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"4. Genspace and BioCurious For letting the everyman explore the hidden corners of science. Community laboratories like Genspace, based in Brooklyn, New York, and BioCurious, based in Sunnyvale, California, are attracting biotech hackers interested in bridging the gulf that separates synthetic biology researchers from, well, everyone else"

"PlanetData aims to establish a sustainable European community of researchers that supports organizations in exposing their data in new and useful ways. The ability to effectively and efficiently make sense out of the enormous amounts of data continuously published online, including data streams, (micro)blog posts, digital archives, eScience resources, public sector data sets, and the Linked Open Data Cloud, is a crucial ingredient for Europe's transition to a knowledge society. It allows businesses, governm"

We are an online art gallery and community of today's most talented artists, specializing in Surrealist Art, Fantastic Art, Visionary Art, Psychedelic Art, Mystic Art, Creative Art, Anarchist Art, Outsider Art, Experimental Art, Dark Surreal Art Painting.

"If you're here, you either are interested in how to use Web 2.0 tools for science, or attended one of the Social Networking for Scientists workshops from Christie Wilcox. This wiki is a gathering place for anyone with a passion and interest in science communication and workshop attendees from across the country so that everyone can continue to learn about the topic as well as network with one another. "

Quatschen wissenschaftlich erklärt Human beings are social animals. We spend large portions of our waking hours communicating with others, and the possibilities for conversation are seemingly endless

"Hudnall: I really do believe that repression makes you sick. I'm big believer of what is coming out in the neuroscience and therapy community. Brene Brown, who is a shame and guilt expert, said it best: "We have an epidemic of shame in this country." If you keep things inside and have no one to talk to - and this is not crystals and patchouli - you will get sick, you will be miserable, you will ruin your relationships, and you will be unhappy. I know people whose lives were ruined by silence. Especially women. The one thing that has really opened my eyes while teaching is just what we do to our women. Only my women students have said to me, "I don't know if I have anything worth saying." It smacks me in the face every day. We are really fucking up our women"

"It is important to be aware that 20th century media ecosystem is a very unusual aberration in the way people communicated throughout history. Means of production were expensive. Very few people could afford to own printing presses, radio and TV studios, etc. Running all that complicated equipment required technical expertise and professional training. Thus media became locked up in silos, hierarchical, broadcast-only with little-to-none (and then again centrally controlled) means for feedback. There was a wealthy, vocal minority that determined what was news, and how to frame it, and the vast majority was consuming the news in silence"

"SCinet is a high-performance network that is built, once a year, in support of the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications also known as the Supercomputing Conference. It is the primary network for the conference and is used by attendees to demonstrate and test high-performance distributed applications."

"Wie Brocks und ihre Kollegen von der Washington University nun in „Nature Communications" zeigen, haben sich die Dictyostelium-Bauern Aufpasser zugelegt. Zusätzlich zu ihren Vorräten tragen sie auch nicht essbare Bakterien mit sich herum, deren Erbgut teilweise dem menschlicher Krankheitserreger ähnelt. Diese Symbionten geben Substanzen ab, die schmarotzende Artgenossen vergiften. Dem Effekt kamen die Forscher auf die Spur, als sie im Labor Farmer und Faulpelze zu unterschiedlichen Anteilen mischten. Je stärker die Farmer in der Überzahl waren, desto weniger Sporen produzierten die verbliebenen Faulpelze. Auf die Sporenproduktion der Farmer hatte das Mischungsverhältnis hingegen keinerlei Auswirkungen."

SciVal® Experts is an expertise profiling and research networking tool that helps users find researchers with specific areas of expertise for collaboration and enables researchers in your institution to demonstrate their activities to the global research community. Pre-populated with deep publication histories from Elsevier's Scopus® - the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature - SciVal Experts makes it easier to find experts and form teams within your institution and across organizations.

"BioCurious is a completely volunteer run non-profit organization. We serve the community by providing low-cost lab space and classes to members. "

"The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center works to create and provide free access to digital resources that support the teaching and research needs of the UW community, uniquely document the university and State of Wisconsin, and possess broad research value. Read More"

the community for science education in Europe

"Partnerships. The IBM Watson Ecosystem A new partner program providing Watson cognitive technology to businesses, access to IBM's network and a community of entrepreneurial organizations working to solve their industry's toughest challenges"

Bacteria are often social creatures. Suspended in colonies of varying shapes and sizes, these microbes communicate with their brethren and even other bacterial species - interactions that can sometimes make them more deadly or more resistant to antibiotics. Now, bacterial colonies sculpted into custom shapes by a 3-D printer could be a key to understanding how some antibiotic-resistant infections develop. The new technique uses methods similar to those employed by commercial 3-D printers, which extrude plastic, to create gelatin-based bacterial breeding grounds. These microbial condos can be carved into almost any three-dimensional shape, including pyramids and nested spheres.

"This website is dedicated to the DIYbio movement and aims to facilitate the formation of a like-minded community in Belgium."

Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation "space storm", Nasa has warned.

"Until recently, the disastrous scale of the threat posed by salmon farms to the fauna and National Park of the Aysen region of southern Chile was entirely unknown. The unexpected discovery was made by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and the University of Gottingen, who were studying acoustic communication among the native whales in the region."

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2010) - An Australian National University-led team has developed the most efficient quantum memory for light in the world, taking us closer to a future of super-fast computers and communication secured by the laws of physics.