Archive for the 'science' Tag

I Passed My Oral Defense!

The title pretty much says it all– after 2.5 hours of being grilled and proposing new experiments, I was told to wait outside for the ten longest minutes of my life, and when I returned I was notified that I had a Complete Pass (no further writing or anything.. completely done). Hell Yes!

ReichLab.com

I’ve been re-vamping the lab website for my work, and I think it’s coming along quite nicely. So visit ReichLab.com to see my handiwork. It’s entirely web standards compliant and CSS based. Moreover, I’m learning a lot from doing it, and making something I’ll be able to point to and say “This is where I work!”. (continued)

I make $13 a day

On the way to work today, I did some mental math, figuring out how much money I “really” get per day of work, when you take away taxes, rent, electricity, and all the other stuff that you never really feel like you’re getting anything for (until they’re gone, of course!). The result? I make $13 a day. Let’s break it down: (continued)

“Intelligent Design” Officially Belongs in the Science Classroom

Yes, it’s a very sad day indeed. By a 6 to 4 board vote, the Kansas School Board just approved teaching Intelligent Design in science classrooms. (continued)

Miracle Healing Mice!

If you haven’t already seen an article about the Miracle Mice, it’s high time you did. Long story short, there’s a mutant strain of mice that, instead of scarring from injury, regenerates like amphibians– including growing new joints when the toe is surgically removed! Even crazier, injecting other mice with cells from these mice allows them to regenerate as well. (continued)

Drug researcher gives $105M gift for medical research

“Jan Vilcek, an immigrant who would later head the research team that developed Remicade, is giving $105 million to the New York University School of Medicine, where he has worked for the past 40 years. The school, which will put the money to use in medical research, called it the largest gift it had ever received and probably the largest faculty gift of all time.”

That’s just cool.

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Stem Cells

Korean clones and Veto Pens. Who will be the leader in stem cell technology? (continued)

Photo Manipulation in Science

Nature has a kind of interesting story about the problems with people altering the figures they submit to be published.

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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)

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.

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