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This blog will be the location for the next edition of the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival on August the 30th. You can submit your posts by using this automated submission form . They are still seeking hosts for upcoming issues; we still have some open hosting slots through the end of [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
CIFOR has a blog!
Nice series of videos on eating weeds.
Video on Peru’s “Andean rodeo.” You heard me.
Africa needs drought-tolerant maize. Ok, fair enough, but here’s my question. Shouldn’t they have done this study before doing all that breeding? Oh, who knows, maybe they did.
“Biofortification will thus remain relevant to poor rural populations in [...]
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Björn Brembs
Draft of article on free will online – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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I've made my comments in red. Some are more about taste than accuracy though.
Toward the end of the text you make statements that suggest (at least to me) that an animal's actions remain [...]
Against Monopoly
Really, this is pretty funny.
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The Cochrane Collaboration has a webliography under the evidence-based healthcare section in which it features Webicina.com.
What is Webicina?
Webicina is a free medical social media guidance service with selections both for empowered patients and medical professionals.
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
An interview with the legendary Melaku Worede.
Rwanda has to go from 100 to 30,000 ha of bananas, apparently.
Coconut water good for athletes. And the rest of us too, actually.
Gates Foundation launches a “community page.”
Bolivians going back to their food roots.
“…better integration of health and agricultural interventions and policy” needed. Seconded.
“[A] graphical accounting of [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Now that’s a very interesting idea. The end of the social media decade, starting the new decade: The Decade of Games. How to use this layer to get people to take their medication on time? Watch this video and enjoy.
By now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
I guess I always assumed that Sicily’s famous Pachino tomato, valued component of the Mediterranean diet, with its coveted EU-sanctioned protection, was grown exclusively by wizened, cantankerous old men bent rheumatically over the stony soil of parched ancestral smallholdings. Alas, thanks to my friend Amanda, who spent Ferragosto touring the area, apparently the [...]
Daniel Lemire
Permanent researchers publish more when they are in smaller labs.
Having many Ph.D. students fails to improve productivity.
Funding has little effect on research productivity.
Reference: Carayol, N. and Matt, M., Individual and collective determinants of academic scientists’ productivity, Information Economics and Policy 18 (1), 2006.
Further reading (on this blog): To be smarter, ignore external rewards, Is collaboration [...]
Scienceroll
Webicina.com features selected blogs, news sites, medical journals, Twitter users and Youtube channels dedicated to urology in the newest PeRSSonalized Urology collection. This is the simplest medical information aggregator. If we missed something, please let us know.
You can also add custom Pubmed search boxes to your personalized journal.
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
“Adenovirus” (by Mapposity)
There are two aspects about virology that constantly amaze me: How much we know about viruses, and how little we know about viruses.
Adenovirus research offers examples of both. Adenoviruses are probably among the best-studied virus groups.1 We really do know an amazing amount about them. But it [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
I continue to be amazed by the progress being made by — or, better, the resurgence of — indigenous leafy greens in Kenya. You can now buy managu (Solanum nigrum) nicely packaged in supermarkets. Although it is also sold loose on the street.
And this is what the plant looks like.
I found it [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
In normal every day life with face to face contact the physical characteristics and knowledge about social background form the identity of your contact. It’s stable and three dimensional. You know that person, it’s therefor very difficult for the other to claim another identity or create impressions inconsistent with how you know [...]
Against Monopoly
The NY Times has a review of the latest book arguing for less restrictive copyright regimes.
Read it (the review) here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Darnton-t.html?pagewanted=1 and _r=2 and ref=science
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