AL.com showcases some science that sets straight some old stereotypes. Southerners don’t have bigger guts than Americans from the North or the West. They just tell the truth when… Read the rest “Southerners aren’t fatter. Just more honest.”
SciAm blogger Clarissa Ai Ling Lee reflects on the science and art of visualizing information:
… Read the rest “The power of diagrams. The beauty of diagrams.”Of course, there were records of politics, observations of particular traditions, and stories
Frida Polli, one of the financial folks at Forbes, is offering us a look at the sausage-factory of neuroscience funding:
… Read the rest “Forbes follows how science gets started up.”In 2007, after 6 years of PhD work, I arrived at the McGovern Institute
Sounds unnatural or absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s what the internet is making possible, according to Nature (whose publishers should be a little worried). Researchers … Read the rest “Journals without publishers.”
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another question now.… Read the rest “Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.”
Lost in Transcription’s “genetical book review” is a great idea executed well. Not a review of books as literature, but a review of the science in literature.
From the… Read the rest “Genetical book review”
Boston Globe profiles the geneticist and Alzheimer’s expert who played organ on Aerosmith’s last album:
… Read the rest “Tanzi is a rock star.”It was 2009 when Dr. Rudy Tanzi was asked to appear in a GQ magazine
And let me tell you, Nature is none too pleased:
… Read the rest “Italy imprisons seismologists for failing at earthquake warning.”The meeting was unusually quick, and was followed by a press conference at which the Civil Protection Department and local authorities reassured
Fraud, reports Laboratory Equipment, is a growing problem in published research papers:
… Read the rest “Scientists: You can’t trust scientists.”A review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage
I’m taking a moment, with Archie McPhee, to celebrate the birth of a science dude.
Dude!
Me, I love science. New Scientist does too. So it makes us feel weird to point out that a lot of the time, it just doesn’t work:
… Read the rest “Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be”many recent reports have raised the alarm that a shocking
Mac fans should have a *field day* coming up with headlines for this ABC.net.au piece on Bill Gates’ noble new quest – to reinvent the toilet:
… Read the rest “Bill Gates to build a better toilet.”A charitable foundation founded
SONG: “National Primate Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees… Read the rest “SONG: National Primate Home”
Nature echoes the call for the National Institutes of Health to create a humane retirement plan for their primate research assistants:
… Read the rest “Chimp retirement plan.”Last December, a report from the US Institute of Medicine
What more needs to be said? Wall Street Journal has the skinny on Dark Matter:
… Read the rest “GZA from Wu-Tang is making an album… with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and other scientists)”On an early May afternoon in the offices of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, a model
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