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Watson [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson ] comments

From the guy who is already known for:
"woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual"
"a link between skin colour and sex drive, positing the theory that black people have higher libidos"
"argued in favour of genetic screening and engineering on the basis that " stupidity" could one day be cured"
"People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would great"
Comes another:
"all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really"


The Webolution Will Be Televised

tvThe American poet and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron once famously remarked that The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [1]. Science has undergone its own quiet revolution since the invention of the Web back in 1990. This has slowly but surely changed scientific communication, not just a Revolution but a "Webolution" [2] if you like. The recent addition of television to the Web means that, to paraphrase Gil, the Webolution will be televised. You can now watch some of the webolution in science, thanks the likes of JOVE (The Journal Of Visualised Experiments), SciVee.TV, Google Video and YouTube. What are these sites like and is their scientific and technical content any good?