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Submitted Feb 17, 2006 to Science Blogs Non-academic thoughts on life, literature, and academics. And yes, this will be on the final exam.
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Submitted Feb 17, 2006 to Science Blogs Chet Raymo's weekly Science Musings appeared in the Boston Globe for twenty years. The column offered informed and provocative meditations on science as a creative human activity and celebrated the grandeur and mystery of the natural world. Now Raymo's essays take to the web at ScienceMusings.com. Chet Raymo is Professor Emeritus at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts.
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Submitted Feb 17, 2006 to Science Blogs News about research that first makes people LAUGH, and then makes them THINK. This is the official blog of the Ig Nobel Prizes and of the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).
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Submitted Feb 17, 2006 to Science Blogs WARNING! This is not a NASA Website. You might learn something. Remember: It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for YOU.
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Submitted Feb 17, 2006 to Science Blogs » Element FYI ![]() According to Jorge Cham, "A recent survey by U.C. Berkeley found that 95% of all graduate students feel overwhelmed, and over 67% have felt seriously depressed at some point in their careers." So if you're feeling overwhelmed, put down your research and take a trip to Jorge's comic strip about graduate school life called "Piled Higher and Deeper " (PHD). You can read the latest comics online, buy books covering the first eight years of the strip, and even purchase PHD t-shirts and various geek gear. Jorge Cham has a PhD in Mechnical Engineering from Stanford University and is currently an "Instructor" at CalTech. When he's not teaching, Jorge has a very busy schedule speaking about his comic strip at universities around the country in which he "recounts his experiences bringing humor into the lives of stressed out academics, examines the source of their anxieties and explores the guilt, the myth, and the power of procrastination." You can see a clip from one of his talks here and even invite him to speak at your campus. |
Submitted Feb 17, 2006 to Science Blogs » Element FYI In a major signal that the United States is losing - indeed, may have already lost - the science race, the NY Times reports today on a Kauffman Foundation report stating "that emerging countries such as China and India will continue to be major beneficiaries of R&D expansion over the next three years as companies seek new market opportunities, access to top scientists and engineers, and collaborative research relationships with leading universities." The Kauffman Foundation website directly contradicts reports by major media organizations such as the NY Times and Wall Street Journal saying, "In neither emerging nor developed countries was cost consideration the most important factor, which runs contrary to what has been reported by the media." Major non-cost factors that are pushing commercial R&D offshore are "legal wrangling over intellectual property rights" with American universities and U.S. immigration restrictions, which are making it difficult for U.S. universities and companies to attract and retain the best and brightest researchers.
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Submitted Feb 14, 2006 to Science Blogs » Element FYI ![]() Now the muckrackers are at it again, giving us the lowdown on aspartame, which was approved by the FDA in 1981 for use as an artificial sweetener in products such as NutraSweet and Equal, and is consumed in huge quantities in diet colas. Before you chug another Diet Coke, you should know that aspartame has been linked to cancer in rats and aggravation of depression and bipolar disorder in humans. Hogwash, you say. The FDA wouldn't have let this product be sold to consumers for the last 25 years if it were really bad for you, right? Melanie Warner of the NY Times writes that of 166 aspartame studies published between 1980 and 1985, all 74 studies that were financed by the industry said that aspartame is safe, while 84 out of 92 independently funded studies "identified adverse health effects." Coincidence? Well, what if we told you that from 1977 to 1985, the company that created aspartame, G. D. Searle & Co. (now part of Pfizer), was headed by none other than Donald 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' Rumsfeld? The conspiracy theory is in fact all old news. The new twist is that last July, Italian scientist Dr. Morando Soffritti (pictured right) published the results of an intensive seven-year study on 1900 rats, which found unusually high rates of cancer in rats that consumed the human equivalent of four to five diet colas sweetened with aspartame per day. According to the NY Times article, the FDA intends to thoroughly review the study this year. But given the games that the Bush administration has been playing with scientists and the coincidence that the former CEO of Searle is none other than our own Secretary of Defense, what are the chances that the FDA is going to review these new results with unbiased scientific scrutiny? Who's going to hold their feet to the fire this time, bloggers? |
Submitted Feb 14, 2006 to Science Blogs Youll find all the most up to date happenings in the Maker and Crafts world here.
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Submitted Feb 08, 2006 to Science Blogs Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
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Submitted Feb 08, 2006 to Science Blogs Your source for news and commentary on science, politics, and the exciting areas where these dynamic fields clash. Recognizing science as a path toward understanding nature, distinct from corporate and other applications, The Scientific Activist opens up a new dialogue on the proper role of science in an ever changing society. The truth isnt always black or white, but an informed public is an empowered one, so lets get the ball rolling.
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