You've hit the nail on the head - this is a lot of hoopla over nothing.
As far as the NIH funded research is concerned, anyone can look up a topic on PubMed read the text of an abstract, obtain an author's e-mail and receive a reprint or pdf of any publication. Most researchers are eager to send along copies of their published work...
Most Airbusses have some sort of power outlet at each seat, although you need a special adapter to use them. Unfortunately, Boeing's don't have them, so I try to book long flights on an Airbus rather than a 747 or 767...
I think that it's less surprising that she's female and more surprising that she has a biology background. This must reflect a trend for MIT to emphasize biotech in the future...
He procrastinates by web surfing. This makes him upset, since his work does not get done. He must stop surfing. So he uses the procrastinator's method to deal with this, that is, is to further procrastinate by spending time developing a script to prevent access to the web. This way, he feels like he has accomplished something, yet still has not done any work.
A lot of heavy hitters (Time/Warner, Yahoo) and "stars" (Arnold Schwartzenegger, Tiger Woods, Henry Kissinger, etc.) already have a piece of the action and stand to make a lot of cash in the IPO.
Between the Dutch auction for the IPO and all of the other snafus repated to the stock, this does not build confidence for Google in the short term. I can't imagine anyone buying shares in the IPO.
On the other hand, maybe in 6-8 months when the shares are trading at around $40-50 it might be worth a look...
Aside from the government connection - I fail to see how the Induce act is anything similar. The US Government actually runs Amtrak as a quasi-independent business (much the way the US Postal Service is run). The Induce act is meant to put a set of regulations in place, not run record companies.
What I find interesting is that the current administration is perfectly happy to regulate the behavior of regular citizens, while allowing unregulated and irresponsible corporate behavior...
This sounds more like a boondoggle to me. They're going to be studying cultured cells for 30 sec of microgravity - I'd be surprised if they saw any change in nuclear position. They'd be better off using a centrifuge to mimic microgravity. They did some centrifuge tests, but the results (or lack of same) aren't posted on the webpage...
The thing that they are trying to test is a theory called tensegrity - the idea that changes in cell shape might be transmitted to the nucleus to alter gene expression. A couple of good reviews of this are here and here here. How changes in cells relate to whole organism physiology (like bone loss in microgravity) is a whole other can of worms, though.
I could pick apart their science, but they were very successful in doing one thing - getting a ride on the Vomit Comet. I hope they get the movies that they are after...
Scott: "Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now, and they want it their way. But the secret is to give only what they need, not what they want!"
LaForge: "Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour."
Scott: "How long would it really take?"
LaForge: "An hour!"
Scott: "Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did you?"
LaForge: "Well of course I did."
Scott: "Oh, laddie, you've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!"
There's a Sony themed entertainment complex / retail outlet: Metreon that's been in San Francisco for at least 5 years and seems to be doing pretty well...
Some reviews of Spider-man 2 have mentioned that Sam Raimi is not all that comfortable with CGI... which means that he tends to focus more on the human element rather than the blockbuster aspects of a movie. Given the depth of Peter Parker as a character, this seems like a reasonable trade off that helps make this better than the "typical" comic hero movie...
Local satellite cells residing outside the muscle fibers answer this call. First these muscle-specific stem cells proliferate by normal cell division, then some of their progeny fuse with the muscle fiber, contributing their nuclei to the cell. Both progrowth and antigrowth factors are involved in regulating this process. Satellite cells respond to insulinlike growth factor I, or IGF-I, by undergoing a greater number of cell divisions, whereas a different growth-regulating factor, myostatin, inhibits their proliferation.
Another article by Sweeney on the ethics of using gene threapy in athletes is in Discover. The main point here is that since you can drive overexpression of human IGF-1 injected directly into muscle (as opposed to the circulation), this is an essentially undetectable method for "doping" athletes.
