Online students and virtual supervisors

The numbers of international students taking on graduate degrees is on the increase, partly due to the advent of rapid communication and information tools and partly due to the recognition that globalisation is taking over the world. Hah! Supervisors I’ve spoken to over the years have always seen the mix of cultures in their laboratories as being an entirely positive aspect of their science.

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 I Had been Trying the Best Metal Detector I Could Come across

Our child and his buddies have found a immediate awareness in metal detection lately and are searching for coins and other metals. He has been reading up on all the things that are discovered with Metal Detectors . He’s thoroughly becoming involved in this metal detecting craze

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 Understand Self Defense Techniques This Day And Increase Admiration Instantaneously!

Learning the technique to fight could save your existence…it is exceedingly imperative that you build the skills to safeguard you or a loved one. Become the popular man by discovering how to fight and gain the admiration you deserve, this day

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 Alchemist, catching electrons, homeopathic fail

This week’s Alchemist chemistry news and more… Catching electrons in the act – Scientists are getting close to being able to study chemical reactions and complex materials with individual attosecond pulses of laser light (that's a quintillionth of a second). Here's how Berkeley scientists are doing it… Alchemical happenings from around the web – The Alchemist could not fail to mention the nuclear highlight of the year as an international team fills the gap between elements 116 and 118 in the periodic table with a stupendous “transmutation” of berkelium bombarded with calcium ions into just six atoms of ununseptium. In biochemistry, we learn how flies can taste water and muse on the possibility of other animals, including ourselves, having a similar sense.

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 Farmers Markets are tops!

This week is Earth Week , and I would like to reiterate the impact our dietary choices have on the planet. It’s important to eat local, sustainable and organic foods, and one of the best places to fulfill each of these three goals is at your local farmers market. Farmers markets have an unfair reputation in some circles for being havens for hippies, liberals and elitists (since caring about where your food comes from automatically makes you elitist, right?), which can turn off people who do not identify with any of these groups.

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 Foodista Heads to Portland for IACP

EAT MOBILE “It was like being at a night market in a foreign country with all these different food choices, except that I was in downtown Portland.” Those were the words of my husband Mark as he tried to explain the breadth of food carts that have taken over the city of Portland.  I have been to Portland on and off over the years and have seen several food carts, but according to Mark, who was in Portland last weekend, the current food cart scene is unreal. According to the Willamette Week , Portland has more than 300 food carts. That’s enough to satisfy a hipster’s changing mood on food choices for months! Since Portland has become the center of the food cart movement, it’s not surprising that the annual food cart awards, EAT MOBILE should also be held here

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 Smoking cadmium and benchtop X-rays

Latest science news including this week’s round up from my SpectroscopyNOW column: Smoking out cadmium problem – A statistical analysis of spectroscopic data is helping scientists home in on the problem of decreased fruit and vegetable consumption being associated with an elevated concentration of cadmium in the blood of male smokers.

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 Young children see the moon illusion

Why does the full moon seem bigger when it’s near the horizon than when it’s high in the sky? The moon illusion, which also applies to the perception of the size of the sun in the sky, has intrigued artists and puzzled psychologists for many years.

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 Eye disease, combat robots, and a battery boost

Latest round-up of science news, including my Intute physical sciences news column. ETROP Study MNR – Treatment strategy confirmed for childhood eye disease Reviewing peer review – Scientific peer review has many problems and no one seems to know how to address them Bots High – A documentary on high school combat robots The slow rise of The Andes – Chemical analysis suggests that the Andes mountain range rose much more gradually than scientists previously thought.

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 It Just Got Easier to Find a Good MAN

I’m not sure there is a better sub-$10 white wine than the MAN Vintners Chenin Blanc. It’s a very dry and crisp white that has surprising complexity. Wait.

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 Cooking with the iPad

In addition to being a cooking encyclopedia, we’re also an online media company, and at every online media company you’re bound to find at least one gadget geek. Therefore, I wasn’t too surprised when a member of the team brought an iPad into Foodista HQ on Monday. I was, however, shocked and delighted when he announced that we could each take it home to play with

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 Get Ready for the Summer of Watermelon and Beer. Together. In a Can.

Gloomy Seattle has me longing for summer, sitting on a porch or patio, and knocking back a cold beer. I have to admit I kinda laughed/cringed when I first saw this watermelon wheat beer from San Fransisco’s 21st Amendment Brewery .

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 Chemical science, night sky, scientific trust

Delicious links March 16-18 Chemical Science – Building linear polymers from monomers, inaugural paper in RSC's new journal Bing maps now let you scan the nighttime sky – The stars are coming out tonight…even when it's cloudy Sex and social networking – Patterns of prostitution revealed by analysis of social networking site has important implications for spread of sexually transmitted diseases. 7 steps to restore trust in science – Every journey begins with a single step, here's the seventh to restoring public trust in science Malevolent Design: The Death of a Loving God – Never before has a book so aggressively levelled the charge that a creator deity, if it were to exist, would be completely and unimaginably evil.

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 Who Could Believe What Radio Control Helicopters Are Capable Of

My son has a hobby collecting all types of remote control toys . He has rc airplane that he flies around quite a small amount and some boats that he likes to require out to the lake sometimes.

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 Teddy Bear Lamp

Interesting and a bit weird lamp is half teddy bear and half lamp. Could be a real nice addition to a kid’s room and comes with the black shade shown which has a golden interior to make teddy’s color glow a bit more. $149 @ Generate Design

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 Humane Society’s Naomi Rose on SeaWorld and Marine-Mammal Captivity

During a routine day at SeaWorld on Feb. 24, whale trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by Tilikum, a six-ton orca already linked to two other deaths. Orcas are a threatened species in some places , and while the park has no plans to relocate Tilikum, Dr

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 Periodic Table of Science Bloggers

UPDATE: I’ve now added a lot of science types to the Periodic Table of Science Bloggers. All those elements in bronze are now taken, those in gold are mine and equally taken.

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 Daily Roundup: March 17, 2010

Third Time’s the Charm: After two previous attempts, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service successfully set aside 1.6 million acres in California as designated habitat for the endangered red-legged frog

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 When I Needed baby shower favor I Head Straight For the On-line Event Store

I headed directly to my laptop and commenced purchasing from the identical website I bought all the wedding shower decorations and favors from. I pluged in my pc and commenced ordering supplies online as I did for my wedding items. Plenty of ideas and a nice variety of event things can be located there.

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 Garnacha: The Wine That Goes With (Almost) Everything

Whenever I visit my mother in Reno, I always take advantage of her palatial kitchen (which is about as big as my studio apartment) to make her favorite dish: pork tenderloin. I never buy any specific spices for the pork, I just empty out the spice rack and create a new rub each time

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