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What is in the air we breathe? What is it's chemical composition?
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Posted on April 21, 2008 12:06 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm not sure that I have a story that really fits the curent Ask a ScienceBlogger, but the question does call to mind an incident from my junior year in college.
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Posted on December 27, 2006 10:40 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My voting this year is entirely determined by a simple algorithm.
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Posted on November 6, 2006 10:53 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you correctly predict the name of at least one of the winning physicists, I'll post an article on a topic of your choosing...
Posted on September 27, 2006 10:56 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
To what extent do I worry about AIDS, 25 years after its identification?
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Posted on August 12, 2006 9:51 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some movies that handle science well.
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Posted on August 4, 2006 11:43 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's Ask a ScienceBlogger question breaks a three-week string of topics I have no real opinion on: If you could have practiced science in any time and any place throughout history, which would it be, and why? I have...
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Posted on July 21, 2006 1:10 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week, Seed asks: On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep became the first successfully cloned mammal. Ten years on, has cloning developed the way you expected it to? Answer behind the cut:...
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Posted on July 7, 2006 2:13 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Let's be clear on one thing: Science is not special. The qualities that make a good science teacher are exactly the same qualities that make a good English teacher, or a good history teacher, or a good shop teacher, for that matter.
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Posted on June 26, 2006 12:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What sort of scientist is Batman?
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Posted on June 22, 2006 1:51 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How do I manage to find time to blog?
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Posted on June 19, 2006 11:55 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Weirdly, this week's Ask a ScienceBlogger question may be the hardest one to answer yet: Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?...
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Posted on June 13, 2006 1:43 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Gene Expression, Razib responds to my brain drain comments in a way that provokes some twinges of Liberal Guilt: Second, Chad like many others points to the issue of foreign scientists allowing us (Americans) to be complacent about...
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Posted on June 7, 2006 8:45 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another week, another "Ask a ScienceBlogger" question. This week, the topic is the putative "brain drain" caused by recent US policies: Do you think there is a brain drain going on (i.e. foreign scientists not coming to work and study...
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Posted on June 6, 2006 1:12 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's question from our Corporate Masters has to do with the ever-popular issue of funding: Since they're funded by taxpayer dollars (through the NIH, NSF, and so on), should scientists have to justify their research agendas to the public,...
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Posted on May 31, 2006 12:14 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's Ask a ScienceBlogger question from On High arrived while I was out of town (see also last week's results), and I've held off answering because I had a huge stack of papers to grade. Of course, time for...
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Posted on May 24, 2006 7:45 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks