Entries from December 2007

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

All NIH Funded Research to be Made Publicly Available

Excellent news, science fans!
A new law, HR2764, has been passed and signed by the Presdient (link to the press release), requiring all research funded by the National Institute of Health to be openly accessible to the public via PubMed within a year. This seems to be largely in part due to a group (which I’d […]

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Long Lost Projects

Here are a few little projects I’ve done but never posted here before.
Brain Animation:

I was a participant in a fMRI brain imaging study at BU, and they gave me some pictures of my brain. I turned them into this animation. This is what the inside of my head looks like! If anybody out there is […]

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

South Korean Riot Porn: Flame Throwers, Sword Fights and Apologetic Handshakes

My insane housemate Dmitri from Korea/Kazakhstan/Texas/”If Sebastian Bach had a country, I would live there” just showed me this amazing footage of a protest-turned-riot from Seoul, South Korea on September 29th, 2002. I’m a huge sucker for riot porn, and this is probably the best I’ve ever seen. Notice the giant flamethrower. But at the […]

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Boston University Free Culture Blog, First Meeting

The BUFC Blog is up and running, and our first meeting will be this Thursday. Check the blog and the flier for more info!

I’ve got a couple of articles I really want to write about international torrenting and about possible improvements to the Science Commons, but I’m really bogged down by school and Star Trek […]