Tuesday, October 28, 2003
The Scientist reports some very exciting findings: In the October 27 PNAS, Huawei Li and colleagues from Harvard Medical School show that cochlear hair cells can be generated by stepwise differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells (PNAS, DOI:10.1073/pnas.2334503100, October 27, 2003). ... some earlier references to Ear Nose Throat J. 1998 Apr;77(4):276, 280, 282-5 Mammalian auditory hair cell regeneration/repair and protection: a review and future directions. by Feghali JG, Lefebvre PP, Staecker H, Kopke R, Frenz DA, Malgrange B, Liu W, Moonen G, Ruben RJ, Van de Water TR. of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA. (ABSTRACT: regeneration/repair and protection of auditory hair cells and auditory neurons is an exciting, rapidly evolving field. Simultaneous developments in the fields of otobiology and surgical otology have led to new and exciting possibilities in inner ear medicine and surgery; specifically, the treatment or prevention of a variety of types of hearing losses in the foreseeable future. .... It has been generally accepted that hearing loss resulting from hair cell damage is irreversible because the human ear has been considered to be incapable of regenerating or repairing these sensory elements following severe injury. An organ of Corti explant study has shown that it is possible to initiate the regeneration/repair of mammalian hair cells. In this study, ototoxin-damaged organ of Corti explants from juvenile rats were treated with a combination of retinoic acid (10-8M) and fetal calf serum (10%). TGF-alpha has been identified as a growth factor capable of evoking auditory hair cell regeneration/repair in ototoxin-damaged organ of Corti explants. ... Administration of growth factors to the inner ears of animals is now possible with the use of implanted catheters and miniature infusion pumps. These advances suggest that localized application of drugs to the human inner ear may be feasible.")
For some reason the PNAS reference doen't work (maybe its published in another journal like Nature or maybe its coming out later), but looking at Harvard's site; one finds the following statements "Stefan Heller and postdoctoral fellow Huawei Li were surprised at how easily pluripotent cells can be isolated from the mouse inner ear. These stem cells not only yield hair-like hair cells that may prove useful in restoring deafness, but when transplanted into chick embryos, can give rise to cells in all three germ layers." .... there's more .... "Regeneration of similar hair cells has been observed, however, in another part of the mammalian inner ear, a section of the vestibular organ called the utricle. This, plus the finding some 15 years ago that the avian equivalent of the organ of Corti can recover from total hair cell loss, suggests that promoting hair cell proliferation in the human inner ear may prove a viable treatment for hearing loss.". THIS IS TRULY AWESOME
In the meantime Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has an October 27 2003 Press Release on the matter that states: Generation of inner ear cells from stem cells may lead to new approaches to hearing loss and deafness: (Boston, Mass.) - ... A research team led by Stefan Heller, Ph.D., a principal investigator at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's Eaton-Peabody Laboratory and assistant professor, Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, recently discovered a new population of stem cells that reside in the inner ear of adult mice. Heller's lab has taken this work one step further in a study outlined in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences early edition that will publish online the week of Oct. 27-Oct. 31. .... Heller's laboratory has found a way to coax mouse embryonic stem cells to develop into inner ear precursor cells that ultimately have the ability to differentiate into the inner ear's sensory cells, hair cells. ... "Pilot cell transplantation experiments revealed that these embryonic stem cell-derived progenitors can integrate into developing vestibular and cochlear hair cell layers and that the transplanted cells express genes specific for hair cells," Heller said. "Using embryonic stem cells as the source for inner ear cell types has the advantage that we can generate large numbers of these cells. Larger numbers of material for research will expedite the development of cell transplantation techniques."..... "I think that these findings now open the door for novel approaches in the search for methods to replace lost hair cells, which is a major cause of deafness." ... We'll keep track and follow up.
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X 17.2 flare incoming ... ETA midday Wednesday. SOHO Reports Active region 10486, already under close scrutiny by several instruments on SOHO and other satellites, as well as numerous ground observatories, played up a spectacular show in the morning on Tuesday 28 October 2003. An X 17.2 flare, the second largest flare observed by SOHO, was setting off a strong high energy proton event and a fast-moving Coronal Mass Ejection (update to 688 and 694). Current conditions ... SOLAR WIND At 02:43 UT Speed: 590 km/s Density: 3.59 p/cm3 [Find out more about solar flares]
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Puka Puka - Pukapuka ... never heard of it ... but some say it exists ... 10.53 degrees due South by 165.49 degrees due West ... according to the Book of Puka Puka "... one of the most secluded atolls of the Cook Islands ... not be confused with another island of the same name in the Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia"
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Monday, October 27, 2003
What if the Hindu concept of Reincarnation is really true? What would you do differently? Would you celebrate Diwali (the Festival of Lights?) [look at Hindu Reincarnation for more specific details; also the Upanishads; Hinduism, The Bhagavad Gita, Raja-Yoga, Hatha Yoga]
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Saturday, October 25, 2003
EDGY NESS (not Elliott Ness) is trendy, according to DAVID BROOKS' Living in the Age of Edge. Brooks uses the Almighty Google to analyze edgyness ... interesting find is GTEXTS' rant on Edgy Novels, makes it to the top 10. Brooks picks Helmut Newton (star photographer for Vogue Magazine) as the edge of edgyness.
