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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: Technology
Wired Science reports on a way to bleach your hair without all issues of...you know...turning it so stiff and destroyed that it resembles a donkey tail. All you women of the world itching to turn blonde, take note. The system...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:14 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Energy Policy
One of the impediments to the adoption of a solar alternative to fossil fuels is that solar panels are relatively expensive to make. A big benchmark to making them competitive is to get their cost of production per Watt produced...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:55 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Biology
Mark this on the list of "things to expect in 2009." Craig Venter and his team expect to create the world's first artificially synthesized organism: One likely announcement, which may happen any day of the year, is of the world's...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:36 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Technology
Lawrence Lessig, co-founder of Creative Commons, writes in the WSJ in defense of piracy -- or more aptly the culture of remixing of which blogging is certainly a part: The return of this "remix" culture could drive extraordinary economic growth,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:39 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Technology
Engineers at Penn State have developed a new method of running a refrigerator that doesn't require a compressor. Rather, it changes the level of organization in a solid to change the temperature. This change in entropy results in heat-transfer. Conventional...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:23 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Technology
Check out this video about the next generation of prosthetics (below the fold):...
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Category: Technology
Everyone seems to be worried about when the Internet will implode. From the Economist Tech.view: And not just because of the popularity of such file-sharing programs with music fans. The sizes of the files they handled increased dramatically. Music tracks...
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Category: Teaching
I didn't have much to do this afternoon, so I played hookie and went down to the FIRST Robotics Competition. The competition pits bands of high school students (and their engineer/mentors) in a contest to see who can build the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:56 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Environment
How do you track the relative contributions of a plant species in an ecosystem? When you are talking about thousands of square miles of land area this can be an incredibly daunting task, but it is very important because it...
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Category: Technology
That is amazing: The basis of the 2x4-inch "Digital Tattoo Interface" is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It's inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:10 PM • 5 Comments •
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