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MIT World provides free online videos of lectures and public events held at MIT. The homepage currently lists several talks and panel discussions on biotechnology issues. In the index, you can find talks from top scientists, business leaders, intellectuals, and more.

• Human Cloning and Human Rights: Promises and Perils, Rudolf Jaenisch and Stephen Marks
  
• The $100 Laptop--Computing for Developing Nations, Nicholas Negroponte
  
• The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
  
• Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities, Charles M. Vest

Need to find the nearest Target store? You could find one on Google Maps. Map hacks are showing up all over the web, particularly on Google Maps Mania, an unofficial Google Maps blog that tracks cool and interesting uses of Google Maps. The Ocean Channel uses Google Maps to distribute the latest news items based around the world in the Global Ocean News Map, created with map builder.net, which you can use to create your own Google Map mashups. Need some ideas? Check out the World Google Maps Volcano Browser that is a mashup of a database of 1550 volcanos and the USGS earthquake feed. The Element List data category is a good place to get started on your search for free, publicly available earth science data for use in your mashups.

Pete Cashmore on Web 2.0.

Current TV is an online television 'station' that broadcasts viewer-produced programs--called "pods"--over the internet as well as cable and satellite channels. There are many videos covering politics, pop culture, and a smattering of science topics. You can search through the website for science videos yourself or check out the few good ones we found here: Designing Dover, 500,000 Orphans, World's Largest Telescope, and Queensbridge Wind Power. The site also contains videos, like this one with Robert Redford, that provide tips and tricks on how to produce better videos and be a better storyteller. The site could definitely use more science programs, however, so hop to it people! And be sure to send us a link.

There may be a time and a place for everything. The difficulty is figuring out when and where.

The assistant researcher, Park Eul-soon, who admitted to donating her eggs for Dr. Hwank Woo-Suk's cloning research, but did not say she was coerced, now says that "she was forced to contribute her eggs after mistakenly spilling ova used for experiments in 2003," according to The Korea Herald. "'I regret that I did not stand up to Dr. Hwang,' MBC television station quoted her as saying in the e-mail." Park mysteriously disappeared from Pittsburgh just when the scandal was breaking and did not return to Seoul when her South Korean colleagues were being summoned back to South Korea. (via blog.bioethics.net)

Science published a retraction yesterday of two papers by Hwang and his team in a special online collection: the June 2005 paper, which was withdrawn by the authors, and the March 2004 article, which was retracted by the Science editors. Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy released a videotaped statement regarding the case and the retraction of the papers.

Miscellany from a liberal atheist biology professor in rural Minnesota.

Blogging is my attempt to make sense of this crazy world. I am a postdoctoral fellow and was recently hired as an Adjunct Associate Professor. I have lived in New York City since September 2002, and worked in my "dream job" for two years, reconstructing an evolutionary phylogeny of parrots from the south Pacific Ocean.

Chris Mooney is Washington correspondent for Seed magazine and a senior correspondent for the American Prospect. He focuses on issues at the intersection of science and politics; recent articles include a Columbia Journalism Review feature story about the problem with "balance" in science coverage and a Boston Globe commentary on the political plight faced by scientists over the next four years. Chris's first book, entitled The Republican War on Science, is due out in September 2005 with Basic Books.

At the convergence of evolution and genetics. RPM studies genome evolution. Look for posts on evolution, genetics, molecular biology, and all related fields.

Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture.

Tim Lambert's weblog. Tim Lambert is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.

A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day.

Anthropology, Evolution and Science.

Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena. By Tara Smith.

I'm a philosopher who used to be a chemist. I'm interested in unexpected and unexplored connections between fields. Dumb things make me grumpy.