‘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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
Will NIH Go Chapter 11? Higher Education and the NIH Face a Fiscal Cliff
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[...]
The Washington Post: U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there
The Canary in the Mine: a frightening insight into the US Economic future. Based in part on Washington Post article, “U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there“ Here in Washington state, Ed Lazowska , the Bill and Melinda Gates Professor of Comp Sci at UW, is a very fo[...]
May 5th, 2012 - 3:25 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkeley Blog: How Science Works
Trusting your fellow scientist Anna Goldstein, chemistry grad student | 3/6/12 In my last post, I told you that Berkeley Physics professor Richard Muller is the go-to guy for proof of anthropogenic climate change. Maybe that strikes you as odd. Why would I look to a physicist for information about o[...]
March 25th, 2012 - 7:11 am § in Science
SUNDAY REVELATIONS
Kentucky law requires educators teach “the theory of creation as presented in the Bible” and “read such passages in the Bible as are deemed necessary for instruction on the theory of creation.” The Tennessee House passed a bill earlier this year that describes evolution and g[...]
50% Drop In TOP Students Choosing Science and Engineering!
Even greater in number are the undergrad science majors who glimpse their future as a jaded graduate student, and decide that they would be better off in another line of work. People are walking away from science, and taking their future potentially ground-breaking accomplishments with them. Study t[...]
January 16th, 2012 - 7:35 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
BERKELEY BLOG: UC and NSF Teach Scientists How to Launch a Business
The government starts an incubator UC Professor gets a call: “Our country needs you.” … Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business“Part of the NSF charter is to commercialize the best of the science and engineering research we fund. We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad[...]
January 4th, 2012 - 3:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkely Blog: Faculty Struggling to Preserve The Promise
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, anthropology professor UC WHY BERKELEY FACULTY WENT ON STRIKE University professors (unless they have a large research grant) have no secretaries to prepare their manuscripts for publication or the hundreds of letters of recommendation, the purgatorial price professors pay for [...]
What If This Is The Future?
Excerpts from post by Jon Evans on Tech Crunch. There is something odd going on. While millions of long-term unemployed fight desperately to tread water, technology’s handmaidens — software engineers — are minting money like bailed-out bankers. The New York Times chimes in: “technology is qu[...]
Evolution Overturned in Tennessee
Ninety years after the Scopes trial, the governor of Tennessee is about to sign a law that attacks such dubious theories as genetics, evolution, global warming, and Obama’s birth in Kenya. So far, Newton’s laws are considered to be safe.[...]