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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - does good mind or good heart a scientist make?

As always on Wednesdays, we have a new Video of the Week for you to watch. It is amazing.- Janet D. Stemwedel - Is being a good scientist a matter of what you do or of what you feel in your heart? - Judy Stone - Molecules to Medicine: From Test-Tube to Medicine Chest - James Byrne - Cerebral Palsy Challenger - Joanne Manaster - Quantum Levitation–where science videos don’t get any cooler! - Kevin Zelnio - Curious Critters - Bora Zivkovic - #scio11 - The Entertainment Factor - Bora Zivkovic - Weekly Highlights #8 – some recent SHERP work - Bora Zivkovic and Dave Munger - What is: ResearchBlogging.org - Gary Stix - Should Car Ads Be Banned? - Larry Greenemeier - Go For Broke: How Bill Joy Handicaps ‘Greentech’ Investments - Scicurious - Donor’s Choose at Scientopia! =======================Conversations on our articles and blog posts often continue on our Facebook page - "Like" it and join in the discussion.You should follow the Blog Network on Twitter - the official account is @sciamblogs and the List of all the bloggers is @sciamblogs/sciambloggers...

Curious Critters

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Go for Broke: How Bill Joy Handicaps "Greentech" Investments

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—What does it take to pick a winner in the slowly unfolding field of renewable energy? For starters, alternatives to oil must be able to stand up on their own at some point, without a need for permanent government subsidies, said Bill Joy, once a heavy hitter in the information technology industry and now a partner in investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers's greentech practice.During a Q&A with Technology Review Editor in chief Jason Pontin at the magazine's Emtech conference Wednesday, Joy pointed out that another key to determining the future of a startup greentech company is whether its approach makes sense intuitively...

Go For Broke: How Bill Joy Handicaps `Greentech' Investments

Is being a good scientist a matter of what you do or of what you feel in your heart?

If the question posed in the title of the post seems to you to have an obvious answer, sit tight while I offer a situation in which it might be less obvious.We recently discussed philosopher Karl Popper's efforts to find the line of demarcation between science and pseudo-science...

What is: ResearchBlogging.org

Back in the dark, old ages of the earliest science blogging, many of the most prominent science bloggers focused their efforts on debunking pseudoscience and battling the politicized anti-science forces...

Quantum Levitation

Video of the Week #13, October 19, 2011 From: Quantum Levitation-where science videos don't get any cooler! by Joanne Manaster at PsiVid Source of the original: Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) and Tel-Aviv University...

Quantum Levitation-where science videos don't get any cooler!

This video demonstrating the power of superconductivity has been making the rounds this week and is an example of how video is really the best way to capture and share with thousands of viewers the amazing power of science!You will notice that the video is a demonstration without the science explained live...

Cerebral Palsy Challenger

I have been taking part in a fundraising drive raising money for people with cerebral palsy called ‘The Cerebral Palsy Challenge’. I have been wearing a pedometer for the last few weeks with the aim of walking the equivalent number of steps it would take to climb Mt...

Molecules to Medicine: From Test-Tube to Medicine Chest

We looked briefly at why drug studies came into being; now let’s look at how a drug is developed, from test tube to your tissues.Every government approved drug goes through the same sequence of testing anywhere in the world...