Archive for October 5th, 2008

Plastics Make It Possible - Unfortunately.

The newest volume of Environmental Research has a special section focusing in the biological and ecological impacts of plastics… and the results aren’t pretty. read more.

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Microbiology Conferences

Conferences on various topics of microbiology are held regularly in various locations around the world. Over fifty different conferences are currently listed. read more.

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Comment 1 (Chemiotics: Auditing P-Chem)

Studying P-Chem is a worthy endeavor indeed and I am trying to do it myself. I did study P-Chem before, but one of the reasons I need it more now is the same as yours- to understand the protein folding problem.

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Earliest animal footprints ever found — discovered in Nevada

The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks — two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters in diameter — date back some 570 million years, to the Ediacaran period.

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Form of Crohn’s disease traced to disabled gut cells

Scientists report online this week in Nature that they have linked the health of specialized gut immune cells to a gene associated with Crohn’s disease, an often debilitating and increasingly prevalent inflammatory bowel disorder.

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Food for thought — regulating energy supply to the brain during fasting

If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it’s that a system where over-borrowing goes unchecked eventually ends in disaster. It turns out this rule applies as much to our bodies as it does to economics. Instead of cash, our body deals in energy borrowed from muscle and given to the brain.

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

This is difficult time to do satire….

….as Real Life is just as crazy. There is not that much difference between the Thursday’s debate and the SNL sketch, is there? Read the comments on this post…

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Sub Two Hour Marathon, EVER?

A very interesting read in the Guardian today regarding the possibility of humans ever running a sub two hour marathon. This speculation always crops up when the marathon record is broken, most recently by the venerable Haile

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

DonorsChoose 2008 Challenge - update

My DonorsChoose board includes challenges like this one, for example: Media Literacy in Science:. I am a high school science teacher in North Carolina who wishes to move his students into the 21st century with the skills necessary to

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Wren

tags: Wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, Wildlife of Scotland, Image of the Day. Wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, near Bridge of Orchy, Scotland. Known in Europe as “the” wren, and in North America as the Winter Wren.

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008