Wired Science . Cameron Sinclair: Architect | PBS Check this out! Fascinating interview with TED prize winner. Using architecture, addresses the Kashmir Earthquake problem of no tents. Ironically, he says the majority of the plastic used for making tents is manufactured in Pakistan. One reason for the extreme shortage of available tents at that time …
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If you are a member of the American Chemical Society, please read this memo from an anonymous insider. Your society is fighting open access, and not for any reasons of principle, but rather to protect the extremely generous bonuses of top executives. Thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News – please see OA News …
Animal rights groups might be interested in this… A choice quote from MSNBC today: “In many ways, rats and mice get greater protection as research subjects in the United States than do humans,” said Arthur L. Caplan, chairman of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Animal research centers have to register …
It’s finally happening, One Laptop Per Child, and you can help! Watch today’s interview with Nicholas Negroponte on Good Morning, America. Professor Negroponte is the founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and …
Congratulations to AIDSfreeAFRICA and Dr Rolande Hodel, its founder, on the announcement of the successful approval of 501(犀利士 c)3 status. AIDSfreeAFRICA is now an official non-profit, public benefit organization. Donors are therefore assured that their donations can be deducted legally from their income taxes.
Earth at night: Compare Africa with the industrialized and industrializing nations. No lights except in a few spots. No electricity. See also Energy key to Africa’s prosperity. Then see the cover story in C&EN, August 27, 2007, Volume 85, Number 35, pp. 16-22, “Tapping The Sun: Basic chemistry drives development of new low-cost solar cells”. …
I just finished watching “An Inconvenient Truth.” Does anyone know where to find the sawtooth graph about CO2 emissions? The video of the earth from space was pretty amazing, too. ELMO
An intgeresting approach to quantifying drug use in our communities. ELMO
Its a start… ELMO
From the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (Chemists Without Borders is a member). HOUSE BACKS TAXPAYER-FUNDED RESEARCH ACCESSFinal Appropriations Bill Mandates Free Access to NIH Research Findings Washington, D.C. July 20, 2007 In what advocates hailed as a majoradvance for scientific communication, the U.S. House of Representativesyesterday approved a measure directing the National Institutes …
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