Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologise for six decades of human rights failure and to re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements. …
Some of the most striking images of 2007 were of monks in Burma, lawyers in Pakistan, and women activists in Iran.
See Amnesty International’s report.
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Every Human has Rights
I wrote about this in my Persian blog but I wanted to share it here too. Harrison Ford is not just appearing on the new Indiana Jones adds these days, he appears also on the Conservation International ads like the one bellow which he loses an acre of the forest on his chest to show how much it hurts.
To see the other adds see the rest of this post Read more »
In the recent volume of Lab times I read about the (bad) effect of beer on number of publications by scientists! (You can read the online version here Page 14). Well, honestly sometimes if there was no hope of one (or a few) cold beer after work scientific work could’ve been much more difficult don’t you agree? So Cheers! ;))
New York Times article discussing this
P.S. The picture is the German Hefe Weizen (wheat beer) which is my favorite “publication reducing” agent.
I finished reading two novels from Kathy Reichs (Fatal Voyage and Monday Mourning), they are both great reads. So I thought I’ll write a few sentences about Kathy Reichs. As all the other novels that I’ve read from her is featuring Dr. Temperance Brennan (Tempe) who is a forensic anthropologist.
What I like most about Kathy’s novels is the exact and realistic description of how Tempe is getting to the conclusions from experiments mostly on bones. The reason behind this precision is of course the fact that she has a PhD in forensic anthropology and has worked both as an academic and as a part of an investigation teams. These descriptions are written good enough for everyone to understand without sacrificing the scientific base. Recently they started making a new TV series called Bones based on Kathy Reichs books and featuring Tempe Brennan, I have not watched any of it yet but I hope that in the series they don’t destroy her work!
If you haven’t read anything from Kathy Reichs yet, I totally recommend her books and as I don’t have any favorite between those 5 that I’ve read, I recommend them all! ;))
RickB has provided a list of agencies that provide aid for the Cyclon-ravaged nation. If you want to help you can choose one of the agencies to donate money to help the victims. Unfortunately the slow processing of visas is restricting the aid agencies to help. The UN has urged Burma to waive visa restrictions that it says are slowing efforts to bring in relief experts and supplies to help an estimated one million people affected by Cyclone Nargis.
Sometimes my friends who are not in the field of science ask me what is a PostDoc! Well I finally found the perfect answer for these questions!
Watch the series of PostDoc comics in PhDcomics to see what I mean comic1; comic2; comic3; comic4. I had also previously posted a comic from PhD comics here. Read more »
Yesterday 1st of May was International workers’ day and RSS awareness day… Congratulations to all workers and for those of you who are still not too much familiar with RSS you can watch this Video which is RSS in plain English:
Thanks to Sologen.
I'm a Biochemist currently living and working in Germany. Here I write about science, technology, Human rights and daily life. If you want to know "a little" more about me you can read my about page!
