Month: June 2005

Here is one which is which open access intersects with planning and funding of the kinds of projects I’m guessing Chemists Withoout Borders would be interested in. Groups like the United Nations and its subgroups are looking for collaboration in projects for developing countries, I understand. The idea is that the most successful projects will …

Open access: a way to find local experts to collaborate on CWB projects? Read More »

Bego just sent me this link from C&E News(subscription only): Take a look, and let us know if you have any ideas for CWB funding sources. ELMO postscript: I will work on getting permission to publish this article or get an open link in the near future. ELMO

It is great to hear that there actually is a Chemists Without Borders group! Best of luck to all of you. Elmo has already mentioned my query to the SPARC Open Access Forum about Chemists Without Borders. For anyone not familiar with the topic, I highly recommend Peter Suber’s A Very Brief Introduction to Open …

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I just saw this. Pretty disturbing, if true. ELMO

This is an interesting tidbit: NEW YORK (AP) — A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem younger to men — about six years younger. However, a grapefruit fragrance on men does nothing for them. The study by the Smell and Taste Institute (search) in Chicago was conducted …

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A recent email from Lynn Geldof, Regional Advisor of UNICEF: From Lynn Geldof, lgeldof@unicef.org, UNICEF, 5/18/05: Right, well to be honest, the NGO (non-governmental organization) world is a different beast and all I know is you have to be a registered charity. What that involves, I cannot say at all. I am sure Chemists without …

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I just did a Google search for “Chemists Without Borders,” and, although we are not in the results yet (I just submitted both the CWB home page and weblog sites to Google), I found this at the top: https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1945.html I hope many more of us ask this question (and the Google crawler picks us up …

Googling: Others wondering about Chemists Without Borders Read More »

Here’s an article in the Guardian about Senate proposals for energy policy and climate change. Here’s my question: Do you think “a market-driven, technology-based approach to dealing with climate change without imposing mandatory emission-reduction requirements on industry” will really work? ELMO

Please see our homepage for info on Chemists Without Borders: http://www.chemistswithoutborders.org ELMO