All manner of human creativity on display
David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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December 28, 2007
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
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...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2007
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
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
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
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'....
Posted by David Ng at 4:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2007
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...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2007
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...
Posted by David Ng at 12:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by David Ng at 7:34 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2007
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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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
An important two-question study: John or Paul, and why?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 3:30 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
It has come to our attention here at Pole Headquarters that something disastrous is occurring in regards to the Earth. It seems that there have been too many bad little boys and girls polluting the atmosphere with the byproducts of...
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
You take technology and nature, avoid assuming they're opposed, and get a bunch of engineering undergrads to write a book about it.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:20 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2007
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Let's do some pre-game chatter. Because the winner of this semi final in the SCIENCE SHOWDOWN 2007 (can you tell, we're trying to finish up before the end of the new year) will earn a spot in the final -...
Posted by David Ng at 8:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS What a game! What a game! Unbelievable from the start to the finish! I mean who could've imagined such drama in a match that pitted tentacles against viral particles. But this baby was action packed...
Posted by David Ng at 7:41 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 17, 2007
Category: Podcastia
Here is The Missing Link, a series of stories about all manner of fascinating subjects in the history of science.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 3:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Particle claims Particle-Wave Duality to Explain Lackluster Performance; Darwin Gloats.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
PRESS CENTER | PRINTABLE BRACKETS "We're not quite done yet" said a smug Minister John Baird, Environment Minister for Canada, as he celebrated a close win for the Fossil Fuel team. Fossil fuels vs d-orbitals - it really doesn't sound...
Posted by David Ng at 10:05 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
The 2007 Science Spring Showdown returns! (It better, since 2007 is about over.) Results from the Round of Eight are here.
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December 13, 2007
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
(image source) O.K. So the deal is that it's the holidays - and soon the whole merriment parade will be kicking into high gear. This includes a number of things that I bet many households end up going through....
Posted by David Ng at 5:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
As brought to us from researcher's at the Children's Television Workshop: The letter Z (source: C.M.). The number 10 (source: T.C.)....
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 7:38 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 11, 2007
Category: About writing generally
From the Science Creative Quarterly. Two days left to enter, so I'm just moving this post back up. "O.K. so we're waaay behind on sorting out the Bill Hick, Science Prick contest, but figure that the best way to deal...
Posted by David Ng at 4:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Patrick comes through with another great piece - this time on his hospital experience after inadvertently stabbing himself with a needle full of tissue culture cells (Hamster CHO cells specifically). He informs me that he has yet to develop the...
Posted by David Ng at 12:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
So the premise is that Santa is at least several hundred years old, and you've got to assume that somewhere along the line, he spent some time in academia and probably got a degree or two. Now, I'm going...
Posted by David Ng at 11:56 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
Sorry my posting has been sporadic of late. Things have been busier than usual, especially with Christmas looming. Anyway, the title of this post happens to be the lead headline in the yearly Christmas letter that my family produces....
Posted by David Ng at 11:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 10, 2007
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
"Never has so little been asked of so many at such a critical moment." Michael Maniates, a professor of environmental science and political science at Alleghany College, contributed a compelling op-ed to the Washington Post recently, "Going Green? Easy Doesn't...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 7, 2007
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
Do you remember when I was first hot chocolate? When I decided this was who I was?
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Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
I assumed this would be a study of the libido of such astounding creatures.
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Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal
His granddaughter wants him to stop blowing the tops off mountains. No, not "ha ha" funny. But you can laugh.
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Category: The Book Building
"SF is, in fact, the necessary literary companion to science."
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December 6, 2007
Category: The Website Building
Just caught this at Boingboing: Here you have history professor, Dr. Alan Charles Kors, attempting to encapsulate the entirety of human history in a 60 second lecture. The transcript goes: * First, tribes: tough life. * The defaults beyond...
Posted by David Ng at 3:21 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
Waterboarding. This is the topic for debate in our modern world. We go on and on about progress in civilization, yet we're talking about torture. Here are three recent views on the subject: This Modern World, The Onion, and Doonesbury....
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
I don't want you just to eat, and be content/ I want you to walk out into the fields
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
"The artist has always had to contend with the hated critic. But whence comes...the science critic?"
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 7:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 5, 2007
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Jason did a great job with this. Check out more at Crunchy on the Outside...
Posted by David Ng at 12:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 4, 2007
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
link (via boingboing) Speaking of which- it's time to think about that year end music mix again......
Posted by David Ng at 2:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Author Meets Bloggers
Last week (or thereabouts), I had a chat with Rosie Redfield, an evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia. She had come over to visit because I noticed that every member of her lab (predominantly postdocs) had their own...
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