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Autumn Books
Nature 455, 863-864 (16 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455863a; Published online 15 October 2008
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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Research Fellows in Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology
- The University of Nottingham
- Nottingham, UK
Postdoctoral position in Neuroscience
- Bioengineering Institute (University Miguel Hernández) and CIBER-BBN (Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine)
- Elche, SPAIN
Relics of the modern mind
Lisa Jardine1
Abstract
Our enduring search for meaning in life explains the reverence with which the bones of seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes were worshipped, suggests Lisa Jardine.
BOOK REVIEWED-Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
by Russell Shorto
Doubleday: 2008. 320 pp. $26
In spring 1666, the body of the French philosopher and scientist René Descartes was removed from its resting place in the undistinguished Adolf Fredriks churchyard in the northeast of Stockholm where it had been buried quietly 16 years earlier, and transported under cover of darkness to the residence of the French ambassador to Sweden, Hugues de Terlon. There, under de Terlon's reverential supervision, the coffin was opened.
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