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There’s a very good report from Pavlovsk on Al Jazeera’s youtube channel.
Click here to view the embedded video.
My only objection is to the reference to Pavlovsk as “one of only two botanical repositories on the planet.” And since we’re being all multimedia and social networky, I’ll also mention the photos on the Global [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Resilience is in psychiatry the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. In this post it’s used as having an adaptive system that uses exposure to stress to provide resistance to future negative events.
Stress can lead to depression accompanied by atrophy and loss of neurons in the adult [...]
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When preparing for this year’s Researchers’ Night (details below), I was trying to collect some information and updates about the consumer genomics market for my presentation and found great slideshows. Enjoy!
If you thought that research was all about lab coats and Bunsen burners, think again. Like everyone else, researchers come from numerous backgrounds, [...]
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Email heaven or not?
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Chris Pietschmann
Today is the last day to enter the 2010 Community Coding Contest for a chance to win an MSDN Ultimate Subscription plus a total of approximately $20,719 worth of prizes!!
All you need to do is write some source code to do something, and enter it into the contest. Who know, you could be one [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
And a big welcome to all of you who have ended up here from the 31st Berry-Go-Round. Have fun! Everybody else, off you go to Seeds Aside.
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Bioversity International and UNEP jointly pile on the pressure to preserve Pavlovsk …
… as do plant professors from University of Wisonsin.
Mexican maize farmers using CIMMYT genebank materials to adapt their varieties. Why not in Africa, then?
High praise for a novel on opium.
Mat Kinase takes Time to task over lacklustre organics article.
King Goodwill Zwelithini [...]
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Daniel Lemire
I spend much time alone, writing and thinking. Twitter helps me stay connected. I love the platform.
On Friday, I wanted to find the intersection between the users followed by any two individuals. Indeed, suppose that you like both Joe and Jill, and they have similar interests. Maybe whoever they both read is also interesting? I could [...]
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The world wide web is really rich in Parkinson’s disease related content such as blogs, podcasts, community sites, mobile applications, Twitter users, videos or slideshows, but selecting the most relevant resources takes time and effort. Fortunately, Webicina.com just published the newest, Parkinson’s disease and Web 2.0 collection.
If you also want to follow easily these selected [...]
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When we published Open Doors and Open Minds, we promised a companion piece that discusses in detail some of the legal considerations that university administrators and university general counsels may wish to consider in adopting a public access policy. I’m happy to say that this is now available. This excellent companion piece, providing a [...]
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Evolutionary Applications has a Special Issue out devoted to “Evolution in Agro-Ecosystems. ” Attentive readers will spot the fact that we have already blogged about the papers on why there are no perennial grain crops and on the response of landraces to climate change. But there’s a lot more there.
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I’m no expert when it comes to complex questions like that related to neural development, but to my naive mind the major stages involved in neural development seem to follow the eight stages as outlined in in the eight stage evo-devo model.
The first stage is normally involved with the coming in [...]
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Despite it being summer holidays there were a lot of submission for the latest Scientia Blog Carnival: Scientia Pro Publica. So let’s start.
If you want to know more about the dance of bees, the waggle dance (yes it really exists) have fun over at More than Honey, The Making of a Bee [...]