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Autumn Books
Nature 443, 914-915 (26 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443914a; Published online 25 October 2006
Open Innovation Challenges
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Fast Growth of Transformed Soybean Shoots
A method for accelerating growth of soybean shoots is desired.
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Protect Enzyme from In Planta Degradation
A proposal for stable expression of an enzyme in corn seed is desired.
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Ramalingaswami Fellowship
- Department of Biotechnology
- New Delhi India
Associate Professor / Professor ? NCRIS TERN Director
- University Of Queensland, Australia
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Sermons and straw men
Lawrence M. Krauss1
BOOK REVIEWED-The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Bantam/Houghton Mifflin: 2006. 416 pp. £20/$27
Early in The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins quotes Thomas Jefferson's statement: "I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."This eminently scientific sentiment was echoed two centuries later by the physicist Steven Weinberg, who, like Dawkins, is an outspoken critic of religion, but who has nevertheless suggested that most scientists simply don't spend enough time even thinking about God or religion to merit the label atheist.
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