The Segway’s are cool, eh? Of course there was some hype early on but they are cool machines, and a lot of fun to ride. And for some reason they still haven’t caught on very well. This afternoon I was at my local BestBuy and saw a Segway being ridden through the […]

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I said I was going to introduce the participants at ScienceOnline09 in non-daily but larger batches. So, today, I introduce a large contingent of people coming from the National Institute of Environemental Health Sciences (NIEHS):
NIEHS News Director Robin Mackar
Web Manager Cheryl Thompson
Biomedical Librarian Stephanie Holmgren
Signal Transduction researcher Ren Rongqin
Signal Transduction researcher Danielle Duma
Signal Transduction researcher […]

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An article in The Straits Times from newswire Associated Press (AP) drew my attention to a festering disagreement between proponents of an innovative global sharing initiative for influenza information and the World Health Organization, the official UN Agency that has run the global influenza surveillance system for more than a half century. The new system, […]

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