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December 04, 2012

12:30 PM | Gender Bias And The Sciences: Facing Reality

Empirical evidence of gender bias in higher education – and the sciences in particular – continues to stack up. For scientists, that data cannot be ignored. One might like to think that more educated people are somehow above discrimination, but the evidence suggests the contrary. That poses a challenge to America’s universities and colleges that [...]

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The Valentine's Day Magnetic Monopole

There's an assymetry to the form of the two Maxwell's equations shown in picture 1. While the divergence of the electric field is proportional to the electric charge density at a given point, the divergence of the magnetic field is equal to zero. This is typically explained in the following way. While we know that electrons, the fundamental electric charge carriers exist, evidence seems to indicate that magnetic monopoles, the particles that would carry […]

Cabrera B. (1982). First Results from a Superconductive Detector for Moving Magnetic Monopoles, Physical Review Letters, 48 (20) 1378-1381. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1378

Friseh H.J. (1990). Quest for magnetic monopoles, Nature, 344 (6268) 706-707. DOI: 10.1038/344706a0

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Why don't men understand women?

Men might have found themselves an excuse not to listen to women. New research suggests that men have twice more difficulty reading emotions in women than in men. This may not sound surprising, but evidence that men have trouble understanding women is, at best, scarce.Being able to guess someone else’s thoughts, feelings and intentions is […]

Schiffer B., Pawliczek C., Müller B.W., Gizewski E.R., Walter H. & Krueger F. (2013). Why Don't Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes, PLoS ONE, 8 (4) e60278. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060278.g003

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Shale Gas Fracking Has No Impact on Groundwater in Arkansas, Study Concludes

A new study by scientists at Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas. “Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater quality in areas associated with natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing in this region,” said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Read more »

Warner, N., Kresse, T., Hays, P., Down, A., Karr, J., Jackson, R. & Vengosh, A. (2013). Geochemical and isotopic variations in shallow groundwater in areas of the Fayetteville shale development, north-central Arkansas, Applied Geochemistry, DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2013.04.013

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Epilepsy Service Organization in Countries with Limited Resources

tumblr: bellapaige88On average, 9.5/1000 population has epilepsy in Low and Middle Income Countries (LAMIC). A research which has resulted in the global campaign against epilepsy has shown, the gap between treatment need and the treatment provision worldwide is approximately 70% [1]. This large ‘treatment gap’, i.e., lack of appropriate treatment for a large number of patients with epilepsy, due to a number of causes including inability to identify cases, inability to deliver adequate […]

Mbuba CK, Ngugi AK, Newton CR & Carter JA (2008). The epilepsy treatment gap in developing countries: a systematic review of the magnitude, causes, and intervention strategies., Epilepsia, 49 (9) 1491-503. PMID: 18557778

Pal, D., Das, T. & Sengupta, S. (2000). Case-control and qualitative study of attrition in a community epilepsy programme in rural India, Seizure, 9 (2) 119-123. DOI: 10.1053/seiz.1999.0357

Mani KS, Rangan G, Srinivas HV, Srindharan VS & Subbakrishna DK (2001). Epilepsy control with phenobarbital or phenytoin in rural south India: the Yelandur study., Lancet, 357 (9265) 1316-20. PMID: 11343735

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Baby geniuses: young guppies show number skills

I have vague memories of the first time I counted to a hundred. It felt like one of those landmarks like tying your shoes for yourself the first time, or riding the bicycle more than a few feet without the training wheels or dad holding you up. Of course, I don't come anywhere near Adam Spencer: Once when I was about 7, I counted to 10,000 just to check the numbers didn't run out before then #NerdConfessions Counting large numbers is not something that comes easily for us humans. A new paper […]

Piffer L., Miletto Petrazzini M.E. & Agrillo C. (2013). Large number discrimination in newborn fish, PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062466

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