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Monday, September 30, 2002
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Underwater high-voltage photography: "My brother's friend Sue plays with high voltage. The linked-to page shows the gadget she used to photograph high voltage discharges in *water*." [Boing Boing Blog] 
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The Real Tragedy of the Commons: "In 1968, Science magazine published The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin. The article struck a resonant chord; it gave a fresh and modern face to the discredited alarmism of Thomas Malthus. Today there is hardly a school-child who has not been carefully taught about the tragedy of the commons, and had explained to him why human cooperation and sharing do not work in practice. Unfortunately for the trusting student, not only does this fly in the face of historical fact, but it has led to a wide-spread amnesia about the true tragedy of the commons: the Enclosure Movement." [kuro5hin.org]
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Discovering new drugs -- Comment()
Tomorrow I'm taking part in a steering group meeting of a drug discovery project. The project is promising, and nicely fits in the function of the group I'm managing. This project is a partnership, and currently a Ph.D. candidate from the project is working in my group. This project is developing a new approach to drug discovery, which may significantly decrease the computational effort. That is, if the project reaches the target. Currently there are four people working in drug discovery in my group, and we have plans for extending our activities by getting additional funding for graduate students, forming partnerships, and getting involved in expert networks. I wrote a few thoughts about drug discovery to prepare for the meeting tomorrow. If you are interested in the subject, have a look. The text is a draft, so don't expect world-class prose.
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