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- FDA Sued To Stop Antibiotic Abuse On Factory Farms
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Medical groups from the American Medical Association to the American Society of Microbiology have appealed to the government and industry for years to restrict the practice of providing sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics fo ...
Feed Item - 28 May 2011
- Grimsvotn’s ash cloud in Google Earth
Another year, another Icelandic Volcano eruption. This one, the Grimsvotn Volcano, can now be explored interactively via a neat new Google Earth visualization from Adam Burt.Not only is it a great visualization, but it has a few extra dimensions that y ...
Feed Item - 25 May 2011
- Software Sustainability Institute Blog | Grid computing explained at the European Grid Infrastructure User Forum
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) provides European researchers with access to computing resources. And not just any computing resources – we’re talking big resources, the kind needed by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider. There’ ...
Feed Item - 11 April 2011
- NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock
sgcxf949 writes "Woman attempts to sell a moon rock and gets busted by NASA. Who would have thought that NASA had undercover agents?" Evidently not the subject of this story, who offered to trade her sample of alleged lunar rock for $1.7 million. ...
Feed Item - 28 May 2011
- Podcast: The Secret Sauce in Cray’s XK6 Hybrid Supercomputer
In this podcast , Cray’s Barry Bolding describes the secret sauce in the company’s new Cray XK6 hybrid supercomputer. Scalable to 50 Petaflops, the Cray XK6 is expected to start shipping later this year. Capable of tens of millions of MPI messages ...
Feed Item - 25 May 2011
- Human Skin Cells Converted Directly To Neurons
Dr. Eggman writes "Stanford's School of Medicine brings us an update in the latest achievements towards in-vitro neuron generation via redifferentiation of specialized cells (skin cells in this case.) This important progress follows on last year's succe ...
Feed Item - 28 May 2011
- GridPP storage news | Summary of GridPP storage workshop at GridPP26
The full agenda is here (scroll down to "end of main meeting" :-), with presentations attached: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp26/ Thanks again to all the sysadmins for the interesting discussions, very technical and with a high level of expertise ...
Feed Item - 11 April 2011
- isgtw: Are we at the turning point in the history of social science? http://bit.ly/lgqt86 #fet11 #ICT @FuturICT
isgtw: Are we at the turning point in the history of social science? http://bit.ly/lgqt86 #fet11 #ICT @FuturICT ...
Feed Item - 5 May 2011
- isgtw: "Anyone who says they can predict something without data is either a palm reader or a business analyst" - László Barabási #fet11
isgtw: "Anyone who says they can predict something without data is either a palm reader or a business analyst" - László Barabási #fet11 ...
Feed Item - 5 May 2011
- digs grids and clouds that have user-friendly GUIs.
digs grids and clouds that have user-friendly GUIs. ...
Feed Item - 9 July 2010
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