Many people living in Bangladesh's impoverished villages haven't yet been reached by technology. But a determined band of InfoLadies—young women equipped with netbooks, phones, and medical equipment—are delivering technology's benefits to those people, one village at a time. More »
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I’ve got some public face time coming up:
Tuesday, May 25, 5:30 pm: In San Diego, I’ll be talking at the American Society for Microbiology. I was asked to speak at the President’s Forum, “Tell the Story of Science.” My own talk is, “Newspapers, Blogs, And Other Vectors: Infecting Minds With Science In the Age of New Media.”
Random House will be kindly providing copies of Microcosm for sale at the meeting. I will spend some time signing them all when I get to the conference Monday. The books will be available at the American Society for Microbiology Press Booth. (I’ll update this post when I know exactly where the booth is located.)
I’ll also plan on hanging out at the booth at some point on Wednesday, hoping that I can meet face to face with some of the Loom’s microbiologist readers. (Again, I’ll update this post about exactly when I’ll be there once I get to the meeting.)
Thursday, June 3, 7 pm: The World Science Festival returns to New York for its third year, and I’m delighted to enter my third year of moderating panels for them. I’ll be part of “Modern MacGyvers,” a gathering of innovative thinkers who are designing solar panels for camels, cook stoves that could save millions of lives, and other important inventions.
I may be asked to moderate other panels; if so, I’ll update this post accordingly. I will definitely be going to some other sessions as an audience member: the line-up looks great.
Thursday June 3, 8 pm and 10 pm: The Science Channel is airing, “Creating Synthetic Life,” a show about Craig Venter’s new hand-made cell. The producers asked me to talk about the research Craig Venter and his team have been carrying out for the past fifteen years on the path to creating artificial life. At the time they interviewed me (a few weeks ago), I knew there was some big news coming down the pike, but wasn’t able to talk about the particulars. So I expect that I’ll turn up on the show speaking in hazy generalities set in the future tense. Feel free to set your TV on mute when I show up. But based on the previews, I think the rest of the show is worth checking out.
What will be the effect of keeping lower sealing steam pressure than design on HP turbine. Regards BSJhala
What a pleasant surprise. While Google initially suggested it'd be a few weeks before the Nexus One was graced with Android 2.2, TechCrunch's MG Siegler went to plug in his handset last night and, lo and behold, he found an unexpected Froyo treat waiting for him. Not all Nexus One users are seeing the bump yet, but it does seem that Google's starting to roll out the Android 2.2 update on its own phone first. Figures. More »
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Researchers trying to determine the age of deceased individuals are finding success with a new method: looking in people's mouths. Nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s, it turns out, turned everyone's teeth into radioactive clocks. More »
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I am looking into buying a motor home for camping and some long trips for vacations.
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I have an idea of size of the motor home i want , which is a 26 foot to 40 foot and i have found both models but not sure which is the
Going to work for a friend or hiring a friend to work for you means working with someone that you can trust. Or can you? Have you ever found yourself in such a situation? Did you hire or were you hired because you had the proper skills to do the job, or was your friendship the primary reason? How di
The April explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oilrig has led some to question the safety of offshore oil wells, especially the ability of blow-out preventers to cap a wellhead when a catastrophic event occurs. Questions that are being asked, and will continue to be asked over the next several months
Researchers at MIT and the University of Washington discovered that they can stick electrodes in trees and operate electrical devices, such as a low-powered sensor. The power isn't much—only 200 mV per tree. Some skeptics think it's no more than the old potato trick, where electrodes react wit
Benchmarking is a great way to compare yourself to competitors, other industries, and objective measures. But it can also be a tough exercise to carry out — you need to define your goals for the exercise and determine the best metrics for making your evaluation. We recently came across a datab
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My seventh hosted Point of Inquiry episode is now up--it's with Michael Specter of The New Yorker, and yes, it is about denialism. You can stream it here, and download/subscribe here. Here's the write up:
This week, we learned that J. Craig Venter has at long last created a synthetic organism—a simple life form constructed, for the first time, by man. Let the controversy begin—and if New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter is correct, the denial of science will be riding hard alongside it.
