Molecularist

"Ray was just a few days younger than the oldest person in the world, Kama Chinen of Japan, who is 114 years and 303 days. There are now 75 people aged 110 or older in the world (known as supercentenarians), according to the Gerontology Research Group in Los Angeles. All but three are women."

"Young scientists at a Chinese genomics institute are foregoing conventional postgraduate training for the chance to be part of major scientific initiatives. Is this the way of the future?"

Maybe it's just time to re-evaluate our structure and flow of academic apprenticeship. I keep comparing the impact DIYBio can have to mainstream science akin to the impact blogs and the like had on mainstream media.

Time for a new type of science guild?

Interesting background into academic degrees

“Making media now is a powerful way of participating in all kinds of life, including civic and political life,’’ said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. “These people are now deeply connected to the political process in a way that their parents, at their age, could never be.’’

Hm. One more thing that proves I'm a thinker and not a do-er. I was thinking how cool would it be to create a web site full of videos to teach folks about certain techniques and such (particularly safety). Here's pretty much the same thing. But it's live. Not lounging in my head. (and I see they did it last year, and they are right here in Boston – gah <forehead slap>) [via @JLVernonPHD]

A very well-written article on a serious problem in science communications. [via @BoraZ]

[via @skinny]

ORLY? Portal = Info dashboard = Info filter. And Google, AOL, Topix are just "default" portals that folks can understand and easily use.

"There are no search-specific findings; however it appears from the survey data that “portal websites like Google News, AOL and Topix are the most commonly used online news sources, visited by over half of online news users on a typical day."

"We think Apple foresees a future in which the iPad is the default way people do what they now do with computers (and some other new things)." [via @uszabo]

"Today, we’re happily turning the Firehose on for some new partners focused mainly on exploring the incredibly rich field of real-time search and discovery."

"The Live Edition is presently available as an Ebook (PDF, Mobi, and ePub) bundle, and the updated content will also be available through Safari Books Online and eventually print on demand. Customers who buy a Live Edition will get all the updates to the book up until the next new print edition of the book, when the cycle will start again. (For Learning Rails, customers will get all the updates for the upcoming 3.x version of Rails.)" [via @perryhewitt]

"Look! Up in the sky! It’s a prose author moving a ton of graphic novels!"