Category: Infectious disease
It was only a matter of time: Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says the state has two probable causes of swine flu. Speaking Wednesday at a Statehouse news conference, Culver told reporters that officials would know Thursday if the cases are...
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Category: Intelligent design/creationism
A creationist squawks about "godless atheists" suppressing academic freedom.
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Category: Academia
Score another one for science.
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Category: Intelligent design/creationism
Iowa's first anti-evolution bill in a decade focuses on academic freedom.
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Category: Housekeeping
Scooped by a fellow Scienceblogger on my own upcoming paper...
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Category: Iowa/area news
Answer: a metric fuckton.
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Category: General Epidemiology
Flooding challenges last long after the water's gone.
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Category: Misc.
In her guest post at Highly Allochthonous, hydrogeologist Anne Jefferson explains how one can have two "500 year floods" in short measure. Great reading......
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Category: Iowa/area news
Two years ago Iowa City was hit by a tornado. Last year my hometown back in Ohio was underwater. This year, Iowa's already been hit by an EF5 tornado, and now 49 out of our 99 counties are disaster...
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Category: Academia
It's not certain there will be a decision immediately, though: From the Iowa State Daily: The Iowa Board of Regents will meet Thursday to discuss the tenure denial appeal of Guillermo Gonzalez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa...
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