Citrulline: Watermelon Compound That Gives Viagra-Like Effects?
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Here's an interesting report by scientists in Texas: a slice of cool, fresh watermelon has effects similar to Viagra (Sildafenil Citrate). Of course, that isn't really a substitute for the said drug to keep a man going all night long. Well, I guess...unless one has to eat a truckload of watermelons. Then you'd say better take the blue pill.
© MoToMo
Anyways...the interesting finding here is the compound in watermelon that gives such effects, called citrulline.
Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body's blood vessels, similar...
Source: The Biotech Weblog - July 6, 2008 Tags: Food and Agriculture
Lincoln Center Subway Art 1
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tags: Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
At last, a new subway platform for you to enjoy looking at!
This station was recently renovated with a "retro look" makeover, complete with new plaques and tablets in the original 1904 Heins-LaFarge style. The new plaques are made of faïence and look like restorations of original work (but they are not; Lincoln Center did not exist in 1904!).
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #1
as seen at NYC's West Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown 1 train.
Image: GrrlScie...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 5, 2008 Tags: NYC Subway Art newtag
Update: Where Did I Go Today?
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Since it is a holiday in the USA and my traffic was down, I spent the morning and afternoon doing things, like laundry, which are terribly boring but necessary. After I escaped the laundromat, I ended up roaming the subways and began planning a route so I could photograph the tile mosaic artworks on several subway platforms for you all to enjoy. I aborted part of my originally planned route because it was taking so long to get around, but I still managed to photograph three platforms, so stay tuned to see which of the platforms I am presenting to you tonight! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 5, 2008 Tags: NYC life
After a long delay, the transcript resumes
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Sorry about the incredibly long delay in posts. I've been away. Specifically Brittany, Paris, Bavaria, and Iceland to experience the white nights.
Now I'm back and I'm not travelling for awhile. I'll post pictures as soon as I can. Read the comments on this post...
Source: The Daily Transcript - July 5, 2008 Tags: Misc
White Ash Tree
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tags: White Ash Tree, Fraxinus americana, tree bark, Image of the Day
Bark of the white ash tree, Fraxinus americana.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
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Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 5, 2008 Tags: Image of the Day newtag
Base composition analysis supports gene transfer
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Both our results and those recently published by another group suggest that uptake sequences are less common in genes that don't have homologs in related genomes. I'm using 'related' loosely here, as our analysis searched for homologs in genes from other families of bacteria whereas the other group searched in members of the same genus. But both results are best explained by the hypothesis that genes lacking uptake sequences are often those that a genome has recently acquired by lateral transfer from genomes that don't share that species' uptake sequence. To test this, we looked at gene properties that might give evid...
Source: RRResearch - July 5, 2008
Books for the summer vacation
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Here are the books I brought for the summer vacation (they do fit together in my own mind, somehow):
J. Craig Venter, A life decoded: my genome, my life (Viking, 2007) (see earlier post)
David Edwards, Artscience: creativity in the post-Google generation (Harvard University Press, 2008) (see tomorrow’s post)
Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence (eds), Creations of the mind: theories of artifacts and their representation (Oxford University Press, 2007) (to be reviewed for Isis)
Mark Paterson, The senses of touch: haptics, affects and technologies (Berg, 2007) (much needed food for our next research application)
Slavoj Z...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 5, 2008 Authors: Thomas Tags: new books etc
Order of Results
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We're still working out the order in which we present the different results in our draft manuscript. The first parts of the Results are now the analysis of how uptake sequence accumulation has changed the frequencies of different tripeptides in the the proteome, and of why some reading frames are preferred. The next decision is how we present the results that use alignments of uptake-sequence-encoded proteins with homologs from three 'control' genomes that do not have uptake sequences. We had tentatively planned to first describe the finding that genes that don't have uptake sequences are less likely to have homolo...
