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“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” – Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)

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Sandwalk

Inside Higher Ed Weighs in on the Ball State Academic Freedom Controversy - This is getting more and more interesting. Now there's an article in *Inside Higher Ed* discussing the controversy over whether Eric Hedin of Ball State Un...
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Mind Hacks

Did the eyes really stare down bicycle crime in Newcastle? - This is the first fortnightly column I’ll be writing for The Conversation, a creative commons news and opinion website that launched today. The site has be...
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The Biodiversity crew @ NUS

Birders meet – young David Tan chances upon Ben King in Central Park, New York - David Tan, a 3rd year undergrad on exchange at Yale University was finally birding at Central Park (New York) in the evening, after a self-imposed ban to c...
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The Flying Trilobite

1st Astronaut Hero - Our son Calvin, age 2, watching Commander Hadfield sing Bowie's Space Oddity a few hours before touchdown. Calvin tried to sing along about "he puts on ...
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Epsilon Clue

Paley’s Computer - (I could’ve sworn I wrote about this earlier, but I can’t find it in the archive now. So sorry if this is a duplicate.) Let’s say you’re visiting a foreign...
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space

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The Empire of the Odd

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Entertaining Research

Reflections on receiving tenure - “So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do no...
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Bayblab

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Anders Rasmussen Blog

Sports and superstitions - I have a confession. Even though I feel that "sophisticated scientists" such as myself should be spending their free time analyzing their environment or re...
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neurodudes

Technique named ‘clarity’ makes chunks of dead brain transparent, allowing fluorescent labeling - This technique takes a dead brain and permeates it with a transparent hydrogel matrix to keep proteins and nucleic acids in place. Then it removes the lipi...
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microecos

What the huh? - back in bad old days I would have taken the discovery of extensive hind-limb feathering in Mesozoic birds (Zheng el al. 2013 just published in Science) as ...
2 months ago
The Biology Refugia

Environmentalist recants anti-GM position - Mark Lynas, an environmental activist and writer on subjects including climate change, publicly recanted his previous opposition to genetically-modified fo...
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Pro-science

Marginalizing people - Back in September, I visited a Danish refugee camp together with a group of other people. The reason I went there, was that I wanted to get a better ...
3 months ago
Labtutorials in Biology

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The Stone of Tear

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4 months ago
β.Log [ Computational Biology News ]

Batch script for running MaxQuant command line tool - I had to process multiple Orbitrap raw files using the same parameter with Max Quant, was not able to find a simple tool for this, thus I wrote a batch ...
4 months ago
Asking the Little Questions

Ask For You - thanks for coming
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Bad Astronomy

Thank you - This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of today – Monday, November 12, 2012 – the blog has a new home at Slate magazine. ...
6 months ago
Total Drek

Todd Akin is a douchebag. - Those of you who read this blog with any regularity* know a few things about me. One is that I'm a total jerk. Another is that I have an ex-girlfriend who ...
9 months ago
Cosmic Afterthoughts

Have Fun with Online Casino Game - For some people, playing casino game is just a very fun thing to do and they are really into it. This is going to be great for them to find the right place t...
10 months ago
Microarray Blog

Processed EHR text can be used to develop CDS tools Read more: Processed EHR text can be used to develop Clinical decision support tools with automated text processing - See on Scoop.it – inPharmatics Free text in electronic health records, with the help of natural language processing (NLP) technology, can be used to create...
1 year ago
Evolutionary Middleman

Who's afraid of the N.R.A.? - Fuck the National Rifle Association! "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand"? OK! We can do that!Look, you NRA people are all pussie...
1 year ago
Bay of Fundie

Dog Bites Man - This was a typical headline today: Why is that news? They don’t start every day with the headline: Earth Still Spinning on its Axis Some things just aren’t...
1 year ago
Yann Klimentidis' Weblog

Predicting pigmentation phenotypes with genetic information - This is a very short paper and their methods are fairly simplistic. They pick some SNPs from the literature, and count the number of homozygous SNPs relate...
1 year ago
Braving the Elements

- Our Corporate MastersAs an academic I interact with many groups of professionals on a daily basis. Students, colleagues from various disciplines, and adminis...
1 year ago
Hermes' Journeys

Sneaky Catch-22 in Higher Ed - stolen from a friend's FB:Apparently there's a push to measure "student success" in higher education based solely/primarily on retainment and graduation ra...
1 year ago
The Lord Geekington

A Change of Scenery - After blogging on Blogger since 2006 I've decided to give WordPress a try. There is a lot of juvenile baggage on this page and I think a move will help me ...
1 year ago
Science Avenger

