Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Monday, December 16, 2024

THE COMING CALAMITIES

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As a biologist who teaches immunology and authored a BSCS high school textbook chapter on immunology, I am beyond appalled by the incomi...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

CUMBRE VIEJA

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Lots of folks like to envision "the big one" in California and all of the destruction that would ensue, but not too many thin...
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Saturday, November 25, 2017

SHOULDER REPLACEMENT SURGERY

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  Posting has a been a bit light lately since I have been Rhonda's personal servant for a few weeks.  Some of you know that she recen...
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

THE TEMPLETON TWO-STEP

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Or maybe the Templeton Tango, or the Templeton Run-Around or the Templeton One Step Forward Two Steps Back. Regardless, this is a rat...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

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From one of my favorite comic strips, Non Sequitur : Just some observations from the more-editorial-than-comic:      The Abrahamic Re...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

NBA or NOBEL?

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  So, as your fairy godfather, I can grant you wish between these two choices - an outstanding career in the NBA leading to a Championshi...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

EARTH'S LAND MAMMALS BY WEIGHT

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This is from the cartoon xkcd - a nerdy and insightful commentary, and I guess that's why I like it!  This is both informative and disc...
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Friday, December 06, 2013

POWERS OF 10

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In some of the courses that I teach, it is important for students to have a reasonable understanding of scale - how big things are and how ...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

JESUS & MO

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Yeah, I understand that this cartoon can often be beyond edgy, but sometimes cartoonists challenge our beliefs and make us sharpen our thin...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

THE SEQUESTER BLUES

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An original by my colleague and friend Francis Collins - context - Francis is the current head of the National Institutes of Health. ...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

POOP PILL

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When I read the article about the latest research for preventing Clostridium difficile, I was both amused and positively impressed.  Just...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

G. BARRY PIERCE - MENTOR

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The Germans have a word for it - Festschrift - and it is something that we should probably do more often -honoring a respected person duri...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

BIZARRO EVOLUTION

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Check out the evolution of whales here and here.     h/t Cousin Steve
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Saturday, February 02, 2013

ANIMAL EYES

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 From both an aesthetic and an evolutionary perspective, eyes are fascinating.  This post is not a detailed reference to the grea...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

ORIGIN OF RACE

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As a biologist, I will affirm the message of the first graphic - that the variations we see among human populations are variations in the e...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

FIBONACCI SPIRALS

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 The Fibonacci Sequence   0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...   Draw Squares for Each Number and Fit a Spiral to the Sum Co...