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Submitted Oct 29, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI Let's say you want to measure the daily changes in a period gene, that is, one whose properties change over time. How would you go about doing that? By making a transgenic fly that glows with the period gene, duh! Actually, it took Ph.D. scientists a while to figure that one out, but now you can learn how to create your own glowing transgenic flies in the Virtual Transgenic Fly Lab from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In this virtual lab you do every step yourself from preparing the DNA, to injecting it into fly embryos, to breeding your own glowing flies, and finally to measuring the light with a bioluminescene counter. (White lab coat not included.) This virtual lab isn't dumbed down like many science websites--which is just how we like it. It's a realistic, comprehensive, sophisticated, interactive multimedia lab that will leave you more knowledgeable about genetics and how genetics research is done.
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Submitted Oct 29, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI GeoScienceWorld (GSW) announced the launch of its new portal containing 30 leading geoscience journals plus GeoRef on Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. The initial GSW collection incorporates the full-text of 30 journals from 22 leading societies and institutes from six countries. Full-access to all content will be freely available to anyone visiting the site until March 30, 2005. Following the first months free-trial period, anyone will be able to view the titles and abstracts of articles in the GSW journals. Paid subscribers will also have access to the full-text articles, in both HTML and PDF formats, and the ability to search and link using GeoRef. Most of the journals will be complete with full text back to 2000. In addition, subscribers will also have access to older issues of some journals going back as far as 1931.
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Submitted Oct 29, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI Ever wish you could spend your time studying cheetahs in Namibia, dolphins offshore of Brazil, or stone age archeology in France? Now you can - for a fee, of course. For around $2,000 to $3,000 (not including travel to the rendezvous point), the Earthwatch Institute will send you on your choice of dozens of scientific research expeditions that could use a research assistant or two. Earthwatch emphasizes that these are volunteer opportunities, not tours, meaning that you're actually going to have to do some work while you're out there. Most of the tasks are simple, like counting bugs or interviewing farmers, while some expeditions may require scuba training or a high level of physical fitness. Over 4,000 volunteers participate in the program each year. You can find a schedule of expeditions at the EI website.
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Submitted Oct 28, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI Element List sure seems to be getting around these days. For curiosity's sake, we pulled up the map at right, which shows the locations of just the last 100 visitors to the Element List website. We have visitors from all over the world, from North America to South Africa to New Zealand and elsewhere, with most of the visitors concentrated in the US and western Europe. Very cool.
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Submitted Oct 13, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has elevated the level-of-concern color code for Mt. Spurr Volcano to yellow in reponse to recent restlessness, including shallow seismic activity, emissions of gas and steam, and the widening of the summit pit, where hot magma beneath the surface of the crater has melted the ice and snow cover above. The pictures at right from the AVO show the summit of Mt. Spurr on July 7 (above) and August 1, 2005. According to a report (pdf) released by the AVO on October 10, "[T]he observations indicate that new molten rock (magma) has intruded deep beneath Mount Spurr. In response, AVO raised the level-of-concern color code to yellow. Eruptions, however, do not always follow such activity. Most times the magma never reaches the surface but instead harmlessly cools miles beneath the ground. At this time, it is impossible to forecast whether the current activity will culminate in an eruption or slowly diminish."
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Submitted Oct 09, 2005 to Science Blogs The source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip. Gawker, reporting live from the center of the universe.
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Submitted Oct 09, 2005 to Science Blogs Orion explores an emerging alternative world view. Informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth. Orion publishes the work of the writers who are shaping a relationship between nature and a new emerging cultural ethic. Orion also includes powerful visual images that blur the boundaries between the human and the natural, and challenge us to see our world from new perspectives. Orion is published six times a year by The Orion Society and the Myrin Institute.
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Submitted Oct 08, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI A large earthquake shook Pakistan at 8:50 am local time. The epicenter has been calculated by the USGS as being 95 km (60 miles) north-northeast of Islamabad. The earthquake was felt across northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, with deaths and damage being reported. The event was a thrust-type earthquake on a southeastward trending fault plane. The fault lies along an ancient subduction zone in the Pir Panjal Mountains, where the Indian Plate is colliding with the Eurasian Plate at a rate of 5 cm per year. In addition to the USGS website, the ASC India website contains up-to-date information about the quake as well as historical and geological information about the region.
