Oh Roswell!
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If ever you are in Downtown Roswell, (and why wouldn’t you be?) You may see
a very singular place. As a matter of fact you’d have to be blind and
pretty me...
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A Platypus Describes Humans - Ryan Gregory invents The Platypus Fallacy to illustrate an important concept in evolution. Here's how a platypus describes humans. See if you can spot the ...6 hours ago
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WANT Part XIV: Citric acid for blood - Of *course* I want one of these! It would give me something to eat while crawling through service corridors looking for the cat. *Tip o’ the sawed-off ...8 hours ago
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Recuperation - Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919) (During recovery) Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919) (Later in recovery)16 hours ago
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A delusional life on film - A curiously recursive case of psychosis, reported in the latest issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, about a person who worked on a reality TV show who had ...1 day ago
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Mon 04 Jun 2012: 10am – Nanthinee Jeevanandam on figs & fig wasps in urban Singapore - “The phenology of four dioecious figs and their obligate pollinators, the fig wasps, in urban Singapore.” Nanthinee Jeevanandam PhD Candidate Terrestrial E...4 days ago
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Explosions of activity - Detail from Incredible Hulk Anatomy. Recent news from my studio: - - The *Incredible Hulk Anatomy* image did very well. - Published it on Symbiartic, g...6 days ago
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Time traveling polaroids - Earlier today I came across this "feel-good" article at the *Los Angeles Times*. Old Polaroid yields eerie development — a long-dead uncle A random garage...1 week ago
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Dr. Watson, Mr. Holmes and Faraday - Apparently, Michael Faraday evaluated two proposals to electrify the lighthouses — one by Dr. Watson and another by Mr. Holmes according to Frank A J L Jam...1 week ago
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But I don’t even *like* tyrannosaurs… - I mean, I don’t not like them, but they always seemed bit … gauche you know? Like truck nuts or something. No, no … truck nuts are obviously odious, but fo...1 week ago
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Scientific turnover and the fate of old theory - The Arts and Sciences are often seen as non-overlapping complements, as naturally opposed as North and South, or the two sexes male and female. It's there...2 weeks ago
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Lens Flare in the Eye of the Beholder - We’re all familiar with lens flare, those circles of light that appear in a photo or video when the camera points too close to the sun. When the scene is t...2 weeks ago
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Why mistakes are often repeated? - *“Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” * - Narcotics Anonymous I have been wondering about this for a long long...4 weeks ago
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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...4 weeks ago
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And that would be desirable because...? - As an atheist, I'll be the first one to admit that I don't always understand why people do things. I don't get praying or speaking in tongues, I don't real...5 weeks ago
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Nice experiment on Baboons show that monkeys can distinguish words and non-words - There is a common misconception that all animal experimentation has to be painful. Most people have seen pictures of rats being "tortured" or monkeys with ...5 weeks ago
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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 month ago
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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 month ago
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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...2 months ago
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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...3 months ago
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Survive the Zombie Apocalypse - Many people proudly boast of their preparations for catastrophic emergency scenarios, such as nuclear war, plague, or - tangentially related - a zombie apoca...4 months ago
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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 ...4 months ago
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Hippocampus may still have a role in recalling old memories - Prevailing theory suggests that long-term memories are encoded via a two-phase process requiring temporary involvement of the hippocampus followed by perma...5 months ago
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Tons of Resources for High Resolution Melt Analysis - In this self-guided slideshare presentation you will learn the basics of High Resolution Melt Analysis HRM, applications, important considerations, assay ...9 months ago
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Best Comment on the Downgrade - From a tweet whose source I've forgotten: "The Tea Party has been downgraded to KK+"9 months ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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 ...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...2 years ago
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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.2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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Not Blogging - Not been blogging and don't feel the need to anymore. :) Still do read blogs, esp. wifey's... maybe I'll do some guest posts for her once in a while... (alr...2 years ago
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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 ...2 years ago
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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, ...2 years ago
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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 ...3 years ago
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Quote of the Day - Always nice to have context for other people's shitty lives, to compare to yours. Fuck My Life is a great site for that. Recent favorite: Today, I received...3 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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Cthulhu's Bar and Grill for the Holidays - Just in time for the holidays, I'm happy to announce the grand opening of Cthulhu's Bar & Grill! It's a one-stop shop for vaguely Cthulhu-related t-shirts a...3 years ago
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Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder - *Answer: *Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder *Exposition:* *Criteria for diagnosis clinically:* Violaceous papules, but mostly plaques of shapes b...3 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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back in the saddle - Yes! After a relocation and a long, long time, Neurocontrarian is back in business and live from London.4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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. ...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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...5 years ago
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