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Only took, what, 2 months to post this... - Shiran Pasternak

Jeremy, thanks - Deepak Singh

Let's not forget cure cancer, cut through metal, and pick up any stain. It's all there, in the Science paper. - Shiran Pasternak

Thank goodness. Been very worried about how to cut through metal these days - Jonathan Eisen

"Every weekday, thousands of researchers around the world access the Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), which contains the most reliable and up-to-date genomic information available on the most widely used model organism in the plant kingdom. But now, to those users' horror, TAIR faces collapse: the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is phasing out funding after 10 years as the data resource's sole supporter (see page 258). TAIR's plight is emblematic of a broader crisis facing many of the world's biological databases and repositories. Research funding agencies recognize that such infrastructures are crucial to the ongoing conduct of science, yet few are willing to finance them indefinitely. Such agencies tend to support these resources during the development phase, but then expect them to find sustainable funding elsewhere." - Michael Nielsen

Cool - I used to read sequence on films as well :-) Genotyping will be on top of my wish list for Christmas. I need to decide on 23andme , DecodeMe or another supplier. I may go with DecodeMe just to support them....if they still exist... - Nils Reinton

@Bill, @Todd I'll dig out some of my old ones and send them to you for christmas...if you're lucky you'll get some of those with smiley bands in the corners and edges of the gel :-) - Nils Reinton

"Jill Bolte Taylor was a neuroscientist working at Harvard's brain research center when she experienced nirvana. The incessant chatter that normally filled her mind disappeared. She could see that the atoms and molecules making up her body blended with the space around her; the whole world and the creatures in it were all part of the same magnificent field of shimmering energy. 'My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my skin met air,' she has written in her memoir, 'My Stroke of Insight.' Today, she says, she is a new person, one who 'can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere' on command and be 'one with all that is.' To her it is not faith, but science. Her message, that people can choose to live a more peaceful, spiritual life by sidestepping their left brain, has resonated widely. She was chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2008." See also her video at TED http://www.ted.com/index... [thanks to @paul for posting the NYT article] #rsvp01 - Adriano from Bookmarklet

Nice. While I like and appreicate good visualizations, there are too many cases (networks are my current bug bea), where it seems that the goal is just to make pretty pictures. In those cases, it has seemed to me that unless I know what I'm looking for, the visualization is worse than a summary (for practical purposes). Of course a combination of vis and summary is ideal. - Rajarshi Guha

It is so cool to see Processing used to display scientific data! It can really lead to wider usage of advanced open source data vis libraries and APIs, that includes Google, NYT, and others. Check out the Javascript Processing.js which nicely expands the cross platform compatibility. If you get a chance to put more examples on github it would be appreciated, looking forward to seeing what else you are working on =) - Mike Chelen