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IPMB Science Features
Focusing on blogging personality, driven life and perspectives |
| IPMB science features are a platform that allow our colleagues and readers to post their thoughts on recent developments and ideas in their corner of their sciences. As a new site feature, these will grow and develop into living, breathing areas for the exchange of links, thoughts, and information. As time goes on, we'll be adding new features, blogs, and authors/bloggers, so come back often to find out what our bloggers are up to! |
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Need for a reform on authorship game? by Wei-chin Chang (9-1-2007)
..... Different sets of people may design it, run experiments, collect the data, and analyze and interpret them. The paper may include techniques as diverse as molecular biology, all carried out by different people. The guy who writes the paper may have done nothing but the writing. Who then will be an author?¡@» read more
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Staff meeting? by Wei-chin Chang (8-30-2007)
Once in a staff meeting (I am not so sure), two groups of PIs were in serious disagreement over something. They were really going for it, and making lots of noise. There were no obvious reasons in sight, like say funding or tenure etc. Could this be to do with ideology disputes, or authorship or maybe RNAi on flowering? ¡@» read more |
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Being green does not have to be dull by Wei-chin Chang (8-20-2007)
This is the fastest road-legal bio-ethanol car (and the fastest Lotus Exige) ever built. Performance is sensational - 0-60mph flashes up in only 3.88 seconds before running out of puff at a mind bending 158mph. Who says being green is boring?¡@» read more |
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TR35: 2007 Young Innovators Under 35 by Wei-chin Chang (8-19-2007)
Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review (a tech review magazine of MIT with 108-year history) have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research they find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.¡@» read more |
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A really salad speedster by Wei-chin Chang (8-13-2007)
The Brits have come up with a race car that does 0-60 in under 4 seconds. Not impressed? The car has a top-end of 150mph. Still not impressed? Well, you ought to be. The car, except for its chassis, is made entirely from vegetables. You read that right, vegetables. From fuel to tires, vegetables.¡@» read more |
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Biofuel development condemned by Wei-chin Chang (7-2-2007)
A charity that helps farmers in poor countries has strongly condemned the development of biofuels,the charity, called GRAIN, says growing crops for fuel is causing ecosystems to be destroyed and farmers to lose their land¡K. Grain also says the media has been "spun" into using the cosy term biofuels and wants people to refer to them as agro-fuels instead.¡@» read more |
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