Tangled Up in Blue Guy has this: Angela Belcher and Batteries.
Belcher, a bioengineer at MIT, is hacking biological systems within viruses to create new kinds of batteries
That would be so cool.
Joe My God has this: Gainesville FL Votes Today On Repealing LGBT Discrimination Protection
Do the right thing, Gainesville!
The Carnival of Radical Feminists is Here. (Part I, anyway)
Sticking with what is almost a theme here, Thus Spake Zuska has two items: Why Can’t Women Do Anything Great? and The Problem of the Problem of Motherhood in Science
Combining motherhood – combining parenthood – with a career in science is certainly no easy task, but is there, perhaps, an excessive focus on this as the issue for women in science? Is motherhood + science, in some ways, a red herring?
… it’s complicated.
And Almost Diamonds has a new post up related to science journalism: How to Do Sensationalism.
First off, let me just say that it’s very wrong that I found out about an article in PLos Medicine through Facebook instead of Bora. I mean, I know Bora can’t bring everything interesting to my attention, but…still.




