“Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.” […] “I have an entirely different view,” Romney said. “What he said is entirely without merit and[...]
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Nobel Prizes: Jewish Pride
Last Year, four Jews Jews won the Nobel prize for medicine and astronomy. Monday October 8, Stockholm will announce this year’s winners. May I be forgiven my prideful hope?[...]
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. Here is Thompsons’s list with my thumb added wher[...]
Ryanomics: Support for Science
The Scientist reports that Paul Ryan supports federal finding for basic research, except when science conflicts with ideology ….. The good news is that Paul Ryan states that he supports increasing funding for basic science. In 2000, Representative Ryan opined that biomedical research was a[...]
SCIENCE: Buying Data
These people outsource experiments! Now way for universities to make $ BUT the conflicts with NIH funding of resources raise a lot of issues! There are also likely issues of faculty use of their offices orother university facilities![...]
Will NIH Go Chapter 11? Higher Education and the NIH Face a Fiscal Cliff
Report on Looming Federal Budget Cuts ‘Confirms the Worst’ for Higher Education By Lee Gardner Washington The dire consequences of looming automatic cuts in the federal budget came into sharper focus on Friday with the release of a 394-page report by the White House Office of Mana[...]
SCIENCE: SCIENTIFIC ERROR
A year-old Palo Alto, California, company, Science Exchange*, announced on Tuesday its “Reproducibility Initiative,” aimed at improving the trustworthiness of published papers. Scientists who want to validate their findings will be able to apply to the initiative, which will choose a lab[...]
August 28th, 2012 - 4:46 am § in Science
BREAKING NEWS: Charlie Crist, a Rational Republican, to endorse Obama at the DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION,
Charlie Christ, the former Republican governor of Florida who ran for the Senate as an independent, will speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, taking yet another step away from his erstwhile party. This is far more important than it may seem. Mr. Cristy is not just a Republican ou[...]
The AVE Challenge: Who were Mr. and Mrs. Luke Wilson?
NIH: Chronology of Events 1700 | 1800 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 1700 1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established with the July 16 signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and […][...]
Celebrating the Pollsters: Bayes Won .. The era of Fisher and Pearson is over!
Obama win vindicates Nate Silver Despite some incredulous political pundits, the FiveThirtyEight statistician appears to have correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states. Not so obvious to most of you will be that Silver is using a “new” kind of math .. Bayesian Statistics. [...]