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- Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). His interest is in those places where science, art, and environmental studies come together.

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December 28, 2007

Science Showdown Highlight Reel: When d-Orbitals Looked Like They Could Take It All

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS | FINAL GAME: Darwin v. HIV Now that d-Orbitals are sitting at home doing the work of orbitals while TiVoing the Darwin-HIV match-up, it's hard for some to believe that they once looked to take...

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December 27, 2007

Science Showdown Highlight Reel: Corporate v. Darwin

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS | FINAL GAME: Darwin v. HIV This is how tournaments go. You end up with some of the classic games in the middle, you find a monster match-up in the Sweet Sixteen. And that's how...

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December 26, 2007

Science Showdown Highlight Reel: An Unusually Allochthonous Game

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

It was Particle versus F=ma in the Sweet Sixteen, and BBC Radio 4 LW was broadcasting with those charming accents.

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December 25, 2007

Science Showdown Highlight Reel: Chemistry Was Game On

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

And then there was a slew of action in the Mortar and Pestle Region...

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December 24, 2007

Science Showdown Highlight Reel: Early Play from the Physics Region

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS | FINAL GAME: Darwin v. HIV What began as a field of 64 highly competitive teams has ended with just Darwin and HIV. With the tournament's Final game currently underway, we look back on a...

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December 22, 2007

A Christmas Poem

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

A good one too, by Spike Milligan. CHRISTMAS 1970. A little girl called Sile Javotte Said 'Look at the lovely presents I've got' While a little girl in Biafra said 'Oh what a lovely slice of bread'....

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December 21, 2007

On Modern Exceptionalism

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

"And each generation, full of itself,/ continues to think/ that it lives at the summit of history" -- so ends Affonso Romano de Sant' Anna's poem "Letter to the Dead" (as posted here last year). In the same spirit of...

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December 20, 2007

Clearly, it's holiday season, so let's switch gears a little. Share your musical recommedations.

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Well judging by the slowing down of comments, it would appear that the holiday internet slowdown is upon us. Which also means that it's time to put out a post that is a little on the light side. For...

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Your commentary decides the winner. DARWIN vs HIV, the Science Showdown 2007 Final.

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

Well it's been 9 months going and 64 teams from the beginning, but it's come down to this folks - a battle between two giants in the scientific world. DARWIN vs HIV So how does it look? Well, Darwin has...

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December 19, 2007

Fossil fuels default. HIV advances.

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS In a stunning development, HIV advances to the final by default. Neither HIV nor Fossil Fuels could be reached for comment. Looks like the final is Darwin versus HIV....

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