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Category: Science
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo. Last week, at the imagine science film festival in New York, Magnetic Movie won the Nature Scientific Merit Award: In 2009, the Nature Scientific Merit Award went to the film judged to be not...
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Category: Biology
Since I posted last night, DrugMonkey, Dr. Free-Ride, and the Intersection have also checked in with their POVs on this issue. I particularly liked this comment from Dr. Free-Ride: We get to foot the bill for the effects of other...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Do drug addicts "deserve" our research money?
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Category: Blogosphere
*That's the Amazon rainforest - not Amazon.com! Check out this interview from MAKE with Google's Rebecca Moore, who helped an Amazon chief use Google Earth to fight illegal logging....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
From the wonderful blog Letters of Note: in 1957, schoolboy Denis Cox generously shared his rocket blueprints with "A Top Scientist" at Australia's Woomera Weapons Research Establishment. The important stuff (Rolls Royce jet engines, "Air Torpeados") is all there,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
OK: I'm female AND a biologist, and looking at this one freaks ME out! I'm all in favor of appreciating the beauty of female anatomy and miracle of childbirth and all, but this pasty, long-limbed newborn doll with a detatchable...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Good and bad on the Web: Open Access Week, asynchronous communication, a pictorial history of the internet, the Wellcome Image Awards 2009, and PopTech 09
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Category: Artists & Art
To follow up on my post on Kevin Van Aelst, here's an anatomically-inspired artwork by Heather L. Johnson, whose new show, "Air and Blood", opens this month in NYC: Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the...
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Category: Blogosphere
Jared Diamond responds, call for a National Ocean Policy, Sciart in the Bay, Armed with Science, a new NIDA media guide, and Stephen Fry on coping with depression
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Category: Blogosphere
So it's finally happened: the government is taking blogs so seriously that the FTC is cracking down on us! As you may have heard, Bloggers who offer endorsements must disclose any payments they have received from the subjects of their...
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