Archives for February, 2012
I’m Too Sexy for Your… Virus? Or, Immunity as it Relates to Peacocks
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 28, 2012 I know something’s amiss when my google news alert returns headlines like these: Why women who lust after Brad Pitt may just fancy his immune system It’s His Immune System That You Actually Want to Sleep With The key to male sexiness: A powerful immune system? and my personal favorite Antibodies, Not Hard Bodies: The…
Open Laboratory 2013
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 27, 2012 If you’ve been reading science blogs for a while, you probably know about Open Laboratory. It’s a yearly anthology of the best science blog writing on the internet. And the submission form is now open (there’s a handy little badge in the left sidebar too). If you appreciate the stuff that I do here, please…
A Vaccine for Drug Addiction
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 24, 2012 Cool: During the tests, mice were given access to deposits of heroin over an extended period of time. Those given the vaccine showed a huge drop in heroin consumption, giving the institute hope that it could also work on people[...] Using the immune system’s ability to make an immune response against any molecule is awesome,…
The Future of Science Publishing
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 21, 2012 A little over 300 years ago, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a dry goods seller from Delft in Holland, learned to grind glass into lenses and fashion the best microscopes the world had ever seen. In those days, the idea of being a “scientist” as a profession was ludicrous. Natural philosophy was pastime for nobility or at…
Scientists need to get involved in policy
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 15, 2012 Back in December, Rees Kassen wrote an editorial for Nature arguing that if scientists want political decisions to reflect good science, they have to get involved. scientists[...] think too highly of their own view of the world and fail to appreciate the complex, multifarious nature of decision making. Our mistake is to think that science…
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 14, 2012 A song about that creepy-uppy kind of love
