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• Greg Laden's Blog

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  How to shoot down a Zeppelin ... in Indiana Jones Staff of Kings Co Op mode. Which we figured out and is so hard to do I thought I'd share it....

• Aardvarchaeology

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  Fear of Time Travel Imagine that you're dropped into the city you live in with only the clothes you wear. No wallet, no hand bag, no money, no cell phone, no identification. And it's 500 years ago.

• December 27, 2009

• Terra Sigillata

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  Barry Yeoman's "Green-Collar Work Plan" excerpted in new issue of Utne Reader An encouraging and exceedingly well-written piece on the economic promise of the renewable energy industry for communities decimated by the loss of manufacturing jobs.

• December 26, 2009

• Terra Sigillata

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  What are your favorite iPhone apps? Get an iPhone or iPod Touch over the holidays? We're asking Terra Sig readers to suggest to you their favorite apps so that you don't have to go digging through the thousands of needless games and silly stuff (unless you want needless, silly stuff)

• December 25, 2009

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  How to Peel A Banana Like A Monkey (video) I always opened it this way. My Mom taught me this decades ago. What are you saying? We are descended from monkeys?!@#$%^&*! No way!...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  How To Use Linux ~ 04 Instalilng Software This is the fourth in a series of posts on using Ubuntu Linux specifically written for that select group of people who are smart but non-geek computer users who are using Linux because they are. Just are....

• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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  Darth Vader in the Death Star Cafeteria I have a secret for all you kids out there. When your parents tell you to leave your Christmas gifts in the living room while you sleep in your bedrooms, they are spending Christmas night using their new digital video cameras to create YouTube videos, such as this one, where they re-enact scenes from their favorite movies. Don't believe me? Well, watch this, but don't get mad at me if this turns out to be one of your parents playing with your toys!

• December 24, 2009

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  A Case for Limits on File Names Ray Ingles pointed out this position paper which I think is worth looking at ... Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX pathnames and filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes. A pathname lets you select a particular file, and may include one or more "/" characters. Each pathname...

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  Linux Links for your Edumication and Enjoyment I've assembled links to a few sites that people new to Linux should consider exploring....

• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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  The Spider and the Fly Celebrate Christmas This sweet video shows you how the spider and the fly celebrated Christmas this year.

• December 23, 2009

• Christina's LIS Rant

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  OT: On repairing an iphone cracked screen The other day when I had to be at a stupid training session off site very early in the morning, I stepped on my iphone in the dark. It apparently slid out of my purse. Sigh. It turned on, but...

• December 22, 2009

• Terra Sigillata

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  Zenph Studios now hiring music analyst and technology coordinator for "re-performances" From the CTO's TED Talk: "Software entrepreneur John Q. Walker uses computers to bring piano legends back to life -- digitally reconstructing their performances from audio tracks and playing them on real instruments, live."

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  How To Use Linux ~ 03 Files This is the third in our six or seven part series on how to use Linux if you are a regular smart person who needs a functioning computer but is not a geek. Today, a few items to know about files....

• Respectful Insolence

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  What researchers really mean Research-speak projections, translated.

• Neuron Culture

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  Rebooting science journalism, redux If good science writing were easy, we'd be choking on it. Instead, it's rare enough that when we find it, we celebrate it and pass on the links as something especially worth attending. Why pretend it's otherwise?

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...

• December 21, 2009

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  HP's New Face Race Tracking Camera First, a big fat kiss to Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science for pointing this out to me.  I thought at first this was a parody of a recent episode of Better Off Ted.  Instead I am afraid it...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  How To Use Linux ~ 02 Distros This is a continuation of a series of posts written for non-geeks just starting out with Linux. Today, we look at the concept of a "distro" and why it is important to you as an average user of Linux....

• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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  This Dodge Power Wagon Can House a Family of Four This is a short video clip from Clarkson's Motorworld about a Dodge Power Wagon that is 64 times larger than the original. It comes with a full-sized house inside, a great view from the tailgate ... and it can move: it gets great mileage for a truck...just under 30 gallons per mile!

• Effect Measure

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  What's that smell? Aromas that take you appetite away.

• December 20, 2009

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  How To Use Linux ~ 01 Introduction This is the first of a series of posts written for non-geeks just starting out with Linux. The idea is to provide the gist, a few important facts, and some fun suggestions. Slowly and easily. Some of the posts in this series may end up...

• December 19, 2009

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 - Program highlights 7 Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 9:00-10:05am: A. Earth Science, Web 2.0+, and Geospatial Applications - Jacqueline Floyd and Chris Rowan Description: We will discuss online...

• Confessions of a Science Librarian

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  Best Science Books 2009: Inside Tech A nice list of technology/business books: Googled: The End of the World as we Know it by Ken Auletta Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain by Richard L. Brandt The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein The Accidental Billionares:...

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  GM, in Another Stunning Automotive Success, Kills Off Saab More added economic value from U.S. boardrooms [/snark].

• December 18, 2009

• The Book of Trogool

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  Authority control, then and now Since the end of the year is a fairly quiet time for my particular professional niche, I've taken the opportunity to do some basic name authority control on author name-strings in the repository. Some basic what on what, now? Welcome...

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus