- MSKCC researchers contributed to a study published in Pediatrics that found that the majority of pre-adolescents do not regularly use sunscreen despite the fact that many of them suffered sunburns at some point during their childhood, which increases the risk of developing melanoma later in life.
- Dr. Peter T. Scardino of MSKCC was quoted in a Huffington Post article about the implications of a recent study that found a new gene variant linked with a higher risk of developing hereditary prostate cancer.
- Researchers from MSKCC have shown in mouse models that a single dose of the commonly used antibiotic, clindamycin, wiped out nearly 90 percent of bacterial taxa, leaving the mice unusually susceptible to infection by Clostridium difficile.
Viewing Older Versions of Websites with the Wayback Machine
When you need to see an older version of a website, this is possible by using the Wayback Machine from Internet Archive. You can browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. This resource can be very helpful when a newer version of a site no longer has a piece of information you are looking for or if you are just curious about what a site used to look like!
To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Please note at this time, keyword searching is not currently supported.
Blog Buzz: January 13 – January 20
It was a wild week out there…
- PIPA and SOPA are currently on hold, but there was a lot of activity this week…some thoughts on the dynamics behind SOPA from Harvard Business Review (via @SteveLoGiudice), Eagledawg’s post on 2012…”the era of evil congressional acronyms” and some clever open science supporters over in the UK have created this post about SOPA and RWA.
- Over at the Scientific American blog network, a publishing scientist asks how realistic calls for a boycott of closed/for-profit publishers are
- NY Times Science Tuesday featured a piece on the open science movement
- One of many items on Apple’s new textbooks plan to move textbook usage further into the digital era