Reports From the River
A new blog just debuted that we thought was worth sharing.
We’re happy to learn that George Whitesides has won the inaugural Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.
Several interactive/multimedia/real-time swine flu tracking pages have popped up in the recent days. Please weigh in on what you like/dislike about the ones mentioned below.
While such a vaccine is not ready yet, government researchers are in the midst of promising research into a vaccine that could help prevent all kind of flu, even those that have not even happened yet.
Before you start digging that hole, aren’t you wondering where to get the tree? The Arbor Day Foundation has you covered.
Trolling the web today, we found a decent primer on the issue of seafood and pitfalls like overfishing or the unintended effects of aquaculture.
Image: Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna, courtesy NOAA
In the movie “Be Kind, Rewind,” Jack Black plays a man who is magnetized and erases an entire store-full of video tapes. But can people really be “magnetic?” In this ScienCentral News video, meet a boy who calls himself “Magneto Man,” and has a reputation for making computers go wild.