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links for 2009-07-04

• Tweehive
  "a mass role play by human beings of a bee colony on Twitter, which will be played on three specific days in July, August and September with a view to raise bee awareness, wonderment, interest, actions and to generate traffic to bee related sites and resources."

  bzzzz

  
  
  (tags: bees beekeeping twitter)
  
  
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  tweetalondoncab – book your london taxi through Twitter
  
  
  Follow their account, send an @msg to book your cab and see if a cabbie DMs you back to make arrangements.
  
  
  (tags: london taxi twitter)
  
  

links for 2009-07-03

• Roboshow
  hosted by Carl Wiens at <a href="http://www.drawger.com">Drawger.com</a>
  (tags: robots illustration art)
• The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
  (tags: art design museum drawing forgotten tools)

links for 2009-07-02

• "They are not so much animal as geographical"
  Philip Hoare on whales, in Leviathan. Stand-by for a whale autopsy, coming on Monday 6 July: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/inside-natures-giants/episode-guide/series-1/episode-2
  (tags: whale autopsy tv channel4 leviathan philiphoare)

links for 2009-06-24

• Thread made of crab shell and polyester can stitch together broken nerves
  "A nerve guide requires very strict conditions. It needs to be biocompatible, stable in solution, resistant to collapse and also pliable, so that surgeons can suture it to the nerve," said lead author Miqin Zhang, a professor of material science and engineering, "This turns out to be very difficult."
  (tags: technology health nerves surgery)

links for 2009-06-23

• Antioxident pills in "may do as much harm as good" shocker. File under "are we really still suprised when our biochemistry turns out to be detailed & nuanced, and not solvable with a quick fix?"
  "Although studies had shown the link between eating fruit and veg and a lower risk of disease, randomised controlled trials - where one group given antioxidant vitamins were compared with a similar group given a placebo - were needed to prove antioxidants actually worked. These trials involved thousands of patients. Although a small number showed antioxidants can be beneficial in diseases such as macular degeneration, the findings on antioxidants and diseases such as cancer, heart disease and strokes have been shocking. A paper combining the results of all previous studies showed antioxidant vitamins were not beneficial, and some even made diseases worse...

  But...because the marketing industry is in full stride, the best evidence has passed unnoticed."

  
  
  (tags: health diet medicine science biochemistry antioxidents vitamins)
  
  
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  Scottish Screen - Digital Media IP Fund
  
  
  "Scottish Screens investment from the Digital Media IP Fund aims to stimulate the development and production of non-broadcast interactive content that is capable of generating revenue for Scottish based companies.

  Funding is available for original digital interactive media content and the technological development of associated delivery platforms, including, and without limitation, the following:

  * computer-aided social networks
  * peer-to-peer technologies
  * mobile media
  * collaborative knowledge networks
  * user-generated content
  * global online content
  * imagined/alternative life networks
  * interactive learning and interactive leisure

  The fund will not invest in the development or production of feature films or conventionally broadcast television programmes or in a project where the sole outcome is the technological development of a content delivery platform."

  
  
  (tags: 4ip funding innovation development scotland)
  
  
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  Fancy a stint in the pictures?
  
  
  Basheera Kahn on how twitter saved a day's shooting for Ben Miller, by rounding up 70ish extras. Cute.
  
  
  (tags: film twitter socialmedia)