Miscellany:
They could have used the data from my serial killer survey, but no, being scientists or science-related, the ScienceBlogs overseers want to find out for themselves. Plus the chance of winning and iPod is higher than the chance of winning the lottery and you don't even have to buy a ticket. Take the survey, maybe even win. I wonder if...
Posted on February 14, 2008 1:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Maybe there's something a little bit odd about having a gingerbread construction contest to raise funds for researching juvenile diabetes. Maybe these gingerbread houses aren't environmentally proper or particularly sustainable. But they are impressive. If you're in Seattle over the holidays, you can see them at the Sheraton Hotel until Jan 2nd and even help fund research on juvenile diabetes....
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Posted on December 16, 2007 6:44 PM • 1 Comments •
And I was. It was the dreaded Seven Random and Weird things meme! It's on the loose and I've been tagged. The rules are: Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links...
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Posted on December 10, 2007 12:35 PM • 1 Comments •
At least this is what I imagine it's like to live with someone who has bipolar disorder. Tonight - Sept. 19th, between 7-8 pm EDT, there will a "blogger's conference with the experts," discussing this very thing. The transcript will be posted and you can learn more about the event here....
Posted on September 19, 2007 1:53 AM • 2 Comments •
Yes, indeed. I got the Red Hot blog of the Day award from RedOrbit. Not for science, though; it's for showing why genome sequencing is expensive. Sigh....
Posted on September 6, 2007 3:45 PM • 0 Comments •
Okay, gossip really isn't my thing and I'm not going to make a habit of it, but I'm really kind of surprised by this. Tech crunch (as I learned from Deepak and Eye on DNA) has a post on 23 and me that is quite bothersome. Apparently, one of the Google founders has invested in a company that specializes in...
Posted on May 23, 2007 10:10 PM • 6 Comments •
It's dyscalculia. The curse of math instructors everywhere. A few years ago, students at the community college, where I taught, petitioned to have math removed from the list of courses that were required for a degree. Part of the reason, they argued, was that one student claimed that he shouldn't have to take math because he had dyscalculia. (Dyscalculia is...
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Posted on March 26, 2007 4:48 PM • 7 Comments •
yes, I read science fiction, too.
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Posted on March 11, 2007 8:04 PM • 16 Comments •
From earwax to smelly things in our refrigerator, your favorites from Digital Biology.
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Posted on January 1, 2007 12:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Laurie David claims that National Science Teachers' Association (the NSTA) is inconveniently hooked up with big oil because they won't spend the money to send out 50,000 copies of the "An Inconvenient Truth" DVD. If I do the math and estimate that it costs $4 to mail each DVD, that includes packaging, mailing, the costs of hiring a distribution center,...
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Posted on December 8, 2006 7:13 PM • 12 Comments •
This may seem strange to anyone who hasn't lived in Minnesota, but when I was a child, kids in my elementary school used to have fist fights when it came to the question of which famous European discovered America....
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Posted on October 4, 2006 4:38 PM • 1 Comments •
Folks have been enthusiastically commenting around the clock on the possiblity of using prisoners in clinical trials. Meanwhile, Thomas Hargrove has analyzed obesity and death rates in the National Football League. He suggests that those pharmaceutical companies with anti-obesity drugs might be better off taking a look at Monday night football. Or, at Monday night football players. He found that...
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Posted on August 15, 2006 4:48 PM • 2 Comments •
I've been fortunate, living in Seattle, to hear talks from many people that my colleagues and co-bloggers might consider to be rock stars - people like Mary-Claire King, Nancy Wexler, Francis Collins, Leroy Hood, Eugenie Scott, David Haussler, Harold Varmus, and Elaine Ostrander. But, if I think about who the public might see as a rock star, the list gets...
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Posted on July 31, 2006 6:00 PM • 2 Comments •
I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Geospiza Education).
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