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Engage With Grace The One Slide Project
added on 25 Nov 2009
Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented ìblog rally to promote Engage With Grace a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes. It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond p...
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First Collisions in the LHC! | Cosmic Variance
added on 24 Nov 2009
The LHC circulated two counter-rotating beams today, and a few hours ago the CMS experiment recorded its first collision event, shown in the display above. This is a fantastic milestone for the LHC and the experiments! (Sorry the event display is fuzzy; I zoomed in on a portion of the larger on...
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Olympus BioScapes 2009 Winners
added on 24 Nov 2009
Like Nikon, microscopes manufacturer Olympus has a yearly microscopy photo competition, this years winners are up. First place: Dr. Jan Michels Christian-Albrechts-University, Institute of Zoology Kiel, Germany Specimen: Daphnia atkinsoni (Water Flea) Technique: Confocal laser scanning microsco...
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Sex Pranks of the Orchid World | The Loom
added on 24 Nov 2009
To find out how orchids exploit sex-crazed wasps for their own reproduction (and for lots of other marvels of coevolution), check out the November issue of Discover, which has an excerpt from my new book, The Tangled Bank.
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Add 'assess surgeon's job satisfaction' to that presurgical check list
added on 24 Nov 2009
A tired surgeon is one thing. But a burned-out surgeon ... now there's cause for concern. A survey conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that surgeons who were burned out and depressed were more likely to report major medical errors. Number of hours worked? Frequency of bein...
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