Month: August 2008

If it’s not one thing, it’s another: Latest News – Arsenolipids In Fish Oil

Another interesting piece, “Potentially hazardous arsenic-containing compounds are characterized”, by Carrie Arnold, in Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News – Arsenolipids In Fish Oil, August 11, 2008, Volume 86, Number 32, p. 10. It seems the fish we’ve been encouraged to eat may contain arsenic. We usually just worry about drinking water, whether here in …

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Chemical & Engineering News: Government & Policy – Francis Collins Leaves NIH

Chemical & Engineering News: Government & Policy – Francis Collins Leaves NIH: “August 4, 2008, Volume 86, Number 31, pp. 33-35 Francis Collins Leaves NIHAfter 15 years at the helm, Genomics Institute Director steps downby Susan R. Morrissey”This was an interesting article about Francis Collins that brought a bunch of questions to mind, questions to …

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CutePDF – Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily.

For those whose software does not print directly to PDF, I recommend CutePDF, a simple program which will appear as a printer on your PC. When you want to create a PDF file from a document, instead of printing to your regular printer, just select CutePDF from the list of printers and continue. CutePDF will …

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How to Log on and Clock In – Solutions by PC Magazine

How to Log on and Clock In – Solutions by PC Magazine Here’s a nice summary of how various online software tools could be used by any member of the team who has internet access, regardless of location. These include a universally accessible desktop, instant messaging, mind-mapping, office suite with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation, …

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Perspective from John MacIntyre for the San Jose Mercury News

I didn’t find a link for this. The column is called Figuratively Speaking, August 3, 2008. How novel it is, I don’t know, but it bears repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and ……. A picture of a starving African baby in its mother’s arms tops the column; the caption is, “What’s …

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