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from CNN, ROME, Italy -- Actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Jesus in Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of Christ" was was struck by lightning during shooting. (for the second time ) ... don't know what to make of this, but there well may be something deeper here ...
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Alternate Universe Update Holds for this Universe Too!
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Alternate Universe Update ... Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be
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(the big picture is here)
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Michael Froomkin's website links to Habermas@discourse.net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace, and other interesting papers.
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The 20th James Bond adventure, Die Another Day is just awesome ... if you're a bondy ... 007007007007 ... repeat ...
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DC Comics Pocket Superheros -Justice League Of America Box Set brings back memories ...
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FINDING NEMO and THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK/THE TEMPLE OF DOOM/THE LAST CRUSADE) - are the latest hot DVDs. If you're thinking happiness think Nemo Jones ...
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Friday, October 24, 2003
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids link ... note definitions: "Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid's potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. Specifically, all asteroids with an Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID) of 0.05 AU or less and an absolute magnitude (H) of 22.0 or less are considered PHAs. In other words, asteroids that can't get any closer to the Earth (i.e. MOID) than 0.05 AU (roughly 7,480,000 km or 4,650,000 mi) or are smaller than about 150 m (500 ft) in diameter (i.e. H = 22.0 with assumed albedo of 13%) are not considered PHAs. " The J2000 heliocentric ecliptic orbital elements for 540 PHAs is located here. Units to remember: Astronomical distance Unit: 1.0 AU is about 1.5x10^8 km (roughly the average distance between the Earth and the Sun); Lunar Distance: 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU.
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CNN Reports .... Cloud of solar gas strikes our planet . According to SpaceWeather.com "A coronal mass ejection (CME) swept past Earth at approximately 1500 UT (8:00 a.m. PDT) on Oct. 24th and triggered a strong (Kp=7) geomagnetic storm. The CME struck during daylight hours in Europe and North America, so few people saw any Northern Lights." NASA's information is here. Current conditions: Solar Wind speed: 529.9 km/s, density: 21.6 protons/cm3. Also look at the latest sunspot picture.
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Thursday, October 23, 2003
Roger Clemens is not Snemelc Regor it depends if you're going erehwemos. Meanwhile Buckaroo Bonzai is cheering the Sox in an alternate universe.
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The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy are approaching each other with a speed of 300,000 miles per hour ... still ...
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The Current SCI-BYTES HOT BIOLOGY PAPER is "Systematic identification of protein complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by mass spectrometry," by Yuen Ho and 45 others, Nature, 415(6868): 180-3, 10 January 2002. The abstract states: ... With the advent of ultrasensitive mass spectrometric protein identification methods, it is feasible to identify directly protein complexes on a proteome-wide scale. Here we report, using the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a test case, an example of this approach, which we term high-throughput mass spectrometric protein complex identification (HMS-PCI). Beginning with 10% of predicted yeast proteins as baits, we detected 3,617 associated proteins covering 25% of the yeast proteome. Numerous protein complexes were identified, including many new interactions in various signalling pathways and in the DNA damage response. Comparison of the HMS-PCI data set with interactions reported in the literature revealed an average threefold higher success rate in detection of known complexes compared with large-scale two-hybrid studies. ... . If you're a protein-complex hunter ... this may be of some consequence. Happy Hunting.
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Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 7 is becoming a serious competitor to Microsoft's Product according to its product description, it ../is/has/does :
Runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris OS, MS Windows, and Linux
Simple, easy-to-use interface; contains full-featured applications
Interoperable with many third-party formats like PDF and XML
Easy export to PDF and Flash; increased MS Office compatibility; improved help and documentation
It'll be interesting to see how it compares to Microsoft's Office 2003.
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Sunday, October 19, 2003
Scaffolding is underappreciated. We only see the Cathedrals when the scaffolding is removed.
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André Paul Guillaume Gide did in fact receive the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature for "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight" (Sir Edward Victor Appleton received the Physics Nobel that year ... they are not related.) Nor is Surrealist art ... however, those who understand would chuckle at the coincidence.
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Surrealist Art is all that's needed ... Andre, Guillaume?
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Some people think Fossil Wrist PDA with Palm OS will be huge this year ... Calling Dick Tracy ...
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Red Sox vs. Chicago Cubs ... Alternative World Series Game One Results ... as expected in parallel universes ... Schrödinger's cat jumped into the catcher's mitt at the critical moment; the game is tied, the score is fluctuating and wont be decided until some one takes a close look at the cat. This period is being used for deep exploration of foundational principles of science.
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§23.0.0.3.0.1.3 Angular Momentum of the Universe (0, ~0) - why?
There are all kind of arguments out there on the web suggesting that conservation of angular momentum and so on dictate a zero total angular momemtum. If we look at our planet, and the other planets around us, and the solar system, and the galaxy, and the local cluster, and so on and so on ... it looks like there's a whole bunch of rotating going on here ... while simple appeals to conservation laws are nice, it seems like its time to open this one up again; this question is moving up the list.
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Hot Paper in Medicine - Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women and the answer is ... Overall health risks exceeded benefits from use of combined estrogen plus progestin for an average 5.2-year follow-up among healthy postmenopausal US women. All-cause mortality was not affected during the trial. The risk-benefit profile found in this trial is not consistent with the requirements for a viable intervention for primary prevention of chronic diseases, and the results indicate that this regimen should not be initiated or continued for primary prevention of CHD [from the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial," by the Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative Investigators (J.E. Rossouw, et al.), JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association, 288(3): 321-33, 17 July 2002.]
