Life Science

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• When climate science must give way to economics

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  No, not in the sense of "stopping global warming will be expensive, so let’s not do it." The costs of NOT stopping global warming are unimaginable, including perhaps the end of human life. I mean the title in the sense of when expertise in what’s happening in the climate must acknowledge that economists might be ...
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• Pharma Unplugged #2 Layoffs & Bonuses

  
  PharmExec Blog — Authority: 117
  Pharma Unplugged #2— Layoffs & Bonuses Recorded: 12/3/2009 Air Date: 12/7/2009 Host: George Koroneos, Pharm Exec Cohost: Reid Paul, Pharm Rep Magazine Show Notes: This week we discuss: Pfizer’s medical education relationship with the Canadian Medical Association Journalists take FDA to task for ...
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• Getting the UK government to release a report

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  It’s hopeless because the report didn’t say what they had decided in advance it should say. From the Transform Drug Policy Foundation website: The following article is the latest installment in Transform’s long running campaign to get the Government to release its publicly funded research into the ...
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• Update from the Library of Congress and Between Books: Nearing the End of Herculean Book Tour

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 605
    (Seeing Gore Vidal at the National Book Awards Nov. 18th seems like a century and world away as I progress through a book tour that has stretched on for four weeks.)    Now, quite honestly, it begins to feel like this is my life: that I travel doing performances for my books. Ive begun to get used to the ...
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• Dec. 3, 2009 San Jose BioCenter Financing

  
  DJCline.com — Authority: 129
  On December 3, 2009 Menlo Park at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP the San Jose BioCenter presented “Trends in Financing.” Investment experts explained the types of financing available in 2010. Stephen Venuto of Orrick moderated panelists Sarah Bodary of SV Life Sciences, Doug Fisher of InterWest Partners ...
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• Hammerhead Sharks Have Stereo Visionw

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 156
  The unique head structures of these creatures allow them to see 360 degrees.
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• Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Vaughn at Mind Hacks : One of the most regularly recited pieces of popular neuroscience is that women are more likely to use both hemispheres of the brain to process language while men tend only to use one. It turns out, this is a myth – it is simply not supported by the current evidence. In 2008, a meta-analysis ...
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• What would God do?

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science : For many religious people, the popular question " What would Jesus do ?" is essentially the same as "What would I do?" That’s the message from an intriguing and controversial new study by Nicholas Epley from the University of Chicago. Through a combination of surveys, ...
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• The year’s best scientific images

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Time to start the "year’s best" lists. Here’s the first: a list of terrific scientific images—like this one: After lying dormant for more than 9,000 years, the Chaitén volcano belched forth a 40,000-foot-tall ash plume in early May, touching off lightning and a monthlong eruption. See them all .
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• Protein Synthesis: 1971 Video

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 125
  The above webcast shows protein synthesis, from a 1971 Stanford University video with Paul Berg (Nobel Laureate – 1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and National Medal of Science in 1983). The film does not exactly present the traditional scientist stereotype . It does pretty much present the typical California ...
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• The Death Throes of A Colossal Star, That Could Spawn New Life in the Universe

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 554
  Jonathan Amos, BBC News The death throes of one of the biggest stars known to science have been spied by Europe’s Herschel space telescope. The observatory, launched in May, has subjected VY Canis Majoris, to a detailed spectroscopic analysis. It has allowed Herschel to identify the different types of ...
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• Breast Cancers Link to Abortion: The Daily Iowan Implies Catholic Doctors Cant Do Science

  
  RFFM.ORG — Authority: 460
  by Karen Malec, President, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer * On two occasions early in November, The Daily Iowan s opinion editor, Shawn Gude, invited a reader by the name of Rebecca Curtis to send him a 600-word rebuttal in response to a guest opinion written by University of Iowa law ...
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• Always Bet on Stupid

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  TimF at Balloon Juice : A week or two back NPR gave some guy about three minutes to complain about how the climate community silenced his breakthrough research on snow patterns in the Sierra Nevada mountains. You see, most warming models predict that snowfall will eventually go up in the Sierra Nevada. The guy (I ...
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• Xconomy is Growing; You Could Be Part of It

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  innovation , Journalism , Jobs Rebecca Zacks wrote: In the two and a half years that we’ve been live, Xconomy has been lucky to have some of the world’s best innovation journalists covering some of the nation’s most fascinating innovation hubs. But we’re well aware that there’s important tech and ...
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• New NASA Study Adds Further Evdience Life Existed On Mars

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 510
  Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Editor Houston, TX (AHN) - Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars.
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• Why Are There No Super Whales?

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 493
  The question is not why are whales big but why are whales not bigger?  The blue whales reached weights of 150 tons prewhaling.  To appreciate how massive a blue whale is, consider it would take 15 school buses, around 10 tons in weight to equal one of these marine mammals.  Why are there no 250 [...]
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• I, For One, Welcome Our New Space Butterfly Overlords

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 156
  A painted lady butterfly emerges (National Space Biomedical Research Institute) For the first time in history, two butterflies have survived the chrysalis stage of development and spread their wings as fully grown Painted Lady butterflies in microgravity. Although many species ...
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• 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results

  
  @altgate — Authority: 92
  This Thursday, December 3rd, the results of the 2009 executive compensation survey will be detailed and broken down in two 90-minute webinars (one each for Life Sciences and Technology).  Over 700 companies in the US participated this year (the highest participation by a long shot in the 10-year history of the ...
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• Ants Counting Their Step

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 125
  Ants That Count! Most ants get around by leaving smell trails on the forest floor that show other ants how to get home or to food. They squeeze the glands that cover their bodies; those glands release a scent, and the scents in combination create trails the other ants can follow. That works in the forest, but it ...
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• American Laboratory - Free Life Science Magazine

  
  Free Magazine Subscriptions — Authority: 131
  American Laboratory serves as the leading editorial tabloid for the life science research community with over 20 years of successful publications. American Laboratory is a practical resource for analytical chemistry laboratory solutions for chemists and life scientists with interest in the application of modern ...
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