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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. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and 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.
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November 30, 2006
Category: Academia
Esther Lederberg dies at 83 Stanford University microbiologist Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg, a trailblazer for female scientists and the developer of laboratory techniques that helped a generation of researchers understand how genes function, has died at Stanford Hospital. Professor...
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November 19, 2006
Category: Blog carnivals
Welcome to the newest edition of Pediatric Grand Rounds. Grab a chair, get comfortable, and take a gander at the latest blogging in the field of pediatrics....
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November 17, 2006
Category: Blogging news
Via Dynamics of Cats comes notice that two frequently-cited bloggers on Scienceblogs.com, Sean Carroll of Cosmic Variance and Jennifer of Cocktail Party Physics, are gettin' hitched. Two bloggers in love...could anything be cuter? A collective "awww" is in order, I...
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Category: Blog carnivals
I'm traveling tonight and tomorrow to take the kids and myself back to Ohio for Thanksgiving (props to U of Iowa for not having any classes next week), so my internet access will be limited. So this is the last...
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Category: Policy
PZ and others have already blogged about this, but since it deals with public health in a big way, I thought I'd give it a mention here as well. Seems Bush has made yet another highly questionable appointment in the...
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Category: Blog carnivals
Check it out over at Bamhaus, and much thanks to Andreas for hosting this month's carnival. If anyone wans to volunteeer for future months, be sure to drop me a line; next edition will be Thursday, December 14th and is...
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November 16, 2006
Category: General Epidemiology
I was just lecturing yesterday on streptococci, and discussing how the diseases caused by the group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes). This is the bacterium that causes diseases as varied as "strep throat," streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, and necrotizing fasciitis...
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November 15, 2006
Category: Blog carnivals
The November edition of Animalcules will be up tomorrow--so get your links in ASAP to abaeumer at gmx dot de....
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November 14, 2006
Category: Blog carnivals
The latest edition of Grand Rounds is up, Monty Python-style, over at The Rumors were True....
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November 13, 2006
Category: Blog carnivals
It's that time again. The November edition of Animalcules will go live this coming Thursday, and is being hosted by Andreas. Send your links to him (abaeumer at gmx dot de) by Wednesday, and go ahead and include more than...
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