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§23.0.0.3.0.1 Questions
§23.0.0.3.0.1.1 Collisions of Galaxies
§23.0.0.3.0.1.2 Sensing of Galactic Motions
§23.0.0.3.0.1.3 Angular Momentum of the Universe (0, ~0) - why?
§23.0.0.3.0.1.4 Coupling of Wave Functions
§23.0.0.3.0.1.5 'Easy' Observables
§23.0.0.3.0.1.6 'Hidden Variables'
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Looking for tangible immediate happiness? Nothing Simpler than Simplicity ... so did you get one?
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Saturday, October 18, 2003
The National Law Journal's article Pandora's high-tech boxes hit the courts alerts us to the issues associated with data recorders and tracking devices. Of particular interest is the emerging confluence of possibility and reality of pervasive surveillance; NLJ states Consider the uproar last summer in England, when the government acknowledged it is considering plans to mandate electronic identification chips in every car. Roadside sensors would read the vehicles' data, which could include basic information about cars and their owners-plus matters of interest to law enforcement, like unpaid fines and delinquent inspections. It seems like these RFIDs will grow like Aphids ... and what will happen to Privacy? [The Unwanted Gaze?]
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Icons of the Creative (Science Fiction) Universe ... seems like a long list, but perhaps not long enough [more]
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In an alternate parallel universe, the Chicago Cubs are playing the Boston Red Sox in game one of the World Series ... prehaps in those imaginative universes of Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw ... why don't they do that anyway? the Cubs and Sox should just go ahead any play the Dream Series just for fun ... and we could all hold our collective breaths in suspended virtual reality ....
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I've never heard of Hans-Georg Gadamer until today. It would appear he's considered a giant in philosophy ... I'll have to look into these missing giants. Another case of PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS GONE WILD .... [more]
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Philosophical immortality discussions return ... Legal Theory Blog, crooked timber, Leiter Reports (via A Good Oman).
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
Curse of the Bambino survives ...
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Following up on Untied States. GTEXTS' FUN WITH WESTLAW opens up an entirely new facet of cultural research ... For further amusement, I looked at what Google turns up for "Untied States"; well it turns out it estimates 35,300 entries. Some are rather intentional like the Untied States Err Force (which reminds us to use the Zeigarnik Effect to our advantage). One of the interesting entries is for 1962 McDonald v. Untied States ... The court later addressed the issue of expert testimony as related to insanity defenses. In the 1962 McDonald v. Untied States, the court discussed the distinctions between legal and medical definitions of insanity. For the purposes of criminal responsibility, they defined a mental disease as "any abnormal condition of the mind which substantially affects mental or emotional processes and substantially impairs behavior controls." ... One wonders if the untied states were those rather untied states of mind ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003
In case you missed it, "On August 28, 2003, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Louise Glück as the Library's 12th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library's annual literary series on Tuesday, Oct. 21 with a reading of her work. Glück succeeds Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Howard Nemerov, Mark Strand, Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins. ... Glück is the author of nine books of poetry, including "The Seven Ages" (Ecco Press, 2001); "Vita Nova" (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker magazine's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); "The Wild Iris" (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; "Ararat" (1990), which received the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and "The Triumph of Achilles" (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. Louise Glück has also published a collection of essays, "Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry" (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. This fall, Sarabande Books will publish in chapbook form a new, six-part poem, "October." (from the library of Congress).
CONGRATULATIONS LOUISE! [more]
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An interesting Scientist story reports .... Archaeons are a group of organisms phylogenetically distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. They inhabit a range of extreme conditions such as hydrothermal vents or anoxic environments that are thought to reflect the conditions that existed on the primordial earth. The recently discovered Nanoarchaeum equitans represents a novel archaeon kingdom and grows in conjunction with the crenarchaeon Ignicoccus Michael Quinion also discusses them as "a third type of organism, separate from the eucaryotes and bacteria. The archaea are believed to be living fossils surviving from a time when the Earth had little oxygen in its atmosphere." -- FASCINATING!
Michael has many interesting turns of phrase ... like this one Geocaching (a conflation of geo, “earth”, plus cache) is a recently invented high-tech equivalent. Someone hides a box with treasure in it, treasure being defined very loosely to include items like maps, books, software, videos, pictures, money, tickets, antiques, tools, and the like. The hider publicises the Global Positioning System (GPS) co-ordinates for it (on a Web site, where else?), inviting others to find it. --- I suppose once we're past the post industrial-post modern-post terrorist age we'll be able to settle into some pleasant passtimes such as Geocach hunting. Thanks for widening the horizons Mike.
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New paper "Inhibitory Effect of the Salmosin Gene Transferred by Cationic Liposomes on the Progression of B16BL6 Tumors" ... Cancer Res. 2003 63(19): p. 6458-6462 reports ".... an alternative strategy for antiangiogenic cancer therapy, based on the in vivo expression of the salmosin gene administered with cationic liposomes, was investigated. The salmosin peptides expressed in vitro inhibited the proliferation of bovine capillary endothelial cells in a dose-dependent manner, presumably as a result of inhibition of cell adhesion mediated via vß3 integrin. Subcutaneous administration of the salmosin gene resulted in systemic expression of the gene product and concomitant inhibition of the growth of B16BL6 melanoma cells. .... These results suggest that administration of the salmosin gene complexed to cationic liposomes is effective in maintaining antiangiogenic salmosin at an effective therapeutic level and may be clinically applicable to anticancer gene therapy."
