Russian purchaser to give $4.75M Nobel medal back to DNA pioneer James Watson James Watson, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for the structure of DNA, will finally get his 23-carat gold Nobel medal back from the Russian purchaser who bought it for 4.75 million dollars. Watson’s medal went up fo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
December 10th, 2014 - 9:31 am § in The Ave Scene
Exoplanets
Earth based Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres a talk by Dr. Matteo Brogi at UW, Dec. 4th, 2014. Last Thursday’s Astronomy colloquium was delivered by Matteo Brogi, Hubble Fellow at the University of Colorado. He described very recent use of Doppler shifted, earth based absorption spec[...]
December 3rd, 2014 - 2:55 pm § in Uncategorized
What global warming? I don’t see no global warming! It’s cold outside!
“This year is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, year on record, a U.N. agency reported Wednesday.” http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/world/climate-change-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 But hey, it’s cold and there’s snow in Seattle right now, which proves global[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 2:48 pm § in Science
Maybe not God, but A One World Genome?
Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Double-Stranded RNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Nuclear Genomes▿† Huiquan Liu1,2, Yanping Fu2, Daohong Jiang1,2,*, Guoqing Li1,2, Jiatao Xie2, Jiasen Cheng2, Youliang Peng3, Said A. Ghabrial4 and Xianhong Yi2 + Author Affiliations 1State Key Laboratory of Agric[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 12:26 pm § in Uncategorized
Scientists revolt against one of Europe’s most ambitious research projects
Dissenters are threatening to boycott a $1.6 billion attempt to simulate the brain’s workings. from the Global Post: — If it’s true, as the saying goes, that politics in academia are especially vicious because the stakes are so low, raising the ante doesn’t always seem to improve [...]
December 1st, 2014 - 12:17 pm § in Politics
Congress creates its own science
If you don’t like what science says, just pass a law that makes the earth flat. Then it’ll be flat, it’s as simple as that. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/28/1347731/-Steve-Stockman-demands-our-nation-s-scientists-investigate-the-Stockman-Effect?detail=email# [...]
December 1st, 2014 - 12:24 am § in Science
What Value Is There In a Nobel Prize?
Want a Nobel Prize? You can buy one “I worried about people in Africa because of their low IQ “ The 1962 Nobel Prize James Watson won for his role in the discovery of the structure of DNA is going on the auction block. The auctioneer says the gold medal could bring $2.5 to $3.5 millio[...]
Why Not Use WSU to Train Students for Service in the “Doc in The Box” clinics?
Here in Washington state our two research universities are having a fight. The University of Washington, located in Seattle, has what is rated as the number one program for primary-care and rural medicine. To a large extent the high rating results from the fact that the UW offers a degree that can b[...]
November 16th, 2014 - 11:13 am § in Uncategorized
Global Warming Deniers Are Unpatriotic
A Forbes article this weekend makes clear the Pentagon has regarded global warming as a national security threat since the 1980s: “The Military Advisory Board is dismayed that discussions of climate change have become so polarizing and have receded from the arena of informed public discourse[...]
November 15th, 2014 - 12:52 am § in Jews
Who Lived in Jerusalem Before The Jews?
CLICK the image to read about the oldest text from Jerusalem. ,,, written 250 years BEFORE Hebrew![...]