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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
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Category: Prizes
Nobel laureates on the board bring in the bacon when it is time to capitalize a firm: WHAT is a Nobel prize really worth? The market values it at $34m, according to a new NBER paper by Matthew Higgins, Paula...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:41 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Prizes
The Nikon Small World photography competition is starting up for another year. Check out this year's competitors here (the winners have not been announced but you can rate them yourself). The competition includes beautiful micrographs such as the one below...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:55 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Prizes
I was just thinking about something. The Nobel Committee is usually mysterious in how they pick the winners, but why did Greg Hannon not win the Nobel with the others? My understanding was that he was sort of the guy...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:38 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Biology
Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of RNA interference: Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for discovering a powerful way...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:21 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: History
As the Nobel Prize announcements are due to come out soon, it would be good if you knew your Nobel history. Lawrence Altman for the NYTimes has an excellent article on it. Money quote: Yet in a little known story,...
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