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Spontaneous activity in the isolated leech nervous system – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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The Mouse Trap
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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 [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
This is what I normally do on my Sunday morning workout. Enjoy
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The Morning Report
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Björn Brembs
RT @noahWG: Yes, yes, that's funny too, but THIS is the best recent Onion research piece: http://www.theonion.com/article… Still quite timely.
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Against Monopoly
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed a patent lawsuit that is breathtaking in scope – even by the ridiculous standards of modern patent claims. Defendants include Google, Apple, Yahoo, Netflix, Facebook, AOL, eBay, Youtube, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples. He alleges the companies violated patents owned by his now-defunct idea lab Interval Research.
As Wired [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
How cool is it that a descendant of Charles Darwin is working on wild tomatoes on the Galapagos?
More on the Brazilian “Economic Miracle.”
Let my people plant trees on farmland!
Trouble for Syrian agriculture.
“The D. Landreth Seed Company has sold seeds to every president from George Washington to FDR.” And Obama?
Views on the durian.
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Björn Brembs
Meeting with Ramy Aziz and Mr. Gunn in meatspace.” (at Rock Bottom Rstrnt & Brewery)
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Silliman University Physics Blog
Last Tuesday, August 24, 2010, the Physics department organized a lecture-forum on climate change, held at the multimedia center of Silliman University. The main lecture was led by Dr. Clare Cabahug Maxino, Ph.D. in Physical Geography at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. Her lecture was entitled:
"An Introduction to Climate Change and [...]
Scienceroll
I write a lot about how doctors and empowered patients should and could use the power of world wide web in order to make healthcare better, but I don’t often mention what the real life of doctors looks like. Mike Cadogan at Life in The Fast Lane presented Doctors Unplugged:
Doctors Unplugged is an inside look [...]
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I write a lot about how doctors and empowered patients should and could use the power of world wide web in order to make healthcare better, but I don’t often mention what the real life of doctors looks like. Mike Cadogan at Life in The Fast Lane presented Doctors Unplugged:
Doctors Unplugged is an inside look [...]
Against Monopoly
We previously mentioned Eckhard Höffner research showing how absence of copyright in Germany led to more rather than less output there than in England. This is being picked up by other blogs, here is a post on Kevin Smith’s blog. (Thanks to Ruth Lewis for the tip)
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
An intriguing press release from the American Chemical Society says that in some respects black rice is better than blueberries:
“Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E antioxidants,” said Zhimin [...]
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We launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date easily. It is a simple, free medical information aggregator that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news about a medical [...]
Against Monopoly
The New York Times now carries a lot of stories that are of interest to anyone concerned about the high cost of intellectual property protection. The first story today is a debate over who is right AARP or the industry. AARP says the cost of branded drugs rose 8.3% in 2009 link here. [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
In 1920 there was an outbreak of smallpox in Detroit (see the map below). Of the 133 cases with known history, only two had been vaccinated in the previous 10 years — three others had been vaccinated 12, 60, and 80 (!) years previously; the remainder were unvaccinated. The Detroit [...]