September 2008 - Posts

Science News to justify half a bar of chocolate per week - lowers risk of heart disease
23 September 08 09:45 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

I only wish the study coming out of the Moli-sani Project being run by Research Laboratories of the Catholic University in Campobasso recommended milk chocolate instead dark chocolate.  Sorry Snickers - Half A Bar Of Chocolate Per Week, But Just Read More...

Filed under: Research, Science, Article

Image Composite Editor (ICE) available for download
22 September 08 09:54 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

The Interactive Visual Media Group from Microsoft Research has released Image Composite Editor (ICE) – which let’s you stitch together images and output to multi-resolution tiled formats – great for creating HD View images… Image Composite Editor (ICE) Read More...

Virtual Earth 6.2 Technical Webcast
17 September 08 10:29 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Here are a couple of upcoming Virtual Earth Webcasts to highlight the uses and details of the Virtual Earth 6.2 Release.   There are many VE pieces that can be used with scientific data, ie  to plot or even overlay other maps using mapcruncher Read More...

Science Cribsheets from SEED Magazine
15 September 08 11:54 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

With all the activity in different science domains – I always keep an eye on the Science Cribsheets that SEED magazine puts out.   The latest, #16 is on Synthetic Biology…they’ve covered many topics from Stem Cells, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Read More...

My Clown Club Card
12 September 08 11:39 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Thanks to Office OFFline I was able to create my own Shoe Circus Clown Club card as featured in the new ads.  Just make sure you right click on the link and save as. Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
04 September 08 12:24 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use.  The SQL Server Data Mining folks have a Data Mining Service in the cloud they are testing out…I posted previously [ OLAP and Scientific Data & Data Mining Addins Read More...

Filed under: Software, eScience, Research, Tech Interop, Environment, Beta, Data Analysis