Waiting for the Call … Damn, now the site says the award will be at 11:30 Swedish time .. I am goin to bed. You can watch here: In 2011 when the Nobel committee announced that half the prize for medicine and physiology would go to Canadian-born biologist Ralph Steinman …. Steinma[...]
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THE Ave Challenge: Who will get the call from Stockholm next Sunday night.
THE-Ave.US Challenge: who is going to win the Nobel? Next Sunday night (US time), about 9 AM Monday Stockholm time, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. I[...]
May 31st, 2014 - 1:28 pm § in America, Hypocrisy, Misc., Politics, Schools & Colleges, Science, The Ave Scene
A Black Man’s Thoughts on The Hoodie
A man in a police uniform scares me more than the biggest strongest dude wearing a hoodie ever would. Lets be honest, its not a hoodie, nor is it a puffy starter jacket that people fear. Black men were feared way before the modern day hoodie was invented so please try again. Can we just [&hellip[...]
A Devout Catholic Runs America’s Biological Research
Does Religion Matter? Francis Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health. Collins has been controversial among scientists because he has held this position while also being an outspoken believer in te literal truth of the Christian Bible and, apparently, a fervent supporter of the[...]
Russia Rejects US as Tenant for the International Space Station
Russia to ban US from using International Space Station amid Ukraine crisis Under current plans, the international Space Station is to be decommissioned in 2020. The US has moved to extend that to 2024, but with the end of the US shuttle program, extending the life of the ISS is dependent on Russi[...]
May 7th, 2014 - 3:22 am § in Science
RESCUING US SCIENCE
Four Science Leaders Speak Out on How US Biomedical Research Can Survive Hard Times; “Rescuing U.S. Biomedical Research From Its Systemic Flaws” A recent article by Sam Stein on Huff Post sums it up pretty well, the US is suffering from a brain drain. Where once the best came here and becam[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Persecutions of the unbelievers:
“How do I know who the true God is?” Alber Saber Ayad’s question was answered by the Egyptian government last week when the 27-year-old computer science student was convicted for “contempt of religion” in Cairo. In a video blog, he spoke of the importance of exercising critical reasoni[...]
Mary Claire King Wins Lasker Award