Source: RRResearch - July 5, 2008
Organization of the Results
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My bioinformatics collaborator and I are making good progress on both the writing of our manuscript and on improving the data that's going into it. One of the latter came when I redid an analysis I first did about a year ago, this time being more meticulous about the input data and more thoughtful about how I used it.The question the data address is why uptake sequences in coding regions are preferentially located in particular reading frames, specifically the effect of the codons they use on how efficiently the mRNA can be translated. I had used the overall frequencies of different codons in the proteome (all the prot...
Source: RRResearch - July 5, 2008
Traveller Matt Harding on the solution to the World's problems (wherethehellismatt.com)
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Funday 04 Jul 2008
Source: Quote of the Day news feed | Edited by Duncan Hull - July 5, 2008 Authors: Duncan Hull
Science is dead! Long live Science!
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Or so claims Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief at WIRED Magazine. In a piece entitled The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete, Anderson argues that hypothesis testing and scientific models are going extinct and and, in this age of ever-increasing computing power, massive amounts of data are everything. In his own words:Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y (it could just be a coincidence). Instead, you must understand the underlying mechanisms that connect the two. Once you h...
Source: Bayblab - July 5, 2008 Authors: kamel
Jesse Helms: In His Own Words and Deeds
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tags: Jesse Helms, politics, rethuglicans
Image: Orphaned (please contact me so I can properly attribute this image to its photographer).
This morning, I learned that America is celebrating its independence from one of the politicians whose goal was to ensure that this country was a colder, meaner-spirited place for millions of its citizens to live; a former senator of North Carolina, Jesse Helms. A lot of people called him "Senator No", although I (and no doubt others) thought of him as "Senator Hate." Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 4, 2008 Tags: Politics newtag
Friday Parrot Blogging: Independence Day
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tags: companion parrots, Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis, hawk-headed parrot, red fan parrot, Deroptyus accipitrinus accipitrinus, Friday Parrot Blogging
Elektra (left), a 5-year old female Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis, and
Orpheus (right), a 1-year old male hawk-headed (red fan) parrot, Deroptyus accipitrinus accipitrinus.
Images: GrrlScientist 4 July 2008
[Elektra, larger view and Orpheus, larger view].
Orpheus, especially, is camera-shy, and always manages to turn his head or turn his back on me when the camera comes out. But Elektra seems to b...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 4, 2008 Tags: What's new in my zoo newtag
Maidenhair Tree
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tags: maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba, tree bark, Image of the Day
Bark of the maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
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Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 4, 2008 Tags: Image of the Day newtag
Enzyme Cpl-1 Treats Bacterial Meningitis in Mice
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A newly identified enzyme, Cpl-1, has been reported to successfully treat symptoms of bacterial meningitis in mice trials.
Working with colleagues from the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Bern, Switzerland, Fischetti found that young mice infected with S. pneumoniae and then treated 18 hours later, once symptoms began, survived the potentially deadly infection. Moreover, Cpl-1 destroyed all traces of the most resistant and virulent strains of S. pneumoniae. In a test tube, this eradication took seconds; in the animal, it took a mere four hours and without collateral damage, suggesting that in mice, Cpl-1 is both a sel...
Source: The Biotech Weblog - July 4, 2008
Ceftobiprole Effective Against MRSA and VRSA
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The broad-spectrum antibiotic Ceftobiprole, discovered by Swiss company Basilea Pharmaceuticals, has been demonstrated to be effective against some of the deadliest strains of multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), including those strains which have developed resistance the antibiotic vancomycin (VRSA).
The research, to be published in the August 2008 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and available online now, looked at how well Ceftobiprole worked against bacterial clones that had already developed resistance to other drugs. In every case, Ceftobiprole won. "It just knocked out the cell...
