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dr. dolittle | November 13, 2014A reader sent me the following question:
"How does a lizard grow a new tail?"
This was a very timely question as new research has shed light on this very phenomenon. A team of experts at Arizona State University led by Dr. Kenro Kusumi and colleagues have been studying limb regeneration in lizards.
Green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis) with tail a new tail (image credit: Hutchins et al./PLoS ONE)
The green anole lizard (pictured above) can lose its tail when captured by a predator. They are then able to regrow their tails, although they do not look quite like the original. Dr. Kusumi'…
rallain | September 1, 2010This is something I use at the beginning of a semester. I ask the class: "How are you an expert?" What is an expert? Let me call an expert someone that is comfortable answering questions about that particular topic.
If students are too shy to share (especially on the first day of class), I will start it off. I am an expert in:
Some (but clearly not all) physics stuff. In particular, classical mechanics, physics education, numerical modeling (though not really an expert - but I could answer questions).
I can play the clarinet and saxophone - but I haven't practiced in a long while
I…
bcohen | March 6, 2009Pt. I | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | Pt. 4
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Part 4 with Christopher Henke, discussing his book Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, follows below. All entries in the author-meets-blogger series can be found here.
WF: What do you make of the intersection of STS and agricultural studies?
CH: STS folks aren't often citing rural sociology, and vice-versa. I think the connections between these realms are greater than it might at first appear. Historians of science like Margaret Rossiter, Charles Rosenberg, and Deborah Fitzgerald were writing about agricultural science some time ago (as a sociologist…