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Category: Science News
The finding for which this year's Chemistry Nobel was awarded earlier today was sufficiently unexpected and counter to the orthodoxy of the time that today's prize winner was tossed out of his own research group for reporting it. His 1982 discovery has to do with...
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Category: Holiday Shopping
As I'm sitting here ordering things on line and last minute for people's Christmas presents (there, I said Christmas. Take THAT Bill O'Really!) I thought I'd make a few suggestions for my readers....
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Category: Science
I dunno.... let's ask a expert!...
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Category: I have a pitchfork and I know how to use it
I am sad to report that it is indeed confirmed by official sources that primatologist Marc Hauser engaged in several instances of what is being termed misconduct while carrying out experiments in his lab. Dean Michael Smith issued the following letter to members of the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:03 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
I know Marc Hauser, and I trust him. I worked with him for a few years as a colleague on the faculty in the Anthropology department on various administrative matters (such as graduate admission and undergraduate program development) and we taught together. We are very...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:24 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Education
And we need your help to move it. Please click here so the global network of DNS servers knows that you want to visit the MnCSE. You should really visit the site anyway, it's very cool, even if you are not a Minnesota. I love...
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Category: Linux
I like the idea of an edition of Ubuntu for scientists. I like the idea so much that I wrote a blog post about it a while back. So I was very pleased to see that there is a project called Ubuntusci that is moving...
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Category: Science
I recently watched this film for the first time since I was a little kid. The plot is much more nuanced than I had realized at the time. Interesting mixture of science and religion....
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Category: Skeptical Skepticism
I recently posted an appeal to support the upcoming skeptical track at the Minneapolis CONvergence organized by The Skepchicks, a group of hip female skeptical activists and some guys. The first comment on that post was a stern admonition that one might not want to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:01 PM • 121 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum tries to make several different points. The central framework of the book, on which all the arguments are hung, is that science has a status, a place, in American culture, politics,...
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