So far, it’s been about three months since Sci’s dissertation. During that time, she has: – defended her dissertation – moved to New Huge City – started a post-doc(!) – been sending out paper to beef up her little CV – been learning large numbers of new, difficult, cool techniques – been awesome – completely [...]
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Palmer and Schloss. “An ecological valence theory of human color preference” PNAS, 2010. Sci will admit that she didn’t really know all that much about color preference theory until she read this paper. And that until she read this paper…she thought a lot of it was silly. Also, she doesn’t have a favorite color. That [...]
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A few months ago, Sci had a secret shame. A secret, secret shame. For Sci is a science blogger, and blogs on Scienceblogs and… …didn’t know ANYTHING about evolution. Ok, perhaps that wasn’t exactly true. But Sci’s a physiologist, not an evolutionary biologist. I studied neuroanatomy, not HOW that neuroanatomy evolved. In my day to [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mary Detweiler, The Alliance for Science info@allianceforscience.org Falls Church, VA — May 17, 2008. The non-profit Alliance for Science announced the results this week of its second annual National High School Essay Contest. Students were asked to write a 1,000 word essay on either “Agriculture and Evolution” or “Climate and Evolution”. Neal [...]
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Here we have yet another example of evolution cobbling together new proteins from existing structures. And what do you know, it kinda matters: The TRIM5-CypA gene found in Asian macaques is a hybrid of two existing proteins, TRIM5 and CypA. This combination creates a single protein that blocks infections by lentiviruses. This is the second [...]
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They put on a fantastic Darwin Day celebration in Iowa City. Excellent camaraderie, good times good people good beer and whatnot, and the turnout for all the events was exceptional. Massimo Pigliucci gave a nice interview for the local NPR station which you can find here. Darwin Day with evolutionary biologist Massimo Pigliucci In an [...]
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If you’re looking for a website that gives a nice intro to the nature of science and evolution, but doesn’t use lots of jargon, you should check out This View of Life. From the About page: The aim of this project is to present the topic of evolution in a scientifically accurate manner that avoids [...]
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If you’re looking for a website that gives a nice intro to the nature of science and evolution, but doesn’t use lots of jargon, you should check out This View of Life. From the About page: The aim of this project is to present the topic of evolution in a scientifically accurate manner that avoids [...]
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Those crazy folks over at the Alliance for Science are putting up the notice for their 2nd Annual Evolution Essay contest!!! The first contest, while thrown together at the very last minute, turned out to be a success. Five high school students received cash prizes and a slew of autographed science books, plus a year’s [...]
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Did Baylor University just put the muzzle on science!?!??!
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