Source: The Biotech Weblog - July 4, 2008 Tags: Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears
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I have lived with companion animals for my entire life. Cats, dogs, a variety of bird species ranging from finches to chickens, parrots and lories, tropical fish, goldfish and koi, hermit crabs, ants, stick insects, golden hamsters, dwarf hamsters, mice, rats, guinea pigs, bunnies .. and that's just the short list of animals who lived in my bedroom with me! So you would think that I am an expert at dealing with the death of a companion animal, but honestly, nothing could be farther from reality. I still have not gotten over the deaths of several of my pets (and cannot even say their names aloud), years and years later. So ...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 4, 2008 Tags: What's new in my zoo
4th of July: A Fancy Excuse To Blow Up Shit
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tags: 4th of July, humor, firecrackers, streaming video
This is what many politically conservative, rural, beer swilling, smoking, gun toting Americans (alias "rednecks") do on the anniversary of this nation's independence: they spend their hard-earned money on diluted blobs of dynamite so they can blow up shit [3:21] Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 4, 2008 Tags: Cultural Observation newtag
Art as a cross-disciplinary integrator (Why do museums want to bring art and science together? — part 5)
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The third item on my list of ideal-typical reasons why museums want to bring art and science together is that art is a great cross-disciplinary integrator. The argument goes like this:
As culturally established factories for the production of meaning in the knowledge society, the humanities have a strong disciplinary function. In other words, our research practices tend to lie within the disciplinary boundaries of pre-established conceptual power-games (philosophy, sociology, political science, history etc.). Such games are keeping our universities orderly and are holding professors and students safely away from the sca...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 4, 2008 Authors: Thomas Tags: Museion concept draft papers etc art and biomed museum and knowledge politics museum studies
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary on why he loves the smell of recession in the morning (bbc.co.uk)
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Thursday 03 Jul 2008
Source: Quote of the Day news feed | Edited by Duncan Hull - July 4, 2008 Authors: Duncan Hull
An egomaniacal drug monkey on demystifying Science (scienceblogs.com)
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Wednesday 02 Jul 2008
Source: Quote of the Day news feed | Edited by Duncan Hull - July 4, 2008 Authors: Duncan Hull
Taste Sensation
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I wrote about the effect of salt on the boiling point of water recently and Sciencebase reader Derek Burney asked why cooks use salt when boiling vegetables, for instance, if the effect on boiling point and so cooking times is so minimal, as I explained.
Well, the small amount of salt (sodium chloride) added to food has very, very little effect on the boiling point and so really does not affect how quickly the food cooks. The fundamental reason we like to cook with salt is that salt has not only its own taste, but also interferes with the bitter-taste receptors on the tongue, essentially blocking them temporarily and so ma...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - July 4, 2008 Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science
Cancer Carnival #11
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Cancer Carnival: Your monthly carnival of news cancer care, treatment and latest research. Thanks to Ben for the logo design.First we start with a "blogging on peer review" post over at OMICS OMICS! In it, Dr. Robinson looks at a recent paper in nature which suggest a common target in multiple myeloma: IRF4. IRF4 is a transcription factor which regulates amongst other things the powerful oncogene MYC and has been known to be translocated in some myelomas. The author notes:"An interesting further bit of work targeted various identified IRF4 targets and showed these knockdowns to be letha...
Source: Bayblab - July 4, 2008 Authors: Anonymous Coward
PLoS ONE: Take Two
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Declan Butler's article about PLoS financials in this week's Nature has provoked a predictable – and many ways understandable – backlash from open access fans (see Bora's blog for links and summaries).
First, to deal with a few of the gripes raised in the various blog posts:
Nature isn't anti-open access. Its coverage of everything from ChemSpider to PubMed Central and Wikipedia ought to make that clear. Heck, it even broke the original story about Eric Dezenhall's involvement in the debacle subsequently known as PRISM.
Declan isn't anti-open access either. But like me, he's a realist. Here's what he wrot...
Source: Nascent - July 4, 2008 Authors: Timo Hannay
Secret Report Reveals Biofuels Causing Worldwide Food Crisis
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This article reveals that the increased reliance on biofuels by the US and the EU is driving a worldwide food crisis. The confidential World Bank report, researched and written by an unnamed but "internationally-respected economist," has not been published but was instead leaked to the Guardian. Among other things, this report claims that the large-scale diversion of corn into biofuels has driven global food prices up by an astonishing 75 percent. (Interestingly, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) estimates that "only" 30 percent of the increase in major grains prices is due to biofuels.) Read the res...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 3, 2008 Tags: Politics newtag
West 34th/Penn Station Subway Art 5
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tags: West 34th street Penn Station subway art, Circus of Garden Delights, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
This is the last artwork from this station that I will show you -- tomorrow I will feature a new (to you) subway station!
