Mentos, the fizz maker
Category: Science education
Candy + pop + science = perfect combination.
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Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.
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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
"...a veritable expert on tawdry cosmetic procedures gone horribly awry..."--Kevin Beck
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- Another advantage of blogging
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Saturday roundup
Category: General biology
More topics I'd have covered this week, given endless time and energy: An update on the Chikungunya outbreak I discussed here (and see this comment on the outbreak from a medical entomologist in the region dealing with it first-hand). Orac...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2006
Okay, I'll play
Category: Misc.
Oooh, fun. I have a stack of smelly plates waiting for me in the incubator...but Janet's ABC meme is more interesting. Answers below the fold....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:00 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bookend: The real hot 100
Category: Misc.
Okay, one more post and I swear I'll stop talking about sex/sexiness for awhile. A reader sent me a link to this page: the real hot 100. We're tired of the media telling young women how to be "hot"! Maxim...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sexy science (or, not)
Category: General biology
After hitting on the topic of sexy scientists earlier in the week, this one is kind of the flip side. I probably don't need to tell this audience that a lot of biology ain't exactly glamorous. Sure, there are biologists...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:55 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nanotechnology primer
Category: General biology
Nanotechnology. What does it mean to you? How does it affect health? Does the phrase only conjure up images of Crichton-esque nanobots with a sinister motive? Nanotechnology is a field defined solely by its size. By definition, it involves the...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:30 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2006
Sign you've been in life science too long...
Category: Humor
You talk to your expectorated matter. In "science-ese." At least, by that post anyway, there's no evidence it was expected to reply......
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:46 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
coturnix reviews the results of uncritical thinking
Category: Blog carnivals
A new edition of the Skeptics' Circle is up at Science and Politics. Nice setup: "Effects of uncritical thinking on neuronal death in users and non-users of the baloney detection kit: a review of recent literature."...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2006
Carnivals!
Category: Blog carnivals
Check out an all-new Carnival of Education and Tangled bank (oooh, Star Wars theme!). Finally, don't forget about next week's Animalcules, to be hosted over at Discovering Biology in a Digital World. Send submissions to me or Sandra (sandy at...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Emerging Disease and Zoonoses #13--new swine influenza virus detected
Category: General Epidemiology
Novel Swine Influenza Virus Subtype H3N1, United States In several of my influenza posts, I've discussed ways that the viruses can evolve. These are termed "antigenic drift," where the virus accumulates small mutations in the RNA genome; and antigenic shift,...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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