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Submitted Oct 04, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy reported today that it has delivered the first crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as promised by President Bush to offset shortages resulting from Hurricane Katrina. A total of 30 million barrels were offered and 11 million barrels were sold to five companies in a competitive bidding process. An additional loan of 13.2 million barrels of crude oil has been made to refiners whose deliveries were interrupted. But where is all the oil coming from? Are we going to run out? The DOE website contains a long list of online resources that describe various efforts to ensure reliable supplies in the future, from methane hydrates to the use of CO2 injections to recover previously unattainable resources in the ground. According to the DOE site, "If only one percent of the methane hydrate resource could be made technically and economically recoverable, the United States could more than double its domestic natural gas resource base."
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Submitted Oct 04, 2005 to Science Blogs Memepool is a multiple-author weblog that lists links to interesting, obscure, weird, or funny items on the web along with a smattering of commentary. Items will often include multiple links whose contents conflict or comment on each other, in a fashion similar to the old sarcastic stylings of Suck.com. Memepool has an Internet relay chat channel, irc.perl.org/#memepool.
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Submitted Oct 04, 2005 to Science Blogs Science Blog was started in August 2002 by Ben Sullivan and is published by a team of science editors, writers and enthusiasts. It includes public news releases from labs and researchers, original stories and interviews, and reader blogs. Science Blog encompasses subjects ranging from Computers & Electronics to Bioscience & Medicine. It is read by a few hundred thousand unique visitors each month.
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Submitted Oct 03, 2005 to Science Blogs Nanodot is the original nanotechnology weblog, started in spring 2000. It is a project of Foresight Nanotech Institute, the leading public interest group in nanotechology founded in 1986. The site is a collaborative effort of Foresight members and the general public, edited by Christine Peterson, Foresights VP Public Policy. Supporters of the project are encouraged to submit news items, comment on posts, and donate to the blog using the main Foresight donation form.
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Submitted Oct 02, 2005 to Science Blogs On this website, my guest authors and editors and I hope to present interesting items from around the web on a daily basis, in the areas of science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else we deem inherently fascinating. We want to provide you with a one-stop intellectual surfing experience by culling good stuff from all over and putting it in one place. In other words, we are what has come to be known as a "filter blog."
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Submitted Oct 02, 2005 to Science Blogs A weblog largely on mathematical physics and string theory by Peter Woit, mathematics professor at Columbia University.
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Submitted Oct 02, 2005 to Science Blogs Cosmic Variance is a group blog by five people who, coincidentally or not, all happen to be physicists and astrophysicists: Mark Trodden, Risa Wechsler, Sean Carroll, Clifford Johnson, and JoAnne Hewett. Our day (and night) jobs notwithstanding, the blog is about whatever we find interesting science, to be sure, but also arts, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia. We have similar outlooks on many things, widely disparate opinions about others, and will do our best to keep the discourse reasonably elevated.
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Submitted Sep 30, 2005 to Science Blogs The Atlantic Online has a two-fold mission: first, to serve as The Atlantic Monthly's home on the Internet, presenting the magazine's digital edition and continually building a useful online archive; second, to serve as the home of Atlantic Unbound, an online journal that extends the magazine's coverage of books, literature, and culture. Each month The Atlantic Online offers subscribers the contents of The Atlantic's print editionaugmented with links to related articles, other Web sites, and/or special online sidebarsalongside a weekly update of original Web-only features in Atlantic Unbound. In addition, the site offers subscribers access to back issues of The Atlantic from November 1995 (when the magazine first appeared on the Web) to the present, as well as hundreds of articles selected from the magazine's extensive archive. Finally, The Atlantic Online is home to an interactive forum, Post & Riposte.
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Submitted Sep 28, 2005 to Science Blogs » Element FYI Drs. John Delaney and Debbie Kelley from the University of Washington are leading the VISIONS '05 expedition on the research vessel R/V Thompson and have been at sea since September 1. Live broadcasts from the ship and from the seafloor, using a high-definition underwater video camera mounted on the arm of the Jason II remotely operated vehicle (ROV), are scheduled for today, Wednesday, and Thursday. You may watch these broadcasts on the web or via cable TV. For directions on how to connect and for the complete broadcast schedule, click here. Pre-taped footage will air whenever live broadcasts are not available.
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