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holdren = sci advisor, will join Harold Varmus, Eric Lander on Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology http://is.gd/cG2H |
obama makes it official in radio address, nominates lubchenco to NOAA post http://is.gd/cG2H |
@krelnik have liked previous simon singh books but haven't read that one - will have to check it out. #scibooks |
@EviEyeMonster we're on live Fri 2-4pm ET on various pub radio stations, plus a sirius channel. info on stations/streams: http://is.gd/cG00 |
@mandydax I liked Offit's book--we had him on in August to discuss. http://www.sciencefriday.co... /christopher |
ha - @badastronomer has lots of fans - so far 3 or 4 of you have suggested his 'death from the skies' #scibooks |
disturbing - milgram's 1963 electric shock experiment redone today, with much the same results. http://is.gd/cyXh |
@kvanh used that trick to clean hot pepper dust out of a coffee grinder once after powdering some dried peppers. wasn't a burr grinder tho. |
weirdness - DM's appearing/disappearing from inbox. seems like sometimes i hit one twitter server that isn't in sync w/others or something |
andrew revkin at ny times collecting q's for obama's sci-tech advisors, will fwd on the top-rated q's to the obama team. http://is.gd/cD9z |
@Fypast welcome - glad to have you! |
anyone got any good sci/tech/enviro/med book suggestions from this year? trying to put together a 2008 yr-in-review reading list. #scibooks |
@Fypast it works reasonably well ;) |
@matthewgood @jeffreymcmanus that's true, aside from some notable exceptions in northern Europe maybe? |
@nevadawolf certainly-field biology or shopper tracking (like Paco from last week) could probably benefit from mobile computing.other ideas? |
@matthewgood love the tweeting houseplant...though I'd probably just buy more houseplants for the $99 price tag. /christopher |
@jeffreymcmanus true, it's hard to imagine doing all work-related tasks on a 3x5" screen.. |
@ivanoransky good point-although I guess as Pendlebury says: "..to get any [correct predictions] using this method is noteworthy." |
hey everyone, thanks for tuning in...see you next week |
correlation between highly cited papers and who will win the Nobel prize...for example, RNA interference paper authors |
