Munich has a long tradition (“Münchner Lach und Schiessgesellschaft“) of doing political comedy, known as “Kabarett” . Yesterday evening we have been in Schwabing’s “Lustpielhaus” to see Hagen Rether. Excellent, I would not have to write a science blog if I could earn my money by entertaining people on such a level …
In case you have never read at full consciousness the copyright statements that some journals want to you to sign, here is one:
In consideration of the expenses of editing and publishing and the professional benefits relating to publication of my article or other written work, as specified above, I assign exclusively to the XXXX Society all right, title, and interest to my article or other written work, as specified above, and any ….
In consideration of the cumbersome training of a MD/PhD student I want 50% of their future salary ;-) yea, yea.
I confess: I have clicked here
Following a frequent request, here is a short video how to create your own Pubmed news feed. You simply need the Sage plugin for Firefox; then goto to Pubmed, create your personal RSS feed and import this URL into the bookmark category that Sage is looking for. Here is the show: Continue reading Any new paper? A video cast how to stay informed
“Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt” (Fallada) – following my linux box post yesterday here is my lunch box for today. I think it is as good as the Japanese BentÅ box, isn´t it?
Allergy research continues to be one of the most active research fields. New studies show that that fullerenes may inhibit the allergic response
Human MC and peripheral blood basophils exhibited a significant inhibition of IgE dependent mediator release when preincubated with C60 fullerenes.
Continue reading Allergy – everything from fullerenes to cannabis
This is a German quote – frequently used in the context of alternative medicine – “who heals is right”.
The history of the qutotation is unclear; maybe it is a modification of the Latin “extra ecclesiam salus non est” .
In todays English “the doctor’s always right” (or “might is right”?)
Anyway it is utter nonsense as (1) a healer wants to be successful and not rightful (2) healing (at least on a few occasions) is no proof for the right treatment only fo the good outcome.
That seems a usual phenomenon now: I am reading an interesting article (at Edge), want to know more about an author (Fitch) and end at a storming website at University of Tübingen (recording new German words). German linguistics seem to merge day after day with English linguistics.
Here is a little scientific experiment for you – click wadsworth.com/psychology_d. My results:
(had to answer a phone call during the third trial ;-)
There is a new way to display Wikipedia content: WikiMindMap. Nice to view but it seems there are more ethanol related hazards…
.. is the central rule of typography but is it also valid in science? More on LaTeX writing and presentation at the blog above.
Thanks to C.S.J. for telling me about the studies of Robert Levine and others.
The pace of life in cities around the world is literally getting faster, a study shows.
Psychologists have measured the speed at which people walk and discovered a 10 per cent increase in the past decade. The findings, from 32 countries, reflect the increasing numbers of people living in the fast lane.
The page above Continue reading On the fast lane
“Fit statt fett” is a program discussed today in German parliament. Although all experts agree on the problem they disagree on goals and methods, saying that this is a waste of money by overweight experts sitting round the table. Continue reading Fit for Fat or so
There is a nice online study by Trevor Cox on bad vibes which reminds me to a recent comment in Nature: Let the people sing … The most recent development is certainly the digitalorchestraleague postmodern conductors will have game consoles to arrange sound files.
There was a funny comment by Friedemann Schrenk in a recent radio duo podcast [link to br online] that the human head sits with a wrong orientation on the human body as the pipelines for food and air cross over. Continue reading Human head with wrong orientation?