Governor Says Florida Has Enough Anthropologists, Calls for Spending on Job-Producing Fields Gov. Rick Scott of Florida is laying out an aenda that seemingly is widely shared among the Reprobate Republicans .. the Repricans. “You know, we don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the stat[...]
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October 11th, 2011 - 1:00 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
BREAKING NEWS: The Reprican Luddite Agenda
Berkeley Blog: Is Chris Christie a Rational Reprican?
Dan Farber, professor of law | 10/3/11 There’s a lot of buzz about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a possible GOP presidential candidate. As with the other candidates in the race, it seemed like a good idea to check into his positions on environmental issues. The first thing that becomes c[...]
Is the NIH Imploding?
IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. Figures just published on Genomeweb look grim. The good news is that the NIH grant success rate is now 17.4%. The bad news […][...]
Studying the Genetics Of Health
Complete Genomics to Sequence “Wellderly” Study Genomes Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer Eric Topol might want to meet Edwin Abbott Abbott. Abbott, in his 19th century novel Flatland, wrote about a world where disease is punished as crime while crime is treated as disease. P[...]
HUMOR: The Great White Worm is Real! … Sasquatch is next!
The Northwest is as wierd and wonderful as Australia. All they have is pouches. We have clams with probosci that look like great black penises, slugs built like US Army tanks, ORCA whales that make humans seem boring, eagles that sore overhead but do not ever steal babies, big foot, and now, as�[...]
October 4th, 2011 - 7:31 am § in Science
UPDATES on NIH budget
The AVE previously reported that the House version of the NIH budget held some good news, a proposed 3.3% increase. That seems impressive in these bad times but there are serious issues unmentioned in the report. 1. The bill would require that NIH award at least 9,150 new and competing rese[...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 7:59 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Nobels go to TOLLs
NOBEL ANNOUNCEMENT (from Reuters) “This year’s Nobel laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation,” the award panel at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said in a statement in Stockholm. The award went to [...]
What Human Origins Mean to Berkeley
Ardipithecus and the research university Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and evolutionary biology | 10/10/09 | excerpted from the Berkeley Blog Ardipithecusis the focus of a lot of media attention at the moment. New research discoveries made by the Berkeley faculty seem to make the news co[...]
September 24th, 2011 - 5:11 am § in Science
National Academy Proposes Ways to Save US Research Endeavour
(based on article in The Scientist) A National Academy of Sciences panel, chaired by Chad Holliday, former chief executive of chemical company DuPont and now chairman of the board of Bank of America, is drafting a plan ….. for “significant belt-tightening.” Chad Holliday, told [...]
September 23rd, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
The AVE Challenge: Who is going to win the Nobel Sunday Night?
About 9 AM Stockholm time Monday, 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 in an appropriate direction where[...]