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Liver function and acetaminophen....
Image via WikipediaI was just reading an interesting article on a potential dialysis for the liver in acute cases, and ran across this (From SFGate):"About 28,000 Americans die each year of chronic...
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Biomass Chemicals: From Green Plants to Chemistry, by Mitch Jacoby
Look Inside >> July 6, 2009Chemicals from the Garden: Advances in Biomass Chemistry transform plant matter to valuable chemicals. I recommend this 3-page update on an important area of...
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Chemists Without Borders has moved!
Hi, Everybody,Sorry to have been gone for so long. Chemists Without Borders has a new mailing address and phone numbers, shown near the top of the left column under the Donate button (which, of course,...
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Quote of the day re: OPEC
I thought this was well said:...But what the bloc's members seem to keep forgetting, he said, is that "the Stone Age didn't end because the world ran out of stones, but because there were viable...
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Welfare for wild horses
This isn't necessarily a chemistry-related subject, but irony abounds, as the band I am in started working on the song 'Wild Horses' just last Sunday... I used to love to ride when I was younger, and I...
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Medal of Freedom: President Barak Obama & Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Once again, Muhammad Yunus tells it like it is. See the abstract of his talk at the National Press Club the same day: http://www.press.org/wire/article.cfm?id=1282. I haven't found any more video yet,...
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Good News
Good news are a good place to blog. First of all, winning the Astellas USA award for doing work that has an impact on global health we have written "drug production in Africa" into the history books!...
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Nobel Peace Prize goes to US President Obama
Congratulations to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and...
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California Water Policy
I got this letter from my state legislator last week. Posted without comment.Dear Mr. Xxxxxxxxx:California’s lack of water could result in more than 800,000 acres of farmland going unplanted this year....
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Irreversible Catastrophic Climate Destabilization
Image via WikipediaLast Friday's edition of NOW on PBS asks, "Is a coastal catastrophe approaching, and what should we be doing about it?" It specifically addresses the issue of flooding in Bangladesh,...
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2009: a great year for open access
2009 has been a good year for open access; for details, see my December 11, 2009 Dramatic Growth of Open Access.Happy Holidays!
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Martin Fisher (KickStart) Fighting Poverty in Kenya by Selling Water Pumps to...
PBS's Spencer Michels reports on the story of how a California social entrepreneur sees the chance to increase access to clean water in Kenya through the use of foot-pumps. In this segment, there are...
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President Rene Preval Assesses Haiti's Quake Recovery
PBS NewsHour's Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating earthquake. There are many lessons from this. One is that...
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A new study shows 77 million Bangladeshis are being exposed to water...
Here's a short update on the arsenic problem in Bangladesh, and how the SONO filter alleviates the problem (click the title above to view the 2:51 minute video). With over 300,000 SONO filters already...
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Good News! Clinical Trials of Rotavirus Vaccine Launched
Rotavirus is a diarrheal disease that kills half a million children worldwide every year. Current vaccines do not reach all the children early enough. This new vaccine, which has taken decades of...
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National Research Council Estimates Impact of Human-Caused Global Warming
Image via WikipediaThe NRC issued a report on July 16, 2010, entitled, "Near-Term Emissions Choices Could Lock in Climate Changes for Centuries to Millenia: Report Estimates Impacts from Various Levels...
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Speak with Conviction
Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.Typography Animation project for classPoem by Taylor Mali (www.TaylorMali.com)
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Education on your mobile device
The Chronicle on Higher Education had an interesting article about textbook manufacturers developing content for mobile phones.McGraw-Hill to Provide English Instruction and Test Prep Through...
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Chemists Without Borders in Bangladesh
Chemists Without Borders representatives were invited to Bangladesh University by the Board of Trustees to offer ideas for consideration as the University inaugurates a program of environmental science...
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Un-Damn it!
Here is some good news for salmon...Here is the live link:http://www.video-monitoring.com/construction/olympic/js.htm
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