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Medscape's Laurie Barclay Interview With Stephen J. Ferrando, MD "suggests that many medical inpatients would benefit from psychiatric services, according to the results of a preliminary validation study published in the September-October issue of Psychosomatics. .... screening tool includes items assessing cognition and behavior, depressive symptoms, anxiety, drug and alcohol history, and the patient's desire to see a psychiatrist. Among patients in whom the screen suggested possible psychopathology, 89% had documented psychiatric comorbidity according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ... ". No doubt some would have guessed this was the case ... but documented studies are always valuable. [more]
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Tuesday, October 14, 2003
They did it! CNN REPORTS China's first astronaut Yang Liwei is in orbit following a successful launch Wednesday morning from the Jiuquan launch site in the western Gobi Desert, state media reports. [more about manned spaceflight]. What's going on with our program?
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The Art of Public Prayer: Not for Clergy Only - by Lawrence A. Hoffman may be something we all might want to pay increasing attention tp.
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Interesting Metadata Map (via Stephen's Web). The Canadian Metadata Forum - Summary notes are here. [There's lots written on Metadata.]
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hindustantimes.com reports that Internet services provider, Sify Limited, on Tuesday launched 120 access points for "Wi-Fi" high-speed wireless Internet in Bangalore in a first for the country. .... The "hotspots" cover restaurants, hotels, local administrative offices and coffee shops, Sify Limited president and chief operating officer George Zacharias told reporters. ... "Sify choose Bangalore for the launch of Wi-Fi given its laptop population, familiarity with working online as well as international visitors needing such services in the Silicon Valley of India" . Are there any trends here?
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Fist Count of the Untied States ... I always wondered about that. It appears the answer is closer than we think.
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Monday, October 13, 2003
Calling Bill Gates: according to the Scientist ... MET, a tyrosine kinase, is helping Malaria invade .... [more]
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Yasunari Kawabata revisited ... still a great talent ... [more]
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BuzzMachine reports IE Problems ... well it happened to me too ... finally, I realized a pop-up installed a vicious code on my machine. I immediately stopped using IE and started using OPERA. I then went and got a spyware scanner [spysweeper] and found that my computer was indeed infected. I cleaned it up; no more problems with IE and loading delays. If your browser appears to be hanging up, you've probably got spyware deeply buried in multiple locations on your machine.
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La Casa De Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca. A recurring joy!
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I have to admit, I have no clue what "The Unified Process Transition and Production Phases" is all about.
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The Chemexper Chemical Directory -Chemical Structure Search Engine is awesome. You just click and build the chemical structure of your heart's desire, and boom, you can search for compunds or structures with the substructure you created. And they say there's no progress .... too bad there are nuts running around blowing themselves up and murdering others. Perhaps they need some serious medicines for their mental imbalances?
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Did you know that "microscopic quantum fluctuations can induce a macroscopic phase transition in the ground state of a many-body system when the relative strength of two competing energy terms is varied across a critical value"? Well tha's the case according to the recent Sci-byte/In-Cite Hot Paper in Physics "Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms," by Markus Greiner, Olaf Mandel, Tilman Esslinger, Theodor W. Hansch, and Immanuel Bloch, Nature, 415(6867): 39-44. Furthermore "In the superfluid phase, each atom is spread out over the entire lattice, with long-range phase coherence". Well of course we'd want them spread out ... how else would we expect a supefluid atom to act ... get on a rollercoaster ride? Topics to explore: Phase transition, Superfluid, Quantum Physics, Absolute zero, Quantum fluctuations,Bose-Einstein
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Its not all Electronics - JET 708750B/JWBS-18 18" Woodworking Bandsaw with Bearing Guides is something else altogether, and the DELTA 22-580 13" TWO-SPEED FINISHING PLANER would give a sense of accomplishment of a different type. Something you could show without having to explain.
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Sunday, October 12, 2003
The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article on Space Junk. According to the article "Ever since Sputnik, humans have lobbed more than 20,000 metric tons of hardware into orbit" ... also reports on an ineresting solution "Others suggest more high-tech approaches, such as using ground-based lasers to zap orbital debris .... The idea .... relies on high-powered lasers to vaporize small bits of material from the surface of a hunk of space junk. The vapor emitted acts like a tiny rocket motor, propelling the junk either into a less threatening orbit or on a path toward a fiery reentry". Imagine, you might have to get a Ph.D. in astrodynamics to become a junk man. [Check these for more on SATELLITE ORBITS and FUNDAMENTALS OF ASTRODYNAMICS].
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Minolta Dimage 7Hi 5.2MP Digital Camera w/ 7x Optical Zoom looks interesting too.
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If you had money to burn, you might of course explore FUJIFILM FINEPIX S2 PRO 6.17MP DIGITAL SLR CAMERA. I wonder how many Pulitzers and other similar prizes have been given to digital photographrs.
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14 Rolls of Kodak Advantix Versatility 400 Color Print Film can get you a lot of neat pictures .... does anyone do that anymore when you can get pretty impressive digital cameras, with awesome 512 MB CompactFlash Cards? In the old days I would pay a grand for a 2MB memory card. Its just incredible.
