Infectious disease epidemiology and zombies
Category: Humor
Saving the world, one zombie outbreak at a time.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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.
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Infectious Disease Series
Humor:
I can haz BSL3?
Category: Humor
(Source. Hat tip: Shawn)....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The microbiology of double-dipping
Category: General biology
The science of Seinfeld: does double-dipping a chip really contaminate the chip dip?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:30 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Heh
Category: Humor
This would be funnier if people didn't actually believe it... (via Orac)....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:00 AM • 145 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Reporting on the Creation Museum...it all makes sense now
Category: Humor
As a native Ohioan and longtime creationist watcher, of course I'm morbidly fascinated with (and dismayed by) the opening of the new Creation Museum just outside of Cincinnati. I'm not going to give a full response to its ridiculous "science;"...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:15 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In honor of Valentine's day...
Category: Humor
...some vintage posters raising awareness about the other VD: venereal disease. (Click on them to go to the original site). A few more highlights below the fold......
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For the *real* Star Wars nerds...
Category: Humor
An essential piece of trivia: what bacterium was named after a George Lucas invention? An investigator discovers a new bacterium that lives in the mitochondria in tick ova. Can you guess what Star Wars organisms they're named after?...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Friday Kooky Komment
Category: Humor
My poor, neglected blog. These last few weeks have been killer workwise; I still have another post in the wings in pandemic influenza that might have to wait until next week (unofficially extending pandemic flu awareness week), and I have...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:45 PM • 170 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Darwin, the musical
Category: Humor
From NPR's Weekend Edition comes The Origin of Species song by Chris Smither (right around the 7:00 mark)....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Marry me, John Hodgman
Category: Humor
Okay, so you've probably seen this guy on the new Mac commercials. He's the one who plays the PC, the nerdy guy with glasses. He's also a contributor to the Daily Show, where he first appeared to talk about his...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:15 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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