How to create a Great PowerPoint Presentation
on Nov 21, 2009 in Biological sciences Dr Shock MD PhD How to Create a Great PowerPoint – Take 2.0 from Alvin Trusty on Vimeo . This is a very long video but it addresses some useful tips and tricks how to make nice slides in powerpoint. It starts with a ballroom presentation or a p...

Small tent conservation
on Nov 21, 2009 in Biological sciences Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog Conservation is about saving wildlife and wild places in specific locales. Steven Sanderson is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wildlife Conservation Society, so he has to say that. But of course we all...

Plagiarism: Common Misconceptions about Plagiarism and Patents: A Call for an Independent Inventor Defense
on Nov 21, 2009 in Economics and Social Sciences Against Monopoly Defenders of patents commonly say they are against innovators’ ideas being “stolen” or “plagiarized.” This implies that patents simply permit an innovator to sue those who copy his idea. This position be...

Recommended reading: From Statistics to Fort Hood
on Nov 20, 2009 in Biological sciences Dr Shock MD PhD Recommended reading is a weekly summary of interesting posts and selected links I posted on Twitter Evidence in Medicine: Correlation and Causation Source: Science-Based Medicine Now this will be in my link book. Done with no furthe...

Innovation: Jeff Tucker’s Speech on IP
on Nov 20, 2009 in Economics and Social Sciences Against Monopoly Truly fantastic speech by Jeff Tucker on the problems of intellectual property. Go to Publisher to continue reading...

How to feed the world, Economist-style
on Nov 20, 2009 in Biological sciences Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog Today’s Economist has a Leader and two articles about feeding the hungry, one on Monsanto and one on markets. Not surprising, coming hard on the heels of this week’s World Food Summit. There’s also t...

INVISIBLE OCTOPUS
on Nov 20, 2009 in Biological sciences bjoern.brembs.net Björn Brembs INVISIBLE OCTOPUS – http://www.youtube.com/watch… 8 hours ago from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like Go to Publisher to continue reading...

Leftism and IP: Leftist Attacks on the Google Book Settlement
on Nov 20, 2009 in Economics and Social Sciences Against Monopoly I posted the following comment to Cory Doctorow’s BoingBoing post Competition and Google Book Search: Cory, Google is not perfect but the attacks on them for attempting this seem to me to be demonizing the wrong party. The prob...

A mold that changed the course of history
on Nov 20, 2009 in Biological sciences Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog Here’s part two of that series on late blight I mentioned back on Wednesday. Of course you cannot do justice to the whole story in a teeny blog post, and the author does link to one of the books about the Great...

Piracy: How Digital "Piracy" Creates Value
on Nov 19, 2009 in Economics and Social Sciences Against Monopoly EBay just sold a large portion of Skype after a long legal dispute with Skype’s founders. What interested me was the Skype’s code evolved from the founders’ earlier venture, the file-sharing system, Kazaa. In effe...