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J A Ginsburg Gone Tracking...

Poor germtales hasn't had much attention paid to it these past few months...

I have been busy launching a new news aggregator - TrackerNews.net - that focuses on health, humanitarian work and technology that supports both. It has a few twists… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on December 2, 2008 at 1:28pm — No Comments

J A Ginsburg Life at 10x and Beyond: Lichens, a Liverwort, a Microscope and Me...

It was bound to happen. The only wonder was it hadn't happened sooner. Someone finally sat me down in front of a microscope and said, "Look!"

(photo source: backyardnature.net -- great site for a quick backgrounder on lichens… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on July 27, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

J A Ginsburg Just Blink...

(art source: Purdue University) Standing outside in the dark, surrounded by the silent dance of fireflies, I am put in my place. More than the songs of birds, the whirr of… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on July 6, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

J A Ginsburg Sea-Ice Splash and Tipsy Trees...

(Animation showing the age of the Arctic sea ice from 1982 to 2007. Ice greater than 5 years old (in red) has mostly been replaced by much younger ice (in blue) credit: N… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on June 28, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

J A Ginsburg Floods, Bugs and (GM) Bugs that Eat Bugs....

A little spider, the color of a terra cotta pot, dangles in the air above the begonias on the sill outside my kitchen window. "You go girl!," I cheer silently. "Have yourself a feast." In the last day or two, just in time for decent weather, squadrons-worth of mosquito-misery have… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on June 25, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

J A Ginsburg Disaster(ous) Planning: On Floods, Food and Soil....

I grabbed this map from a New Scientist article on the global food crisis, "What Price More Food" (Debora Mackenzie, June 11, 2008), which, unfortunately, is locked behind a subscription wall. If you can get hold of a copy, it's one of the bet… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on June 22, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

J A Ginsburg A Few Good Links....

I was curious about the conference my friend Ed Jezierski of InSTEDD is attending in South Africa, so I did a little sleuthing and ended up wandering links.... When he has a chance to catch his breath, I am hoping Ed publishes a few posts himself, but in the meantime, armed with some Twitter hints, I found: HISA:, which I am guessing stands for "Health Informatics South Africa," although nowhere on the site does it actually say (sigh...everyb… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on June 17, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

J A Ginsburg What Do Cedar Rapids and Sichuan Have in Common?...

(see more photos and video of floods in China) The view outside my morning coffee wind… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on June 16, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

J A Ginsburg Promising New Flu Vaccine Aces Phase I & II Trials...

The results of phase I and II trials of Baxter's new cell culture-based flu vaccine is the headliner story in this week's New England Journal of Medicine. Lots of good news: * It takes only 12 weeks to grow the vaccine in cell culture, versus 22 weeks in fertilized chicken eggs (The culture is from a 46-year-old cell line derived from the kidneys of African Green monkeys. Just curious -- but does anybody know why a particu… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on June 12, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

J A Ginsburg The Birds Are Back in Town...

The first robins arrived about two weeks ago, optimistic opportunists who entered with a song and were greeted with a blizzard. According to Tom Skilling, a Chicago weatherman whose earnest passion for meteorological detail never fails to amaze, we have had almost twice as many “measurable snow days” this year (42) as last year (22): “The most in 27 years.” Yet, after months of shoveling, car-scraping and ice-chipping, all the e… Continue

Added by J A Ginsburg on March 27, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

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