Thanks to +Albert Vilella one day I'll be a GNU Screen hero as well but for now I'm still doing small babysteps and I'm sometimes lost in between a mixture of tabs/sessions/terminals….

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GNU Screen – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation
GNU Screen. Introduction to GNU Screen. Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provi…

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Sounds like amazing biodiversity sequencing projects coming up in 2013-2014! Would be interesting to see how much novel sequence we can get out of there and how similar samples from this lake are from other sources in that area that weren't shut off the rest of the world by ice!

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The truth behind the Lake Vostok story – no lake samples yet:
After two decades of chilly drilling and fiery debate, a Russian team has finally broken into Lake Vostok. The largest of the lakes hidden under Antarctica’s ice, and the most deeply buried, Vostok has been isolated for millions of years and may contain specially adapted microorganisms.
Although the Russian scientists have taken samples, which are most likely to be from a pocket of water just above the lake (one container was presented to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with great fanfare), they will have to wait until December to extract any frozen lake samples, and until 2013–14 to retrieve unfrozen lake water.

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Russians celebrate Vostok victory : Nature News & Comment
Team finally drills into biggest Antarctic subglacial lake.

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Pretty shocking to think about these experiments on humans in the last century but its interesting that he knew this but valued the potential scientific output higher:
"Cutler and his superiors knew that some parts of society would not approve. But they viewed the studies as ethically defensible because they believed that the results would have widespread benefits and help Guatemala to improve its public-health system."

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Human experiments: First, do harm : Nature News & Comment
In the 1940s, US doctors deliberately infected thousands of Guatemalans with venereal diseases. The wound is still raw.

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Quite a nice Google+ circle to follow

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Science Circle- Updated 2.13.12
This is a great circle if you want to follow Science on Google+. As you can see in the underlying database (http://goo.gl/tp06X), we are a diverse group but we all share a common interest- SCIENCE! Add the circle and share it with your friends!

Check out the following post if you're looking for other Science circles, shared circle databases, getting started guides, chrome extensions, etc: http://goo.gl/i604C.

Change Log
50 profiles were removed.
40 profiles were added: http://goo.gl/0z9KZ.
32 profiles were added on 1.8.12: http://goo.gl/K8ttV.

Are you a Scientist on Google+? Do you primarily post about Science? Add your name to the following database if you would like to be considered for the next shared circle: http://goo.gl/X3PFl.

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Great news about for our future gadget in getting less and less dependant on "slavery" and pay/treat the people fairly! Great step forward Apple, hope many other electronically companies will follow soon.

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Apple – Press Info – Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn
Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn. CUPERTINO, California—February 13, 2012—Apple® today announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple'…

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Pretty scary that Interpol helped arresting a journalist in a different country for tweeting negative about Muhammad.

This is the Tweet that got him arrested:
"I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don't understand about you … I will not pray for you."

Interesting is that actually the journalist got many death treats after placing this tweet but so-far noone has been arrested for that. So a death treat is freedom of speech but the above tweet is not? Crazy world!

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Interpol accused after journalist arrested over Muhammad tweet
Saudi Arabia used Interpol's system to get journalist arrested in Malaysia for insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter

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