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Category: blogosphere
Because they've let in another Aggie. Matt Springer, who writes ScienceBlogs' newest blog, Built on Facts, is a graduate student in physics at Texas A&M University, my alma mater. His blog is live now, so go check it out....
Posted on: August 1, 2008 10:57 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: civil rights
Find out why I'm not surprised and why this might be a taste of things to come
Posted on: May 28, 2008 5:05 PM, by Nick Anthis • 9 Comments •
Category: Election 2008
I'm quoted in a story today in my alma mater's student paper on candidates using social networking sites.
Posted on: February 5, 2008 11:27 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: Life of Nick
Dare I be so presumptuous to suggest that you've checked out the About page on my blog in the last couple of days, you may have noticed a few new photos. The first one was taken last summer in front...
Posted on: January 28, 2008 5:45 PM, by Nick Anthis • 6 Comments •
Category: Texas A&M University
First female President picked as successor to popular President Robert Gates, although selection process remains controversial.
Posted on: December 9, 2007 8:05 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: academia
My message to undergraduate researchers.
Posted on: September 12, 2007 6:48 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: Democratic Party
My remarks to the Texas Aggie Democrats on September 5, 2007.
Posted on: September 7, 2007 12:22 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: events
At Texas A&M University this Wednesday, 5 September, at 8:30 pm in Rudder 502.
Posted on: September 4, 2007 2:50 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Texas A&M University
Texas Governor Rick Perry appoints the chair of the homophobic, anti-diversity, anti-academic freedom, right wing organization the Young Conservatives of Texas as the new student representative on the Texas A&M University Board of Regents.
Posted on: February 19, 2007 7:16 PM, by Nick Anthis • 8 Comments •
Category: transgenic crops
Last month, I wrote a post about a research group at Texas A&M University that reported genetically engineering "edible cotton seeds" by using RNAi technology to stably and specifically knock out production of the gossypol toxin in the seeds of...
Posted on: December 18, 2006 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: transgenic crops
But, a recent report in PNAS demonstrates that edible cotton seeds could be a real possibility, thanks to new transgenic crop biotechnology.
Posted on: November 29, 2006 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: Bush Administration
It has just been announced that unpopular Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is "stepping down". This is no doubt a positive step for the Bush Administration, the nation, and the world as a whole, but it comes as too little...
Posted on: November 8, 2006 2:22 PM, by Nick Anthis • 12 Comments •
Category: Congress
There's a hot congressional race going on right now deep in the heart of Texas in District 17, which stretches from just north of Houston to just south of Fort Worth and includes my alma mater, Texas A&M University. The...
Posted on: November 2, 2006 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: global warming
The National Academies today released their report on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years. The verdict? "High confidence that planet is warmest in 400 years; less confidence in temperature reconstructions prior to 1600." The reviews from around the...
Posted on: June 22, 2006 8:06 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
