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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science has just announced the Kavli Science Journalism Awards for 2009 . It's a very ...
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Science.org
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We all get spam in our mail box and usually there's nothing you can do about it. This time there is. I got this message today. Subject...
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Twenty-nine men died on November 10, 1975 when the S.S. Edmund Fitgerald sank in a storm on Lake Superior.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Amazon's Top Ten Science Books for 2009
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Check out the Best of 2009 for two lists of the top ten science books. One list was chosen by "editors" and the other list was ...
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Monday's Molecule #143
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Sometimes it's almost impossible to find an image of a specific molecule that honors a Nobel Laureate. This is another one of those ti...
Friday, November 06, 2009
Ginkgo biloba
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Ginko biloba is the only living species in the division (phylum?) Ginkgophyta. It is a species of deciduous tree that's only distantl...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Charles and Camilla Are in Town
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Charles and Camilla are visiting Toronto but you wouldn't know it if you didn't read the papers. Unless, of course, you just happe...
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Nobel Laureate: Lee Hartwell
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" Leland H. Hartwell (...
"Dr." Charlene Werner on Homeopathy
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This video illustrates the extreme stupidity of those who believe in homeopathy. The person who posted the video on YouTube recently recei...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Monday's Molecule #142: Winner
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The diagram should remind you of the cell cycle and the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Since I already covered Tim Hunt and ...
Nobel Laureates: Archer Martin and Richard Synge
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952. "for their invention of partition chromatography" Archer John Porter Martin (1910 - 2002) an...
Monday, November 02, 2009
Monday's Molecule #142
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Sometimes it's almost impossible to find an image of a specific molecule that honors a Nobel Laureate. This is one of those times. The...
A Confused Philosopher (Part II)
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I've written a lot about Michael Ruse over the past few years. Mostly I'm upset by his lack of understanding of modern evolutionary ...
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Charles Darwin's Brave New World: A Dangerous Idea
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I watched the first part last night on The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. It was pretty good, although the emphasis on how Darwin wa...
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Falling Back
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Last night was the night we turned our clocks back one hour in Canada and the USA. It's easy to remember whether we lose an hour or ga...
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