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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘biology’
August 13th, 2012 - 12:35 am § in Uncategorized
Science from escienceNews: Are the mitochondria why we age?
‘Selfish’ DNA in animal mitochondria offers possible tool to study aging Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered, for the first time in any animal species, a type of “selfish” mitochondrial DNA that is actually hurting the organism and lessening its chance t[...]
March 5th, 2012 - 7:05 am § in Misc.
Happy Birthday Hillel: Nematodes, nematodes, EVERYWHERE
By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post Wednesday, June 1, 10:00 AM Nicknamed “worms from hell,” the nematodes, or roundworms, were found in several gold mines in South Africa,….“For a relatively complex creture like a nematode to penetrate that deep is simply remarkable,” he said. An artic[...]
February 28th, 2012 - 12:49 am § in Religion, The Ave Scene
Reconciliation: Faust comes to science.
Scientific Spirit How romantics and technophiles can reconcile our love-hate relationship with scientific progress by Joseph Grosso Published in the March/April 2011 Humanist ShareThis In March 2009 headlines blared across the front pages of New York’s Daily News that were at once stimulating, sca[...]
October 19th, 2011 - 5:28 pm § in Uncategorized
The Evolution of Rape?
Essay by PZ Myers at Pharyngula based on an article titled “Darwin’s Rape Whistle: Have women evolved to protect themselves from sexual assault?“, ….. The story is that women have evolved specific adaptive responses to the threat of rape. In support of this conclusion, the au[...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 8:37 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Western Governors: a professor’s opinion
"Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path To College Degree." Guest blogger Johann Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and author of the book "Creating a Nation of Joiners" (2008). During the last legislative session in Washington state, faculty[...]
September 25th, 2011 - 7:18 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: of Naturopathy, God, Love, Auras, Scooby Doo and STORM!
Watch this cartoon: or go to this link[...]
Flowering of Science, 1687 in Tibet
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, with the construction of a monastic medical college and the penning of several influential medical texts. Tibetan anatomists counted a total of 360 bones in the human body—significantly more than the 206 bones described in West[...]
A Wager: DelBene beats Koster
Delbene is going to win easily. She is an ideal candidate for the new 1st … a rational, business Democrat. Koster is TPer. Hell, if Rmoney were not so infected with TPer flu, DelBene might even be called a Romney Democrat. Her positions of fiscal conservatism are far more business like tha[...]