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An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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- UK Government Seeking Feedback on Science Policy
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- Being a POW Does Not Automatically Qualify You to Be President
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- Why Are Veins Blue? (17 Apr 08)
- Metric System (Apparently) a Plot by Liberal Communist Anti-American Immigrants (13 Oct 07)
- Bush Administration Muzzled Surgeon General (11 Jul 07)
- A Sun Ray a Day.... (19 Jun 07)
- Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy (23 Mar 07)
- A Shocking Decrease in Funding of NIH Grants (12 Sep 06)
- Psychedelic Psilocybin Psychology (14 Jul 06)
- Cloning - Who Cares? (10 Jul 06)
- An Inconvenient AP Story for Republicans (28 Jun 06)
- Organic People Chemistry (16 Jun 06)
- Oxford Scientists Bite Back at Animal Rights Activists (26 Feb 06)
- NASA Science Censor Resigns (08 Feb 06)
- George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A&M University (06 Feb 06)
- Caught in the Line of Fire: Animal Rights Activists Take Over Oxford (15 Jan 06)
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- Rep. Joe Barton: Don't ban good products based on bad science - Dallas Morning News
- Gender imbalance in math scores disappears - Hot Air
- Lonely voice of dissent declared valid - Sydney Morning Herald
- Is Middle Eastern Politics Creeping Into Science? - Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
- Global Stem Cell Forum in China Showcases Cutting Edge Research ... - Genetic Engineering News (press release)
- Republicans block effort to subpoena global warming documents - Los Angeles Times
- Harvard stem cell research gets boost - Boston Globe
- NASA at 50 Many happy returns? - Economist
- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine" Set Up ... - MedIndia
- House Agrees to Lift HIV Travel Ban - MedPage Today
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Ask a ScienceBlogger: Cloning - Who Cares?
In 2006, cloning for cloning's sake isn't where it's at. Instead, the future of cloning lies in its applications to biomedical research. Today, that means, among other things, the prospect of using cloning to generate unique lines of embryonic stem cells.Posted on July 10, 2006 7:45 AM • 6 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as a Science Policy Success
One success of science influencing policy in a good way that might not be so obvious was the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which was largely influenced by the work of one scientist, Linus Pauling.Posted on July 4, 2006 9:33 PM • 5 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger: Being a Good Science Teacher
Most of the general qualities that make someone a good teacher in any subject translate to the sciences, but I think there are three things in particular that good science teachers do really well: showing enthusiasm, making things interactive, and drawing connections.Posted on June 28, 2006 7:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger: Finding the Time to Blog
When I first started blogging in January, I had only recently started by Ph.D. in biochemistry, and it seemed like I was going to have quite a bit of free time on my hands. Now, fast-forward ahead five months, and things have changed quite a bit. I'm constantly in the lab on nights and weekends, generally working ten to twelve hours a day. So, where does the blogging fit into everything? Most of the time, it's a nightly routine.Posted on June 19, 2006 7:27 PM • 0 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger: Alternative Careers
Each week, Seed magazine poses a question to all of its ScienceBloggers. This week's question, from reader Jake Bryan, is: Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you...Posted on June 11, 2006 8:39 PM • 0 Comments •
