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This article is a FAIL and a not-FAIL at the same time, but if you read it, you spoil the effect
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So. . .do you need hipster DNA to live here?
Category: Biology
A few thoughts on this ad I spotted last week in Boston: 1. Yes, that appears to be a giant gel electrophoresis. Geez, this town is nerdy. 2. I hope that attractive woman is supposed to be a genetics PhD....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:32 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March Madness Links: A Contest, Cabinets, Carl and CSPAN
Category: Blogosphere
--A great NYT article on science museums and cabinets of curiosities: This antic miscellany is dizzying. But there are lineaments of sustained conflict in the apparent chaos. Over the last two generations, the science museum has become a place where...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Back from Blogcation - twice over
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Hi everyone, I'm officially back from blogcation this week, so thanks for hanging in there while I was (mostly) off the grid! For the next couple of weeks, I'll be slowly wading through the emails and links I got during...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
No! Edward Tufte would never!
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Mark Goetz makes me LOL: Via lots of places, most recently Pollster....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:21 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Disclosing [obvious] biases in book reviews: were Nature and Jared Diamond wrong?
Category: Book Reviews
While I was on blogcation, I got an email from the watchdog group Stinky Journalism, complaining that prominent science author and professor Jared Diamond (Collapse, Guns, Germs and Steel) was in the hot seat again. (You may remember that Stinky...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:00 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Sciblings take on the BMI myth
Category: Biology
One of my pet peeves is the idea that BMI provides an accurate indication of individual health. It doesn't. It's useful across populations (and may be useful to individuals to monitor progress), but when it comes to indicating which individuals...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
if someone had only told me Sb was a professional wrestling establishment. It explains so much
Category: Artists & Art
By Joseph Hewitt, who clearly understands the Sb atmosphere quite well....
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Shaming in the Marketplace: who polices online sellers scammers?
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if a seller lies about their merchandise and doesn't bother to ship it for weeks, why is their positive feedback around 94%? The answer may surprise you
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:05 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Solar panels + old soles = street[light]art
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A friend of mine recently turned me on to the great street art blog Wooster Collective. Check out this unexpected street art in Richmond, Virginia: pairs of old shoes dangling in trees seem mundane by day, but by night,...
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