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Yum. About 30 of the best in the region.
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"Tomorrow, Keller and crew — daughters Jennifer Manglass, 18, and Isabella Gagliardo, 12; son Alexander Gagliardo, 13; and family friend Meagan Franz, 17 — embark on a journey that many families fantasize about, but few have the means or resolve to undertake. For the next 12 months, they’ll travel around the world, volunteering at a dozen humanitarian projects stretching from Europe to Asia to South America."
links for 2010-07-29
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"Change will come, Kaufman believes, only when a “culture of safety” akin to that widely cultivated in industry permeates universities and when lab chiefs are held responsible for everyone knowing and following accepted safety practices."
And now what happens with safety when you don't even work in an institution? Oyvey.
[via EmilyAnthes]
links for 2010-07-28
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"The Scienceblogs saga continues to rumble on, with more people quitting – the departure of Bora Zivkovic making perhaps the biggest ripples in this latest group – and now PZ Myers going on strike (see some discussion in the comments here)."
When are folks going to realize that bottom up blog writing is so 2005? I can't see this happening at Gizmodo or HuffPo.
links for 2010-07-19
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"The research, says the team, could someday help scientists grow other types of crystals, such as those needed to house quantum computers or superconducting materials." Another protein as seed for crystal. Might the same be happening in mollusks?
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"By replacing essential genes in a mammalian pathogen with their counterparts from Arctic bacteria, they have created strains that provoke a protective immune response in mice."
Genomics meets microbiology. Cool (so to speak).
links for 2010-07-16
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"This finding points to an easily administered and inexpensive approach where commensal bacteria are engineered to communicate with invasive species and potentially prevent human disease." Engineered probiotics – also protecting? Cool.
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"These large windstorms are proving to be important to our understanding of how the Amazon works, in terms of carbon storage, biodiversity, and other factors,"
We keep forgetting that the planet is like a living breathing organism. So much of what we do is skewed by what we see and our habit of seeing the world in a temporal transect – that the stasis we see now is as it always was or will be. But the homeostatic mechanisms of the world do not mean that all stays static, but that there are huge fluctuations possible that in the end fall back to baseline, but temporarily can be quite different. This discovery that huge swaths of trees can be felled in a storm make the amazon look less like a static area, but a mass of life with varying degrees of change over time.
links for 2010-07-09
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Ah, the good old days, when we had a certain enemy we could negotiate with and fight. 🙂
links for 2010-07-08
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"The practice of medicine is more than just the application of scientific knowledge. It is also an art and to achieve success doctors and other health workers must be attentive to the personal beliefs, cultural standards, societal and religious norms, emotional states, and educational backgrounds of those they are trying to help."
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"The device would mimic a standard license plate when the vehicle is in motion but would switch to digital ads or other messages when it is stopped for more than four seconds, whether in traffic or at a red light. The license plate number would remain visible at all times in some section of the screen. "