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Oops, He Did IT Again -- And Again! |
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Friday, 09 April 2010 00:56 |
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 The Italian astronomer, Andrea Boattini, from the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, National Research Council) in Rome, currently working at Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona, discovered a new comet -- the second, in 2010, and the thirteenth of his collection.
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After Sweet the Revolution? |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 03:34 |
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 Focus is shifting from Judge Sweet’s, 152 pages, landmark opinion -- AMP (Association for Molecular Pathology et al.) v. US Patent & Trademark Office, 1:09-cv-04515-RWS Doc. 255 — ruling that the DNA is unpatentable to the more fundamental question whether Gene Patent is needed for the biotechnology industry’s survival and biomedical advance. After all, as NIH Director Francis Collins writes in Nature -- Human Genome at ten Opinion, Has the revolution arrived ? — “free and open access to genome data has had a profoundly positive effect on progress.”
From the prospective of the biotechnology industry itself, the transition from single gene testing to multiplex testing and whole-genome sequencing, arguably makes gene patentability less relevant than many still claim. In addition, the National Institutes of Health has recently announced that by 2011 “researchers, consumers, health care providers, and others” will be able to search a Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) for information submitted voluntarily by genetic test providers. The GTR is a clearly stated effort to provide access to information on the more than 1,600 genetic tests of which patients and consumers are not currently informed for lack of a “single public resource that provides detailed information” about the tests that are available to them. The evaluation and the impact of NIH Genetic Testing Registry on genetic testing laboratories, personal genomics service providers, as well as purchasers of genetic tests are now being evaluated -- Has the revolution arrived?
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* Photo credits: http://singularityhub.com/tag/robert-sweet/ |
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“Change They Will” — Reconsidering The Business of Law Firms in the US |
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Monday, 05 April 2010 01:28 |
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Under recessionary pricing pressures, the future of law firm economics, writes Dan Slate – "At Law Firms, Reconsidering the Model for Associates' Pay," NYT, April 1, 2010 F10 — is changing in the US. In prospective, there may be in waiting a far more competitive landscape for law graduates hired by law firms. The assumption is that too many of the incoming associates are overpaid under the current system, though not on an absolute basis. The law firms’ attitude is changing accordingly, as firms restructure their associate programs, rethink their ways of hiring, training and compensating associates —- much alike business minded organizations, firms began experimenting with tiered associate programs and investment of resources on best recruits graduates identified as “partner potential” for their skill sets, at hiring. Whether the law firms’ new associative programs will be sustainable over the long term may be debatable, but “change they will” declared Christopher Boies , head of the corporate group at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, one of America’s top firms.
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Monday, 05 April 2010 01:17 |
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 The most exciting area of new research for literary scholars? The Brain, actually, “mind reading.” Take Virginia Woolf for example: “how do readers keep up with the “six different mental states“ -- or “levels of intentionality” Woolf’s reading requires from them?’ Patricia Cohen’s report “Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know That You Know” in the NYT, April 1, 2010 — describes the interest of literary scholars -– as well as of art historians, historians and political scientists — for the technology of brain imaging and cognitive science to answer similar questions. The “cross-pollination” of science and humanities -- which has several facets -- provides great “hope” at this time, when “university literature departments are confronting painful budget cuts, a moribund job market and pointed scrutiny about the purpose and value of an education in the humanities.”
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From Big Bang to Big Questions |
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 00:54 |
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| Photo credit: The Guardian |
The LHC groundbreaking experiment hails a “new era.” CERN will be tackling the Big Questions. CERN -- writes Dennis Overbye in the NYT -- enjoys some comparative advantage "with a budget and dues established by treaty" and "a long-term stability that is the envy of American labs." But it's one "good" rivalry with Fermilab -- for funding at least and Peter Higgs' satisfaction.
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Italians Abroad — Just Another Passing Fad? |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:10 |
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 The Italian-language newspapers have been a staple of the Italian expatriates’ life, shaping -- with different focus of interests and political purposes — the experience of the Italians abroad. The Italian government has recently announced drastic cuts in public funding — so severe that it may be “death by a thousands cut” even for the most established press geared to the expatriate community. The benefits of the sweeping reduction pressed by the Italian government appear not only dubious, but also inconsistent with Italy’s heralded policy of attention towards “expatriate Italy.” Perhaps "Italians abroad" are just another passing fad, as Stella implies in the editorial “Italiani all’estero «traditi». Fondi tagliati ai loro giornali”?
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