Science Commons’ John Wilbanks has produced a 6-minute video on the Health Commons which explains succinctly what is broken about the current approach to health discovery, and how a health commons could make a difference. The current approach emphasizes profit; this makes the weight problems of the wealthy a higher priority than river blindness, a …
Repositories without frontiers (news release from BioMedCentral) * Médecins Sans Frontières implements Open Repository service * Growing momentum of the open access movement highlights the benefits of BioMed Central’s platform Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) adopts ‘Open Repository’ – the service from BioMed Central, which allows institutes to build, launch, host, and maintain their own …
I live very close to the Grapevine in Southern California, and this is truly a huge deal. Click on the title to check out the story. ELMO
Rust Could Be the Key to Arsenic-Free Water: Scientific American: Another interesting technology is described here, published in 2006 (original Science article here). I don’t know what stage it’s at currently. The Scientific American report ends as follows: “Given the batch nature of this process, it is unlikely that homes in the developing world can …
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The Superbug That Cures Arsenic Poisoning Check this article out, for it bears on what we are doing. There’s exciting new stuff happening all the time. Also, the source web site MedIndia.net is packed with valuable information. There’s an RSS feed for research news.
Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com Chemists Without Borders promotes open source solutions. The above link, and other links therein, point to excellent resources for running Windows machines entirely with freeware programs. For those who wish to avoid Windows altogether, there are excellent Linux implementations …
This is a fascinating and informative inverview with Jan Egeland, former Undersecretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC). He talks about the many successes of the the various humanitarian efforts, as well as current critical issues and what to do about them. Egeland’s new book on these issues, A Billion Lives : …
This is a very interesting perspective from former President Carter.
25 Tools: A Free Toolset for Learning This is a site with useful links. Slideshare, for example, is a popular way to create presentations and make them available to specific users or to the general public. We may use this for our continuing education and personal development program. Bego
(Once again the NewsHour on PBS provides excellent analysis of current issues. You can read the transcript and listen to the audio. There are additional links to other relevant discussions.) Here’s an opportunity for us: Chemistry claims to be “The Central Science“. If so, we are central to the issue of food and energy. The …
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