As I recall, the Win95 version of Notepad used non standard control codes and I got tired of either not being able to use ctrl-s to save files or ctrl-c/ctrl-v for cut and paste (I don't remember which and I guess this has been fixed with W2K or XP). At any rate, I switched to Metapad which still had tight code and a couple of nice features that made it easier for me to use it to edit html and text files - and I've stuck with it.
Hey, if you like Notepad, more power to you... you won't be alone!
Using text files is actually not all that bad of an option. A nice alternative to the truly awful Notepad is Metapad which is free and can seemlessly replace Notepad. Among other things it has active hyperlinks, auto indenting and can do a lot of simple reformatting (like caps to lowercase, etc.).
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I find it equally interesting that Time Magazine is Karma Whoring...
Other than actual article content, I think that a better system than the overall journal impact factor is to look at the number of times an individual paper is cited by other research groups after a few years. Citing your own work is one way that impact factors are inflated and a handful of highly cited papers or reviews can skew the journal impact factor.
Maybe I was a little strong in my "bullshit" comment. However, more often than not, when reading one of the "magazine" journals, I'm left wondering wondering why a given article made it to the top tier or how it got by reviewers without a critical control.
And of course the actual topic of whether nanobacteria exist is far from settled, that's for sure.
For one, it is telling that this "breakthrough" has appeared in a low-impact journal.
You really pressed one of my buttons here. Did you actually read the article and judge for youself or did you just assume that it was lousy based on the ISI impact factor? By the way the impact factor for the the journal in question, American Journal of Physiology, is in the "mid-range" (~3-4), but not horrible (there are journals with impact factors less than 1). In fact, the whole idea of impact factors is pretty controversial and has been abused as a criterion for promotions, grant awards, etc.
There's plenty of bullshit published in the "so-called" top tier journals (Science, Nature, Cell, etc.) and plenty of excellent science published in what you are calling a low-impact journal.
Also, the group working on nanobacteria had to revise their work seven times - this is an unheard of level of skepticism and suggests that there is an unusual level of politics going on here.
Easy to over generalize using a single number. I'd love to know what the standard deviation on the calculation of average numbers of TV watched/year is. I'd be willing to bet that it might even be a bimodal distribution with two major populations at ~8 h/day and ~1-2 h/day.
Also, how do weekends get factored in? Is the TV on in the background while you're doing something else? What about special events? During football season, I'm glued all day on Sunday/Monday night, but otherwise, my TV watching is on the order of 1-2 h/day.
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As far as the NIH funded research is concerned, anyone can look up a topic on PubMed read the text of an abstract, obtain an author's e-mail and receive a reprint or pdf of any publication. Most researchers are eager to send along copies of their published work ...
Most Airbusses have some sort of power outlet at each seat, although you need a special adapter to use them. Unfortunately, Boeing's don't have them, so I try to book long flights on an Airbus rather than a 747 or 767 ...
I think that it's less surprising that she's female and more surprising that she has a biology background. This must reflect a trend for MIT to emphasize biotech in the future ...
Here's a guy who is gradually turning himself into a tiger. For real ...
Not that I would ever do that ...
And now this. On Slashdot. Mentioned by name in a submission. And to top it off - it's a near DUPE!!!
Sorry ... I had to vent ...
A lot of heavy hitters (Time/Warner, Yahoo) and "stars" (Arnold Schwartzenegger, Tiger Woods, Henry Kissinger, etc.) already have a piece of the action and stand to make a lot of cash in the IPO.
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Between the Dutch auction for the IPO and all of the other snafus repated to the stock, this does not build confidence for Google in the short term. I can't imagine anyone buying shares in the IPO.
On the other hand, maybe in 6-8 months when the shares are trading at around $40-50 it might be worth a look
I think that famous Pi woman and Senior VP of Northface Univ. Eve Andersson does ...
What I find interesting is that the current administration is perfectly happy to regulate the behavior of regular citizens, while allowing unregulated and irresponsible corporate behavior ...
