Archives: Fly image wins photo prize

Fly image wins photo prize

Nature 451, 1054 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511054b

Author: Joanne Baker
This image of a live Drosophila larva in a water droplet has won the photographic competition that forms part of celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Winner Robert Markus, of the Biological Research Center of

Biopiracy started with a bounce

Nature 451, 1055 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511055a

Author: Michael Gollin
Some people call it the original act of ‘biopiracy.’ In 1876, Henry Wickham, a self-trained rubber tapper under contract to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London collected 70,000 highly perishable Hevea rubber seeds from Santarém in Brazil. Wickham rushed them on a

Wikileaks sent out this reponse to Baer’s press release on the shut-down. Baer alleges that they couldn’t negotiate with Wikileaks. This is a lie. Wikileaks at all times responded with grace and dignity to BJBs highly irregular demands and left communication open. A full record of the correspondence is available on http://Wikileaks.be/ The last letter […]

With the increasing demand for storage — video content and disk-based backups — professional Mac users often use hard disk mechanisms like floppies. Now storage vendors are enabling this bare drive workflow with a variety of disk adapters and protectors. On the desk and bookshelves in my office, I have stacks of drives in enclosures […]

Biopiracy started with a bounce

Nature 451, 1055 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511055a

Author: Michael Gollin
Some people call it the original act of ‘biopiracy.’ In 1876, Henry Wickham, a self-trained rubber tapper under contract to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London collected 70,000 highly perishable Hevea rubber seeds from Santarém in Brazil. Wickham rushed them on a

A feverish imagination

Nature 451, 1056 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511056a

Author: Martin Kemp
There was more to Ronald Ross (1857–1932) than his Nobel Prize for discovering the role of the Anopheles mosquito in the transmission of malaria. Ross’s Memoirs paint a picture of a driven man, intolerant of petty-minded administrators, whose inner life was coloured by
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A feverish imagination

Nature 451, 1056 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511056a

Author: Martin Kemp
There was more to Ronald Ross (1857–1932) than his Nobel Prize for discovering the role of the Anopheles mosquito in the transmission of malaria. Ross’s Memoirs paint a picture of a driven man, intolerant of petty-minded administrators, whose inner life was coloured by
Technorati Tags: life

Hidden treasures: Eise Eisinga Planetarium

Nature 451, 1057 (2008). doi:10.1038/4511057a

Author: Alison Abbot
The world’s oldest functioning planetarium was built by an eighteenth-century wool-comber in the Netherlands. Alison Abbot reports, in the second of her monthly series on small museums

More and more people enjoy “pimping their rides” as a pastime. Some prefer to work solely on the chassis. Putting just one or two custom items on really makes a change in how the old jalopy looks. Others really like to fine tune their engines. There are auto parts lots in the neighborhood, but it’s […]

A new BlackBerry Patent app just published Thursday describes technology for a BlackBerry device with a slide-out keyboard. The Patent app is entitled,  Hybrid Portrait-Landscape Handheld Device With Trackball Navigation and Qwerty Hideaway Keyboard. The Patent abstract, and the accompanying illustration, pretty much tells us what we need to know. Here’s the Abstract: A device […]