Circus of Garden Delights.
West 34th Street/Penn Station Subway tile mosaic art #5
as seen at NYC's West 34th Street stop at 8th for the A, C and E trains.
Artist: Eric Fischl, 2001.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
According to the artist, this subway station artwork "depicts a commuter being drawn into the bizarre and surprising world of the circus, meeti...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 3, 2008 Tags: NYC Subway Art newtag
Slip Sliding Away: Faster Extinctions Predicted by Mathematical Model
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tags: bpr3.org/?p=52, endangered species, estimating extinction risk, demographic heterogeneity, demographic stochasticity, environmental stochasticity, Mechanistic stochastic models, Brett Melbourne
The endangered pelagic thresher shark, Alopias pelagicus.
More than half of the world's shark species are under the threat of extinction
due to overfishing by humans, especially for sharkfin soup.
Image: Kevin Markey, 2004 (Pacific Shark Research Center).
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released a report in 2007 indicating that more than 16,000 animal species worldwide are threatened with e...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 3, 2008 Tags: Endangered Species newtag
Norway Maple Tree
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tags: Norway Maple Tree, Acer platanoides, tree bark, Image of the Day
Bark of the Norway maple tree, Acer platanoides.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
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Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 3, 2008 Tags: Image of the Day newtag
Update: Housing (Again)
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I have made several trips to my councilperson's office regarding my weird rent increase so far. The subway trips are getting costly! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 3, 2008 Tags: NYC life
Smells Like Teen Spirit
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tags: Just say Yes, humor, telemarketers, streaming video
Since I am a Seattle native, and since Seattle is the home of the grunge rock band, Nirvana, some of my readers are trying to use to get me in a London sort of spirit. In this case, a reader sent me this video of the Nirvana's hit song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as played by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain [4:53] Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 3, 2008 Tags: Streaming videos newtag
Collaborative writing
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My bioinformatics collaborator is in town till next Friday, so we can work together to finish up our uptake sequence manuscript. We have done (she has done) a lot of different analyses addressing various questions about how uptake sequence accumulation has affected protein evolution and vice versa, and I'm having a hard time keeping them all straight (partly because I haven't been thinking about this project for a while). The manuscript is mostly written already; but some parts of the Results are still up in the air because they were waiting for some final data. It also needs polishing and some revising to incorporat...
Source: RRResearch - July 3, 2008
Craig Venter’s A Life Decoded – a captivating read for adult boys (and for historians of the contemporary life sciences)
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Most autobiographies of scientists are terribly boring—soulless accumulations of facts of hardly any interest for others than the near family combined with humourless vindications of the author’s inflated ego—best used as temporary cures against insomnia.
When I bought Craig Venter’s A Life Decoded (Viking 2007) more than half a year ago I didn’t have high expectations. A rapid look at the plates—with the usual mix of photos of the subject as a young man hiking with friends and as a mature man meeting other famous men—confirmed my prejudice about the genre and I left the book in the perhap...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 3, 2008 Authors: Thomas Tags: recent biomed new books etc history of medicine book review
Lie down with pit bulls, wake up with a blogospheric flea in your ear.
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Conclusions are presented in an appropriate fashionand supported by the text. Techniques used have been documented in sufficient detail to allow replication.Reports are presented in an intelligible fashion and written in standard English.Research meets all applicable standards, including the Helsinki Declaration, with regard to the ethics of human and animal experimentation, consent, and research integrity.Report adheres to the relevant community standards for research, reporting, and deposition of data. (Standards PLoS promotes across its journals).Which is to say that PLoS one holds authors to exactly the same scientific...
Source: Open Reading Frame - July 3, 2008 Tags: open access/open science
Drug Monkey on demystifying Science (scienceblogs.com)
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Wednesday 02 Jul 2008
Source: Quote of the Day news feed | Edited by Duncan Hull - July 3, 2008 Authors: Duncan Hull
Leveraged Knowledge Management
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Several years ago, I was called on by a multinational producer of hygiene, food, and cleaning products to pay a visit to their research and information centre. My role was to play editorial consultant for content for their new Intranet.
