Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. catdynamics
  2. NRC: breaking ranks

NRC: breaking ranks

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user catdynamics
By catdynamics on September 28, 2010.

And BU wins the prize for being first to crack and breaking the NRC rankings embargo...

h/t Leiter Report

Tags
Random

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Office of Naval Research 2026 Young Investigator Program Awardees
  • El Niño Climate Effects Shaped By Ocean Salt
  • Losing Weight Improves The Heartbreak Of Psoriasis For Some
  • The Strange Case Of The Monotonous Running Average
  • Does NBA Income Inequality Impact Team Performance?

Science Codex

  • What An Eclipse Means For US President Donald Trump

More by this author

QRT
October 14, 2017
scienceblogs.com is shutting down moving back to ye olde blog: catdynamics out
A missing piece of the puzzle
January 22, 2017
I've been puzzling over the rationale for some recent events... Exxon has a large contract to develop oil and natural gas resources in the Russia. This can only go forward if sanctions on Russia are lifted, which seems likely to happen in the near future. But, there is too much oil and capacity to…
Glöggt er gests augað
January 22, 2017
The Aspen Art Museum is doing a series of interdisciplinary lectures, titled "Another Look" Another Look Lecture: Gabriel Orozco & Cosmology - so this is a thing. I did one of the lectures. The first one, I gather. It was quite an interesting experience, for me at least. Good fun, riffing on…
Jólasveinar og Jólakettir
December 23, 2016
The origins and history of the Yule Lads with bonus Christmas Cat... Even I did not know that peak Yule Lads was 82! Criminy!
Last minute stocking stuffers for nörds
December 23, 2016
Ok, I confess, I was supposed to get these reviewed before the Holidays, but a Sequence of Unfortunate Events Intervened and I am only part way through these. Anywho, if you need a last second pressie for random acquaintances so disposed, there are a couple of interesting science books out there…

More reads

Astronomers Push The Limits Of Hubble (Synopsis)
"The wonder is, not that the field of stars of so vast, but that man has measured it." -Anatole France If you could gather 250 million times as much light as your eye, and improve your resolution by several orders of magnitude, you just might be able to see what the Hubble Space Telescope can. By extending down into the near-infrared, and combining those observations with that from other great…
Mostly Mute Monday: The edge of the Sun (Synopsis)
“Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning As viewed from Earth, total eclipses of the Sun are relatively rare things, happening …
Quick Note For The Weekend
"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you." -Bonnie Tyler Well folks, it's summer, and that means a lot of things for a lot of people, including for me! So, some fun announcements: I have an official pre-release poster! Image credit: Quarto Publishing. My new book, Treknology, is coming out soon and I'm big…

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.