NIH Director Francis Collins blogged about his discussion and performance with Yo-Yo Ma during the recent J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture in Bethesda. His post includes an overview of their conversation as well as a video of their duet.

Nature News included a story about two large scale biology projects which are moving towards requiring submission of manuscripts to preprint sharing servers in an effort to encourage sharing within the biological research community.

From the NY Times, on the life of John Glenn, who passed away Thursday at the age of 95.

A first proposal on Copyright Office Reform has been released by the House Judiciary Committee. Additional proposals will be forthcoming and written comments from stakeholders are being requested by the committee through the end of January.