You see, the company had lots of researchers in one building who were working hard on non-stick ice cream and insect-deterring shaving gel, while the information team were in a separate building trawling patents and fishing for pertinent technology news. Unfortunately, the two teams worked a different shift system and rarely met, and even when they did meet, they didn’t have much to s...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - July 3, 2008 Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science
Sleep
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This is such a massively broad topic but I ran across a review of the literature on why we sleep in PLoS Biology. Check out the above table of the leading reasons why we need to sleep and the pros and cons of that arguement. Previously I had thought that it known that sleep was necessary for learning and thus just plain necessary, but it turns out that it is just one of three leading theories. The most convincing to me according to the review is the theory that we require sleep to restore some key macromolecules. The article also contains many other interesting aspects of sleep research including some conjecture on why evo...
Source: Bayblab - July 3, 2008 Authors: rob
Foreign Accent Syndrome
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is a rare condition that can occur after brain injury. With this condition, a patient speaks the same language, but with a different regional accent (for example, a person from the American midwest may adopt a British accent). Recently at McMaster University, and published in the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences [press release] a Canadian case was reported. In this instance, a woman from Southern Ontario suffered a stroke and began speaking with a Newfoundland accent, which continues even two years after the original brain injury:"Rosemary's speech is perfectly clear, unlike most stroke victims who have damage to...
Source: Bayblab - July 3, 2008 Authors: kamel
Pubmedfight
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This is how respectable scientists resolve disputes and settle their dominance. Your argument carries so much more weight when you demolish your opponent at pubmedfight! If only it could take into account impact factors then we would be set.... [found on scienceroll]
Source: Bayblab - July 3, 2008 Authors: Anonymous Coward
Nature Versus Open Access
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tags: bpr3.org/?p=52, open access, publishing, life science research, Declan Butler
Wow, have you read Declan Butler's nasty little hatchet job that was just published in Nature about the Public Library of Science (PLoS)? My jaw hit the top of the table in my little coffee shop where I am ensconced -- why would Nature demean their journal by publishing such a snotty little screed where they attack the normal, but probably painful, financial ups-and-downs of a new journal?
Because Nature represents the old way of doing things, so Nature is afraid of those upstarts, PLoS, whom they (rightly) view as competitors, that's why...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 2, 2008 Tags: Science newtag
West 34th/Penn Station Subway Art 4
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tags: West 34th street Penn Station subway art, Circus of Garden Delights, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Circus of Garden Delights.
West 34th Street/Penn Station Subway tile mosaic art #4
as seen at NYC's West 34th Street stop at 8th for the A, C and E trains.
Artist: Eric Fischl, 2001.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
According to the artist, this subway station artwork "depicts a commuter being drawn into the bizarre and surprising world of the circus, meeting animals, clowns, acrobats and fire-breathers on his way to work." Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 2, 2008 Tags: NYC Subway Art newtag
Only Nature could turn the success of PLoS One into a model of failure
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Now, mind, you I like Nature as a publishing unit. They publish some very fine journals. Now, most of them are not Open Access, so I choose not to publish there if I can avoid it. But I still like them. And many of the editors and reporters there are excellent - smart, creative, insightful and such. But Nature the publisher can also be completely inane when it comes to writing about Open Access and PLoS. In a new article by Declan Butler, Nature takes another crack at the PLoS "publishing model"The problem with PLoS now is ... wait for this ... the success of PLoS One. PLoS One it turns out is publishing a lot of papers ...
Source: The Tree of Life - July 2, 2008 Tags: plos one Nature open access
Pin Oak Tree
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tags: Pin Oak Tree, Quercus palustris, tree bark, Image of the Day
Bark of the pin oak tree, Quercus palustris.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
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Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 2, 2008 Tags: Image of the Day newtag
The Plight of the Penguins Predicts the Coming Plight of Humans
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tags: bpr3.org/?p=52, global warming, climate variation, climate change, penguins, El Nino, marine zoning, P. Dee Boersma
Adélie penguins, Pygoscelis adeliae, and chicks.
