This is a great (short) video describing why YOU should add your name to the SPARC petition to assure public access to taxpayer-funded research. The White house petition can be found at: http://wh.gov/6TH
Video about the Access2Research petition from SPARC. Sign it now.
A revolution indeed: Great TEDx video by Richard Resnick on just how fast sequencing technology is expanding the universe of genomics data along with some encouraging anecdotes on how it is beginning to make real contributions to healthcare.
Wonderful albeit bittersweet tribute to the Shuttle Program
Stunning time lapse images of the aurora borealis. As @wiredgeekdad noted in his posting on wired.com, “The photographer, Terje Sorgjerd, braved -25C temperatures, lugging 40kg of gear around the wilderness for a week. But the result is magical.”
Washing Machine as a Measure of Human Civilization.
A delightful, albeit sobering, Hans Rosling video from TED. A personal and global story on washing machines, global poverty, and environmental sustainability. Redemption by Dr. Seuss!
Watching the Shuttle Launch from Five Miles Up.
NPR caption is a good summary, “Wow, What else is there to say?”
One might add, “A bittersweet last flight…”
A great talk by Wired’s editor Thomas Goetz on how easy it is to make medical data easier to understand and use in decision making for both patients and physicians. ”It’s time to redesign medical data”
‘played by humans, scored by nature’
EteRNA is a new crowd-sourced research project in the form of a game. Participants design RNA molecules with interesting structures where weekly winners have their molecule synthesized and its folding tested. A bit of a mashup between Angry Birds and physical chemistry.
Inspired by ‘Tron’ as much as protein crystallography or biophysics, this Nature video is a great summary of molecular biology (and you can dance to it!)
“Insanely awesome” is the caption and it is an impressive image. Photographer Thierry Legault traveled to Oman to catch the < 1 sec solar transit by the space station during the recent partial eclipse.
Paul Butler at Facebook has created some striking images by mapping the geographical location of Facebook’s 500 million users and their connections. His Facebook note contains the details and a link to a high resolution version of the image.
The Journal Nature published a special edition in March 2010 to review the progress and contributions of genomics in the ten years since the first full draft sequences of the human genome were completed. This issue is open to the public and includes summaries and perspectives on the discoveries and disappointments.
n.b. - nota bene: used to draw the attention of the reader to a certain aspect or detail of the subject on hand
Sage Bionetworks:
Creating an open access, integrative bionetwork evolved by contributor scientists working to eliminate human disease.
tumbled by Jon Izant; info@sagebase.org