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Modern Curanderismo ... " curanderismo is a broad-based fusion of Aztec, Spanish and African traditional medicines with hundreds of useful applications" ... another first, thanks to the web ... how else would one come across these interesting situations.
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Saturday, October 11, 2003
The Creative class is getting attention ... . over here. In fact, its been getting attention for a long time, but its nice to see that someone is pulling it all together periodically.
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"No se puede juzgar a un pájaro por su plumaje." - "You can't tell much about a bird by looking at its feathers". An intersting tail tale ... in Cuckoo/Cuc£: A Mexican Folktale/Un cuento folkl¢rico mexicano. The story ... cuckoo bird with a golden voice .... but what is Cucu to do when 'the fields are burning? Rescue the seeds, of course, so there will be food next year. ' Cucu not only saves the seeds, but also loses her voice in all the smoke and soot. When it finally returns, her lovely singing voice has become a raspy bark, able only to "cuckoo," not to sing.' ... One wonders if any of the current crop of pols ever read this story.
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Friday, October 10, 2003
Shades of an alternate reality ... at some point yesterday, these activated neural pathways in some people. What remains in the neural circuitry remains to be seen. [more]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Mexican Gray Wolves ... Need help. [more]
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RFID TOPICS MAKING THEIR APPEARANCE
Wave antenna
dipole antenna
rfid
wireless communication
Remote communication
slot antenna
Micropower
strain detection
Polythiophenes
traffic control
Radio frequency
Digitally watermak
Phase shift [more]
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Mexican Kitchen Recipes - the links are here .. they are not lost. [more]
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NY Times reports Americans Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for studies of tiny transportation tunnels in cell walls, work that illuminates diseases of the heart, kidneys and nervous system ... Because of Agre's work, researchers can follow in detail a water molecule on its way through the cell wall and understand why only water, not other small molecules or ions, can pass, the academy said. ... . In 1998, MacKinnon determined the first detailed structure of an ion channel, a technically challenging achievement Congratulations Pete and Rod!
Find out more about Ion Channels [more]
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Econometricians Robert F. Engle, who was born in Syracuse, NY and Clive W. J. Granger, a native of Wales, won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Economics. According to the NY Times Professors Engle and Granger developed ways to analyze the relationship between two variables that had both a long-run trend and an element of randomness. Their work has also improved the understanding of volatility, particularly in the stock market, and enabled economists to make more accurate forecasts. Congratulations!
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Someone asked about Mexican Animals like Desert Dogs, Coyotes, Foxes & Wolves in the Sonoran Desert, Poisonous Lizards, Gila Monsters and Mexican Beaded Lizards. So here's something to start with ... [more]
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Spiders, Robots, Crawlers eating up your bandwidth? psychedelix.com has a pretty thorough list of where these critters come from.
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Biological basis for creativity linked to mental illness. That's what the UofT press release says. According to the press release Psychologists from U of T and Harvard University have identified one of the biological bases of creativity
The study in the September issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says the brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment. Other people's brains might shut out this same information through a process called "latent inhibition" - defined as an animal's unconscious capacity to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are irrelevant to its needs. Through psychological testing, the researchers showed that creative individuals are much more likely to have low levels of latent inhibition.
"This means that creative individuals remain in contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment," says co-author and U of T psychology professor Jordan Peterson. "The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities." Thanks guys! Now we know for sure its a fine line between genius and madness ... and if you have just one drink your inhibitions might just drag you down into great genius ... or ... great madness.
Posted by E Moritz @ 07:44 PM CST [Link]
Long and Longer: Now that the TOTAL RECALL issue has been resolved, who would ever make use of such a long list?
Posted by E Moritz @ 06:33 PM CST [Link]
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
U.S. News Ultimate College Directory 2004 by Brian Kelly and The Fiske Guide to Colleges are the ultimate longform college resource directories. Information on Scholarships included as well. Find out [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 11:07 PM CST [Link]
Emil I. Mondoa and Mindy Kitei have published Sugars That Heal: The New Healing Science of Glyconutrients. According to this book and its reviewers "Dr. Emil Mondoa ... found that the addition of essential sugars to your diet can affect everything from the immune system to cholesterol levels. But this doesn't mean you should start heaping table sugar on every meal! Rather, Mondoa proposes that through the use of a few simple supplements, you may be able to fight off colds, lower your blood pressure, or simply have more energy. .... Mondoa is cautious when mixing research with anecdote and praise. While some people benefit tremendously from supplements, he points out that "many supplements aren't well absorbed or assimilated and are of doubtful efficacy." He later goes on to recommend consultations with your health care provider before beginning any of his specific regimens. The sources for these sugar-based supplements vary from shellfish to mushrooms, onions, and bovine tracheal cartilage, and he cautions against using the supplements without checking the ingredients, as those with allergies can experience serious reactions. Mondoa does include a few simple recipes for mushroom tea and vegetable sauce, but most of the glyconutrients are added to your diet through pills, powders, or tinctures; .... Specific chapters on the immune system, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, and cancers detail the exact combinations of sugars most likely to heal." ... I don't know ... this might be too good to be true. Does anyone in the blogosphere have any experience with this?
