Archives for January, 2011
Definitely politicize this tragedy
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 10, 2011 Lately, I find myself disagreeing with PZ far more than I used to on a number of matters. Today though, I think he’s 100% correct: What we have here is an attempted assassination of a politician by an insane crank at a political event, in a state where the political discourse has been an unrelenting…
Top Science Stories of 2010: 6 Degrees of Microbial Separation
Posted by Heather Olins on January 5, 2011 Thanks to Viktor at StrippedScience for letting me borrow his microbe New Year’s cartoon! Happy New Year! I was catching up on my blog reader and came across the NatureNews top science stories of 2010. I was curious how many of these stories would have something to do with microbes… turns out quite a few…
Ticks of the atomic clock
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 4, 2011 I rely on my phone to keep track of time – I tend to lose/break or cover watches in chalk, but my phone is pretty reliable. But how does it know the time, and how to people keep track of the passing seconds? Find out in this month’s SITN Flash. Last month, the Flash was…
It’s [expletive deleted]* Science!
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 4, 2011 I was going to leave all the promotion of ZOMGSCIENCE.net, to everyone else, but he (it has to be a he right?) did T-cells:
An so proceed ad infinitum
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 4, 2011 The vermin only teaze and pinch Their foes superior by an inch. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite ‘em, And so proceed ad infinitum*: -Jonathan Swift Even though I study the immune system, it always amazes me just how many creatures make…
The knock-out punch: Zinc Finger Nucleases
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 2, 2011 Like so many things, the problem is best explained with an analogy. Imagine a car parked in a dark garage (if you’re a mechanic by hobby or trade, make it a computer). Someone hands you keys to the car, a flashlight and a piece of metal that she says belongs to a car similar to…
