“M-Dwarf Planet Multiplicity” A talk by Dr. Sarah Ballard UW, October 7th, 2014 —– It’s time again for ‘Astrobiology’ lectures , this one by Dr. Sarah Ballard, who holds a ‘Carl Sagan Fellowship’ at UW. She spoke well, rapidly and informatively[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
October 9th, 2014 - 8:32 am § in The Ave Scene
Planets, Planets, more Planets
October 6th, 2014 - 8:06 am § in Uncategorized
2014 Nobels: “Where am I system.”
(Reuters) – British-American John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain’s navigation system and giving clues as to how strokes and Alzheimer’s disrupt it. Ole Kiehn, a Nobel committee member and pro[...]
October 5th, 2014 - 10:51 pm § in Science
Live Webcast of Nobel Prize in Medicine
Waiting for the Call … Damn, now the site says the award will be at 11:30 Swedish time .. I am goin to bed. You can watch here: In 2011 when the Nobel committee announced that half the prize for medicine and physiology would go to Canadian-born biologist Ralph Steinman …. Steinma[...]
THE Ave Challenge: Who will get the call from Stockholm next Sunday night.
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. I[...]
September 29th, 2014 - 5:19 pm § in Jews
You, you … caveman!
Fifth of Neanderthals’ genetic code lives on in modern humans outside of Africa Benjamin Vernot and Joshua Akey at the University of Washington reported in Science that they sequenced the genomes of more than 600 people from Europe and eastern Asia. They found a lasting legacy of sexual encou[...]
September 29th, 2014 - 9:51 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Hutch raised 49 million to fight cancer with immunology.
Bucks for T and B Cells One of the wonders of vertebrates is that we have a vascular system .. a system of pipes that carries blood all over your body. What you may not realize is that evolution not only gave us plumbing but cells to patrol those pipes .. cells called T and […][...]
Is The Nobel Next for Mary Claire King?
Do you know what happens at midnight on Oct 5? That is the time (9AM in Stockholm) when the Nobel Committee will announce the 2014 awards for Medicine. More than one person in Seattle will be waiting for the phone call but the candidate I am most excited about is Mary Claire King of the […][...]
DON’T TRUST THE SCIENTISTS!
A HuffPost/YouGov poll lst Fall showed that only 36 percent of Americans have “a lot” of trust that scientists are accurate and reliable. Making matter worse the poll showed that a whopping majorities of about 80 percent think that information reported in scientific studies is ta[...]
“The one thing we don’t do yet – we don’t graduate any Cougar doctors” WSU Regent Mike Worthy
Should WASU have its own medical school? WSU Regents have voted to seek accreditation for its own medical school. This is resulting in an embarrassing “food fight” over a trivial sum of $24 million dollars funding from the 2015 legislative session at a time when the state budg[...]
Lockheed Claims Fusion Power ‘Breakthrough’
Lockheed’s fabled “Skunk Works,” which notoriously concocted iconic Cold War gadgets like the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes (and probably some satellites and other stuff we don’t know about, and maybe even flying saucers), apparently has been tinkering with fusion power, I assume [...]