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My thoughts on biology, teaching, life, and exploring the living world via the digital one. Only my opinions are represented by these postings, they do not represent the viewpoints of any funding agency or Geospiza, Inc.
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I am a digital biologist, teacher, and entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).
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November 30, 2006
EMBL Online Symposium: No travel costs! Attend for free!
Category: Announcements
Attend an exciting conference in Europe, virtually free!
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:47 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2006
Antibiotics au naturale?
Category: Microbiology
What's the difference between a synthetic drug and an antibiotic? Sometimes there's no difference at all. Let's take a look at chloramphenicol and couple of pencillins....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2006
Jumping to Conclusions about the NSTA
Category: Science culture
One of my favorite books, "The Phantom Tollbooth," by Norton Juster, has a wonderful description of the penalties for making decisions without carefully evaluating the facts. Whenever the characters in...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:58 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A primer on antibiotic resistance, part I: what are antibiotics?
Category: Microbiology
Antibiotics are molecules of biological warfare. Produced by bacteria and some fungi, in response to extracellular signals, antibiotics represent a diverse group of compounds that inhibit bacterial growth at different...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:21 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2006
Addressing the biology knowledge gap
Category: Science education
How do non-biologists learn about biology?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2006
Bored on Thanksgiving?
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Here's an experiment you can do at home.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
39.5 million people have HIV
Category: HIV/AIDS
Random thoughts on AIDS and HIV
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:54 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2006
Parasites and Purity
Category: Microbiology
New evidence links ancient latrines to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2006
Molecular biology in the age of kits
Category: Biotechnology
Do more kits mean more science or more science that's bad?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:53 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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