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- Vince LiCata is a faculty member in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Louisiana State University (LSU). His laboratory studies protein-ligand interactions, protein folding, and biothermodynamics. He also writes plays that have been produced in a number of different US cities, and, oddly enough, in Thailand.
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Benjamin Cohen was a co-founder and is now Blogger Laureate at The World's Fair. He teaches at the University of Virginia and is the author of
Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009).
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NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment:
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
Your knowledge of Pokemon game mechanics is needed to save the world.
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Posted by David Ng at 5:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Although it's not Dr. Forbin's Colossus (one of the first AI systems to attempt to destroy the world on film --note the "on film" please), it is quite irritating, and the result might eventually be the same: We recently replaced...
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Posted by Vince LiCata at 10:18 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
If so, you should join this facebook group. Or to discuss further, please go to http://friendfeed.com/phylomon. Here's part of what started this group and project: a friend of mine passed on this "letter to Santa:" It quite nicely demonstrates an...
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Posted by David Ng at 2:55 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
Was it one of these (From wiki)? In any event, hopefully you picked the one about Henrietta Lacks. If you didn't: then you really need to get yourself a copy of this book, entitled The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...
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Posted by David Ng at 3:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
All manner of human representations of landscapes: from the west, to industrial settings, to trees, to garbage, to food, to pasture fencelines, to atom bombs, to World's Fairs.
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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
This is about the intermingling of history (the past) and identity (the present) and how the mark we make before we are gone is the set of connections--social and natural--we've made while living.
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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Lately I've been wondering if everything going on in the world of climate change has been done just for the benefit of ASIC 200, a course I co-teach which goes into the heady arena of climate politics. It's like you...
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Coming off of Ben's recent hat tip to the paper published at PLoS ("The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact"), I was reminded of some great artwork by Marc Trujillo. I first heard of...
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