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Category: Blogosphere
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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Category: Blogosphere
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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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....
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--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...
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Category: Blogosphere
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...
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Category: Blogosphere
Mark Goetz makes me LOL: Via lots of places, most recently Pollster....
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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...
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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...
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Category: Artists & Art
By Joseph Hewitt, who clearly understands the Sb atmosphere quite well....
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Category: Blogosphere
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
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Category: Blogosphere
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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