Ever been to Hetch Hetchy? “Earlier this month, the American Waterworks Association Research Foundation tested 20 of the nation’s water systems for compounds typically used in medicines, household cleaners and cosmetics and found San Francisco’s water almost alone in being free of contaminants. And blind taste tests have also shown that the city’s water tastes …
This is just a sad story all around. I feel for the Deputy and the cyclists: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/15/BAFJVKPDS.DTL&tsp=1 We need to share the road, meaning: give as much room to cyclists as you can without compromising your safety with oncoming traffic. If it looks like you can’t pass safely, then please WAIT! until it is clear …
Perhaps the real problem with producing ethanol from grains- it makes food too expensive for poor people: Sheeran (UN) noted that in some countries food was available, but cost too much for the poor to buy it, or, as she put it “markets full of food with scores of people simply unable to afford it. …
Line of the day: When the OMB’s Susan E. Dudley urged the EPA to consider the effects of cutting ozone further on “economic values and on personal comfort and well-being,” the EPA’s Marcus Peacock responded in a March 7 memo: “EPA is not aware of any information that ozone has beneficial effects on economic values …
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced that they will contribute to Wikipedia! CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is pleased to announce that it will contribute to the Wikipedia project. CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers® for current substances listed …
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As water gets more and more scarce in CA, the price of salmon is going to go up. (click on the headline for the article). ELMO
The February 18, 2008, issue of C&EN reports that Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty members now back the open-access movement in scholarly publishing. See also Harvard Library Director Robert Danton’s editorial in the Harvard Crimson.
Returning to the US is always like diving in from outer space. It does not seem real.This years trip to Cameroon was a difficult one. On arrival two children in our school died on Malaria, two easily preventable death. Four year old Benwih (picture) survived because her mother knew how to turn adult malaria pills …
The 791 universities from 46 countries of the European University Association have unanimously endorsed some very strong OA recommendations, which Peter Suber has summarized as follows: * Here’s a digest of the most important of the recommendations. European universities should… 1. launch OAI-compliant institutional repositories (A2) 2. adopt OA mandates for their research output (A3) …
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Some major events in open access this week: The final text of the NIH policy has been posted:http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html and a very interesting FAQ The European Research Council has announced an exemplary Open Access Policy – open access to funded research within 6 months, no loopholes, and an indication that the 6-month maximum will be shortened! …