Additional references:The Essentials of Glycobiology [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 08:59 PM CST [Link]
I ran across United States Patent 6,613,891 Polynucleotides that encode bovine inhibin today. I've never heard of Inhibin until now. Apparently the deep connection between Polynucleotides and inhibin has been around for a while. Inhibin, Activin and Follistatin come up in Human Reproductive Physiology discussions. 6,613,891 explains Inhibin as follows It was suggested in 1932 that the gonads produce a non-steroidal factor called inhibin which is involved in feedback regulation of pituitary function (McCullagh, D. R. (1932) Science 76, 19-20). Since that time, it has been shown that the anterior pituitary produces at least two gonadotrophins, follicle stimulating hormone or follitropin (FSH) and luteinising hormone or lutropin (LH) which together regulate the development and functioning of the gonads. Sensitive radioimmunoassays have permitted accurate independent monitoring of each hormone and have shown feedback regulation of these hormones by the gonads. The feedback regulation of LH appears to be predominantly via steroids whereas that of FSH is via the protein or glycoprotein factor, inhibin, in addition to steroids. ... Inhibin can now be defined as a protein or glycoprotein hormone secreted from the granulosa cells in the ovary or Sertoli cells in the testis. It is secreted in response to FSH and acts on the pituitary as a feedback inhibitor of FSH synthesis and secretion but which leaves the basal synthesis and secretion of LH largely intact. What 6,613,891 is about is construction of cloning vectors that contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences which code for part or all of the hormone inhibin, and of host cells such as bacterial strains containing such vectors, and of host cells such as bacterial strains which produce part, all or precursors of inhibin. In addition it relates to the production and uses of expression products of said vectors and strains and to the production and uses of fragments of the expression products and vectors, be they natural or synthetic in origin.
This is indeed very interesting, perhaps more than scary. Does this mean that someone might develop some infectious bacterial strains that can render folks sterile? Scary!
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Posted by E Moritz @ 08:24 PM CST [Link]
Some predict that GARMIN IQUE 3600 PDA/GPS HANDHELD SYSTEM WITH AMERICAS DETAILED STREET MAPPING will be the big hit this season.
Posted by E Moritz @ 08:11 PM CST [Link]
NYTimes Reports the 2003 Physics Nobel Prize Winners -- A Russian and two foreign-born American citizens, one from Russia and one from England, were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics today for their insights on how electricity can flow through some metals without resistance and some fluids can flow without friction.
The winners are Dr. Alexei A. Abrikosov, 75, of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois; Dr. Vitaly L. Ginzburg, 87, of the P.M. Lebedev Physical Institute Institute in Moscow; and Dr. Anthony J. Leggett, 65, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Congratulations Nobelists
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Posted by E Moritz @ 07:37 PM CST [Link]
folks really resonated to these items in the zone.
Posted by E Moritz @ 07:19 PM CST [Link]
Monday, October 6, 2003
§23.0.0.2.9 Funding Sources:
§23.0.0.2.9.0.1 -MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
§23.0.0.2.9.0.2 -Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Posted by E Moritz @ 03:11 PM CST [Link]
§23 Outline: How we got here. What's here? What's Next.
§23.0.0.1 - Definitions
§23.0.0.2 - Preliminary Notes; mostly to capture socs.
§23.0.0.2.1 - Aggregation of particles
§23.0.0.2.11 - Vacuum --> Vacuum Fluctuations --> Energy packets -->Particles
§23.0.0.2.11.1 - Quantum Theory References
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§23 Masternots. Will it work?
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Sunday, October 5, 2003
Embryonic stem cells can form germ cells in vitro. Something to watch closely ... according to this PNAS Abstract, Knock-in embryonic stem (ES) cells, in which GFP or lacZ was expressed from the endogenous mouse vasa homolog (Mvh), which is specifically expressed in differentiating germ cells, were used to visualize germ cell production during in vitro differentiation. .... The ES-derived MVH-positive cells could participate in spermatogenesis when transplanted into reconstituted testicular tubules, demonstrating that ES cells can produce functional germ cells in vitro. In vitro germ cell differentiation provides a paradigm for studying the molecular basis of germ line establishment, as well as for developing new approaches to reproductive engineering. [Toyooka et al]. This is very very interesting ...
Posted by E Moritz @ 08:22 PM CST [Link]
Google Zeitgeist: lists the following for August 2003's most Unusual Queries: duodenum, nova scotia furnished rental, learning to dribble in soccer, prednisolone, wheel casters and the following for Popular Fictional Characters -- Harry Potter, Pokemon, Barbie, Hello Kitty, and Winnie the Pooh ... I could probably guess the popular characters, but I would be completely stumped on the unusual queries ... go figure ... then go fish. Thanks GZ!
Posted by E Moritz @ 08:10 PM CST [Link]
Just in case you missed it, in-cites reports that Systematic design of pore size and functionality in isoreticular MOFs and their application in methane storage by Eddaoudi et al (Science, 295(5554): 469-72, 18 January 2002) is the current Hot Paper in Chemistry. [from the abstract: "A strategy based on reticulating metal ions and organic carboxylate links into extended networks has been advanced to a point that allowed the design of porous structures in which pore size and functionality could be varied systematically. Metal-organic framework (MOF-5), a prototype of a new class of porous materials and one that is constructed from octahedral Zn-O-C clusters and benzene links, was used to demonstrate that its three-dimensional porous system can be functionalized with the organic groups -Br, -NH2, -OC3H7, -OC5H11,-C2H4, and -C4H4 and that its pore size can be expanded with the long molecular struts biphenyl, tetrahydropyrene, pyrene, and terphenyl. ].
