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June 30, 2009
Category: ScienceBloggers doing good
In our timezone we've nearly reached the end of day three of the Nobel Laureates Meeting 2009. As before, the conference has been dominated by two conjuctures: The atmosphere of pure wit that about 600 scientists spread and scorching temperatures....
Posted by Jessica Ricco at 5:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Commentary
In a recent New York Times article, Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe, the National Cancer Institute and parent institution NIH were taken to task for their biased funding of low-risk studies, which lead to what...
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Category: Activism
Last Tuesday, West Virginia State Police arrested NASA climate scientist James Hansen for trespassing on a Massey Energy-owned coal plant near the state's Coal River Valley. Thirty-one demonstrators--also including actress Daryl Hannah and former West Virginia Representative Ken Hechler--were...
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June 29, 2009
Category: Art
The congress center "Inselhalle" at the opening...
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Category: Chemistry
Ask an informed layman what he or she thinks is the greatest science-based industrial discovery or invention of all time and the person will likely name the computer, the transistor, the telephone, the incandescent light or perhaps even the blast...
Posted by Jessica Ricco at 8:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2009
Category: Humor
The what??? Well, you see, one of the traditional events at the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting is the annual cockchafer speech. Let me explain that. The first conference in 1951 ended with a gathering of all attending Nobel laureates and...
Posted by Jessica Ricco at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2009
Category: Anthropology
In the course of anthropological history, several developments served to set humans apart from other mammals: Tools, language, and domestication all played an instrumental role in shaping our evolution. Now, Razib of Gene Expression reviews a recently published book,...
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June 23, 2009
Category: Art
A recent NEA survey of the arts revealed a dismaying trend: a consistent decline in public participation across nearly every discipline studied, including music, theater, dance and the fine arts. And while ScienceBlogger Chad Orzel points out that the...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 11:33 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
As the field of health care changes, so do its most staid institutions. Since its reorganization in 1900, the American Medical Association (AMA) served as a body of powerful political influence during the 20th century. But as Revere of...
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Category: Chemistry
When the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald received the Nobel prize for his research on catalysis in 1909 he probably didn't expect that his field of work would still be one of the most important topics in modern chemistry one hundred years...
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