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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
Despite the fact that the recent pandemic was the best studied and recorded to date, the knowledge gained will probably have little predictive value for the next pandemic, either in qualitative or quantitative terms.
–Communicable Diseases and Epidemics
Martin M. Kaplan
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1960
Kaplan was referring to the 1957-58 influenza [...]
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Executing predictive analytics models in Excel
In all industries, including on-line marketing, when talking about forecasting customer behavior and predictive analytics, the first thoughts that come to mind are complexity and cost. The traditional way [...]
Against Monopoly
Steve Lohr writes in the New York Times about a highly secretive company, Intellectual Ventures, that claims it is trying to create a market for patented inventions link here. It has been in existence for ten years, already is heavily capitalized at $5 billion and controls 30,000 patents, and seems to [...]
Against Monopoly
The steady drip of details about the financial crisis continues. PBS News Hour has Paul Solman interviewing an ex-bank regulator, William Black who now teaches at the University of Missouri link here. Points Black makes that are worth thinking about:
*Following the S and L collapse, more than 1000 executive insiders were [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The Guardian has a photo essay on how farmers are trying to cope with climate change in Tajikistan.
Turaqulov Saidmuzator, a farmer in Temumalik district, is experiencing the effects of climate change. ‘I think the weather has become warmer in the last four or five years and that is affecting our crops,’ he says. [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
“Cherry trees require a minimum of 8,000 hours of low temperatures over the winter to produce the optimum blossoms, but as Japan gets warmer we are falling short of that figure,” said [Dr Abe].
“And that is a problem because we Japanese love cherry blossom season.”
Dr. Abe’s team has responded to this national [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
The Diversity for Life campaign wants to celebrate the unsung contributions of individual farmers, scientists and others to conserving the diversity of plants and animals in the Mediterranean.
Know someone like that? Nominate them!
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Evaluation by citation: An imperfect system – http://scitation.aip.org/journal…
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A lot of medication gets misused, as is the right expression, meaning not used for the intention or indication it was developed for in the first place. This reminded me of one of my first publications on the abuse of anticholinergics.
From case reports it appears that quetiapine is sought after for recreational [...]
Against Monopoly
Esquire has written a moving profile of film critic Roger Ebert. He has lost the ability to speak due to extended illness. Beyond relying extensively on his wife, Chaz, he now writes out messages on a pad and uses computer software to convert text to speech.
Page 6 of the profile describes the following sorrowful [...]
Scienceroll
A nice infographics about the different healthcare systems on GOOD.
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Dammit, Jim, I'm a neurobiologist, not a climatologist! – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
We were kind of sorry this morning, taking a glance at the IFPRI website this morning, to see our worst fears about the collapse of agricultural extension systems confirmed.
Of course it’s a cheap shot, but what’s the point of owning and operating a global web publishing empire if you can’t take the odd [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Most crop geneticists agree that enrichment of the cultivated gene pool will be necessary to meet the challenges that lie ahead. However, to fully capitalize on the extensive reservoir of favorable alleles within wild germplasm, many advances are still needed. These include increasing our understanding of the molecular basis for key traits, expanding [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop, ever since CIAT’s ace snapper Neil Palmer posted his great shots of guinea pigs in the Congo some months back. Finally, it has, with a long post about CIAT’s project More chicken and pork in the pot, and money in the pocket: improving forages [...]