Best Comment on the Downgrade - From a tweet whose source I've forgotten: "The Tea Party has been downgraded to KK+"
1 year ago
Pink Tentacle

Time-lapse video of slightly darkened Tokyo - + Video By fading back and forth between scenes of pre- and post-quake Tokyo, this time-lapse video by YouTube user darwinfish105 shows how the metropolita...
2 years ago
darwinian remiix

Quotes Roundup- Fall- Winter 2010 - Anatole France: An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do k...
2 years ago
Scientifically Open Source

Sci-fi mania - Greetings to one and all! Yeah... so that thing about being back. Turns out that breaks are great times to start up on pet projects. It's something I highl...
2 years ago
BackStage

In a Muddle - Captain of the Obvious states, “I have not been blogging.” This is really because I have no idea what to blog about. I found a job, finally (FINALLY) defen...
2 years ago
Orbital Teapot

Heaping in count data - Survey questions are often open for interpretation for the respondent. One type of question may ask the respondent for the 'number of times' something has ...
2 years ago
The Ethical Palaeontologist

The Carnival Is Over - It has preyed heavily on my mind over the last year - every time a colleague or a student has asked me about my PhD I have felt like more and more of a fra...
2 years ago
Laelaps

This Blog Has Moved - Laelaps is back up and running at my author website, http://brianswitek.com. Go there for new posts and updates on where this blog will ultimately settle...
2 years ago
The Other 95%

What in the larval world is this? - No one at Duke seems to know what this is. Southern Fried Scientist has allowed me to copy verbatim his post in the hopes that maybe someone out there in T...
3 years ago
Biocurious

I am not wasting my Ph.D. - I suppose the common assumption is that, in taking on other types of jobs, all of my knowledge and training will go to waste.
3 years ago
Principles of Parsimony

Hiatus - So, the more observant of you may have noticed this site has been quiet for the last two years. I guess I've said most of what I felt I had to say. However...
3 years ago
Biological Obsessions

A play about cancer - Sarah’s Daughters” is an example of the use of theatre in healthcare education for the purpose of education and to influence health care policy. “Sarah’s ...
3 years ago
Rat in the Lab

What’s that bright ball of fire in the sky again? - From this article: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY We’re using thermal, which is far cheaper than solar. (There are) panels on our roof, but instead of using sunlight, ...
3 years ago
Illusion Sciences: why are we surprised by only some of the things that we see?

Illusion contest: The break of the curveball - “The Break of the Curveball” won first place in this year’s Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest. I created the illusion with Zhong-Lin Lu (University ...
4 years ago
Discovery News: Deep Sea News

Farewell - Today marks the end of our tenure here at Discovery Channel. We've enjoyed ourselves here over the last few months and appreciate the opportunity afforded to...
4 years ago
Hyphoid Logic

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Life Under the Microscope

Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder - *Answer: *Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder *Exposition:* *Criteria for diagnosis clinically:* Violaceous papules, but mostly plaques of shapes b...
4 years ago
The Second Enlightenment

My historiographical paper on “Expelled” and the misuse of the Holocaust - So for my final paper for History 444 (The Holocaust) I was so intrigued at the controversy over “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” and its accusation tha...
5 years ago
neurocontrarian 2.0

back in the saddle - Yes! After a relocation and a long, long time, Neurocontrarian is back in business and live from London.
5 years ago
CELL*WISE

If Humans were on the Microscale - As usual, I've been way too busy to write all the posts that I really want to write about for this blog in progress. Eventually. I promise. For now - I gues...
5 years ago
evo devo

Improving EvoDevo blog - Dear all, I just added a sitemeter to my blog today. It created very powerful motivation for me to improve my blog. If there are any comments which you wo...
5 years ago
SLOG (Singapore Snakes Blog)

Singapore Wildlife Stampede - Singapore's first parade for endangered animals and environment, led by Dr. Jane Goodall, happened on 2 November 2007 4-7 pm at Singapore Botanics Garden. ...
5 years ago
The Positive Aspects of Negative Thinking

Check one off the list - Remember that stuff about loving thy neighbor and helping the underserved? Apparently the agnostic and atheists of the medical world are actually more like...
5 years ago
The DesignInterference

The Scoville scale of dangerous questions - Taped to the wall just next to where I am writing this is a cut-out from an old issue of "New Scientist" that describes the Scoville scale. This scale desc...
5 years ago
The Science Lists Blog

Polymers can get “older than universe” - Maybe CDs and DVDs won’t lose their data so fast after all? New research has shown that certain polymers may actually have cosmic life spans. read more | d...
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Freddie Doesn't Know How The World Works

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