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  1. @neilfws put quotes around "Synthetic Biology" to make it into a phrase. Now, PubMed only gives you 463 results.
  2. @Single_Shot I'm out of town for the week. Contact Denise Anderson at the UW Micro department for some good dirt on da bugs.
  3. Off to DC. Always interesting but reading long poorly written treatices can be torture when you're a compulsive editor.
  4. Project Details - http://shar.es/aKYVX
  5. At last, a place for our lovely cultures! http://www.microbialart.com/
  6. Ants feed fungus with plants. Bacteria grow in the fungal garden and fix nitrogen that helps feed the ants http://tinyurl.com/yexk6dm
  7. @ashleybraun Do the viruses need to be infecting anything? We can store viral DNA in the refrigerator for years, why not Antarctic lakes?
  8. @neilfws All the 454 viral sequence data are in the short read archive. Just go to the NCBI SRA database and type "antarctic"
  9. @neilfws You can have with this: go to the NCBI protein database, type "marine metagenome" and you'll find 6,123,396 hypothetical proteins.
  10. I suspect one of my students can't read. My test: next time he asks a question he asks about an instruction, I will make him read it to me.
  11. 10,000 species of viruses under the Antarctic ice! http://tinyurl.com/yaaxxda
  12. Imagine meeting with an academic advisor in Second Life. At Penn State, you can. http://tinyurl.com/yld4y75
  13. I wonder what sort of score the public bioinformatics databases would get from the U of I's accessibility rating program.
  14. U of I free tool evaluates web site accessibility re: use of headings, keyboard support, and layout issues. http://tinyurl.com/auehto
  15. Teachers! A great bioethics read: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by @RebeccaSkloot Free copies for a short time. http://bit.ly/3wZBj0
  16. College instructors don't have to be criminals. Students can rent journal articles for 99 cents from http://www.deepdyve.com.
  17. Going beyond teenagers and Napster: scientists and medical professionals illegally swap journal articles. http://tinyurl.com/yd6fnmk
  18. Fewer than 40% of students who start college, finish within 6 years. #ATE conference
  19. Lots of new reforms to the student loan program. Trying to cut the large number of students getting "loans" via credit cards. - M. Kanter
  20. Time to plan for a new K20 curriculum that trains more students in science, technology, math, and engineering. Martha Kanter