Posts for June, 2010
Dr Shock MD PhD
Young adults tend to post videos and images of themselves while using alcohol or marijuana on social media websites such as MySpace, and YouTube. In a recent study a content analysis was done on these videos. This study revealed that alcohol use was mostly in videos with females in social gatherings, while [...]
Scienceroll
We’ve been organizing medical case presentations and events, conferences at the Ann Myers Medical Center in Second Life for years. The problem is it costs us time, energy and money to organize these events and any kind of donations would be really welcome! If you are willing to help us, please let us know. [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Funny talk about Lego for grown ups. They can buy tons of lego to lego robotics and lego programming.
Lego blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks’ colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open-source robotics and [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Sorry about the light blogging recently: both Jeremy and I are travelling. But fear not, I for one am working hard for our readers, studying the local agricultural biodiversity. Why, just last night I spent some hours sampling agrobiodiversity products of both the avian and fermented liquid sort. And I am happy to [...]
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Björn Brembs
Rest-stimulus interaction in the brain: a review – http://www.citeulike.org/user…
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Trends in Neurosciences, Vol. 33, No. 6. (11 June 2010), pp. 277-284. Studies in animals and humans have demonstrated intrinsic activity in the brain during the resting state. The concept of the default-mode network …
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Björn Brembs
Mental Imagery of Self-Location during Spontaneous and Active Self-Other Interactions: An Electrical Neuroimaging Study – http://www.citeulike.org/user…
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J. Neurosci., Vol. 30, No. 21. (26 May 2010), pp. 7202-7214. Substantial data from the cognitive neurosciences point to the importance of bodily processing …
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Daniel Lemire
Several major players built alternatives to conventional database systems: Google created BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo and Facebook initiated Cassandra. There are many other comparable open source initiatives such as CouchDB and MongoDB. These systems are part of a trend called NoSQL because it is not centered around the SQL language. While there [...]
Scienceroll
AIDS/HIV affects millions of people worldwide and the number of related social media resources is also growing, though the quality is often questionable. The new selection on Webicina.com, AIDS/HIV in Social Media, helps you find the most relevant blogs, podcasts, community sites, mobile apps and other useful resources.
If you [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
About 13 to 19% of new mothers experience depression in the first year after birth. Most of them are never identified nor diagnosed. New mothers often read about pregnancy, giving birth and raising their children in popular magazines. It’s eminent that adequate information in these magazines about postpartum depression is of importance. [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The EU-funded operation will improve food security of more than 860 000 rural households, over 6 million people. The aim is to boost food production by making improved seeds available to needy farmers and to promote sustainable seed multiplication and certification.
Difficult to argue with the aim of this FAO project in Burkina Faso. [...]
Chris Pietschmann
Over 2 years ago I posted an example of how to draw circles on the Bing Maps JavaScript control. I thought it was about time to update that post to demonstrate how to do this using the Bing Maps Silverlight control. This is basically a C# port of the original JavaScript code.
Sometimes this [...]
Against Monopoly
The Supreme Court handed down this term’s final four decisions today: Christian Legal Society Chapter v. Martinez, on public university limitations on a Christian student group’s rights of association; the McDonald v. Chicago case incorporating the Heller gun decision against the states (Huebert’s discusssion); Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Co. Oversight Bd. (a Sarbanes-Oxley [...]
Against Monopoly
The (pro-patent) Patently-O blog does a good job in an objective analysis of what the Bilski decisions means in its practical application.
Two important posts to read from there:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/06/bilski-v-kappos-business-methods-out-software-still-patentable.html
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/06/bilski-v-kappos-and-the-anti-state-street-majority.html
Naturally, I’m disappointed. Although Bilski got his specific patent application rejected, and there is some hopeful wording in the opinion on the narrowing of patent eligibility, the [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Rethinking peanut genetic diversity. All you need is a new marker.
Saving the English hay meadow. Hey, there’s a few crop wild relatives in there, apart from anything else!
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
So it seems that common names are important in conservation of both wild and crop biodiversity. As long as someone sorts out the synonymy, sure, why not.
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