In case you're wondering what's all the fuss about ... someday, Methane and the Methane Production may be rather important. Personally, I'd like to see what comes of Methane Hydrates.
Posted by E Moritz @ 07:53 PM CST [Link]
Roland Barthes is different. Of MYTHOLOGIES, a reviewer writes: "I'm French, and I read it in French. This book is an absolute must for any who wants to understand our Society. Although it's been written 45 years ago, it's more than ever actual, just like if that guy, as a clairvoyant, had been able to decode our present society ... " Then again ... another reviewer claims " Ths book was written by an ardent Maoist in the heady days in which all of Parisian intellectual circles were Maoist". Well, its striking that as the Chinese experiment is running its course, more than half the products I see in the store say "made in China". So was it all about the Chinese economy providing cheap labor for American Capitalism? What are the stats for the other Western economies? Does it have anything to do with the literary style? Is this a capitalist inversion? Will foreign manufacturing subsizide health care in America? [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 07:37 PM CST [Link]
Literary Magic and Imagination is often hard to find. But ... the magic mountain helps ... the products get recorded; who knows how they get archived and where they surface again ... its a measure of entropy against its complement. Camilo Jose Cela, The Dialogic Imagination ... they all fit. [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 07:19 PM CST [Link]
Paradox of Plenty: It would appear that there's Plenty. Plenty of Cars. Plenty of food/calories. Plenty of telemarketers. Plenty of choices, like 100 different cereal brands with minor variations of sweet coatings. Plenty of TV channels, Plenty of music channels. So much of Plenty that it seems like every block is getting a new storage shed complex to park our personal excess plenties. But with these near term Plenties, there appear to be a lack of future Plenties, like lack of Plenty of Jobs, lack of Plenty of Financial / Retirement Security, lack of Plenty of Personal Security, lack of Plenty of Free Time, lack of Plenty of Space on the roadways... In fact, it seems that in the Balance of Plenties ... it feels like something's missing. Well, that might give us Plenty to think about.
Posted by E Moritz @ 06:14 PM CST [Link]
Mexican Cooking is also important. [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 12:58 PM CST [Link]
Mexico in detail. One of the Places.
Posted by E Moritz @ 12:58 PM CST [Link]
Just came across the Oaxaca notes, and references to The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca"The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca. According to the note ... the book is "a magnificent and unique collection of lavish, full-color photos and narrative that illustrates and describes the special lives--as well as the vibrant threads--that are woven into the centuries-old tradition of Mexico's Oaxacan fabrics. Kathryn Klein discusses techniques, from color-dying different fibers to colorfully weaving designs that are both symbolic and indicative of the wearer's community. She includes a chapter on the evolution of the weaving and the histories that it embodies. The 2,000-textile collection of the Regional Museum in Oaxaca is given special consideration. It was once housed in a 16th-century convent and has been restored to its original beauty." [The Museo Regional de Oaxaca]. The book to contrast is Zapotec Weavers of Teotitlan . AN interesting question to what extent did these vibrant colors and patterns influence Rufino Tamayo? [see Tamayo] [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:20 AM CST [Link]
Saturday, October 4, 2003
why this is here is part of the scaffolding. Its easy to enjoy the cathedral, and one may wonder about the bazaar. It could even be transformative. Ultimately the shaman gets consulted, the ritual dance exercised, and the fire get put out. We edge our ways into the tents and reflect on the occasion. The meaning of meaning is then left with the Bubis of Fernando Po who do get closer to the fire to see what they are saying.
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:23 PM CST [Link]
Mercantile Theory : Information, Clues, Links, and Other Useful Starting Points Some inquired for more information on this Mercantile Theory. Yet another truly interesting topic requiring logical dedication and entrepneurial insight. Clearly, Mercantilism, is a subject of historical inquiry. There a lot to explore here ... [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 02:04 PM CST [Link]
Edward Bernays deserves special attention. He was the father of Public Relations, and by derivation Spin! Whats also interesting is that he was Sigmund Freud's nephew (at least according to the propagandacritic.) Madison Avenue blossomed. And now we have these awesome half-time moviemercials [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 01:37 PM CST [Link]
ECLECTIC TOPICS REVISITED might lead you to Grand Prix Racing and the memorable moments of Formula 1, or it might inspire you to examine de Chirico more closely. You'll be the ultimate judge. (surrealism may just yet win out over realism).
Posted by E Moritz @ 01:05 PM CST [Link]
Friday, October 3, 2003
Eicosanoids, Apolipoproteins, Lipoprotein Particles, Pathogenesis, and Atherosclerosis are related. So what does this knowledge buy us?
Posted by E Moritz @ 10:52 PM CST [Link]
Chromatin keeps making the news .... Its important for gene structure
Posted by E Moritz @ 10:46 PM CST [Link]
According to the scientist The ligand for oncogenic anaplastic lymphoma kinase is discovered in muscle development .
