tom Standage, business affairs editor of The Economist and author of An Edible History of Humanity joined Eric Tagliacozzo, associate professor of history at Cornell University and author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier and award-winning culinary expert Julie Sahni, author of Classic Indian Cooking [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The Peruvian National Protected Areas Service has decided to allocate funds to help protect a large swath of the Amazon this year, which is home to several endangered species and indigenous groups.
The Protected Areas Service pledged to allocate USD 280,000 for surveillance activities in the massive area – encompassing a region larger than [...]
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Björn Brembs
RT @p_binfield: RT @plos Way to go Bora for being in the top 30 science blogs as picked by the Times (of London) online http://timesonline.typepad.com/science…
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Andrew Sullivan takes note of the copyright debate between Matthew Yglesias and Sonny Bunch (is that his real name?) here:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/copyright-and-incentives.html#more
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Business cards are still around, I get them often, they’re nice and they do have advantages as can be read on geek!daily: they’re customizable, trivial to distribute, and cards are static. Digital alternatives like Poken and My Name is E don’t seem to have enough success, only nerds and geeks [...]
Daniel Lemire
If you read my blog, you probably like to read in general. Thus, if you don’t own an ebook device, you will soon. The choice is growing: the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, the Apple iPad,… I bought a kindle because my wife won’t let me fill the house with books. And I hate [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
This just in from the Theme Leader on the Global Challenge Program for Climate Change and Food Security, based in Cali, Colombia, aka Andy Jarvis:
The official launch for the Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will take place on May 4th in Nairobi, Kenya.
Be there (and report it [...]
Scienceroll
I love innovation in healthcare.
For people with conductive hearing loss, Bone Anchored Hearing Aids that are implanted surgically use the skull to transmit sound to the inner ear. SoundBite bypasses this problem.
SoundBite hearing system is the world’s first and only non-surgical and removable hearing solution designed to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth to help [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
RBG Kew launches new website. Busy, busy, busy.
Turkeys domesticated twice, neither time in Turkey. Gobble, gobble.
Warmer-than-expected weather hits Thai sugar production. Sweet.
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As noted here, “Ayn Rand’s newsletters used to end with a “Horror File” of monstrous but true quotations.”
Along those lines, it’s time to collect some choice trademark horror stories in one place. The main post will be here, on the Mises Blog, but I’ll cross-post the initial post here too. But look there for [...]
Science Commons
Our Science Commons t-shirt design contest is now open to entrants outside of the US. We realized that while we might not be able to afford to fly someone to Seattle from Australia or Germany, we would be missing out on too much talent if we limited the contest to US residents. The prize [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
I don’t want to leave you with the impression that the Amman conference on food security in the drylands has been all about germplasm and breeding, as far as adaptation to climate change is concerned. Cultural practices did get a look-in. Conservation agriculture in general, and zero tillage in particular, came up repeatedly, [...]