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Edward Jenner and Joseph Lister, posted
A few days ago, the UK postal service issued a new series of stamps featuring 10 eminent scientists to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. The image above shows two of the stamps, depicting Edward Jennner (1749-1823) and Joseph Lister (1827-1912) -- who are considered the...
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Published 7 days ago

The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)
I love this video. Please watch it.From the YouTube page:The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins,...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Purple balloons and the secret of life: Génome at Geneva
Lucky me, I am enjoying a few weeks with my partner in Geneva, Switzerland. During one of our first walks around the city, we noticed a big purple balloon on a small island in the Rhone river. Once we got closer (there is a bridge, no need to swim), we realized that this was no balloon --but a...
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Published 3 weeks ago

About the fabulous covers of the Trends journals

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Published a month ago

Great microbiologists - a brickfilm
A long time ago I added a video bar on the side of my blog (only on main page), under the following title: "Microbial" videos (live search). The thing uses some microbial-related terms to automatically retrieve videos from YouTube, Google Videos and the like. This way I found a very nice...
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Published 2 months ago

Science cookies, courtesy of Not So Humble Pie
I would never advise you to eat an agarose gel after electrophoresis, or a Petri dish with live microbes growing on it. Well, actually, don't eat any of them even before electrophoresis or before seeding any microorganisms! Unless...Well, unless the agarose gels and the Petri dishes are...
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Published 3 months ago

The Seven Dwarfs' battle against malaria
In this short Disney film (The Winged Scourge, 1943), the Seven Dwarfs teach us how to protect ourselves from the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. But some of their methods may not be quite advisable today...Thanks to MicrobeWorld for letting me know about this video!A collection of old Disney...
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Published 4 months ago

Microbes and infectious disease, 50 years ago
The following videos are short educational films made in the 1940s and 1950s and provide some basic knowledge on infectious diseases and microbiology. How much has this basic knowledge changed after half a century? Which specific statements in the videos should be changed (and why) if you wanted...
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Published 4 months ago

Pandemic planning, Dilbert style

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Published 5 months ago

Infectious: Stay Away
"Infectious: Stay Away" is an exhibition at the Science Gallery, Dublin. From the official page:THE INFECTION HAS TAKEN HOLD. Nearly 30,000 individuals have already been exposed to the INFECTIOUS exhibition in the Science Gallery. If you are brave enough to enter the containment zone on Pearse...
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Published 9 months ago

Social media for scientists
The following slidecast (that is, a slideshow including audio) is an excellent presentation by Mary Canady and William Gunn on social media for scientists. Topics covered: LinkedIn, Twitter, social bookmarking (delicious, citeulike, Mendeley), FriendFeed, science blogs.If you are a scientist and...
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Published 9 months ago

Microbiology on Twitter?
Just for fun, I searched Twitter using some microbial-related terms (not many, as the query cannot be more than 140 characters long!). I have added an RSS feed for this query to the side bar on this blog.[Note (added on 15th Nov): I removed the RSS feed from the side bar -- the automated search...
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Published 11 months ago