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If you are attending this year’s history of science and all the rest monster bean feast in Manchester in July and are holding a lecture there for the first time in your life at a major conference then I recommend … Continue reading →
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Tweet Healthcare reform discussions frequently center on the changes anticipated for the general population. But people with disabilities — about 56 million in the United States — are generally left out of the healthcare reform picture. That absence is not … Continue reading →
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To expand the conversation on climate change, we are highlighting EPA climate change research with Science Matters articles. Below, we share an article about how EPA researchers and partners are working to help protect wild salmon from warming water. Helping to Protect Wild Salmon EPA researchers and partners are working to help protect South Fork Nooksack River Watershed salmon from [...]
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Generation Robot Paul Lachine Introducing Generation Robot For Christmas in 1993, my father gave me a My Magic Diary, a children's version of Casio's digital organizer. From that point on, I always had some iteration of that device-whether a PalmPilot or the iPhone 5 I carry today. Like most others my age, I was raised around mobile devices, so now as an adult, I'm generally unfazed by a new phone or tablet or piece of software. The next generation, Generation Z, will be raised with something
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Well, I thought it was funny. Get it? Yahoo thinks remote workers are inefficient, but just spent $1.1 billion on a blogging site whose content is entirely generated by remote users. On the up side, the odds that I will … Continue reading →
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After months of drifting across the North Atlantic, a luckless, abandoned cruise ship may have finally sunk beneath the waves.
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SUMMARY: This kit overcomes one of the main challenges for teaching anatomy by adopting a build-it-yourself approach. The book is concise, well-written and engaging and the kit is accurate and interesting and will provide many hours of enjoyment as children and adults work together to build the human body. Sometimes, the best way to learn is to wrap your hands around stuff and ... build it yourself! This perhaps is never more important than when trying to learn anatomy, which... Read more
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Thank god we're not alone out there.read more
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We’ve been following this story about Portland Oregon’s vote for or against fluroridation. They have voted ‘no’ which is disappointing to health advocates. Portland rejects water fluoridation, the largest US city without plans to add the chemical. The mayor of Portland, Oregon, has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water. With more than 80 per cent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election […]
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale - meaning the films are only one atom thick. The technique can be used to create these thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are two inches wide, or larger.
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The news coverage of the destruction from the tornadoes in Oklahoma is pretty devastating. Rather than watch endless shots of newscasters wandering through the rubble, I've been paying attention to folks in the geoblogosphere who are speaking to the science as well as the disaster - particularly Dan Satterfield over at Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal. He's been doing a fantastic job blogging and tweeting about not only the scientific aspects of the tornado but the situation on the ground. As […]
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Theory tackles how glass remembers earlier forces.
Alterations to the usual glass production process, such as putting
the material under stress, can introduce effects that linger even after
the material hardens. While manufacturers have long exploited this
phenomenon to strengthen glass, a new theory aims to get closer to
understanding why it happens.
Glass is not as well understood as most materials, because it
straddles the line between liquid and solid. In typical
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Dothan, Ala Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection UPDATED - See Alabama Health Alert Message On Respiratory Cluster # 7308 While we don’t have an answer yet of the cause of a small geographically linked cluster of unidentified respiratory illnesses in southeast Alabama (see Press Conference On Dothan, Alabama Respiratory Cluster), we do have another video news report from a local TV station that provides us with a few more details.
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Sourcing of ancient artifacts has gotten a new advance.
