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Goods-thinking versus Tree-thinking
In the famous Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch, John Cleese returns to a pet shop where he has just bought a parrot and asks for his money back. The reason being that the parrot is in fact dead. This seems to be a not unreasonable request on the p... Read more »
Cyberscience Without Scientists?
As high as the potential of web 2.0 for the communication among scientists might be, any kind of widespread use is nowhere to be seen. Academia mostly reacts hesitantly at best to the new technological opportunities. The discussions in our recent int... Read more »
Indian education needs proper policy
The undergraduate education in India is booming (Nature, vol 472, 24 – 26, 2011) and the government is increasing investment towards research and higher education. However, lack of quality education as well as proper policy remains a major concern.... Read more »
AI and medicine: What can Watson do for mental health?
This TED Talk is a postmortem on the defeat of two human Jeopardy! champions by Watson, an IBM natural language-processing computer. Of interest to me (beyond the fascination of potentially moving closer to Ray Kurzweil's singularity) is the discussi... Read more »
Four pillars of Science 2.0: How to enable web 2.0 for scientists...
Science, for the most part, is unaware of the existence of Web 2.0. Instead, a "legacy gap” exists. Modern research policies, laws, culture and impact measurement methods deter scientists from adopting Web 2.0. This in turn prevents scientists from... Read more »
Biotronics
Someone has truly said that 3 things are always changing, "Time, Temperature and Technology.” New technologies are the breathing a new life into this present Era. Very Small DNA is responsible for formation of giant Blue Whale. Every reaction, phys... Read more »
An introduction to the 'attractor' theory of gene regulatory networ...
Dr. HUANG Sui at the University of Calgary has spent the last few years exemplifying and improving the State Space & Attractor theory of gene regulatory networks (GRN), which was initially proposed by Prof. Stuart KAUFFMAN from 1960’s. Incorporat... Read more »
Is informational crowdsourcing an option in chemical search?
Informational crowdsourcing is growing in popularity to answer questions of all kinds. David Pogue gives a brief overview and discussion on crowdsourciing approaches in the TechnoFiles section of the latest Scientific American issue (Question Time, S... Read more »
"Natural" antibody and histo-blood group A in biological...
Decades ago a fortunate experimental condition was discovered in the anatomy of the C57BL/10J inbred mouse, where a purely endogenous origin of "natural" antibody production could be demonstrated (1,2,3). The first time a so called classical "natura... Read more »
Bridging Digital Divide in India to create equal opportunities.
Internet, which is considered to be the treasure house of knowledge orthe information superhighway, makes a huge difference as far as dissemination of information is concerned. But unfortunately in India the Internet penetration is too low. The India... Read more »
New Definition of Ecosystem
One of the most fundamental concepts of ecology is an ecosystem. The traditional definition was proposed in the 1930s. A new, modern definition is needed (PDF). The relatively recent definition that was proposed in the paper (S. A. Ostroumov, “New De... Read more »
What is Worldology
Worldology is a term I coined back in 1984 during my first year as a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. Back then there was really no pressing need to speak of globalization regardless of the fact that the proces... Read more »
p32 & p53, twins with different fates
Fogal et al (2010) found that the p32 gene (on human chromosome 17q13.3), which was overexpressed in some cancer cells, had actually promoted the level of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in mitochondria. The knockdown of p32 in an experiment then... Read more »
Dennis Quaid and Medical Errors
On the drive to work today I listened to an interview on CSPAN's Washington Journal with a doctor based in Texas and actor Dennis Quaid. Nearly a year ago, Quaid and his wife Kimberly were in the room when their newborn twins were given a dose of he... Read more »
Entropy decrease?
Robert M.Wald in The Arrow of Time and the Initial Conditions of the Universe (Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics University of Chicago, arXiv:gr-qc/050709 vl 21 Jul 2005) writes: “There is no question that our present universe display... Read more »
Facilitation and Attention
Recent research has shown that facilitation follows attention in the Cerebral Cortex. In order to understand why this might be, it is important to recognize the fact that the 40 hertz signal noted in a recent article on anesthesia, and Facilitation m... Read more »
Information Wants To Be Free
The open access "movement" has existed for decades, but with the coming of the digital age in the 90's it truly bloomed as the distribution cost of electronic media dropped to essentially nothing. Some groups completely embraced the paradigm-shifting... Read more »
Psychoneuroimmunology discussion group
I have just completed my personal profile for membership of the proposed psychoneuroimmunology discussion group within ResearchGATE. This interdisciplinary science which emerged from the field of psychosomatic research, was founded by such pioneers a... Read more »
A possible role for the anterior cingulate cortex in hypnosis
In my memory model, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is connected to many areas in the cerebral cortex, by a backbone network that seems to extend down both sides of the central fissure, as referenced in recent works on connectomics. It's role, se... Read more »
Biodiversity and stability of ecosystems
The role of biodiversity in benefiting stability of ecosystems is a matter of a hot dispute.The matter of stability of ecosystems is very important as it is a part of stability of the biosphere at the time of hazards of global change. Not much is... Read more »
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Awesome!Petroc Stein, Dec 13, 2011
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