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OpenScience / Science
Well, that pretty much says it all
From MSNBC.com, here’s the headline: Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’. And here’s an excerpt from the decision: To be sure, Darwin’s theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every … Continue reading
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Two new forum questions
Over in the OpenScience Forums there are two threads which ask some good questions: gelinp asks if there are any open source graphics programs that allow the user to draw curves on a 2-d canvas and then place tangents and … Continue reading
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Where’s the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing?
Greg Wilson has written a great article in American Scientist on the shocking absence of modern software development practices from groups that do science using computers. I know exactly what Greg is talking about. Some of the groups I’ve worked … Continue reading
Chemicals & Exotic Metals
My new favorite site of the day: United Nuclear’s Chemicals & Exotic Metals which appears to be a page for people doing experiments with home-brewed fireworks, magnetic levitation, and neutron activation experiments. On a single page, they have D2O, Beryllium … Continue reading
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Adventures in Synthetic Biology
Nature ran a comic as Nature 438, pp 449-453 (2005). You can read about it here and see the comic here. The comic was drawn by Chuck Wadey and was written by Drew Endy and Isodora Deese from the MIT … Continue reading
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The Loh-Down on Science
I’ve been a fan of Sandra Tsing Loh’s NPR & Marketplace commentaries for years. I had no idea she had training as a physicist. And now, via Cosmic Variance, I find out she’s got a new show called The Loh-Down … Continue reading
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Let data speak to data
There’s a wonderful editorial in Nature titled Let data speak to data, which starts the conversation on more open methods of communicating results including: Creative commons licenses for scientific data High impact factors for blogs Centralized monolithic shared databases Go … Continue reading
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Best. I. D. Post. Ever.
Adam Felber delivers a great version of the incompetent design argument here. Just an excerpt from the masterwork: GOD: THOU SHALT TELL ME YOUR GRIPES! [Thunderclap.] STAN: Okay, okay. Uh… GOD: Go on. STAN: Okay. Putting the reproductive stuff so … Continue reading
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The Tryptophan Myth
Happy Thanksgiving! I thought I’d post and give everyone some ammunition for the inevitable arguments with distant relatives over the cause of post-turkey sleepiness: Myth: Eating turkey makes you sleepy – discusses the sleep-inducing property of purified tryptophan, but points … Continue reading
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Incompetent Design
Seed magazine is going to be very very very good. Here’s their article on Incompetent Design Theory, and their great Force Diagram of Bill Frist. Found via Not Even Wrong [tags]magazines, science[/tags]
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