possible life on Mars?
This is exciting… if for nothing else, the chemistry of Mars is starting to be known! (click on the title for the link) ELMO
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Kenyan wetlands to be biofuels farm
Please click the title link to hear the whole story… ELMO
Green auto advertising in Britain
Choice quote: “But the ad agencies argue their work has a minimal role in persuading people to buy a new car, raising the question of why car companies take up so much space in magazines.” Either the advertisers are really bad at their jobs, or they haven’t watched the Superbowl… ELMO
U.S. National Institutes of Health Policy: please express support!
Chemists without Borders – and especially our colleagues in the U.S. – please consider writing a comment in support of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’ Public Access Policy! Comments are due tomorrow, Saturday, May 31, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The U.S. NIH Public Access policy requires that publicly-funded medical research in the U.S. …
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Technology Review: $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned
Technology Review: $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned One Laptop per Child (OLPC) version 2.0, smaller, cheaper. Imagine what we can do when everyone is connected. This is just the beginning of the Information Age. Consider this: the types of jobs that many of today’s elementary school children will end up seeking do not even exist yet.
Health Commons video
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
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 …
Tejon Ranch conserved
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
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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Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com
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 …