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May 31, 2009
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:31 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
The most demented biology textbook illustrations ever, courtesy of Crooked Timber
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:49 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2009
Category: Littademia
Joshua Wolf Shenk on the Harvard Study of Adult Development
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:54 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2009
Category: Biology
Thank goodness Science has finally given us protection against. . . Kooties!...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:57 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2009
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2009
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2009
Category: Science 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,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:43 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2009
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 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....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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