Science culture:
Bill Gates, Eric Lander, Maynard Olson, Leena Peltonen, and George Church fielded questions last night at a fascinating panel discussion on personal genomics at the University of Washington. We were fortunate to be in the audience. I'll share some of the questions and answers, in some cases shortened and paraphrased....
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Posted on April 24, 2008 10:41 AM • 9 Comments •
Things move off of our entry page pretty quick sometimes. If you missed this post from Bioephemera, go take a look. She has great pictures and a fascinating story about one Seattle's favorite places....
Posted on March 16, 2008 6:20 PM • 2 Comments •
When will science lab courses start teaching more of what we do now, and less of what we did twenty years ago?
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Posted on February 25, 2008 2:48 PM • 24 Comments •
In the cubical world, is the "Gesundheit" the right thing to say?
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Posted on February 23, 2008 12:26 PM • 38 Comments •
is coming home and flying into Seattle. I took these pictures with my phone (in Airplane Mode, of course). In the first shot, you get to see Mt. St. Helen's and all the interesting geology around it. Can you tell which way the volcano blew? Mt. Rainier is in the background...
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Posted on January 14, 2008 8:26 PM • 3 Comments •
Yesterday, I posted a memorial for Ron Mardigian, an enthusiastic champion of science education at Bio-Rad. Today, I scanned RPM's blog and what do I see? A choir! Bio-Rad has produced a really funny music video. It reminds me of the music video from "We are the World," except some members of the choir are holding PCR machines and singing...
Posted on January 11, 2008 12:32 PM • 2 Comments •
Well, some of you asked for this...
Posted on December 12, 2007 11:40 PM • 5 Comments •
SciBling recommendations and holiday gifts
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Posted on December 2, 2007 9:00 AM • 6 Comments •
What's the difference?
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Posted on October 29, 2007 12:37 PM • 9 Comments •
Bora and I are giving posters in Second Life. Here's how you can attend.
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Posted on October 14, 2007 10:38 PM • 21 Comments •
What's the connection?(image from Newton TAB blog) I have to admit, I don't know. But, I do know where you can find out. Dr. Gerard Cangelosi, from the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, will be speaking about tuberculosis, godzilla, and XDR-TB, Monday night, 7 pm at the Pub at Ravenna Third Place as part of Science on Tap. tags: tuberculosis, informal...
Posted on August 24, 2007 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Drug Monkey has an interesting take on an article that I wrote the other day about publishing in biology....
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Posted on August 1, 2007 10:17 AM • 8 Comments •
Software testing and the scientific method.
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Posted on July 23, 2007 3:46 PM • 0 Comments •
Is the case for open access truly "open and shut"? Will open access impede science by limiting genetic studies with families? tags: genetics, genetic privacy, bioethics, open access...
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Posted on May 28, 2007 9:10 AM • 2 Comments •
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 the book arrive at a decision too quickly, they end up, literally, "jumping to Conclusions," an island far off the shore. The penalty for quick blog posts isn't so high....
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Posted on November 28, 2006 7:58 PM • 13 Comments •
Do more kits mean more science or more science that's bad?
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Posted on November 8, 2006 1:53 PM • 14 Comments •
What ethical issues concern people working in biotech?
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Posted on October 18, 2006 11:47 AM • 1 Comments •
Is seeing believing or seeing deceiving?
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Posted on October 11, 2006 3:14 PM • 6 Comments •
To some inhabitants of the ivory tower, industry looks like paradise.
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Posted on October 9, 2006 9:18 AM • 0 Comments •
Which women do you think should win the Nobel Prize?
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Posted on October 5, 2006 3:02 PM • 6 Comments •
Some of my fellow ScienceBloggers have been hotly debating the role of male science faculty in perpetuating a climate that's chilly and hostile to women. From one end of the ring, we've heard the classic complaint "It's not my fault, I didn't do it." From the other end, we hear: "It is your fault because you're not doing anything to...
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Posted on October 3, 2006 12:02 PM • 5 Comments •
Some of us walk by the bus stop and nervously glance at the scruffy-looking man carrying the ragged sign. I try not to breathe through my nose while I read the sign, carefully pretending all the while that I'm not really interested. Ah, it says "Repent! The world will end tomorrow!" I smile since I always love a testable hypothesis....
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Posted on June 28, 2006 10:43 AM • 3 Comments •
I recently completed a long trip out-of-town, giving a presentation at a Bio-Link conference in Berkeley, and teaching a couple of bioinformatics classes at the University of Texas, through the National Science Foundation's Chautauqua program. The Human Subjects Protection Course Before I left town, I had to take a class on how to treat human subjects. It seems strange, in...
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Posted on June 20, 2006 2:03 PM • 1 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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