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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: Education
It commemorates Hans Christian Ørsted, who discovered the relationship between electricity and magenetism. Re-enact Ørsted's experiment here. But what about that other Hans Christian, Hans Christian Andersen? Here's what the Guardian had to say: "while there's nothing wrong with...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:10 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DC
Last Friday, in my post on Nature's comprehensive coverage of science journalism, I mentioned the recent Nature Biotechnology conference paper on science communications co-authored by scibling Matt Nisbet. I also said I'd come back to one of the points in...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:11 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Nature has gone science journalism crazy, with no less than six new articles on the subject! My favorite is "Science Journalism: Toppling the Priesthood," by Toby Murcott, who argues that coverage of peer review is a necessary component of truly...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:29 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
I'm here in DC at the Newseum for the State of Innovation Summit, a collaboration between SEED and the Council on Competitiveness. The crowd is pretty awesome - right now Adam Bly, SEED's CEO, is sitting a few rows...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Joanna of Morbid Anatomy is on a quest to locate private collections of medical oddities. She's already sussed out fourteen such hidden wunderkammern and photographed their treasures, but she wants to find more: "Who are these private collectors, and...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
The demise of the university, why your Facebook photos are causing a power crisis, how anesthesia transformed medicine, are scientists "selfish" when they delay publishing new medical data in order to write a more thorough/high-profile paper?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:47 PM • 4 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
Category: Biology
Students and laypeople alike often view biotech patents with baffled disbelief. How is it possible to patent bacteria? Mice? Cell types and DNA sequences? How can someone else "own" gene sequences that all of us have carried inside our bodies...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:29 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Mark Buchanan, quoting Lee Smolin, on how big science may be biased against innovative iconoclasts: Some scientists, he suggests, are what we might call "hill climbers". They tend to be highly skilled in technical terms and their work mostly takes...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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