Updates: Malaysia Jatropha News

post from Nerdy Science Blog on 16 May 2008 11:20:46 PM. © Nerdy Science Blog

Energy Current (8/5/2008):Mission also intends to begin producing biodiesel from jatropha seeds next year. The biodiesel producer has contracted 200,000 acres (80,937 hectares) of farmland in Malaysia to grow jatropha and expects to expand the land area to increase to 750,000 acres (303,514 hectares) by the end of 2008. The total land area [...]

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West 86th Street Subway Art 5

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 16 May 2008 09:59:55 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

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West 86th Street Subway tile mosaic art #5
as seen at NYC's West 86th Street stop at Broadway for the uptown 1 train.
(This piece was completed in 1989 and was mounted on 2 July 2006).

Artist: Nitza Tufino.

Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].

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Good luck, Dave!

post from Pharyngula on 16 May 2008 08:23:26 PM. © Pharyngula

It's the end of our semester, and there's another transition here: one of our colleagues, Dave Hoppe, is retiring, to our regret but to his happy progress. We all got together for a retirement dinner yesterday, so here's the happy crew, the entire UMM biology discipline.

From left to right: Chris Cole, Tracey Anderson, Margaret Kuchenreuther, Dave Hoppe, PZ Myers, Timna Wyckoff, Pete Wyckoff, Van Gooch

We hope Dave can still drag himself away from his lakefront home to say hello to us all now and then!

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Climate Camp Goes Viral

post from Climate Change Action on 16 May 2008 07:50:00 PM. © Climate Change Action

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Pickens Mesa Power Orders 1,000 MW of Wind
Turbines

post from The Energy Blog on 16 May 2008 07:48:00 PM. © The Energy Blog

Per press release, edited slightly: Mesa Power LLP, a company created by T. Boone Pickens, has placed an order with General Electric to purchase 667, 1.5 megawatt wind turbines for the worlds largest wind farm, capable of generating 1,000 megawatts, nameplate, of electricity, enough to power more...

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Live-blogging the ISEF

post from Pharyngula on 16 May 2008 06:35:58 PM. © Pharyngula

You people all need to get on over to Sciencewomen — she's been blogging the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. This is the stuff of the next generation of scientists!

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In Soviet Russia, UFOs report YOU

post from Bad Astronomy Blog on 16 May 2008 05:58:02 PM. © Bad Astronomy Blog

OK, I know, but in my defense I saw Jakov Smirnoff live years ago and he was really funny. Honestly.Anyway, my bud James Oberg has a great article on MSNBC about UFO sightings. He reports on one in detail that took place in Eastern Europe and Russia a few years ago. It sounds like an [...]

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Drug fends off kidney cancer progression

post from Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money on 16 May 2008 05:21:23 PM. © Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money

New data from an international, multicenter Phase III clinical trial has found that the experimental targeted therapy everolimus (RAD001) significantly delays cancer progression in patients with metastatic kidney cancer whose disease had worsened on other treatments.

Gambling on the climate

Should scientists place bets on how well they can predict the future? I'm not talking about inter-lab wagers on the outcome of some arcane experiment. Such games are commonplace, and usually involve ersatz currencies such as beers or domestic services. But what about real money on something as consequential as a computer model of climate trends? Is that consistent with the professional detachment that's supposed to accompany honest research?

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