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Elektra, my companion female Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 April 2008 [larger view].
Elektra was one of the survivors.
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That is a quote from Rachel Wright who gave a stem cell transplant to her mother who had a rare form of cancer called mantle-cell lymphoma. Rachel's stem cells allowed her mother another three years of life. Now, according to the Yakima Herald, Rachel Wright is on a crusade to educate people about adult stem cells:
Now she's on a mission to share her mother's story and educate people about the promising role of stem cells in the war on cancer. The topic is often inflamed by debate over the ethics of using cells derived from 5- to 6-day-old embryos. Stem cells from adults are often misunderstood, said Wright. "I didn't even know an adult could give stem cells."
"But stem cells aren't this big scary thing," she said.
Unfortunately, Mary Wright has passed, but her family is continuing the fight:
similar itemsFor Rachel, her brother Jonathan, who is a Seattle urologist, and their father, retired Yakima lawyer Larry Wright, it's important to keep building. They've set up the Mary Wright Memorial Fund at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. The Web site is www.marywrightmemorial.com.
Stephen Francoeur reports that Urban Library Journal (formerly known as Urban Academic Librarian) will convert to OA. It is a refereed journal published by the Library Association of the City University of New York.
similar itemsChristian Zimmermann, RePEc in June 2008, The RePEc blog, July 3, 2008.
Comment. If I'm reading this right, then the number of papers in RePEc has grown by 20% in under a year. Those are remarkable growth figures, if that's the case.similar itemsJune was a surpisingly busy month, especially in terms of content expansion. We have now reached 600,000 works listed on RePEc, and it took only 10 months to add the last 100,000. Traffic was also heavy for the season, reaching 584,843 downloads and 2,803,705 abstract views.
The following institutions joined RePEc with an archive: World Scientific Publishing, Queens College (CUNY), GEFRA, Kobe University, Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW), Université d’Auvergne, Universtät Freiburg, Società Italiana degli Economisti. Finally, here are the thresholds we reached this month:
140,000,000 cumulative abstract views
100,000,000 cumulative abstract views on IDEAS
45,000,000 cumulative abstract views for articles
600,000 listed works
350,000 articles listed
300,000 online articles listed
240,000 working papers listed
180,000 working paper abstracts
150,000 items with references
120,000 article abstracts
20,000 NEP reports
The International Journal of BioSciences and Technology is a new peer-reviewed OA journal sponsored by the VM University. The inaugural issue is now available. (Thanks to ICAAP.)
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John Sulston, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize for medicine, has launched a new research institute, the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston is using the launch to highlight his views on openness in science and the need to reform innovation and intellectual property policy. (Thanks to Subbiah Arunachalam.)
See the op-ed co-authored by Sulston and Joseph Stiglitz in the July 5 edition of The Times:
... The question of “Who owns science?” is therefore a crucial one, the answer to which will have broad-reaching implications for scientific progress and for the way in which the benefits of science are distributed, fairly or otherwise. Two of the most pressing issues concern equity of access to scientific knowledge and the useful products that arise from that knowledge. ...
The second issue we wish to highlight is that of access to science itself. The ideal shared by almost all scientists is that science should be open and transparent, not just in its practices and procedures, but so that the results and the knowledge generated through research should be freely accessible to all. There is a broad consensus in the scientific community that such openness and transparency promotes the advancement of science and enhances the likelihood that the benefits of science are enjoyed by all. For more than a hundred years, these principles have been the bedrock of academia and the scientific community.
We call upon all interested in the future of science to join with us in an active and open-ended search for answers.
See also coverage in The Times and the BBC.similar itemsMartin Rundqvist reviews the History Channel documentary, "Journey to 10,000 BC." The doc focuses on "Clovis-era North American archaeology and paleontology."
Overall, the film has very poor visuals. It looks cheap, it's repetitive and it conveys a lot of wordless errors. We get endless ugly machinima-level computer animation combined with bluescreened live actors who interact with beasties that aren't visible to them. There are many cloned copies of each digital being, with jerky movements that Harryhausen wouldn't have accepted 40 years ago.
The date is such an interesting one, as indicated by the (now) two film attempts. I'd really like to see someone do a good documentary or book about it. Rundqvist does write that the academics in the film do a good job. It's an exciting time for that subject, with new genetic and archaeological discoveries every few months.
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Just a short post today. On nights when I’m not too tired, I’ve been going out looking for moths after dark. Sometimes I set up a bug-zapper lamp wrapped in a white sheet (to prevent moth fatalities), and other times, I just walk around the garden with a flashlight, watching for moths moving between the trees or through the vegetation. That’s how I got the above photo of the Common Lytrosis moth (Lytrosis unitaria - Hodges 6720). I saw it flying to a small apple tree in the garden, so followed it and took a few photos. I love the wood-grained look of its wings (click on images for larger views).
Below is a shot of an Orange-barred Carpet Moth (Dysstroma hersiliata - Hodge 7189) that was attracted by the bug-zapper lamp. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a few of these occasionally make an appearance. It looks to me like it was “detailed” by someone who paints flames on hotrods.
If you’re interested in viewing some of the other moths I’ve photographed, visit my Moth Gallery on Pbase. I add a few new moths every few days.
Tags: Common Lytrosis, Lytrosis unitaria, Orange-barred Carpet Moth, Dysstroma hersiliata
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