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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: Biology
For all my microbiology/cell biology peeps, this could be a neat opportunity. ASCB has obtained a two-year stimulus grant from NIH to assemble an image library of the cell. According to Caroline Kane, project PI and professor emerita at UC-Berkeley...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Just got in from a really interesting talk by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Mayer-Schonberger's concern is that with a shift to digital modes of storage, we've transitioned from a biologically hardwired...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:09 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
No, it's not a stupid joke. It's my candidate for the worst press release title of September? "Neurons Found To Be Similar To U.S. Electoral College":...
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Category: Blogosphere
An excellent post from language log: I propose a voluntary ban on the use of generic plurals to express statistical differences, especially in talking to the general public about scientific results in areas with public policy implications.In other words, when...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:47 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Reviews
A review of Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide: think about how you think, but don't overthink it.
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Category: Artists & Art
Apparently package delivery service Sedex Express is quite similar to "your brain on drugs."
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Category: Biology
So on my return to regular Scienceblogging, I see that Mike the Mad Biologist and Razib are taking exception to a point made by Megan McArdle in the Atlantic. McArdle observes that the heritability of weight is quite high -...
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Category: Biology
Wow. . . coming off the Silence is the Enemy rape awareness initiative, it's more depressing than usual to see the Telegraph's latest bad science reporting. Their story implies that rape victims deserve blame for what happens to them: Women...
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Category: Artists & Art
. . . at least according to a Japanese researcher, who trained them to differentiate "bad" and "good" children's art. According to New Scientist, This isn't Watanabe's first efforts to teach art appreciation to pigeons. In 1995, he and...
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