Venter team creates first synthetic living cell (via Venter team creates first synthetic living cell | TG Daily)
May 21, 2010
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May 2, 2010
stellate ganglion block for PTSD. How could it work? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20412504
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April 28, 2010
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April 27, 2010
PowerPoint’s worst offense is … rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a conflict’s causes) that take no account of interconnected political, economic and ethnic forces.
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April 10, 2010
essential oil from thyme - a spice frequently used in Mediterranean cooking - killed almost all of the bacterium in a petri dish within an hour. Almost as effective was cinnamon oil.
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April 9, 2010
Create poster using R and Openoffice on Kubuntu
To generate eps files in R:
postscript(file ="xx.eps", onefile=F, paper=special, height=xx, width=xx)To generate poster in Openoffice Impress:
set page size
To import eps files with preview into Impress:
#!/bin/sh outfile=`basename $1 .eps`_so.eps pstools -t6p $1 $outfileTo print to PDF:
Install cups-pdf package
print on A0 paper
10:21 am
rename Drosophila melanogaster to Sophophora melanogaster. This means updating hundreds of databases and dozens of genome sequences, and dealing with the fact that most existing scientific literature refers to this species by a different name. (via Demotion commotion: First Pluto, now fruit flies?)
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March 31, 2010
Creat “Send via Kmail” menu item in Dolphin
I’ve been feeling the need of such a menu item for a while. It finally bugged me enough to Google it. And it turns out to be very easy to do: Here is the link
[Desktop Entry] Type=Service Icon=dolphin ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,all/allfiles Actions=Send_to_KMail X-KDE-menu=Email X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel [Desktop Action Send_to_KMail] Name=Send file(s) with KMail Exec=kmail --attach %U Icon=kmail
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March 30, 2010
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