Comments for USA Science and Engineering Festival: The Blog

Comment on Going Hollywood: Science Accuracy Makes Its Long-Awaited Arrival in TV and Movies by Amy Rogers

Amy Rogers — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:45:49 +0000

It’s happening in books, too. I review thriller novels with scientific themes at my website http://ScienceThrillers.com and it’s exciting how many authors are putting real science and medicine in their stories.

Comment on Nifty Fifty Speaker Joe Schwarcz: In observation, ‘chance favours only the prepared mind’: Pasteur by edward

edward — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:41:47 +0000

Others have made the same observation that Pasteur gets credit for, so the first such is probably buried in the sands of time:

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
– Seneca

The more I practice, the luckier I get.
– multiple attributions of variants, including Arnold Palmer, Gary Player,…

Comment on Role Models in Science and Engineering: Severo Ochoa by Nick Theodorakis

Nick Theodorakis — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:39:42 +0000

Not to take anything away from his work (since he really was a fine scientist) but this was a case a of the Nobel Prize being awarded “too soon” because the prize was actually awarded for the “discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid,” but polynucleotide phosphorylase is not the enzyme that does that.

Comment on Women Who Changed the World Through Science & Engineering: Yvonne C. Brill by Monika K

Monika K — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:20:16 +0000

Sad news: Yvonne passed away.

Comment on Women Who Changed the World Through Science & Engineering: Hypatia by Elaine Osspov

Elaine Osspov — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:13:43 +0000

Of course she was, how could a woman know anything, she was a woman, and gosh, since she preferred science to cooking, she must be a witch. (Although I would like to point out that paganism and witch-craft are two separate items, but I’m banking on them being the same thing is 400 AD.

::::::::beating head on keyboard:::::::::::

ignorance… it will be the death of us all.

Comment on Guest Blogger USA Science & Engineering Festival Fan Dr. Jessica Carilli Offers Humorous Insight into Why One SHOULD Go to Grad School by Dr Robert W. Owen

Dr Robert W. Owen — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:17:23 +0000

Thanks for this – great insight, made me think, again, why it was worth my own doing the Ph.D thing. And it was!
B

Comment on Making an Impact- Scientists and Engineers in Congress: Dan Lipinski by Jaak Saame

Jaak Saame — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:18:07 +0000

Dan Lipinski would make a good candidate for Secretarty of Energy.

Comment on Role Models in Science & Engineering Achievement: Rebecca Lee Crumpler by carlyo

carlyo — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:36:44 +0000

Thanks for letting us know Tony. We are working to fix this.

Comment on Role Models in Science & Engineering Research: Eva Crane — World-Authority on Bees by Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:08:00 +0000

Eva Crane was a truly brilliant scientist. Too bad she is no longer around, we are currently in the middle of a serious bee crisis. Here are a few good articles about it, here, here, and here .

Comment on Role Models in Science & Engineering Achievement: Edwin Muñiz by Jose

Jose — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:35:23 +0000

Great accomplishment representing the best of the best among Puerto Rican Scientists. We are proud of his oustanding achievements in the medical and aerospace sciences.Makes us proud to be a Puerto Rican.