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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: Artists & Art
Heartbreaking photos of albatross chicks, by photographer Chris Jordan: These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:47 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
I've simply got too much to do this week to review these articles with the time and thought they deserve, so I'd just like to point them out to you. First, Scibling Bora has written a massive critique of "Investigative...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:36 PM • 0 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":...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Stanley Fish writes a provocative essay in the NYT on whether curiosity is tantamount to "a mental disorder," or even a sin: Give this indictment of men in love with their own capacities a positive twist and it becomes...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:36 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: Ephemera
Can we trust that the "Theory of Everything" (in economics, physics, or any other field) turn out to be beautiful?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:19 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
The editors of the Columbia Journalism Review weigh in on the media's uneven treatment of the health care debate: So far this year 55 percent of coverage of health care has been about the political battles, 16 percent about...
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Category: Web 2.0, New Media, and Gadgets
This morning, I'd like to point out two interesting stories on how the health care debate has become more irrational than rational. First, a WaPo op-ed decrying the imbalanced media coverage of health care, which may be leading to a...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:26 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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