Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Dr. Eva Surmacz is an internationally recognized expert in cancer biology. Dr. Surmacz is the Director of the Obesity and Cancer Program at Sbarro Health Research Organization. Her research interests include the link between obesity and cancer, crosstalk between growth factor and steroid receptors in cancer progression, and development of ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
This is a highly personal list of Top 10 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY all-time faves -
Assignment in Eternity by Robert Heinlein
The War Against the Rull by A.E. Van Vogt
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Dr. Michael W. Deem is Professor in Biochemical and Genetic Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Deem works in the areas of evolution and immunology. focusing on biological issues involving randomness, diversity, and correlations.
Dr. Deem has developed a physical theory of the competition that allows HIV to escape from the immune ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot is an internationally acknowledged and recognized mathematician. He originated the field of fractal geometry, and showed how fractals occur in many diverse places, both in nature and mathematics.
Dr. Mandebrot published The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982), recognized by The American Scientist as one of the most influential ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Renewable energy - primarily in the form of solar power - may be available on a mass-produced scale within ten years or so. Nanotechnology will have a great deal to do with this breakthrough.
Nanotechnology - building very small machines from even smaller parts - is leading-edge tech at the intersection ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Food riots. Worldwide rice shortages. Soaring commodity prices. Putting food on the table is becoming a global problem. Sustainable agriculture may have solutions for some of our most pressing and immediate needs.
Dr. Thomas Tomich is the Director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute, and Professor of Community Development, Environmental Science, and ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
David De Rothschild is the author of THE LIVE EARTH GLOBAL WARMING SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change, the 160-page official companion volume to Live Earth, held on 7-7-07.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was the Chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection and Partner of Live ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Dr. Andrew Fire is the co-discoverer of RNA interference. He is the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor, Departments of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Fire’s lab studies the mechanisms by which cells and organisms respond to genetic change.
The genetic landscape faced by a ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Dr. Francis Barany is Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Program of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at Cornell/Sloan Kettering Institute in New York City. Dr. Barany is also Director of Mutation Research at the Strang Cancer Prevention Center. He is program director of two multi-center NCI and NIAID grants ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Dr. Charis Eng is Chair and Founding Director of the Genomic Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Dr. Eng’s research interests may be broadly characterized as clinical cancer genetics translational research. Her work on RET ...
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