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There's a big parade today. But if you're not going, then here are some links for you. Science: Genome Assembly Information Herds on the Street: Why messaging traders are like scared fish Shark Cleaning Stations Identified Felisa Wolfe-Simon (of arsenic infamy) is no more convincing in person…
If you remember some months ago, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe-Simon held a press conference announcing that they had discovered a bacterium that uses arsenic in place of phosphorus. The paper, when released, had compromising methodological problems (for good coverage, read here, here, and here; and…
It seems that Brock University in St. Catherine's, Ontario really likes me. Two years ago, the Library kindly invited me to speak during their Open Access Week festivities. And this year the Physics Department has also very kindly invited me to be part of their Seminar Series, also to talk about…
Arsenic it is... but the point really isn't arsenic. That is what Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon stressed at the end of the NASA press conference today - that the research being unveiled is just opening the door to other unexamined possibilities for life. She said "I am interested in exceptions, why…