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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
On Xmas we missed a chance to celebrate
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson[...]
Biggest anti-science fools of 2014
This would have been hard to write, if Mother Jones magazine hadn’t written it for me. Many thanks! Here are their nominees: #1 “Basically anything said by Donald Trump,” with marqee mention of calling global warming a “hoax” that’s merely a result of scientists &[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 2:48 pm § in Science
Maybe not God, but A One World Genome?
Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Double-Stranded RNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Nuclear Genomes▿† Huiquan Liu1,2, Yanping Fu2, Daohong Jiang1,2,*, Guoqing Li1,2, Jiatao Xie2, Jiasen Cheng2, Youliang Peng3, Said A. Ghabrial4 and Xianhong Yi2 + Author Affiliations 1State Key Laboratory of Agric[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 12:24 am § in Science
What Value Is There In a Nobel Prize?
Want a Nobel Prize? You can buy one “I worried about people in Africa because of their low IQ “ The 1962 Nobel Prize James Watson won for his role in the discovery of the structure of DNA is going on the auction block. The auctioneer says the gold medal could bring $2.5 to $3.5 millio[...]
Blasphemy laws are not new, but our religion is the one truth.
A Home School Teacher Explains Evolution Video of a visit to the Fields Museum by a devout Christian home schooler. Since the fundamentalist insist that evolution is a religion, I propose that we make science denial against the law.[...]
Science: Why Science Can be Wrong
A paper (really more a news piece) in Nature launches a major attack on the commonly used and taught statistical methods. The focus is on Fisher and the T test, the pervasive “p” values students from high school to grad school learn to sue as a measure of reality. Everyone from politi[...]
HALLOWEEN: The GOP’s Scientist Shortage
Republican candidates used to deny climate change, but as that meme becomes harder to sustain (all you have to do is look around you), they’ve shifted gears from drive to neutral and are trying to coast over the issue. When pressed, many now resort to the noncommittal expression, “I̵[...]
October 26th, 2014 - 4:55 am § in Science
Humans Have Been Foolin’ Around Fir a Long Time
Miscegenation is normal, say UCLA scientists The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman’s toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in…[...]