In his recent book Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives, Specter charts how our resistance to vaccination and genetically modified foods, and our wild embrace of questionable health remedies, are the latest hallmarks of an all-too-trendy form of fuzzy thinking—one that exists just as much on the political left as on the right.
And it’s not just on current science-based issues that denialism occurs. The phenomenon also threatens our ability to handle emerging science policy problems—over the development of personalized medicine, for instance, or of synthetic biology. How can we make good decisions when again and again, much of the public resists inconvenient facts, statistical thinking, and the sensible balancing of ...
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Dear All, I need to know how to read Electrical catalogs, also, if any one have one (soft copy ) of course he can thankfully send it to me. Thanks.
Is pressure compensation is required for mass flow measurement of secondary air in boiler?
The primary element is McOn Air (Promecon) sensor. McOn Air measures velocity of air in the duct. Thermocouples are available in the section for temperature compensation.
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I reqire a pump to pump sea water up 65mt pumping 15 m3 per hr over a distance of 900mt up a winding path
Pump to be submerged 10 m in the sea and will need to be able to withdraw pump whils leaving pipe conected to quick coupling
We have 15 kw electrical power available
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We're excited about our upcoming reception, an event bringing together The Foundation for Economic Education, The Pacific Research Institute and The Seasteading Institute.
Skin is the largest organ of the human body. It’s important to take care of it properly especially if you’re sitting in the sun for long periods of time. I just got back from a glorious week in Tulum, Mexico where it feels like the sun warms you from the inside. It was a perfect opportunity to test out some new suncare products, specifically mineral sunscreen and after-sun lotion.
Nature’s Gate offers the Mineral Sportblock with SPF20. What this means is that instead of using manmade chemicals, Nature’s Gate has replaced these synthetic ingredients with Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide, which according to their website, scatters – not absorbs – sun rays. A retailer warned me that this product doesn’t go on as smoothly as some of the other sunscreens on the market. It also leaves a slight white residue (zinc) so you need to take a little more time applying this particular product.
Nature's Gate Mineral Sunblock SPF20. Courtesy of Nature's Gate.
The first day I used it, the weather was swelteringly hot and I felt like heat was being trapped by this sunscreen. However, it didn’t wash off as easily as other products and I didn’t burn. In fact, I found that I was getting tan but at a nice and slow rate. The following day, however, I tried a Neutrogena sunscreen that washed right off in the ocean. I ended up with terrible sunburn.
Final thoughts: It works and it allows a nice tan to start forming. However, if you’re going to use this product, use it consistently. It doesn’t apply easily onto sunburned skin, as the lotion is very thick.
To soothe my burned skin, I turned to Alba Botanica’s Kona Coffee After-Sun Lotion. Words cannot describe how heavenly this product is. The coffee oils are hydrating while the caffeine helps to release the heat in the skin and soothe the burn. It is deliciously aromatic – for coffee lovers, imagine smelling like a café latte – but the fragrance isn’t overwhelming. The texture of the lotion is creamy and luxurious rather than watery, which is my main complaint about Burt’s Bee’s after-sun product. It also felt like it lasted a long time, whereas with some other products you have to reapply often.
Alba Botanica Kona Coffee After-Sun Lotion. Courtesy of Alba Botanica.
Final thoughts: I’m a huge fan of this product. I was addicted to it during the entire week I was in Tulum, and even now as I’m nursing my burned skin back to health. I only wish that it came in a larger bottle!
Artificial islands are being proposed as a means to help halt the effects of the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. As news surfaced that the giant cap meant to contain the spill failed, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced his own plan to save the coastline from mass amounts of incoming oil. Jindal is proposing “strengthening” a line of delicate barrier islands 10 miles off the coast of Louisiana by dumping dredged materials in the gaps of water that stretch between the small pieces of land. He hopes his plan would stop oil from reaching the marshlands on the coast of Louisiana.
