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January 28th, 2017 - 1:10 am § in Misc., Science

Science: What to fear under Trump

Trump’s victory will accelerate the end of America’s post-war contract between science, technology, higher education and the state.  What to watch for? It is clear that humanities will be targeted as being economically irrelevant as will social-science research that is deemed too criti[...]

September 22nd, 2016 - 9:44 am § in Misc.

Kshama Sawant Plays the Trump Card: Attacks the UW for studying the $15 minimum wage

“It is professionally irresponsible to draw such a conclusion from the data at this time.”  Kshama Sawant The Seattle Times Reports: Professor Jacob Vigdor and other members of a UW team  published a preliminary study of the effects of the $15 minimum wage in Seattle. Whatever good that has d[...]

July 3rd, 2016 - 10:27 am § in Misc.

GMO Tags! on THE Ave

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May 18th, 2016 - 12:07 am § in Misc., Science, UW

BREAKING NEWS: Fair Pay for Postdocs?

Fair Pay for Postdocs In an amazing post on the Huntington Post,  Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Thomas E. Perez U.S. Secretary of Labor have stated that post doctoral fellows, that is PhDs and MDs training to do research, MUST now receive a [...]

April 3rd, 2016 - 5:51 pm § in Misc.

Presidential leadership in biomedicine  should be an issue in the Wisconsin primary 

Opposing views of Clinton and Sanders on biomedical research Opinions about science matter.   This especially true in the case of stem cell biology where Republican religious views of human life have obstructed an entire  field of biology. Tomorrow’s primary is in the state where stem cell [...]

October 12th, 2015 - 1:10 am § in Misc.

Did the Koran and Crescent Get To The New World Before the Bible and Crescent?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in 2014 that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not [...]

September 27th, 2015 - 10:54 am § in America, Religion

GOP Science

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June 26th, 2015 - 2:04 am § in Hypocrisy, Religion

As Hurricane Season Approaches .. reassurances from an expeert

Michael Fumento is a journalist and attorney based in Colombia. This text appeared in the Murdock Paper, the NY Post Red text is emphasized by The Ave to assure you of Mr. Fumento’s status as na expert. The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don&[...]

June 25th, 2015 - 3:23 am § in Misc., Science

Ed Clark: Phony Sexism

I did a mini sabbatical with Mary Collins, who is shown in this photo with her husband, Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt. He was forced to resign from an honorary university post after he allegedly made sexist comments during a talk in Korea. This article shows that in fact he was joking and made self-de[...]

May 26th, 2015 - 3:24 pm § in Misc.

SCIENCE, Soviet Style

Soviets Spent $1 Billion on “Unconventional” Science and Mind Control Not to be outdone by U.S. military research that inspired men to stare at goats, the Soviets also seem to have poured a nice chunk of change into investigating telekinesis and mind control. A new survey of Soviet ̶[...]