Calls for Media to Accurately Label Climate Deniers Growing Louder The public debate over how to address climate change has been hindered in no small part by the media’s refusal to properly identify climate deniers, according to an open letter penned by fellows of the Committee for Skeptica[...]
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Science: New way to find cancer
Distinguishing Circulating Tumor from Normal Cell-Free DNA Fragments of circulating DNA from tumors are around 20 to 30 base pairs shorter than those from healthy cells, researchers report.[...]
150th Anniversary of Death of Tesla (The Man Not the Car!)
WOMEN The female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Fair Pay for Postdocs?
Fair Pay for Postdocs In an amazing post on the Huntington Post, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Thomas E. Perez U.S. Secretary of Labor have stated that post doctoral fellows, that is PhDs and MDs training to do research, MUST now receive a [...]
Harvard Medical School Clones Van Gogh’s Ear
NBC News Working at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Artist Diemut Strebe made the replica of van Goh’s ear using living cells from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great-grandson of Vincent’s brother Theo. “I use science basically like a type of brush, l[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Man as God: Humans Engineering Evolution
From the NY Times Biologists in the United States and Europe are developing a revolutionary genetic technique that promises to provide an unprecedented degree of control over insect-borne diseases and crop pests. The technique involves a mechanism called a gene drive system, which propels a gene of [...]
THE Ave Challenge: Who is this guy learning science?
A. Bill Nye B. Ted Cruz C. Steve Schwartz D. Vladimir Putin E. Paul Allen[...]
Is Eric Lander Doing “the Watson?”
“The paper is a bald-faced effort to stake a claim for Zhang, and the Broad stands to profit royally.” Eric Lander is a great man,. To many of us in biology, Eric ranks with Einstein and Oppenheimer .. not only for his discoveries but for his leadership as president and director of the Broad I[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Raw Data From Juno Shows Surprise on Jupiter
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