My buddy Bill Scully kindly sent me the link to a superb WSJ article on DNA Robots: Source: WSJ “For the first time, microscopic robots made from DNA molecules can walk, follow instructions and work together to assemble simple products on an atomic-scale assembly line, mimicking the machinery of living cells, two independent research teams announced Wednesday.” Nanobots, FTW!For the technically minded, you can read more about one of the team’s research in their letter to Nature an…
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The cool side of Science and Technology: DNA robots
Deadline: July 25, 2010 The ACC is now accepting applications for the 2011 American Craft Council Shows season. It’s an opportunity to exhibit and sell your handmade work across the country to thousands of craft buyers, collectors and enthusiasts. Gain national exposure and join a community of makers who have been juried into these prestigious events
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Call for Applications 2011 American Craft Council Shows
At the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010 in Santiago last week, I was able to gather a wealth of information and ideas regarding the use of ICT for accountability. In a session on this topic I had the chance to discuss with people who actually implement citizen media projects on the ground and shared their experience and insights. A number of very interesting and useful ideas came up: Accountability needs “bottom-up transparency”.
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ICT for Accountability: Transparency "Bottom-Up"
Cross posted from Nature Medicine’s Spoonful of Medicine blog. The Walgreen pharmacy chain has halted plans to start selling home gene tests until after US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials complete their investigation into whether the kits made by Pathway Genomics require regulatory approval. In a letter dated 10 May, James Woods, deputy director of patient safety and product quality for the FDA’s medical device division, wrote to Pathway CEO James Plante that the company’s sali…
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Pharmacy giant puts spit kit plans on hold
photo credit: BAR Photography Like everyone else with more than a passing interest in home prices and market trends, I have been reading the refrains of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” offered up by the San Diego Union this past week. And like a lot of others, I am a little skeptical. First, they brought us the
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San Diego home prices are increasing big-time! (Or are they?)
While researching my post on the CDC’s findings regarding wireless households, Wireless living , I encountered a common problem with “old-school meets the web” publications. The original AP story, which would cost me $17.50 to quote (see rate sheet .), doesn’t include a link to the original CDC report.
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More on research
I first noticed this Associated Press article, 1 in 4 households with cell phone, no landline , on KurzweilAI.net . Interesting enough, but I got to wondering why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (aka CDC) did research on landline use. It would seem that the FCC or some other agency associated with telecommunications might be more likely to do such.
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Wireless living
If any one person is responsible for the current anti-vaccination hysteria, it’s Andrew Wakefield, the surgeon who cobbled up a very bad study of vaccination and autism. For a good overview, read this summary of a talk by Brian Deer, a reporter who also has a very thorough summary of the Wakefield affair. It’s amazing how sloppy the work was, and how lavishly Wakefield was paid for perpetrating it
fluid acrylic over molding and crackle paste on canvas paper If you want to learn something, try teaching it. I’ve been using the following as texts for the creative water media class. They have helped me a lot in regard to acrylics
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grounds and mediums
Next time you step foot in your local pharmacy to fill your prescription of anti-blood clotting drugs, you might consider picking up a personal genome kit to determine whether you’re actually responding to the medication. That scenario will soon be possible at around 6,000 Walgreen outlets across the US
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Genetic tests coming to a drugstore near you
Now that the Liberal-Conservative coalition has been formed and the new Prime Minister has announced who takes which job, we take a look at the figures who will be likely to influence the future shape of Employment Law, HR and Industrial Relations over the coming years: Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne (C). It appears that tax rises will be required in addition to the public sector cuts promised by the Conservatives in the election campaign, to fund some of the concessions that Conservatives had to make in order to secure the Lib-Con deal. A major win for the Liberal Democrats in the deal was to secure a commitment from the Conservatives to raise the income tax threshold to 10,000, but how will this be paid for? It seems that tax rises for Capital Gains and Inheritance may be a more favourable option for the Conservatives, given their very clear and loud objection to the increase in National Insurance proposed by Labour during the campaign. Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills: Dr Vincent Cable (Lib Dem), whose areas of responsibility will include apprenticeships, graduate employment and much more
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Lib-Con Cooperation and Coalition – but what will it mean for Employment Law and HR?
1 lb. skinless, boneless chicken breasts 1 cup chili sauce 14 oz. can canned tomatoes 1 ½ cups chopped celery ¼ cup chopped white onion 1 large green pepper, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 teaspoon dried basil (or 1 tablespoon fresh) 1 teasooon dried parsley (or 1 tablespoon fresh) ¼ teaspoon red pepper, crushed ¼ teaspoon salt As needed, nonstick cooking spray 2 cups cooked whole wheat pasta 1
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Recipe Corner: Skinny Southern Chicken Creole
I am amplifying a post by Roy Poses entitled ” Why Pretend An Advertising Executive and Chamber of Commerce Leader Are Public Health Experts? “.
If you have a bunch of old CDs and DVDs lying discarded around the house, here are some interesting ideas for things you can do with your collection of shiny disks. Instead of throwing them away, you can reuse old CDs for craft, as a holder for mobile phones or even a flower arrangement. [*] Click here if your feed reader doesn’t support videos
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10 Things You Can Do With Old CDs
You might be a gardening geek on a rainy day if… You contemplate buying one of those temporary shelters, the kind with the tent roof but no sides, to set up in strategic locations in the garden so you can continue weeding and planting, section by section, in the rain, in the garden.
To carry on with Chemjobber’s Favorite Things list (thanks, btw. Now I can’t get that silly Dove commercial out of my head), here’ s my list of some of my favorite things about chemistry Clickable Sharpies Vanillin TLC stain Pericyclic reactions Dump-and-Stir reactions A set of nested beakers (my set goes from 600 mL down to 10 mL) Review articles PhD comics Short paths (with or without the cow receiver) Playing with liquid nitrogen Dry ice bowling (a lab Olympic event, where you roll a pie…
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A Few of My Favorite (Chemistry) Things
There’s a remarkable article by Mike Duff in this month’s CERN Courier, arguing the case that string theory does too have important applications: in Quantum Information Theory. The claim seems to be that since the same algebraic structures appear in black-hole entropy calculations in string theory and in the analysis of certain cases of the entanglement of qubits, this provides an application of string theory to Quantum Information theory
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Applying String Theory to Quantum Information Theory
This is going to be a quick welcome to Deborah Blum (@deborahblum) who has just moved her blog, Speakeasy Science, to ScienceBlogs. Why quick? Because I am only 22 pages away from finishing her latest book, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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What’s my poison? Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author, professor Deborah Blum
Funny what you find when you clean out your closets. As I was sorting through some of the piles of diabetes-related materials in my office last week, I uncovered this cheery-looking little book called “My Life as a Pancreas” by Priscilla Call Essert: Someone had sent it to me for review a while back, and I
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My (Most Excellent) Life as a Pancreas
It’s difficult to read any technical journal or website today without finding stories on cloud computing. In an effort to reduce costs and network complexity, some organizations are opting to move at least some software or services to the cloud.
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Top 10 New Features in Exchange Server 2010