Selon la Convention sur la Diversité Biologique (CDB) adoptée en 1992 lors du Sommet de Rio, les ressources génétiques sont un "matériel d'origine végétale, animale, microbienne ou autre, contenant des unités fonctionnelles de l'hérédité". Ces matériels génétiques ont une valeur effective ou potentielle (voir le portail agriculture biodiversité). Plus...
Les plates-formes d'enregistrement pour l'utilisation de ressources génétiques et de connaissances traditionnelles associées.
Cette page détaille les différentes plates-formes qui existent pour déclarer des ressources génétiques ou des collections (au niveau mondial, européen ou national). Plus...
College Questioning Site's Link
Of course I wouldn't say that my commentary in Thursday's OLDaily was the key, but it appears that administrators at UCSD are now reconsidering their decision to order the removal of links to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). More...
Placée cette année sous le haut patronage de Frédérique Vidal, ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, la Semaine du cerveau se déroulera dans près de 40 villes françaises. Ateliers, conférences, pièces de théâtre, débats, expositions... D'une grande qualité scientifique, la programmation s'adresse à tout type de public. Plus...
By . A couple of months ago, I read a rather interesting book called National Innovation Systems and the Academic Enterprise, which is a collection of essays edited by David Dill and Frans van Vught. It’s a collection of essays about national – and in the case of the US, subnational – innovation policies, and while the quality of the national essays is a bit uneven (the Canadian one was marked mainly by overuse of the word “neoliberalism” and excessive off-point moaning about how SSHRC is hard done by compared to the other granting councils) it did make me really think about one significant concept which I hadn’t really thought about before: namely, science federalism. More...
Talking Killer Whales? Gullible Science Journalists More Likely
Geoffrey Pullum, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/02/08
We talk about literacies of various sorts but the enterprise begs the question: what counts as language? Geoffrey Pullum doesn'tt really tell us - though it has something to do with "the communication of simple ideas between people." But he's clear about things that are not languages. Music. Food. Sounds made by Orcas. " The claim that information transmission was demonstrated in the music is patently ridiculous," he writes. More...
Des chercheurs de l'Institut des sciences moléculaires de Marseille (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université), du Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) et de la Fédération des Sciences Chimiques de Marseille (FR1739) ont produit des nanographènes stables en trois dimensions. Sous forme d'hélice, ces nouveaux matériaux sont chiraux, offrant des propriétés supramoléculaires, photophysiques et structurales inédites. Ces travaux ont fait la une du Journal of the American Chemical Society. Plus...
Pour accompagner des projets innovants en biotechnologies, le Genopole a inauguré son Shaker, un programme de soutien qui allie la recherche scientifique aux stratégies de business. Plus...
2018 Map of the Complexity Sciences
Brian Castellani, 2018/01/18
This is a great visualization of the major streams of thought in the field of complexity theory. I like the way it shows the links between the different strands, and also that ti is an interactive graphic - click on an area and be taken to the relevant Wikipedia page. More...
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