The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Posts $150,000 Challenge on InnoCentive in Search of New Approaches to AIDS Vaccine Design
Seeking Novel Protein Design to Help Solve the Neutralizing Antibody Problem. "Solvers who deliver the most innovative solutions receive financial awards ranging up to US$1,000,000."
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Shame on Eastman Chemical
Chemical & Engineering News: Business Concentrates - Eastman Enters Korean Acetate Tow Fiber Venture
According to C&EN (Jan. 5, 2009, p.13), "The acetate fiber is used to manufacture cigarette filters, a market with significant growth in Asia." Shame on Eastman Chemical for promoting, expanding and profiting from the increasing ill-health of people around the world. It is the least educated and already least healthy who will likely suffer most from Eastman's largesse.
It is hard to imagine that the company's founder, the amazing George Eastman, would support such an enterprise. From the Kodak web site: "Eastman was a stupendous factor in the education of the modern world," said an editorial in the New York Times following his death. "Of what he got in return for his great gifts to the human race he gave generously for their good; fostering music, endowing learning, supporting science in its researches and teaching, seeking to promote health and lessen human ills, helping the lowliest in their struggle toward the light, making his own city a center of the arts and glorifying his own country in the eyes of the world."
According to C&EN (Jan. 5, 2009, p.13), "The acetate fiber is used to manufacture cigarette filters, a market with significant growth in Asia." Shame on Eastman Chemical for promoting, expanding and profiting from the increasing ill-health of people around the world. It is the least educated and already least healthy who will likely suffer most from Eastman's largesse.
It is hard to imagine that the company's founder, the amazing George Eastman, would support such an enterprise. From the Kodak web site: "Eastman was a stupendous factor in the education of the modern world," said an editorial in the New York Times following his death. "Of what he got in return for his great gifts to the human race he gave generously for their good; fostering music, endowing learning, supporting science in its researches and teaching, seeking to promote health and lessen human ills, helping the lowliest in their struggle toward the light, making his own city a center of the arts and glorifying his own country in the eyes of the world."
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Ask your librarian to support Bioline International
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. Bioline International is currently seeking library memberships to sustain this key service, at a very affordable rate of $500 per year per library. This is much lower than the average cost to subscribe to just one scholarly journal.
Support for local publishing in developing countries means a venue where local scholars can focus on local issues, not likely to be high priority for publication in journals in the developed world, such as articles on malaria, river blindness, food handling.
For more on Bioline International, see my post on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. I know some of the people involved, coordinators and publishers, am familiar with their work, and highly recommend supporting this initiative.
Support for local publishing in developing countries means a venue where local scholars can focus on local issues, not likely to be high priority for publication in journals in the developed world, such as articles on malaria, river blindness, food handling.
For more on Bioline International, see my post on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. I know some of the people involved, coordinators and publishers, am familiar with their work, and highly recommend supporting this initiative.
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