Bookmarks for November 4th

Nov 04, 2009

When I'm not blogging, I'm browsing. Here are sites and pages that I bookmarked on November 2nd:

Researchers to perform sex change operation on papaya: The grant will fund basic research on the papaya sex chromosomes and will lead to the development of a papaya that produces only hermaphrodite offspring, an advance that will enhance papaya health while radically cutting papaya growers' production costs and their use of fertilizers and water.
$15 million stimulus award creates national consortium for revealing scientific resources: A consortium will build a national research resource discovery network that will allow biomedical scientists to quickly find previously invisible but potentially valuable research resources (e.g., technologies, equipment, cell and tissue banks, training opportunities).
Watts up in Kahuku: At least two companies are setting their sights on the wind-swept ridge of Kahuku near Turtle Bay Resort to develop wind power that would supply Hawaiian Electric Co.
Sopogy Releases the World’s First Commercially Available Rooftop MicroCSP System: SopoFlare is the first commercially available Concentrating Solar Power technology designed specifically for rooftop installations with a unique, easy mounting and fastening system.
Firms that donate to Inouye receive his earmarks: In the Senate version of the fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations bill, Sen. Inouye is sponsoring almost three-dozen provisions that would spend more than $200 million on projects in Hawaii that the Pentagon generally does not want.