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• February 8, 2012

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  Zinc supplements for severe childhood pneumonia More woo, or a way to save some childrens lives?

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  So What's A Teacher to Do? There is a guest commentary by Genie Scott at Real Climate: Imagine you're a middle-school science teacher, and you get to the section of the course where you're to talk about climate change. You mention the "C" words, and two students walk out of the...

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  Modern Neuroscience Verifies a Peircian Idea I know some of you are Piercians, and some of you are interested in Neuroscience. So, without comment I give you this abstract of a recent paper: Past experience provides a rich source of predictive information about the world that could be used to guide...

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  Global Warming Causes European Freeze (Animation) I like the way the solar heat dives into the ocean at the last moment....

• Aardvarchaeology

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  17th Century Pastoral Novel "Stratonice" is a pastoral romance set in the age of Alexander the Great.

• Uncertain Principles

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  How to Teach Physics to Your Polish Dog I have a Google alert set up to let me know whenever my name or the title of one of my books turns up in one of the sources they index. This is highly imperfect, sometimes missing interesting articles, and...

• Respectful Insolence

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  An animal rights zealot faces her comeuppance I was going to write about that article about massage therapy and the gene expression changes it causes, but when I went to look up the actual paper and found out, to my great disappointment, that our institution still doesn't...

• Life Lines

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  Talk about jumbo shrimp! Check out this new species of shrimp-like amphipods that was discovered in an ocean trench off the coast of New Zealand! The biggest one found was 11 inches long. Yum... Image: National Geographic While reading this article, I could not...

• February 7, 2012

• The Pump Handle

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  Nine chronic diseases and their varied impacts A new report from the Institute of Medicine looks beyond the usual diseases and approaches for addressing chronic illnesses.

• Confessions of a Science Librarian

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  Around the Web: The end of academic library circulation, Teens & Twitter and more The End of Academic Library Circulation? Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey Teens slowly migrating to Twitter Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition Is Facebook Really a Good...

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  A Penny for your Thoughts (about Mars Exploration) This August, Mars Science Robot Curiosity will land on the surface of the Angry Red Planet equipped with a Penny to tell how big things are. The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has its own calibration target,...

• Starts With A Bang

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  Real Science and Health News: From a Truth Vigilante "If people decide they're going to deny the facts of history and the facts of science and technology, there's not much you can do with them. For most of them, I just feel sorry that we failed in their education."...

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  Some interesting new Caldera Science Should we worry about calderas, like Santorini or the Yellowstone Caldera, blowing up with little warning? Sort of, in geological time that is. Turns out that the period of time between not much happening and the buildup of magma prior to a major eruption is...

• Uncertain Principles

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  Reminder: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog Photoshop Contest A quick reminder: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog (cover in the left sidebar) will be released at the end of the month. If you'd like to win a signed copy early, though, you can enter our Photoshop contest....

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  Links for 2012-02-07 NPR hack apologizes for Wall Street « LBO News from Doug Henwood For a while, I've been thinking about writing a piece on how NPR is more toxic than Fox News. Fox preaches to the choir. NPR, though, confuses...

• Stoat

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  Grauniad hangwringing Subtitle: Rupert Neate is a tosser, since I don't seem to have done one of my "is a tosser" series recently. Having assailed the nutters yesterday, I feel inclined to have a go at the handwringing going on at the...

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  The Great UN Conspiracy to (gasp) increase green space! You heard me. There is a shocking conspiracy, directly from the nefarious leaders of the one world government at the...

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  The vilest antivaccine lie that won't die: Shaken baby syndrome as "vaccine injury" Way back in the day, when I first encountered antivaccine views in that wretched Usenet swamp of pseudoscience, antiscience, and quackery known as misc.health.alternative, there was one particular antivaccine lie that disturbed me more than just about any other. No,...

• February 6, 2012

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  myMac 01 I am a Mac. Oh, wait, no, different commercial. Let me start again. I have a Mac. I call it myMac and I've only had it for a few hours. Those of you who know me know I could not possibly own a Mac, so...

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  Dear Jezebel There's a reason I promote atheism and skepticism coupled with feminism, and it's not because I'm trying to foist a feminist ideology on skepticism. It's because skepticism drives me to consider discrimination and injustice as wrong, not just in an...

• Aardvarchaeology

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  My Autumn's And Winter's Work I haven't actually said much about what I've been doing in my study these past months.

• The Pump Handle

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  OSHA proposes $21,500 penalty to firm where two 17 year olds lost legs OSHA proposed a $21,500 penalty to Zaloudek Grain for violations related to the incident that caused two 17 year olds to each lose a leg while they were working at the grain handling facility.

• A Few Things Ill Considered

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  Another Week of GW News, February 5, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...

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  Wacky Football Mishap Poll So, my Giants edged out Kate's Patriots again in the Chateau Steelypips Bowl, in a game that was certainly not without its drama. I'm not going to gloat about it, because a couple of different bounces here or there easily...

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  Eisen calls for Elsevier Boycott - but can we all go OA? Eisen writes Thus, people joining in the new boycott have no excuses not to follow through. There are plenty of...

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus

See Also:

Cribsheet: Synthetic Biology
Seed’s downloadable science guide