Archive for January, 2005

Choose Your Own Adventure

In just a month or two, I’ll be choosing what Professor and lab I’ll be working with for my next 4 or so years of graduate school. That’s a big, scary choice, and so I have a lot to think about. So I’m soliciting advice– take a look! (continued)

12:49 pm January 30th, 2005 | Paradoxdruid | 3 Comments, already |

“Wiggle While You Work: Fidgeting May Fight Fat”

So I rather suspected this was true but it is reassuring to hear an article on NPR about how important fidgeting is to weight gain/loss. (continued)

3:55 pm January 27th, 2005 | teisha | 3 Comments, already |

Scholarly

If you haven’t yet discovered the joys of Google Scholar, you’re missing out. It searches practically every journal known to man or mollusk. (continued)

11:36 am January 24th, 2005 | Paradoxdruid | Only 1 Comment |
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Coffee Houses

Coffee Houses are such an interesting social experiment to me. (continued)

10:43 pm January 22nd, 2005 | Paradoxdruid | Only 1 Comment |

How Quickly a Science Education Become Out-Dated…

So my general biology (EBIO 1220) prof, just a few days ago, was telling us about the “Great Dying” of 250 million years ago, and now I find this article that gives completely different reasons for this mass extinction than I was just taught. (continued)

10:52 am January 21st, 2005 | teisha | 3 Comments, already |
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CU Bio Prof Talks about “Science” with Bill O’Reilly

I came across a transcript of a segment where one of the Environmental and Evolutionary Biology professors, and a person some of us reading this worked with in the Undergraduate Acadamy, was on O’Reilly’s show to talk about Intelligent Design. Depending on how you look at it this can be really funny or really sad.

(continued)

11:13 pm January 19th, 2005 | mcmillan | 7 Comments, already |
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Poker, Card Games, and Woohoo

So, last night I went to a poker night and quadrupled my money. It got me thinking about card games in general, as well as feeling pretty damn happy about the whole thing. (continued)

1:22 pm January 17th, 2005 | Paradoxdruid | 7 Comments, already |
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Anybody like feathers?

(continued)

7:51 pm January 15th, 2005 | teisha | 2 Comments, already | feathers?">¶

Ghastly Comic

Jenny found this yesterday
warning: not work-safe (continued)

6:07 am January 14th, 2005 | Owen | 5 Comments, already |
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Animals Sensed the Tsunami Coming

So I heard this after the tsunami hit, but did not believe it until I looked into it myself recently — very, very few animals were killed by the tsunami (besides people). (continued)

3:27 pm January 13th, 2005 | teisha | 7 Comments, already |
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Free Rice

Okay, I’ll admit that it’s entirely possible that I am the last person to learn about this website*, but it’s really addictive.  It’s a game that tests your vocabulary.  Each time you get a word’s meaning correct, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Program.  So, give Free Rice a whirl.  I bet you’ll have fun and you’ll get to help make strides toward ending hunger.

 *I heard about it forever ago, I just never actually looked at it.

18 Jul 08 | No Comments |

Security Cam Music Video

This band decided they didn’t have money to make a video, so they set up in public places in view of security cameras, then asked to get the footage from the people.

Pretty cool results, though a little creepy to think how much these cameras are around.

A news story about it is here

12 May 08 | 1 Comment |

Some Frogs and Toads are just weird…

Thanks to one of my favorites blogs, Zooillogix, I recently got to see toads giving live birth from their back and frogs without lungs. (continued)

12 Apr 08 | 1 Comment |

20% of Scientists use “Cognition Enhancement” Drugs

According to a recent anonymous poll in Nature magazine. Further commentary at WebMD. Crazy, huh?

10 Apr 08 | No Comments |

Are you paying Attention?

Well?

20 Mar 08 | 3 Comments |

Trunk Monkey!

Trunk Monkey. Yes this is exactly what you think it is (check out ep 4 theft retrieval system)

10 Mar 08 | No Comments |

Scientists for a better PCR

Because you need to know who’s your daddy
The PCR Song

23 Jan 08 | 1 Comment |

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