The thing that they are trying to test is a theory called tensegrity - the idea that changes in cell shape might be transmitted to the nucleus to alter gene expression. A couple of good reviews of this are here and here here. How changes in cells relate to whole organism physiology (like bone loss in microgravity) is a whole other can of worms, though.
I could pick apart their science, but they were very successful in doing one thing - getting a ride on the Vomit Comet. I hope they get the movies that they are after ...
LaForge: "Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour."
Scott: "How long would it really take?"
LaForge: "An hour!"
Scott: "Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did you?"
LaForge: "Well of course I did."
Scott: "Oh, laddie, you've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!"
-- "Relics", Stardate 46125.3
There's a Sony themed entertainment complex / retail outlet: Metreon that's been in San Francisco for at least 5 years and seems to be doing pretty well ...
Some reviews of Spider-man 2 have mentioned that Sam Raimi is not all that comfortable with CGI ... which means that he tends to focus more on the human element rather than the blockbuster aspects of a movie. Given the depth of Peter Parker as a character, this seems like a reasonable trade off that helps make this better than the "typical" comic hero movie ...
Local satellite cells residing outside the muscle fibers answer this call. First these muscle-specific stem cells proliferate by normal cell division, then some of their progeny fuse with the muscle fiber, contributing their nuclei to the cell. Both progrowth and antigrowth factors are involved in regulating this process. Satellite cells respond to insulinlike growth factor I, or IGF-I, by undergoing a greater number of cell divisions, whereas a different growth-regulating factor, myostatin, inhibits their proliferation.
Another article by Sweeney on the ethics of using gene threapy in athletes is in Discover. The main point here is that since you can drive overexpression of human IGF-1 injected directly into muscle (as opposed to the circulation), this is an essentially undetectable method for "doping" athletes.
So I guess this might ultimately allow the transfer of data literally through a handshake ...
Hey, if you like Notepad, more power to you ... you won't be alone!
Using text files is actually not all that bad of an option. A nice alternative to the truly awful Notepad is Metapad which is free and can seemlessly replace Notepad. Among other things it has active hyperlinks, auto indenting and can do a lot of simple reformatting (like caps to lowercase, etc.).
I find it equally interesting that Time Magazine is Karma Whoring ...
"Quark" - 1 bar of gold pressed latinum
Maybe I was a little strong in my "bullshit" comment. However, more often than not, when reading one of the "magazine" journals, I'm left wondering wondering why a given article made it to the top tier or how it got by reviewers without a critical control.
And of course the actual topic of whether nanobacteria exist is far from settled, that's for sure.
You really pressed one of my buttons here. Did you actually read the article and judge for youself or did you just assume that it was lousy based on the ISI impact factor? By the way the impact factor for the the journal in question, American Journal of Physiology, is in the "mid-range" (~3-4), but not horrible (there are journals with impact factors less than 1). In fact, the whole idea of impact factors is pretty controversial and has been abused as a criterion for promotions, grant awards, etc.
There's plenty of bullshit published in the "so-called" top tier journals (Science, Nature, Cell, etc.) and plenty of excellent science published in what you are calling a low-impact journal.
Also, the group working on nanobacteria had to revise their work seven times - this is an unheard of level of skepticism and suggests that there is an unusual level of politics going on here.
Is this Slashdot product placement?
If it wasn't for cartoons no one around here would have heard of him ...
Easy to over generalize using a single number. I'd love to know what the standard deviation on the calculation of average numbers of TV watched/year is. I'd be willing to bet that it might even be a bimodal distribution with two major populations at ~8 h/day and ~1-2 h/day.
Also, how do weekends get factored in? Is the TV on in the background while you're doing something else? What about special events? During football season, I'm glued all day on Sunday/Monday night, but otherwise, my TV watching is on the order of 1-2 h/day.
So who is protecting 5 year olds from parents who drop the F-bomb at home? Maybe we need to regulate speech there as well.
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On the other hand, if I don't want the kids to listen to something on the radio, I turn it off or change the channel