re: thirteen observations

In reply to thirteen observations

Hi, Glenn- Thanks. My favorite is no. 7, out of many good points.

7. Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

My guess is that things will appear to 'go away' during the winter weather, but meanwhile those who were there will be reflecting on the experience and come back some fine spring day next year stronger & better organized than ever, with a whole kit bag of new tactics & approaches.

Meanwhile, everyone here is worried about the euro and whether "those Europeans" will manage to take care of "their mess." Reminds me a bit of the early word for syphilis, which in Spain was known as the French pox, and in France as the Spanish pox. Problem is, in either case it's still the pox, and it spread, and people eventually went crazy and died.

Advanced/exotic distilling

Lance Winters, at St. George Spirits in Alameda CA, distills crazy things.

Eaux-de-vie is unaged distilate. He has distilled crab, mushroom, seaweed. For things without enough sugar, he first macerates them in high-alcohol spirits (brandy).

He learned more from old perfume books than old distilling books.

3d imaging

Autodesk photofly.

Uses photogrammetry to stich together a collection of 2d images to create a 3d image which can be sent to a manufacturer.

Photofly does the number crunching on the cloud.

You send the resulting image to i.e. Shapeways.

A page from my notebook

I doodled some ideas during the one non-relevant talk at a recent workshop.

Astrid's recorder app

Damn, don't know why the photo looks so crappy! Have a much better version on my phone.

growth of pharaceutical industry

Penicillin was discovered in 1928. WWII required industrial scale production, and 22 companies registered in the US and UK to manufacture it.

Germany today has more than 58000 approved medicines and 1500 manufacturers. javascript:void(0)

Malaria Vaccine

N Engl J Med. 2011 Oct 18.
A Vaccine for Malaria.
White NJ.
Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Abstract

It's been a long time coming, and indeed we are still not there yet, but it is becoming increasingly clear that we really do have the first effective vaccine against a parasitic disease in humans. If there are no unforeseen disasters, the RTS,S/AS01 Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccine should become available in just over 3 years. The World Health Organization (WHO) has already taken the unusual step of indicating that it could recommend this first malaria vaccine for use in some African countries as early as 2015, depending on the full phase 3 trial results that will become available in 2014. . . .


PMID: 22007716