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I Humbly Propose A Biologically Accurate Episode Of Spongebob Squarepants
Scientific Blogging —
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Todays scapegoat for my rant about the place of cephalopods in society is, as I predicted, Squidward Quincy Tentacles, of Spongebob Squarepants fame: What IS that? Six appendages, a misplaced mouth, and a floppy nose? Whered the nose come from? Where are his fins and tentacles? But oh, it turns out Squidward isnt ...4 hours ago -
Family is the number one reason for women leaving academia
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Science Progress : When Mary Ann Mason was graduate dean at the University of California, Berkeley, a frequent question she heard from women graduate students was "when is a good time to have a baby?" For women in academic science careers, the conventional wisdom was that waiting until she had achieved tenure was the ...17 hours ago -
You too can be Galileo
Cosmic Variance —
Authority: 645
Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope at the heavens, and revolutionized our conception of Earth’s place in the Universe. Now you can do the same thing! In conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy , replicas of Galileo’s telescope are now available . For the low price of $20, you can marvel at the ...22 hours ago -
Cartoonifying Cephalopods
Scientific Blogging —
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Its hard to make a good cartoon cephalopod, I guess. Yesterday I was disappointed about the Squidbillies . Tomorrow I may despair of Spongebobs pal Squidward . Today, I sigh over Nemos little octopus friend Pearl. I was profoundly impressed with the combination of scientific accuracy and aesthetic appeal achieved ...1 day ago -
Police state starts at 450 ppm CO2 equivalent
The Reference Frame —
Authority: 581
As I was just informed by Marc Morano, The Heritage Foundation and other sources inform about new, highly enhanced competences of the U.S. president that will be activated according to the Boxer-Kerry or Waxman-Markey bills as soon as the concentration of " Kyoto " greenhouse gases - CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, ...1 day ago -
Experts criticize nanoparticle study
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ScienceNOW : A new study has found that nanoscale materials, used in everything from medical imaging to cancer treatment, can damage genetic material in our bodies, feeding public fears. But this particular study has little relevance to human exposure risks, experts say, and it is deeply flawed in other ways.1 day ago -
Natural Historians Get Their Own Facebook
Scientific Blogging —
Authority: 626
After the successful introduction of myspace, facebook, twitter and however many other social networking sites that now exist, researchers at Londons Natural History Museum have created a social networking tool called Scratchpads just for natural historians. The platform is designed to get specialists together to ...2 days ago -
Science Is Not Magic
Scientific Blogging —
Authority: 626
I have to delay the Sunday Science Book Club and my discussion of Voyage of the Beagle until next week. In the mean time, Im initiating the first Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Corner. Over the next few months, Ill share my experiences as I work through my list of post-apocalyptic sci-fi, one of my favorite fiction ...2 days ago -
Vitaly Ginzburg (1916-2009)
The Reference Frame —
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Vitaly Ginzburg , a Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist, died on Sunday night in Moscow, at the age of 93. A cardiac arrest was the cause. AP , AFP , Reuters / ABC , Physics World , PhysOrg.com , ITAR-TASS , Russia Today He was born to a Jewish family in Moscow in 1916. Ginzburg shared the 2003 physics ...2 days ago -
Racial Bias May Prevent Patients From Receiving Life-Saving Transplants
Scientific Blogging —
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In July 1999, Medicare began increasing coverage for people needing a simultaneous kidney/pancreas transplant in hopes of addressing racial and economic disparities that existed. But increased Medicare dollars have not translated into more access for African Americans or Hispanics, and researchers from Georgetown ...3 days ago -
Einstein on Galileo’s contribution
Open Parachute —
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Some religious apologists just can’t leave Galileo alone. They are unhappy about the fact that most people accept that the Church behaved badly in sentencing Galileo for heresy. (He got house arrest for the rest of his life and bans on his books, one of which was suppressed for 200 years). So in a manner which ...3 days ago -
I want to be Carl Sagan, but can’t
NeuroDojo —
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I am nearly ready to throttle the next person who mentions Carl Sagan. There seems to be a new cliché emerging in science writing: “We need more Carl Sagans.”This shows up in the books Don’t be Such a Scientist , Unscientific America , and I just spotted Erik Klemetti, who wrote on the Eruptions blog: ...4 days ago -
Why so few East German Max Planck directors?
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Science : When the Max Planck Society planted institutes across the former East Germany, it recruited scientists from around the world for its ambitious project . But only two out of more than 60 directors in the newly founded institutes were recruited from the East itself. Today, the society has 267 active ...5 days ago -
“Friends Of The Moon”
Transterrestrial Musings —
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Leonard David has the story of the budding lunar environmental movement.Is this stupid? Why yes, yes it is.5 days ago -
Makers of Universes
Cosmic Variance —
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It can’t be easy being the guy who has to introduce Albert Einstein. But it helps if you’re George Bernard Shaw. You have to love YouTube, although this is only an excerpt from a somewhat longer speech. Most of the text is here .5 days ago -
How to keep planes from colliding with lasers
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Wired.com : Beaming high-powered lasers into the sky allows scientists to study changing weather patterns, pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere and even gravity on the Moon. But if one of those helpful lasers happens to cross paths with an airplane, it can temporarily blind or distract the pilot and potentially cause ...6 days ago -
TXT Language Redeemed
Scepticon —
Authority: 113
Working in a laboratory, as I do, abbreviations and acronyms are a way of life. Seriously, if we had to enunciate all of those chemical names, procedures and tests work would grind to a halt. Even so I find myself despising TXT speak , reducing otherwise comprehensible words to single letters, whole sentences ...6 days ago -
Why Evolution Is True
Open Parachute —
Authority: 524
Here’s another great video from the recent AAI Convention. It’s a presentation by Jerry Coyne based on his recently published book “Why Evolution Is True .” I haven’t read it yet but it has had great reviews. Jerry describes it as complimentary to Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth . ...6 days ago -
Isolating Nuclear Waste At Yucca Mountain
Reporting on a Revolution —
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BLDGBLOG has an interview with Abraham Van Luik, a geoscientist with the U.S. Department of Energy . Its a long interview about isolating nuclear waste. Yucca mountain and its geology feature prominently. Definitely worth reading.1 week ago -
Teaching Human Evolution In Pakistan Can Be Dangerous
Reporting on a Revolution —
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Kenneth Chang of New York Times has written an interesting summary on the teaching and acceptance of evolution across Muslim countries and among Muslim immigrants in many western nations. Atomic physicist Pervez. A Hoodbhoy went through a dramatic moment while lecturing at a university in Pakistan: Pervez A. ...1 week ago
