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Antibody Profiling: The New Identification Technique?
The Writer’s Forensics Blog has a post on some very interesting news. Every person is exposed to an unbelievable array of microbes during their lifetime. All bacteria, virusses and lesser known intruders trigger our defensive system: our immune system. Our …
Cell Phones Cause Cancer. Or, wait…
All Rights Reserved by xkcd. Do I need to say more? (And yes, you need to go to the original comic to read the hoover-over.) (Go!) — Victoria is a scientist by day–reluctant writer by night, Clarion Write-a-Thon survivor, …
Has Horseshoe Crab Blood Saved Your Life?
Probably. I didn’t know this but apparently horseshoe crabs have a fungi and endotoxin coagulant in their blood. Which is tapped (without killing the crabs) and used to test pharmaceutical drugs for dangerous components. The things we owe other animals! …
Google Earth Redux–Now With Oceans
Google Earth has always been magnificent. But now it’s even more stunning. Brandon Keim for Wired has a great overview post on how to use Google Earth to explore the Deep Seas. Now with ocean boobies ocean bed volcano remnants; …
Search for own method
Google is a company to set itself goals. A million books for instance – scanned for its users to peruse at leisure. It started years ago, the quest of Google to bring obscure and forgotten books to the masses by …
Collection of a career
Former Treasury Department economist and author Bruce Bartlett writes an engaging article about how Google and Amazon are slowly making his rat packing obsolete. But then… what to do with a library amassed over the span of a career ?
