Weekly Science Media Recap: Week 11

• Campaign for Science & Engineering in the UK, a valid case that needs support.
• A fantastic letter to dear Chiropracters…from Science.
• All those fantastic fMRI studies could be in trouble. “fMRI doesn’t give consistent results twice in the same person” http://dlvr.it/BZQz
• Sleep awareness week just passed by, here’s an interesting piece. Sleep Disorders Are No Laughing Matter http://goo.gl/fb/mhWa
• The benefits of public engagement in science. http://bit.ly/aO1eI5 a publication by Research Councils UK.
• A very interesting concept and nice talk: Why should we stop watching TV and do something? http://bit.ly/6rpTt Clay Shirky on our ‘Cognitive Surplus’
• Interview with Aubrey de Grey: Published at LabLit http://goo.gl/fb/tP3f
• “TED: Suspended Animation Is Within Our Grasp ” - http://digg.com/d21LkHa?t10
• The 3-D invisibity cloak: It’s real [tiny]! http://bit.ly/dsetDP
• Could Forensic Scientists ID You Based on Your “Bacterial Fingerprint”? http://bit.ly/cBFbcn
• And of course there was this piece in the Guardian, “Why that Guardian Darwin article is awful. The polite version: http://is.gd/aP63v The blunt one: http://is.gd/aP654“

Other News

• IPL 2010 completed it’s first week and it has been such a great experience watching it live on youtube. Yes, there is a five minute delay but I’m not that bothered about it. There were a few glitches on youtube on day 1 but that was expected. It was also a lot of fun watching the highlights of the previous IPL matches. It would be great to have the ability to choose the camera-views, something for the future IPL coverage on youtube.
• Google’s Nexus One, a failure?
• Join OxTwestival if you are in Oxford on March 25th.
• Blog post on my experience of TEDxWarwick 2010 http://goo.gl/fb/u9tH
• Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 9 – with support for HTML5 http://bit.ly/91lM7P
• Foreign Universities Bill: Will it bring a Revolution in Higher Education? http://goo.gl/fb/Iekg
• Why that Guardian Darwin article is awful. The polite version: http://is.gd/aP63v The blunt one: http://is.gd/aP654
• Online IPL a big success: Google India MD http://bit.ly/csfqHK

Hope you enjoyed the weekly recap. I thought sharing interesting science and news weekly would be a good idea for my blog. Would love a feedback on this idea.

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