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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
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Evolution bests cockroaches
Category: Biology
It's said that cockroaches would survive a nuclear war, but can they withstand scientists who understand evolution? A new study finds that evolution-based Integrative Pest Management was more effective than conventional treatments at killing cockroaches in North Carolina schools. This is good news for asthmatics and people with allergies, since cockroaches produce allergens and are linked to incidence of asthma. It's also good news for scientists, yet another in a long string of reasons why people need to understand evolution. IPM is based on an evolutionary and ecological understanding of pests. IPM relies on an understanding of the ways in...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 4:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
They do that, you know
Category: Biology
Both the mammalogist and the political junkie in me wish we could see this: rumors are flying like monkeys and squirrels, which, of course, clouds the issueA literal cloud of flying monkeys and squirrels would be quite a sight....
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 9:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
True enough
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More here, via Glenn Branch....
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Another argument for more science education
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Slacktivist has an interesting plan for abstinence education: Two things I've never been able to figure out about "abstinence only" sex education.1. Isn't it necessary, at some point, to describe what it is, exactly (or even generally), that they're supposed to be abstaining from?2. Since the goal here seems to be to put off or delay the onset of sexual activity, why bother with abstinence only sex ed at all? Why not just create a curriculum to instill a crippling social awkwardness?I sometimes wonder if that's not the real purpose of religious home-schooling. And of "Christian T-shirts." Clearly, this is...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 10:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A brief note on the importance of science journalists
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Carl Zimmer Live Blogging The Mars Methane Mystery: Aliens At Last?, reports that: 2:14 Lisa Pratt of Indiana University is talking biology. She is stoked. 2:15 Okay, I mean as stoked as scientists get at press conferences where they talk about photic zones. You can see it in the rise of her eyebrows.Now, a reporter used to covering press conferences on the steps of a courthouse or a state or federal capitol would not catch that as "stoked." But Carl Zimmer covers scientists, and he knows what we look like when we're excited. That means his article about this will...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 4:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Hideously cute"
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Via ZooBorns, Amani the Baby Aardvark: The keepers at the Detroit Zoo describe young Amani as "hideously cute," which is fair only if one emphasizes "cute."...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 12:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
TfK Smackdown watch: Eric Lander edition
Category: Policy and Politics
Mike the Mad Biologist is, well, mad. In writing about Obama's science team, I commented that: scientists often distinguish [technical challenges] from the challenges in testing our broad conceptual understanding of the laws of nature. While "test tube jockeys" often produce important results, there tends to be a certain skepticism of their work. Similarly, medical research is so focused on the practical application that scientists in other fields are dubious about regarding medical researchers as being engaged in the same sort of enterprise as a theoretical physicist or a landscape ecologist.Mike then points out that "science requires people who understand...
Posted by Josh Rosenau at 12:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What Ails the Mercurial Jeremy Piven?
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The Center For American Progress's Wonk Room wonders Is Coal-Poisoned Sushi Killing Jeremy Piven? Piven left a Broadway play because of a doctor's finding that he has elevated mercury levels. "Piven’s doctor, Carlon Colker," the Wonk Room relays, "explained that his mercury poisoning was caused by a high-sushi diet": Dr. Colker said that an initial battery of tests on Mr. Piven had shown normal results. But after Mr. Piven said he was a frequent sushi eater who consumed fish about twice a day, and that he used herbal remedies, Dr. Colker tested him for heavy metals. Dr. Colker said that...
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BYOSquid!
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ZOMFG! The Museum of New Zealand has a website where you can build your own squid! I present you with my invention, Joshteuthis. Go forth!...
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