Ribonucleotides, which form RNA, have been synthesized in relatively mild early earth conditions, using inorganic phosphate, cyanide, and other common low molecular weight molecules. But you don’t have to take my word for it.
This is one of the best documented cohort-based studies showing that coffee drinking provides protection from dementia in midlife and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in late life.
Richard Smith surveys contemporary futurology of physicians in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He finds the new roles of physicians are expanding and will require the management of ideas, patients, and a sense of “citizenship” like never before. One must wonder how changes in public policy and health care managers’ desire to specialize their services will effect an even different physician’s role.
Capacity to change: one of the few things we can know with confidence about healthcare 40 years from now, when many current medical students will still be practising, is that it will be very different from now. Future doctors will probably need more than a capacity for change: they will need an enthusiasm for change;
Two articles about science cafes, written in 2004. These events really are a lot of fun, especially if you were raised on PBS or series like the Cosmos.
A night out in a bar is all the more enjoyable if you can digest some science too. That’s the lesson of a growing movement whose character may be local but whose reach is potentially global — and at a small cost.
via The rise of cafe culture : Article : Nature.
The Denver café, organized by University of Colorado immunologist John Cohen, performs another social function: “I know that people have got together after meetings,” he says. “So when people come in alone, we carefully direct them to potential partners.”
via Pop science pulls in public as cafe culture goes global : Article : Nature
What’s next, science hook-ups?
I’m looking for new venues to host the San Antonio Science Cafe.
Previous cafes were at Ruta Maya, which is now closed 
, Old Town Helotes Bar and Grill, and Lion & Rose Pub and Restaurant. Radius Cafe seems cool, if we can coordinate around their choir events during the week.
On another note, Liberty Bar has my favorite Ethiopian coffee and I need to find out what brand it is. Mmm…
Science in San Antonio