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Dr Shock MD PhD
Had an idea to use writing of a blog for a minor in medical education. The idea was sacrificed for other options for minors. Seems that blogs in medical education can promote reflection and professionalism. Professionalism being one of the CanMed competences used in medical education and one of the most important [...]
Against Monopoly
From a post on Jurist:
Nokia’s infringement suit against Apple illustrates need to scrap US patent system
Stephan Kinsella [General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics and Editor of Libertarian Papers]: “A recent lawsuit filed by Nokia against Apple alleges that the iPhone infringes 10 of Nokia’s patents. Nokia is probably “seeking between $200 and $400 million in [...]
Scienceroll
I’ve recently come across Ecosphere which is a really creative idea for those who would like to see something different from an aquarium or a terrarium on their desks.
Inside each EcoSphere are active micro-organisms, bright red shrimp and algae, each existing in filtered sea water. Because the EcoSphere is a self-sustaining ecosystem, you never have [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
A truly amazing paper in today’s Nature1 shows 2-photon microscopy videos of T cells entering the brain in search of their target antigen. The title of this post is taken from the commentary,2 also in Nature.
Disease-causing T cells first adhere to the inner walls of the pial vessels and then crawl [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
So, Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, who teaches at the University of Louvain in Belgium and Columbia University in the United States, has been talking to reporters about the dangers of genetic erosion:
He noted that in Sri Lanka in 1959, for example, some 2,000 varieties of [...]
Against Monopoly
I heard about this first from Richard Corsale who directs us to this article about the ACTA. The highlights? Three strikes and you are out…the music companies would get to shut down anybody for any reason…The entire “negotiation” – read big media wish list – taking place under the guise of “secrecy for national [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
While not strictly about agricultural biodiversity (although much more could be made of agrobiodiversity in this realm) Scidev.net draws attention to an editorial in The Lancet. In the run up to (yet another) High Level Summit — this time on Food Security — next week, Scidev.net reports The Lancet’s view that:
Poor terminology adds [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
If your like me, having 5 e-mail accounts, a couple of websites, wikis, several calendars and address books it’s hard to keep everything in sync. Cloud computing or living in the Cloud has it’s benefits. Cloud Computing refers to Internet-centric software and services that are outsourced to someone else and in this [...]
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Björn Brembs
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Nature, Vol. 462, No. 7269. (05 November 2009), pp. 51-57.
Explanations of cooperation between non-kin in animal societies often suggest that individuals exchange resources or services and that cooperation is maintained by reciprocity. But do cooperative interactions between unrelated individuals in [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
TRegs infiltrate into a tumor
One of the reasons the immune system doesn’t destroy tumors is the presence of regulatory T cells (TRegs) that actively shut down the anti-tumor response. For once, there’s a little bit of encouraging news on that front.
TRegs are normal parts of the immune system. They actively prevent [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Nigel Maxted has just sent a brief personal take on the recent Kew 250th anniversary celebrations to the Crop Wild Relatives discussion group. Here’s a snippet:
Personally I felt the audience was very receptive to the use and need for CWR conservation, but in my view far too many talks outside of the Plant [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
I’ve just discovered this bit of inanity, a month or so late. Queen’s University Belfast has a slice of a €1 million study known as the Badana project, to “develop new procedures to incorporate by-products from banana plantations in the Canary Islands into the production of rotationally moulded plastics”. Why? Because:
Once the fruit [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
patients with depression often complain of difficulty getting to sleep, frequent awakenings during the night, early morning awakening, or nonrestorative sleep
patients with mood disorders exhibit higher rates of sleep disturbance than the general population, and sleep disturbance can continue even during periods of remission
patients with insomnia are up to 10 times more [...]
Against Monopoly
The cool, hip techno-pundits are usually reliably Obama-liberal/libertarian-lite types. A bit California-smug, engineer-scientistic, anti-principle, anti-”extreme.” But okay overall. A soft, tolerant, whitebread bunch.
On the last This Week in Tech, I was pleasantly surprised to hear the always interesting Jason Calacanis voice support for nuclear power; and even more surprised to hear soft-liberal host Leo [...]
Against Monopoly
Excellent post by Kevin Carson, Gene Quinn: Patent Twit of the Week, criticizing patent attorney-shill Gene Quinn’s “arguments” for patents.
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