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a blog about the intersection of science, art, and culture by Jessica Palmer, PhD

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Jessica Palmer has a PhD in Molecular Biology and has been blogging about the intersection of art and biology since 2006.

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May 31, 2009

paradigm shift: fact-checking (journalism) vs debugging (programming)

Category: Blogosphere

If you've been following the Jared Diamond/New Yorker controversy, or my ongoing posts on journalism vs. blogging (here, here, here, here, here), you might be intrigued by this conversation about the culture of fact-checking in journalism, between journalism professor Jay...

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A textbook intended to give you nightmares?

Category: Biology

The most demented biology textbook illustrations ever, courtesy of Crooked Timber

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May 30, 2009

The pathos of studying happiness

Category: Littademia

Joshua Wolf Shenk on the Harvard Study of Adult Development

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May 29, 2009

Finally! The Kootie epidemic is under control

Category: Biology

Thank goodness Science has finally given us protection against. . . Kooties!...

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May 28, 2009

Win your favorite science blogger a Strange Quark!

Category: Blogosphere

It is no secret that 3 Quarks Daily is one of my favorite blogs. It's the first blog I told my boyfriend to put on his Google Reader (he'd already added BioE, but still). Which is why I'm overjoyed to...

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May 26, 2009

By the time it gets to grandma. . .

Category: Biology

This would be funnier if it weren't so painfully true. Also see the sequel. I didn't get to this for a few days because I was working too hard to blog last week. In the meantime, Language Log responded...

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May 25, 2009

Jared Diamond hides behind the "it wasn't science" defense

Category: Journalism

Just when I was wondering why there hasn't been more mainstream coverage of the Jared Diamond/New Yorker lawsuit I blogged about at the beginning of this month, Columbia Journalism Review has an update. And in a recent article in Science,...

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Mystery Image #5

Category: Science

This is. . . A. The surface of one of Jupiter's moons B. Thermophilic archaebacteria in a hot spring C. The pigmented iris of a Madagascar gecko D. An electroformed enamel and copper pendant E. Multicolored lichen at Enchanted Rock,...

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May 23, 2009

"Biologicals, Vaccines, Serums"

Category: Science

Morgan Care Pharmacy on P St. in Georgetown has all the character so sorely lacking from new drugstore franchises. Drugstores used to be so different: as a child, I savored root beer floats at our local drugstore soda fountain...

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May 21, 2009

Art of Science 2009

Category: Cephalopodmania

The Princeton Art of Science competition has named its 2009 winners. The image above, by Celeste Nelson, is a bright field micrograph of baby squid (Loligo pealeii). See the rest of the winners here....

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