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• Peak oil: already there?

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Kevin Drum this morning : The International Energy Administration is, supposedly, the gold standard for projections of future oil supply.  In 2004 they projected that the world would produce 121 million barrels per day of crude oil.  In 2005 they lowered that to 115 million bpd.  Last year they lowered it again ...
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• GO TELL YAR’ADUA, THINGS ARE HARD

  
  Josephekwu's Weblog — Authority: 98
  Friends with a fairly excited heart I write this letter to our dear president Alhaji  Musa Yar’ adua, it has become so pressing and embarrassing that things are not yet working in Nigeria despite all the money being spent in different sectors.How sad the way things turn out now as our dear Nigeria still sees [...]
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• BioVex Nails Down Another $30M To Finish Pivotal Study of Cancer-Killing Virus

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biotech , cancer , VC Luke Timmerman wrote: BioVex , the Woburn, MA-based company aspiring to create the first FDA-approved cancer-killing virus, has raised an additional $30 million in private financing to finish off a pivotal clinical trial needed to prove the virus is good enough to reach the U.S. ...
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• Science can, at times, feel like religion

  
  Entertaining Research — Authority: 118
  Zuska explains how : Wilson wasn’t saying science IS a religion in the sense that there’s no real underlying objective reality, everything’s all taken on faith, and we all get together and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster at Friday seminar. But Jesus Christ, I was a grad student once, and I’ll be damned ...
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• Is there a quick fix for the climate?

  
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  In the New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert takes Dubner and Levitt to task for their sloppy work. Her article begins: In the eighteen-sixties, the quickest, or at least the most popular, way to get around New York was in a horse-drawn streetcar. The horsecars, which operated on iron rails, offered a smoother ride than ...
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• Cambrios lands $14.5M for electronic display components

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Cambrios , maker of conductive films used in electronic displays and monitors, has brought in $14.5 million in a fourth round of venture capital. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company is backed by ARCH Venture Partners, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Alloy Ventures, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Avalon Ventures, ...
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• New Scientist magazine

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  I’ve just posted snippets and links to a variety of interesting reportage in New Scientist , and I barely scratched the surface of the issue. (You can see the entire table of contents here , with links to the various articles). And pretty much every (weekly) issue has this much good stuff. So I would recommend ...
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• Stopping myopia in its tracks

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Full disclosure: I suffered from myopia beginning before I started school, though I got my first glasses in second grade (thanks to a school eye screening). I later got LASIK, which much improved my vision, though glasses are still needed. But maybe the whole thing could have been nipped in the bud. Nora Schultz in ...
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• A new approach to meteorology

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  A truly fascinating look at some new ideas in meteorology (which we all know is not the same as climatology, right?). Robert Matthews writes in New Scientist : WE’VE all watched those vast heaps of cotton wool float across the sky. Lofted and shaped by updrafts of warm air, cumulus clouds mesmerise with their ...
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• Dreams as a learning tool

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Ewen Callaway writing in New Scientist : FREUD thought that dreams reveal unfulfilled sexual desires – but if slumbering video game players are anything to go by, their job is to help us learn new skills. "It really looks like if you’re not dreaming about it, you’re not getting better," says Robert ...
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• A monster volcano underneath Naples

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Axel Bojanowski writing in New Scientist : To ancient Romans the Phlegraean Fields hosted the entrance to Hades. In modern times it is better known as the site of a "supercolossal" volcanic eruption 39,000 years ago. Will we see the next disaster coming? That’s one of the questions an ambitious drilling project ...
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• UK: Jeremy Morris, Who Proved Exercise Is Heart-Healthy, Dies at 99½

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 438
  . NEW YORK, NY / The New York Times / Fitness & Nutrition / November 8, 2009 By Dennis Hevesi Jeremy N. Morris, a British epidemiologist whose comparison of heart-attack rates among double-decker bus drivers and conductors in London in the late 1940s and early ’50s laid the scientific groundwork for the ...
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• Military top brass: Fix climate change or else

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  From New Scientist : If the world fails to act soon on climate change, "preserving security and stability even at current levels will become increasingly difficult". That’s the blunt message of a statement released in Washington DC (PDF) last week by 10 high-ranking military officials from Africa, Asia, Europe, ...
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• Governments have a dangerous attitude toward drugs

  
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  David Nutt was chairman of the UK government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until he was dismissed last week by the UK home secretary. Nutt writes in New Scientist about why the government’s attitude toward drugs is dangerous: If there is one thing that politicians can and should do to limit the ...
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• Engineering: Cellphone Microscope

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 419
  UCLA Professor Aydogan Ozcan ’s invention (LUCAS) enables rapid counting and imaging of cells without using any lenses even within a working cell phone device. He placed cells directly on the imaging sensor of a cell phone. The imaging sensor captures a holographic image of the cells containing more information ...
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• Life Science Leader Magazine, November 2009

  
  Asiaing.com — Authority: 140
  Life Science Leader - The essential business tool for life science executives.
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• Climate change for evangelicals

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Interesting story in McClatchy by Renee Schoof: As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they’d heard on talk radio. So Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, the pastor of a nondenominational ...
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• November Man of the Month – Patrick F. Terry

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 126
  This month, Disruptive Women welcomes Patrick F. Terry, a self-proclaimed “JAD” (Just A Dad), as our Man of the Month. Q: So, where should we start? You have been involved with founding a number of ground breaking biotechnology companies, life science research foundations, trade associations, philanthropic ...
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• 648-megapixel image of our galaxy

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Take a look . It’s impressive.
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• Bird from the Future Drops Bread and Stops LHC

  
  cinnamon thoughts. — Authority: 113
  A bird apparently dropped a pice of baguette on a part of the Large Hadron Collider which shut down the whole operation. It had to be a bird from the future preventing the total apocalypse if you believe this article from the New York Times : [T]he hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with ...
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