(a) Adélie penguin chicks may get covered in snow during storms, but beneath the snow their down is warm and dry. (b) When rain falls, downy Adélie chicks can get wet and, when soaked, can become hypothermic and die.
Images: P. Dee Boersma.
According to an article that was just published in the journal BioScience, penguin populations are declining sharply due to the combined effects of overfishing and pollution from offshore oil operations ...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 2, 2008 Tags: Global Warming newtag
My first PLoS One paper .... yay.
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Well, I have truly entered the modern world. My first PLoS One paper has just come out. It is entitled "An Automated Phylogenetic Tree-Based Small Subunit rRNA Taxonomy and Alignment Pipeline (STAP)" and well, it describes automated software for analyzing rRNA sequences that are generated as part of microbial diversity studies. The main goal behind this was to keep up with the massive amounts of rRNA sequences we and others could generate in the lab and to develop a tool that would remove the need for "manual" work in analyzing rRNAs. The work was done primarily by Dongying Wu, a Project Scientist in my lab with assistance...
Source: The Tree of Life - July 2, 2008 Tags: metagenomics plos one rRNA
Just Say 'Yes'!
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tags: Just say Yes, humor, telemarketers, streaming video
Just a little fun for all those people who are tired of being tortured by telemarketers [1:20] Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - July 2, 2008 Tags: Streaming videos newtag
Art and the biomedical invisibles (Why do museums want to bring art and science together? — part 4)
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As I wrote in the last post, our co-operation with the Danish Museum of Art and Design in 2004 was the founding rationale for our pilgrimage into art, design and science. Then things went rapidly. In 2006 we engaged Canadian-British artist-curator Martha Fleming to help us organise a workshop on ‘Biomedicine and Aesthetics in a Museum Context’, followed by a public conference on ‘Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body’ hosted by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
We also began experimenting with different kinds of art exhibitions and installation, for example the street exhibition ‘The Face ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 2, 2008 Authors: Thomas Tags: Museion concept draft papers etc art and biomed museum and knowledge politics museum studies
Mathematicians Robert Adler, John Ewing and Peter Taylor on lies, damned lies and statistics (mathunion.org)
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Tuesday 01 Jul 2008
Source: Quote of the Day news feed | Edited by Duncan Hull - July 2, 2008 Authors: Duncan Hull
Health Benefits of Indium
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Yet another health supplement hits the streets, this time in the form of indium sulfate. Never heard of it? Apparently, it “is a rare trace mineral that supports several hormonal systems in the body. Indium may strongly elevate immune activity and reduce the severity and duration of a myriad of human conditions.” That’s according to the NaturalHealthConsult.com website, which goes on to claim that the element will “normalize the hypothalamus and pituitary gland in the brain.”
The site explains, that “As the conductor of various studies on indium, Dr. Schroeder (the scientist best known f...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - July 2, 2008 Authors: David Bradley Tags: Bio Health
Science Blogging 2008: London
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We at Nature Network are putting on a science blogging conference in London on 30 August 2008. More than 100 bloggers, scientists and science communicators will gather at the Royal Institution to discuss topics such as how science blogging can change (improve?) the public’s perception of science, how blogging can boost your creativity and be used as a teaching tool, how scientists can be more open with their primary research data, and what the future holds for online scientific communication.
Click here for the programme. A few sessions have been set aside to be ‘unconference’ sessions, meaning that the topic and th...
Source: Nascent - July 2, 2008 Authors: Corie Lok
Badass scientist of the week
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I couldn't pass on the opportunity for a new installment in this series, and to share this news of a biologist who jumped into the Golf of Mexico to save a 375 pound bear from drowning. I mean look at the picture, this may be the most badass scientist yet... "Mr Warwick kept one arm underneath the bear gripped the scruff of the bear's neck with the other to keep its head above water as he dragged the animal back to shore."
Source: Bayblab - July 2, 2008 Authors: Anonymous Coward
