Butterflies: teams and fallacies
Jul 24th 2005nerd alert
It’s always nice when the much-needed proof of evolution turns out to be both beautiful and so simple that even a chemist can understand it.
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Holy war, not reasoned debate
May 14th 2005nerd alert
The latest C&E News has an article on a recent meeting in DC (the 30th AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy). Most of the article was about how the evil federal government is cutting (or not increasing) funding to NSF, DOE, and other federal agencies for basic research. (Predictably, the AAAS thinks basic research [...]
Dino-brand tissues, twice as soft!
Mar 28th 2005nerd alert
For those who haven’t seen it yet, apparently they’ve found out that dinosaur bones (most notably a T. rex) may contain soft tissue: Removal of the mineral phase reveals transparent, flexible, hollow blood vessels containing small round microstructures that can be expressed from the vessels into solution. Some regions of the demineralized bone matrix are [...]
Monday links
Mar 14th 2005nerd alert
Separate but not unrelated links on … Evolution – “When you have patched a tire too many times, you
Having ears, they hear not
Oct 18th 2004General
Alan Leshner (president of the AAAS) writes in Science (Oct. 8 2004) about the recent reports that the US is losing its global preeminence in science “production”: