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McCain and Obama on healthcare
CNN, which was hotly denying the rumors of Clinton’s concession until as late as last night, has an article up about the policy differences between the Obama and McCain. The article they link to for a critical analysis of the … Continue reading
I’ve opened the friendfeed info-torrent!
I was never much for twitter, but I finally signed up for friendfeed, because it seems like everyone’s got their twitters and blogs and bookmarking fed into there, and commenting on the friendfeed works just as well. I’ve been meaning … Continue reading
Webcast on genomic medicine on Wednesday, the 21st.
Steve Murphy has asked the DNA Network, of which I’m a member, to put out the word about the webcast on Wednesday. The title is “How Genomic Medicine Is Changing the Management of Breast & Ovarian Cancer” and the link … Continue reading
Uh oh! I’m about to get besieged by angry futurists!
They’ve picked up on my futurist snark. I really do like futurists, I promise.
More on America’s declining importance to the world
Lately I’ve been hearing comments about things like declining research competitiveness, bright young Indians choosing to stay in India instead of come to the U.S. to seek their fortune, and comments about how even the research that is being done … Continue reading
The original post calls this ethanolomics, but I’d like to think of it as a particularly interesting branch of cladistics.
I also thought most Belgian ales were produced by spontaneous fermentation. via Tipping the Spherical Cow.
X2, a hypothesis aggregator, is surprisingly interesting and engaging.
My colleague Attila pointed me to X2, an effort by the Institute for the Future to collect and collaboratively rank hypotheses about future directions of science. When I read about it, it sounded interesting, but coming from futurists, I rather … Continue reading