Posted by E Moritz @ 10:39 PM CST [Link]
Of course the HANDBOOK OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY while expensive, is the 'BIBLE' of the nanostructure/nanotech adepts. [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:33 PM CST [Link]
Supramolecular Chemistry : Concepts and Perspectives by Jean-Marie Lehn, and Computing in Nonlinear Media by Andrew Adamatzky -- appear to be important in Nanotechnology circles
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:26 PM CST [Link]
Nobu's Cookbook is interesting if you like "combining the pure, fresh, uncomplicated flavors of sushi with the Western flavors of garlic, chili, and coriander..... and .... luxury ingredients such as truffles and caviar"
Posted by E Moritz @ 08:49 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, October 2, 2003
The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson ... what more can you ask for? The Complete Far Side is certainly on my to get list ... it captures the orthogonal longview ... Farside and Dilbert ... what a cosmic mental pleasure ... and now, the reviews "A masterpiece of comic brilliance, The Complete Far Side contains every Far Side ever syndicated--over 4,000 if you must know--presented in (more or less) chronological order by year of publication, with more than 1,100 that have never before appeared in a book. Also included are additional Far Side cartoons Larson created after retirement: 13 that appeared in the last Far Side book, Last Chapter and Worse, and six cartoons that periodically ran as a special feature in The New York Times' Science Times section as The Far Side of Science. Creator Gary Larson offers a rare glimpse into the mind of The Far Side in quirky and thoughtful introductions to each of the 14 chapters. Complaint letters, fan letters, and queries from puzzled readers appear alongside some of the more provocative or elusive panels. Actor, author and comedian Steve Martin offers his pithy thoughts in a forward and Gary Larson's former editor describes what it was like to be "the guy who could explain every Far Side cartoon." ... we're talkin Gary Larson here
Posted by E Moritz @ 10:58 PM CST [Link]
Notes on the Game Metaphor:
o Game
o Rules of Game
o Goals
o Teams
o Competition
o Playing Field
o Spectators
o Fans
o Talent
o Team Owners
o Ritual
o Records
o Record Breaking
o League (Who all is allowed to play)
o Finite Duration
-- tbc (to be continued).
Posted by E Moritz @ 10:35 PM CST [Link]
Something to think about ... an Alpenrost Rotary Drum Home Coffee Roaster, a Bodum Santos Vacuum Coffeemaker, some Starbucks French Roast Coffee Beans, ... lets see, did we miss anything?
Posted by E Moritz @ 10:23 PM CST [Link]
Thinking about Christmas ... Already ... and looking at the lists of what people voted for.
Posted by E Moritz @ 10:08 PM CST [Link]
Digital Toasters, Digital Toaster with Bagel Warm Up, Garlic Press, Red , Juicer and Citrus Press, Chrome, Steel Butter Warmer .... what next?
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:31 PM CST [Link]
Opinion Leaders, Literary Giants, The Names ... ADDED!
Posted by E Moritz @ 08:59 PM CST [Link]
via the NY Times ... "John Maxwell Coetzee, a widely acclaimed South African novelist who has often used his country's apartheid system and its post-apartheid transition to mirror the bleakness of the human condition, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature today by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. --- Mr. Coetzee, 63, who has long been considered a contender for the $1.3 million prize, became Africa's fourth Nobel literature laureate, after Wole Soyinka of Nigeria in 1986, Naguib Mahfouz of Egypt in 1988 and Nadine Gordimer of South Africa in 1991." -- Congratulations!
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Posted by E Moritz @ 06:01 PM CST [Link]
Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone by George Myerson ... that's a rather interesting title ... according to its blurb "This ‘Postmodern Encounter’ gives the gist of the massive campaign to ‘mobilise’ the globe, and asks the urgent question: what is happening to the idea of ‘communication’? Key thinkers of the 20th century offer an essential alternative to these new doctrines of m-communication: Martin Heidegger, who saw humanity as ‘the entity which talks’, and Jürgen Habermas, current-day advocate of authentic communication. This is a close encounter between alien visions of communication – between the conflicting utopianisms of 20th-century philosophers and 21st-century ‘mobilised communication’. Interesting exploration, but what would Heidegger and Habermas really say about mobile phones? [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 05:41 PM CST [Link]
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Hermeneutics ... now there's an intersting word. [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:51 PM CST [Link]
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson is getting quite a following!
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:26 PM CST [Link]
So you want some insight on who makes it to the Best Seller List and why? Here are some leads ... Hacking Amazon(TM) : Worming Our Way Onto the Best Seller List, Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999 by Michael Korda, The #1 New York Times Bestseller: Intriguing Facts About the 484 Books That Have Been #1 New York Times Bestsellers Since the First List in 1942. by John Bear, and Bestseller Index: All Books, by Author, on the Lists of Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Through 1990 by Keith L. Justice. I have to think about this some more, but this is a fascinating topic. [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 09:18 PM CST [Link]
Human Life Extension bubbles up from time to time ... Life Extension is occuring anyway ... as we remarked in an earler post. Probiotics appears to be important ... as are antioxidants. Some day the mystery of free-radicals will be better explained. [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 07:51 PM CST [Link]
Topics making the wires include: Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Biomedical Research, DNA sequence, Chromosome polymorphism, Human, genetics, Genetic markers, Mitochondrial DNA, Mitochondrial Disease, DNA Typing, Mitochondrial pathology, Cellular Pathology, Nanotechnology, Genotyping, Metabolic Profiling, Cancer Marker, Molecular Future, Nanosystems, Haplotype map, Genetic variations, Haplotype structure, Ligand-binding. Find out [more]
