Things I noticed #20

First some news. Sometime in the near future, Things I Noticed will become the subject of an experiment – a podcast. Always something I have wanted to try and hopefully the weekly list of attention grabbing stories will be a good place to start. Now on to the actual action

Science has a podcast

It’s not just friendly neighborhood bloggers, Science magazine also has a podcast, joining its counterpart across the pond

A science blogging conference

How I would have liked to be there. Maybe next year or they have one on the west coast

Changes at the FDA

The one that caught my eye was the creation of the office of the Chief Medical Officer, a position that will be taken over by Dr. Janet Woodcock, whom I am sure we all know from various conferences we have attended (and from her directorship of CDER).

Wonder what the MySpace crowd thinks about this

I have no idea how well all this works, but RemoteScan Corporation announced a bundle of its key products which makes it “simple to use digital cameras and webcams with ASP, or hosted, medical EMR software systems”. What caught my attention was the headline on the piece “Software Now Connects Webcams to Thin Clients for Hosted Medical Applications”. It just made me think of all these 13 year old kids busy connecting up their webcams to medical networks, which is not the case, but in the absence of a Valleywag for the HealthcareIT world, for just this one day, this blog will fulfill that function.

Quasicrystal structure

Unfortunately no CreativeCommons licensed images, since it is a really pretty picture. A group in Japan has completed the atomic level structure of a quasicrystalline material has been reported by researchers in Japan.

Antibiotic resistance

I learnt a lot from the five part series on antibiotic resistance via the always educational Sandra Porter

The elements cribsheet

Get it

Linkbait

The element list is a new favorite. It used to be a list of science-related links and is moving towards a “Web 2.0″ re-design. The blog is a great read and I am looking forward to seeing how the social networking capabilities are developed. I am kind of off-forums these days (other than the ones on 9rules), so I haven’t really tried that side of the site.

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