Philosophy of Science History of Science, Scientific Ethics, Social Studies of Science
October 15, 2007
The World's Fair
Puzzle Fantastica 3 - Clues 1, 2 and 3 Puzzle Fantastica #1 was too hard Puzzle Fantastica #2 was too easy Puzzle Fantastica #3 is ......
Pure Pedantry
An explanation of the Nobel in economics I am not smart or qualified enough to explain the work of the winners of the Nobel in economics, but they have a great explanation at Marginal Revolution....
Uncertain Principles
Non-Dorky Poll: Monkey Power! If you could go through life either seeing no evil, hearing no evil, or speaking no evil, which would you pick?
Stranger Fruit
Today in Science (1015) Events 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesizes the first oral contraceptive 1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. 2001 - NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io....
October 14, 2007
Stranger Fruit
Today in Science (1014) Births 1801 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist 1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer 1914 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Deaths 1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer 1960 - Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist 1984 - Martin...
October 13, 2007
On being a scientist and a woman
Incentives for helping kids in need In case helping preschool special ed students by providing materials for science exploration isn't rewarding enough, the Scienceblogs overlords at Seed Media have made two really enticing offers. First, Seed is matching the first $15,000 donated by scienceblogs readers during...
The Scientific Activist
Metric System (Apparently) a Plot by Liberal Communist Anti-American Immigrants Viewers foam at the mouth after a Houston TV station includes Celsius temperatures alongside Fahrenheit measures.
Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog
Rings of Phenomenal Nertitude Some say nothing quite says "I love you" like a diamond ring, but *I* say nothing quite says "I'm a huge geek" like these rings.
Stranger Fruit
Today in Science (1013) Events 1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy (above) was discovered by Charles Messier 1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means 1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral...
October 12, 2007
Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog
Fibonacci Numbers, the Cochlea, and Poetry The Fibonacci numbers form a sequence defined by this relation (don't be scared!): What this means, in English, is that it is a sequence of numbers whose relationship is this: after the first two numbers, each proceeding number is the...
Stranger Fruit
Today in Science (1012) But first, your DonorsChoose update. We seem to have stalled out at 19% of our goal. While I’m sure we can feel happy that we are positively impacting the education of 210 students (and four of our challenges have been...
October 11, 2007
Terra Sigillata
Strong European Showing in Nobels; Is American Science in Danger? [Aufmerksamkeit! Begrüßen Sie deutsche Freunde und Leser des Focus Wissenschafts-Community. Glückwünsche zu Profs Ertl und Grünberg auf dieser enormen Ehre!] I'm intentionally being dramatic but an interesting discussion emerged in the comment thread of my post on the work of...
Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge
Taking Notes: Lab Notebooks in the Private Sector One of my to-do tasks includes making some revisions to a standard operating procedure draft document for lab notebook policies for our division. I'm a member of an "executive lab notebook committee" or as I fondly like to call my...
The Daily Transcript
Entropy Driven Entry By now I should be flying in to Paris to meetup with some old friends. Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk at the Universite Pierre & Marie Curie entitled: The Signal Sequence Coding Region: promoting nuclear export of mRNA, and...
Stranger Fruit
Today in Science (1011) Events 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. Births 1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer 1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German...
October 10, 2007
Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog
Quid Pro Quo, Clarice A thought experiment.
Stranger Fruit
October 9, 2007
The Voltage Gate
Bradbury on Science, Religion and Art I've finally had a chance to do some reading. Every October I tend to reach for Bradbury (mostly because of our shared obsession with autumn), and I polished off The Martian Chronicles last night, a depressing but highly entertaining look...
A Blog Around The Clock
Journal Clubs - think of the future! The recent return of Journal Clubs on PLoS ONE has been quite a success so far. People are watching from outside and they like what they see. The first Journal Club article, on microbial metagenomics, has already, in just one...
Stranger Fruit
Today in Science (1009) Events 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way....
October 8, 2007
The Daily Transcript
Explorers & Crusaders I'm in Italia. Here's one of my favorite entries. It first appeared last year....
Stranger Fruit
October 7, 2007
Gene Expression
Anthropology - science & politics The Seattle Times has a piece titled Anthropology: the great divide. Here's the essential bit: At the extremes, one school of thought insinuates dark, possibly racist intentions of scientists under sway of their Eurocentric biases, linear thinking and arrogance in...
Stranger Fruit
Today in Science (1007) You know what to do ......
October 6, 2007
Evolving Thoughts
What Evolution Is and What It Is Not (1897) I found this interesting and still surprisingly modern essay by David Starr Jordan in 1897, at William Tozier's blog, where he had scanned it from a journal called The Arena. They had some good public discussion journals at the...
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- Tell us who you are! Alice
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