Via Moira Macdonald at The Seattle Times: The Uptown Theater, one of Seattle’s oldest movie houses, is about to begin a new chapter. The Seattle International Film Festival announced Saturday night it has taken over the Queen Anne theater’s lease from the AMC chain, which had closed the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’
September 25th, 2011 - 8:33 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Man did not evolve from Homo erectus.
Finding showing human ancestor older than previously thought offers new insights into evolution Published: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 – 18:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology excerpted freom e! science news Modern humans never co-existed with Homo erectus—a finding counter to previous hypoth[...]
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[...]
UW: Johsel Namkung, founding photographer with roots in the UW’s scientific history.
The Gordon Woodside / John Braseth Gallery in South Lake Union has works by Johsel Namkung. I highly recommend this show to anyone who loves the Northwest and the UW. Johsel Namkung is a renaissance man. While never a member of our faculty, his amazing career is a tribute to the role the UW [...]
September 21st, 2011 - 7:58 am § in Science
Scientific Hype: “Epi” Genetics
The epigenetics miracle? from Pharyngula Jerry Coyne is mildly incensed — once again, there’s a lot of recent hype about epigenetics, and he doesn’t believe it’s at all revolutionary. Well, I’ve written about epigenetics before, I think it’s an extremely important s[...]
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, II. Class vs. Color.
ctd from yesterday (NOTE: I really am enjoying this essay and will post my own thoughts tomorrow). I want try and share some of my views on the issues of students of color in academe. First, race masks class. When you look at the demographics, students of color generally come from less eco[...]
September 16th, 2011 - 8:15 am § in Schools & Colleges
Borrowed Gravitas: Does The Existance of a Univeristy Imply Free Speech?
The public sees the University of Washington as the home for an elite faculty. Does that status imply our right to use the UW brand to promote our ideas? At one extreme, the answer is yes. The Faculty Code clearly describes our obligations as Professors as being much more than didactive pedagogy d[...]
September 15th, 2011 - 1:23 am § in Uncategorized
Mistakes Scientists Make
To Err is Human by Sarah Green, The Scientist Researchers bring their own values and passions to the lab bench. I was delighted to see a couple recent F1000 evaluations that strayed from traditional peer-reviewed literature. F1000 Members Frank Harrell, a biostatistician at Vanderbilt Medical School[...]
How A Rational Man Can Offend the Irrational Repricans
Right Site says Howard Fineman Smears Climate Skeptics By: Scott Whitlock| September 08, 2011 | 18:02 Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared on Hardball, Thursday, to attack Rick Perry’s climate change skepticism as a “war of the worlds between science and faith.” Dismissin[...]
Peak Carbon
“Peak Carbon” H. Harrison July, 2011 By now nearly everyone has heard about “Peak Oil” and the effort to identify the time when half the world’s reserves have been extracted. At earlier times the price of oil is said to be ‘demand limited’: that is, if d[...]