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Lecture 2b: Genes, Traits and the Central Dogma.
Posted by Kevin Bonham on January 13, 2013 [This past fall, I taught a course at Emerson College called "Plagues and Pandemics." I'll be periodically posting the contents of my lectures and my experiences as a first time college instructor] In my first lecture, I used Powerpoint (well, technically Keynote), but I personally like chalk-talks a quite a bit more. Never mind the fact that classrooms…
Lecture 2a: Intro to Evolution
Posted by Kevin Bonham on December 22, 2012 [This past fall, I taught a course at Emerson College called "Plagues and Pandemics." I'll be periodically posting the contents of my lectures and my experiences as a first time college instructor] Most of this post was written back in September, when it still seemed possible that I would be able to teach the class, write the…
I’m back baby!
Posted by Kevin Bonham on December 21, 2012 I disappeared for a while to teach a class. At the outset I had grand plans – Not only would I design the course from scratch, give the lectures, and grade the assignments, I would also write up all of the lectures for the blog and maintain my same level pf productivity in the lab.…
Lecture 1: Why is Science Awesome? #Emerson #SC214
Posted by Kevin Bonham on September 10, 2012 [This fall, I'm teaching a course at Emerson College called "Plagues and Pandemics." I'll be periodically posting the contents of my lectures and my experiences as a first time college instructor] Lecture 1 That was a scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, demonstrating the lighter side of the plague. Who knew there was a lighter…
Plagues and Pandemics – Emerson SC-214
Posted by Kevin Bonham on August 28, 2012 For the past 3 years, I’ve had the opportunity to spend a week in a house on a beautiful lake in Vermont. Usually, this week is a chance to completely unplug. I take some photos, buy a bunch of books from Northshire and read them, and lounge around. On this past trip however, I received…
Maybe He Was Talking About Ducks
Posted by Kevin Bonham on August 21, 2012 A mini furor erupted this weekend, when republican Senate nominee Todd Akin defended his position of denying abortions even to victims of rape, because in the case of “legitimate rape,” women have biological defenses that prevent pregnancy: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV…
The Best Argument in Favor of Open Access Science is All of Them
Posted by Kevin Bonham on August 9, 2012 While going back through blog archives and reviewing incoming links, I stumbled on this post from about a year ago from Zen Faulkes at Neuro Dojo: There are many reasons to argue for open access of scientific research. But this is not the best one: It’s your taxes that fund the research, you should have…
Ebola Outbreak in Uganda – Both More and Less Frightening Than You Think
Posted by Kevin Bonham on August 1, 2012 In case you missed it, over the past couple of days there have been reports of an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus in Uganda. As of this writing, the most recent report I’ve seen puts the death toll at 16, with a few other suspected cases. Ebola is terrifying for a number of reasons – it’s…
Leveraging Immunology Research to Treat Disease
Posted by Kevin Bonham on June 6, 2012 The vast majority of funding for biological research in the US comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and as a result, most of our grants are written in a way that plays up the clinical importance of our work. Some variant of the phrase, This research has implications in the treatment/prevention of [insert…
Scienceblogs RSS and other dilemas
Posted by Kevin Bonham on May 27, 2012 The kinks continue to get ironed out one by one after our massive migration. Most of the major problems are happening on the backend, and are likely invisible to you guys (except for the fact that some typically prolific posters have slowed down a bit), but there are a couple of things that I’ve noticed…
