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Telco's Entry Into The Machine-to-Machine Communications Market Can Accelerate Service Development, Says Frost Sullivan

Telco's Entry Into The Machine-to-Machine Communications Market Can Accelerate Service Development, Says Frost Sullivan

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Animal Airways Establishes First Flight Veterinarian Division

Animal Airways Establishes First Flight Veterinarian Division

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Learning Through Graphic Novel: Tata Interactive Systems Wins APEX 2010

Learning Through Graphic Novel: Tata Interactive Systems Wins APEX 2010

Jul 12 2010 | comment(s)

Pan-European Freight Logistics Provider PO Ferrymasters Selects Quintiq To Optimize Operations And Support Expanded Service Offering

Pan-European Freight Logistics Provider PO Ferrymasters Selects Quintiq To Optimize Operations And Support Expanded Service Offering

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NTT Europe Achieves PCI DSS Compliance

NTT Europe Achieves PCI DSS Compliance

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Phase 3 Meeting Scheduled With US FDA Following Positive Results Of Bone Marrow Regeneration Trial

Phase 3 Meeting Scheduled With US FDA Following Positive Results Of Bone Marrow Regeneration Trial

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Merck Serono's Cladribine Tablets For MS Approved In Russia

Merck Serono's Cladribine Tablets For MS Approved In Russia

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MediaTek Joins The Open Handset Alliance

MediaTek Joins The Open Handset Alliance

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Employers Share Top Ten Most Outrageous Excuses Workers Gave For Arriving Late To Work In New CareerBuilder Survey

Employers Share Top Ten Most Outrageous Excuses Workers Gave For Arriving Late To Work In New CareerBuilder Survey

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Lovestruck.com Intelligently Matchmakes City Professionals With Help From IntroAnalytics.com

Lovestruck.com Intelligently Matchmakes City Professionals With Help From IntroAnalytics.com

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Edoxaban Demonstrates Superior Efficacy Compared With Enoxaparin Sodium In Preventing VTE After Total Knee Replacement

Edoxaban Demonstrates Superior Efficacy Compared With Enoxaparin Sodium In Preventing VTE After Total Knee Replacement

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Science 2.0 Version 3 Product Planning

Science 2.0 Version 3 Product Planning

Jul 12 2010 | comment(s)

The last time we did this, in October 2008,  Science 2.0 Gets A Version 2.0 had a nice ring to it.  Version 3.0 not so much.   But once per decade, whether it needs it or not, we do new features and generally try to make things better without, you know, making it worse.

So we are going to start discussing some ideas.   An obvious one is to find other 'science 2.0'-ish companies and do things with them.
A Very Brief Discussion of Squid Penises

A Very Brief Discussion of Squid Penises

Jul 12 2010 | comment(s)

The Falkland Islands' own Sasha Arkhipkin (whom I missed meeting on his last trip to California--sorrow!) has discovered that males of a particular deep-sea squid species have penises as long as their bodies. And they can stretch even longer.

It's a wild story, but for those unaccustomed to staring at squid innards, the photos may not be particularly striking. Therefore, I provide this helpful contrast: the reproductive organs of a male Humboldt squid. (Note that the penis is hiding slyly underneath one of the gills--but still, it's nowhere near Onykia-sized.)


Phase 3 Meeting Scheduled With US FDA Following Positive Results Of Bone Marrow Regeneration Trial

Phase 3 Meeting Scheduled With US FDA Following Positive Results Of Bone Marrow Regeneration Trial

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The Rise Of The Time Machines

The Rise Of The Time Machines

Jul 12 2010 | comment(s)

The Rise Of The Time Machines


Do you own a time machine?  The chances are that if you are reading this, then you own a time machine.  They are fairly cheap nowadays.  Like so many things, the first time machine was built for the military and cost a lot of money.

What do you think happened to the first person to claim to be able to predict the future using a machine built on scientific principles?  You may think he was treated with scorn, treated as a crank.  In fact he was given lots of money.

His invention was funded, not because the government of the day went to school with him, but because he was able to validate his method.  Scientists using the same method were able to predict future events with great accuracy.
Getting Fired Up About Synapses

Getting Fired Up About Synapses

Jul 12 2010 | comment(s)

You may have noticed that a lot of posts about neuroscience research on scientificblogging.com describe new discoveries about the synapse.  If you are not a neuroscientists you might wonder why we get so fired up about the synapse (pun intended). 

Well the answer is simple -- understanding how synapses function is the most important question in the field of neuroscience research.  And we are getting close to the answer.
 
For me what's so cool about the synapse is that they are constantly changing.

But I want to know what you think -- why do you think the synapse is a cool thing to study?  If you could ask a neuroscientists about their synapse research what would you want to know?
MRC Technology Enters Into An Exclusive License Agreement With Genentech

MRC Technology Enters Into An Exclusive License Agreement With Genentech

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Stop The Madness - Female Shopping Is Evolution And The Mall Is The Lab?

Stop The Madness - Female Shopping Is Evolution And The Mall Is The Lab?

Jul 11 2010 | comment(s)

I just noticed a study from a few months back that correlated male shopping habits to ... evolution.   Yes, the necessary survival skills that women used for foraging and men used to hunt evolved into the inability of men to match socks and the reason women can't find the escalator in the shopping mall if you give them directions.

So if you are disinclined to believe, as friend-of-Obama Larry Summers does, that women cannot do math, you militant anti-science types will really dislike knowing that women are intrinsically obligated to spend the day picking through racks of clothes with friends and talking about that "Sex in the City" movie.
Should science bloggers be paid?

Should science bloggers be paid?

Jul 10 2010 | comment(s)

In the wake of the PepsiGate scandal at Scienceblogs.com, which apparently everyone except bloggers there saw coming (1), one person comes up with the obvious 'money corrupts all' argument, but is that really so?
Why Economists Hate Psychologists

Why Economists Hate Psychologists

Jul 10 2010 | comment(s)

Think you're rational? Think again. Here's but one example, gentle reader, of your brain unbound by reason.

Blue Devil basketball tickets are a hot commodity: there are far more fans than seats. And so some students enter a ticket lottery.

After one of these lotteries, Duke researchers posing as ticket scalpers found that students who lost the raffle were willing to pay $170 for a seat, while students who won tickets would only sell their seats for an average of $2,400.