This Podcast is aweseome!

#1 party school - Penn State
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1330

Complaints and interviews with drunk college students, their neighbors, the police and the administration.

To be fair, they say this is representative of many big state schools, so its definitely not just Penn State.

Biodiesel

So what really is the best fatty acid blend for biodiesel?

Short chain means better cold weather performance, while longer chains have more bonds and therefore more energy.


Companies doing Microbial Synthesis of things I currently care about: Gevo, Amyris & LS9

LS9:Microbial hydrocarbon synthesis (Khosla?)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8220278.stm - VIDEO
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080293060 - PATENT

Amyris: Has a drop-in diesel fuel. No details. (Keasling)

Gevo: retrofitted a ethanol refinery to make biobutantol (Liao)

Krebs Cycle discoverer dies at 91

http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=54500