Thursday

Sinopec vying for Tar Sand
I found it to be very intriguing. I guess Canada is closer to China and require less risk in transport? I just love it when they say US will have a hissy fit!

New cell energy cycles other than ATP etc?
I am sure glad I don't have to retake my biochemistry classes again!

Prion cross species methods
More new theories

CrossRef Search vs Google Scholar?
Found this in Nature about CrossRef Search

NPG is participating in the CrossRef Search pilot project. The project enables free full-text inter-publisher searching of scholarly research content.
This service launches a typical Google search but filters the result set to the content from participating publishers.

I thought there might be some overlap here..

But more interesting is actually the DOI more info and API here

Saturday!

New scanning technology for scriptic historical documents

It is always nice to see new technology which digitize more and more thing.. It reminds me of an old American scifi show called where the evil monster in the show digitize all the innocent people.. I think it was called Captain power or something or the other.

Wednesday

Chinese Prefers Homegrown Product:

Interesting part

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To qualify as "domestic", software will have to be 50 per cent developed in China, according to the Financial Times. Government buyers will need special permission to buy non-domestic products. The changes will bring software into line with guidelines for procuring other products.

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I wonder what that signifies.. I mean 50% of lines? or 50% of functionality?

Related Links:
Beijing to Review deals with Microsoft

Interesting part:
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In fact, many domestic competitors and some government officials said Beijing has failed to respect China's law on government procurement, which stipulates that when a local product is available it should receive preference over foreign products.

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