While at the University of Sheffield in the years 1965–1972, Professor Lord Colin Renfrew developed a technique that matched stone tools made of obsidian, naturally occurring glass, to their volcanic origins based on their chemical fingerprints. It was considered one of the greatest successes in scientific archeology, matching artifacts to specific volcanoes was a significant leap forward in understanding trade, contact, and cultural
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Now that it looks like the hunt for the Higgs boson is over (post), particles of dark matter are at the top of the physics “most wanted” list. Dozens of […]
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By The Editors
Current events: It’s long been thought that wooden debris is swept down powerful rivers like the Amazon and buried deep at sea, possibly sequestering carbon for centuries or even millennia. Turns out, river bacteria gobble most of these fibers before they ever get to the ocean. And instead of taking thousands of years to break down, it takes about two weeks. (Awkward.) But this does sort of explain the strong carbon dioxide breath
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This just in from Dr. Blake Layton. Spotted Wing Drosophila may be a problem for blueberry growers, so a special local need label was pursued for Malathion 8 Flowable. More details below: “Mississippi now has a 24c Special Local Need Label to allow use of Gowan Malathion 8 Flowable at rates up to 2.5 pints/acre … Keep reading →
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Afortunadamente la ciencia, como la
naturaleza a la que pertenece, no está limitada ni por el tiempo ni
por el espacio. Pertenece al mundo, y no es de ningún país o época.
Cuanto más sabemos, más sentimos nuestra ignorancia; más sentimos
cuánto queda desconocido; y en filosofía el sentimiento del héroe
macedonio nunca puede aplicarse: siempre hay nuevos mundos por
conquistar.
Esta cita pertenece a un discurso que
Humphry Davy, uno de los más eminentes científicos del siglo
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Talk to experts in a live Google Hangout about the controversy over the DSM-5
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I recently read Michael Finn's excellent study of James Crighton-Browne's tenure at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, arguably the institutional origin of British neurology. Excerpt below but my actual review was published with Dissertation Reviews. You can visit the review here:
The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century is a masterful, important contribution to the history of medicine. It is an engaging, beautifully written, and
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It is difficult to focus on hurricane warnings right now, when Oklahoma is reeling from some of the worst tornadoes ever recorded. But the storms do raise questions about the abilities of U.S. scientists to predict severe weather, and the answers are not clear. Just last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an [...]
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It is often believed that mega-events like the Olympics are good for a city or country. Many of the benefits are implied but they still get a monetary value attached when selling it to the public; 'leadership','world-stage', etc. The hangover that occurs economically afterward often leaves host countries wondering who did the math.
But if you are a small charity relying on corporate donations, it may be a good idea to get behind all of those taxpayers underwriting big occasions. Even smaller
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A Radiation Measuring Device and a Deadly Liquid
This week the Mutter Museum curator, Anna Dhody, reveals last weeks mystery object and shows off a new item that helps measure something that you cannot see. Can you guess what it is?
via The Mutter Museum.
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When I was a graduate student, I enjoyed Fridays most. Those were the days I’d sit with stacks of science journals and just read for hours, without much direction or purpose other [...]The post Reading the journals: from new science to science news appeared first on The Science Writers' Handbook.
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Any animated film starring pirates, Charles Darwin, and a dodo is going to be worthy of mention here, but Aardman Animations — of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run fame — has outdone itself with “The Pirates!: Band of Misfits”. I missed its theatrical run. But I happened to catch it recently and I think [...]
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A clinical trial at the University of Chicago Medicine aims to find new ways of preventing type 2 diabetes with medications normally used for people who have had full-blown diabetes for at least one year.
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One of the multiple tasks of quantum chemistry is the rationalization of the bonding between atoms to form molecules. In this vein, two main aspects […] Read moreThe post C2 molecule, doubly or quadruply bonded? appeared first on Mapping Ignorance.
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A delightful partnership of science, poetry, photography and insects, this informative and witty book is an excellent introduction to common British minibeasts, intended especially for young naturalists. How can you introduce a young child to insects and give them a lifelong appreciation and respect for these important creatures? I think Anneliese Emmans Dean has found an appealing formula in her lovely children's book, Buzzing!: discover the poetry in garden minibeasts [Brambleby Books Ltd.,
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Mini Arcade Machine (L) James Ellerker/Guinness World Records/ (R) Popular Science Three games shrunk, digitized, and boozed up to a whole new level Mini Arcade Machine In 2006, Mark Slevinsky fixed a Tron arcade game that a friend had left for trash. The work inspired similar gaming projects, ultimately leading him to a nerdy world record this year. While surfing the Web, Slevinsky saw printed-paper models of arcade machines, each about the size of a Game Boy. Since he had already created an
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