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Another reason to go to the library 

Red Ted: “The reading room in Firestone Library is a great big space with great big windows. Hanging over the door is a huge — it looked to be 8 feet tall — Charles Wilson Peale portrait of George Washington.”

Sledgehammer/nut 

Stop Veritas. A worthy but unnecessary debunking of the ludicrous Robert Kilroy-Silk.

Addendum Daniel Davies explains why it’s unnecessary: “’Really popular with nutters’ isn’t an election winning strategy, but it can get you a good showing in UK local elections.”

Countering California’s $3 billion 

The decision by California to devote $3 billion to stem cell research is apparently creating a gold rush of biomedical researchers who want a foothold in the state.

That’s raised problems for places like the UK and Singapore, which had forged ahead of the pack on stem cell research because of the restrictive policies of the US government.

So it’s encouraging that forces are mobilising to stem the tide in the UK. The intended £100 million for the Stem Cell Foundation pales besides California’s funds (although if the dollar slide continues it might not seem so paltry), but the record of British scientists getting extraordinary bang for the buck is astounding.

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