From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 05:36:00 PST
The National Academies' science and technology policy internship program
presents a seminar on the use of microchips implanted in humans. The two-hour
event, "Human Microchip Implantation: It's More Than Skin Deep," begins at 12:30
p.m. EST Friday, Nov. 15 in the National Academies building, 500 5th St. N.W.,
Washington, D.C. The seminar is free and open to the public.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/internship/Third_Seminar.html
Computers & Technology
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AT THE ACADEMIES
John Sulston, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in medicine, will speak about the
race to sequence the genome in a lecture at 7 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 14 at the
National Academy of Sciences building, 2100 C St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Sulston is the author of "The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics,
Ethics and the Human Genome," a new book from the National Academies' Joseph
Henry Press. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture, which is
open to the public and free of charge.
http://www4.nas.edu/nas/arts.nsf/(ByDocIDView)/BF515938FB806A7A85256C5500603070?OpenDocument
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
The following titles from the National Academies Press catalog and backlist are
now available online.
Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the
Research University
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10545.html
Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics: The X-Games of Contemporary Science
(prepublication)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10544.html
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