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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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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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