Submitted by twig on Mon, 11/26/2012 - 8:15pm
The Union of Concerned Scientists is offering a free webinar on various aspects of Hurricane Sandy. The webinar takes place on November 27 at 7 pm Eastern Standard Time. You need to register at the UCS website beforehand. Here are the details:
After the largest Atlantic hurricane on record affected U.S. states from southern Florida to northern Maine and as far west as Wisconsin, analysts from the Union of Concerned Scientists wrote a series of blog posts on topics from the relationship between the storm and climate change, to the economic costs and health impacts, to how we can prepare ourselves and our infrastructure to be more resilient.
The webinar will be moderated by UCS climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel and will feature:
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Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 5:17pm
Submitted by ohio on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 3:14pm
I have become increasingly interested in the life and times of yeast. I am not yet a fan. I mean, if yeast had a Twitter feed I wouldn't subscribe. Well, probably not. Well, not all yeasts. I have standards. Okay, maybe not standards in the strictest sense, but I have limited time. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. Read below the fold...
Submitted by ohio on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 5:16pm
A paper in "Biology Letters".
Principal finding: 'We discovered that bumble-bees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from. We also discovered that science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before.'
Fucking great. Read below the fold...
Submitted by chicago dyke on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 2:43pm
I'm an odd bird (but you knew that, natch). I have a background, educationally speaking, in both science (biology, history of science) and religion (history of religion, comparative Semitic philology). So my mind tends to dart all over the place and I can "see both (any) sides" with relative ease, intellectually speaking, even as I may not agree with that I'm studying or considering at any given moment. Read below the fold...
Submitted by ohio on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 12:36pm
I was trolling satellite TV the other night when I stopped to watch an NSF lecture given by Angela Belcher of MIT.
Dr. Belcher is a professor with appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Biological Engineering Division and has developed custom-evolved viruses to advance nanotechnology. What good is that?
Oh, my, the good is all over the place.
First, she's smart as hell and smart is hot. Second, she clearly loves what she does. She actually talked about designing experiments because they'd be "fun" and "neat." She used big words, too, but I found her enthusiasm adorable. Third, she talked about applying her research to devices like nanobatteries and semiconductors. Read below the fold...
Submitted by gqmartinez on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 4:53pm
I have been planning a series of posts on the latest developments in Biophysics (and perhaps other science fields), but before I got to that, I wanted to pass along the commencement address of Nobel Laureate Roger Kornberg to the Stanford School of Medicine this year. I've heard Roger Kornberg speak on numerous occasions and have to say that this is my favorite speech/talk/presentation I've heard from him. Short and concise and worth the read in full. Read below the fold...
Submitted by chicago dyke on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 4:11pm
Submitted by captain nemo (not verified) on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 2:52pm
This is pretty cool. Scary, mind you. But it gives some academic cover to things We Pretty Much Knew All Along. From today's Chicago Tribune, with some rearrangement of paragraphs for condensation purposes:
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Submitted by captain nemo (not verified) on Sun, 02/18/2007 - 12:23pm
Very nice Flowchart Which Explains It All For You.
(Better to just put a link and boost Wellingtongrey.net's hits than try to reproduce it here since, even if I had RTFM and knew how to do this it would probably be too small to read and everybody would click on the original anyway.) Read below the fold...
Submitted by chicago dyke on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 5:22pm
So I must be an elf. Of the Lost tribes of Ossiriand, and my ancestors escaped the Ruin of Beleriand and faded back to the East. See these points on my ears? I'm good with runes...
Dammit, why didn't you people tell me hobbits were real? You know I barely have time to keep up on my science reading. Read below the fold...
Submitted by chicago dyke on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 1:08pm
Boo has a question. If parents could select the sexual orientation of their children, should they? We're closer to that option than you may think. My question to Boo and everyone who reads this story: if parents could select the race of their children, should they? To me it's the same thing. For the record: I'm 100% in favor of the progress of science. Because I think suppressing science is ultimately futile; if the research isn't done here, out in the open and reviewed by peers, it'll just be done elsewhere. Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Mon, 11/20/2006 - 9:37am
From USA Today, the newspaper in front of the door at every hotel in America, the mainstream view:
Religion's only real commodity, after all, is its moral authority. Lose that, and we lose our credibility. Lose credibility, and we might as well close up shop.
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Submitted by chicago dyke on Tue, 10/17/2006 - 6:11am
Submitted by chicago dyke on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 8:45am
I've got a lot to do today, forgive the grab bagging. Pensions: do you have one? I honestly can't tell if this bill is a good thing or not, but since Bush signed it, I'm inclined to think it will make things worse. Read below the fold...
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