Open Chemistry Web
Possible of interest: the Open Chemistry Web – a project to create a free, open and integrated chemistry search engine. Thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News.
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Wired Science Interview. Cameron Sinclair: Architect | PBS
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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American Chemical Society fighting open access
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 …
FDA at work?
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 …
Global Warming
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
Drug testing town’s wastewater?
An intgeresting approach to quantifying drug use in our communities. ELMO
House passes energy legislation
Its a start… ELMO
U.S.: House Backs Taxpayer-Funded Research Access
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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Free ASP Shopping Cart :: Comersus
See Free ASP Shopping Cart :: Comersus An interesting chain of links brought me here. From the perspective of generating revenue and of broadening awareness, perhaps there are – or will be – things we sell on our website. T-shirts, books, information – revenues to support the cause. How can we expand on this? Bego