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Literally, I mean. The Chinese characters for pak choy, or Chinese cabbage (白菜), can also be pronounced to mean “100 types of prosperity and luck.” Which explains why this vegetable is a favourite of jade carvers, though their creations are usually somewhat smaller than the metre-long specimen pictured below.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
We’ve been keeping more than a brief eye on the blog of The Iraqi Seed Project but things have been a little quiet. Not surprising, really; they have better things to do than post their field notes to the internet. Today, though, a wonderful surprise. The filmmakers got to the Iraqi National Genebank [...]
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Björn Brembs
Sensitivity to perturbations in vivo implies high noise and suggests rate coding in cortex – http://www.citeulike.org/user…
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Nature, Vol. 466, No. 7302. (01 July 2010), pp. 123-127. It is well known that neural activity exhibits variability, in the sense that identical sensory stimuli produce different responses1, 2, 3, but [...]
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Berry Go Round 29 is upon us, a little delayed because of some unforeseen travel on my part. And getting right down to it, let’s honour the mindless fools who honestly think that a blog carnival dedicated to plants and botany is going to feature their absurd lists of great mortgages or places [...]
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The web is exceptionally rich in Sexual Health-related information, but many of these sites contain spams or false content. In Sexual Health and Web 2.0, Webicina features only quality social media resources including blogs, podcasts, mobile apps, slideshows or community sites, among others.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
That’s what Botanical Garden Conservation International asks you to do as part of their new Plants for the Planet campaign. Our friend at BGCI tells us that the aim of the campaign “is to gather signatures from people around the world in order to ensure that governments adopt the updated Global Strategy for [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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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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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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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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.
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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. [...]