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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 [...]
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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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Dr Shock MD PhD
This link with video was very appreciated on twitter when I had it on my tumbler blog. Thought I share it with my other readers as well. It’s a reproductive health ed game for teenagers based on one of my old time favorite games: Worms. It has nice graphics and funny characters.
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Dr Shock MD PhD
The images–taken using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument–were hand-picked to best showcase the disaster. The images begin with the oil rig explosion and run through May 24th.
What almost looks Photoshopped, the oil slick appears grayish in the images and is changing due to weather, ocean currents and the use of [...]
Against Monopoly
Tom Goldstein, publisher of the much respected and authoritative Supreme Court blog, is making his predictions on Monday’s Bilski patent ruling:
http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/06/the-final-four-decisions/#more-22266
The longest-outstanding case is Bilski v. Kappos, which involves the patentability of “business methods.” Bilski was argued in November. The only Justice who has not issued a majority opinion from that sitting [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Carol Snyder Halberstadt, president and cofounder of Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land, Inc., has sent this in via DAD-Net in response to our nibble of an NPR story on the Churro, and indeed an earlier post of ours. We look forward to more news from Carol on the Diné and their [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
The 10 best science videos on the web this month with: Nuke an oil leak, supercooled water, images from the mars express etc…
Video can capture science in action like nothing else – and New Scientist has scoured the web to bring you the 10 best clips posted this month.
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