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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
July 3rd, 2013 - 9:54 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
White Men Can Jump
To often we accept the idea that people, more specifically African Americans are born with natural athletic abilities. I myself have heard this on many occasions, at one point possibly believed it to be true sad to say. I’ve heard theories that African Americans are athletically superior as a resu[...]
A View Of Diversity
Opinion: The Dilemma of Diversity The NIH remains a Caucasian-dominated workforce. Why haven’t the agency’s efforts to diversify been successful? By Ed Smith | from the Scientist A 2011–2012 report on the demographics of the scientific workforce of the National Institutes of Health [...]
The Republicans are preparing to declare war … not on Syria or Iran, but on Science,
Republicans Challenge Peer Review Chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas)(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The Scientific American reports that Lamar Smith and his Republican colleagues on the House committee that oversees the NSF have authored The High Qualit[...]
ANDREW APRIKYAN CONVICTED BY THE NIH
I have written a lot on THE-Ave.US and n this listserv about Andrew Aprikyan. Andrew is a scientist who was accused of fraud by an anonymous UW faculty member. The case was muddied because of patent issues involving the UW and, I assume, his accuser. The UW conducted its investigation in a manne[...]
Is Climate Change Real Yet?
Science doubters say world is warming WASHINGTON (AP) – Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Belief and worry about climate chang[...]
Sequencing Sasquatch!
Researchers at Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology in Switzerland are asking yeti enthusiasts or anyone with samples thought to be from the creature alternatively known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch to share them for DNA analysis as part of the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project, [...]
Need a Christmas Present? For $500 You Can Buy A Cloning Lab!
The quest for the $500 home molecular biology laboratory By John Brunstein, PhD ………. I recently set out on a quest to see whether a non-specialist, $500 complete molecular biology laboratory was possible. …….. The challenge I set for myself had a number of criteria: Tha[...]
The (Mad) Scientist
By Hannah Waters, The Scientist Mad science has always fascinated the public, but that isn’t why Jim Fields, video producer and journalist for Time Magazine, decided to make the documentary, A: Head, B: Body, about White. “I’m intrigued more by him than anything he particularly [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: God Destroyed The Vegans!
Our meat-eating ancestors survived, by the Grace of the Designer, while the Designer let a vegetarian branch of the human family tree go extinct around 1 million years ago. The conservative website, The Caller, reports that scientists from France .. the land of foie gras and steak “au poiv[...]