Great website – cfvancouver

This is a great website: the Vancouver and Lower Mainland Chapter of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.  These are the guys who are doing a great job organising GearUp4CF ride and this website has lots of useful links on it both for people with CF and also they have a very useful page containing links to CF research news, which is handy to me!!

Useful links for people interested in science.

I thought it might be a good idea to post some links to other science blogs/website and video sites for anyone interested in these.  There are a growing number of these as many individual scientists take communicating science into their own hands. 

Good blogs:

Microbiologybytes:  says it is Microbiology in language everyone can understand.  I’ve only just found this and it does seem really good.

Pharyngula:   Pharyngula was recently named the top most read science blog by the journal Nature.  Described by Richard Dawkins as trenchant good sense, this is my favorite blog, written by PZ Meyers a Professor, evolutionary biologist and atheist at the University of Minnesota.

Partial Immortilization

Nature’s list of the best 50 science blogs

Video sites:

Finally video content for science comes to the Internet, some of the videos may not be to everyone’s taste – so you have been warned!

http://www.dnatube.com/  This is clearly a YouTube type clone, has some interesting looking lectures on there that might be of use to non-scientist – such as what is DNA and what is Gene. 

 http://www.labaction.com/ I liked this the second it loaded!  The first page has several videos of use to me – such as mass spectroscopy.

http://www.jove.com/ Journal of Visualised Experiments

Podcasts:

Nature

Science 

New Scientist 

Scientific American