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"DC Metro Mom" Shares Enthusiasm for the Festival! The 2nd Annual USA Science & Engineering Festival is a super-charged series of public events and school programs with a mission to "re-invigorate" children's interest in science, technology, engineering and math. The Festival kicked off this week with over 150 FREE events for the public and Greater Washington, DC schools leading up to the finale Expo and Book Fair at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on April 28 & 29, 2012.
More exciting comparative physiology sessions at EB 2012! In looking through the online program for this years' EB, I came across additional comparative physiology seminars that I am very much looking forward to attending (to see the prior list of must-see seminars, click here): Monday April 23rd:...
Endogenous viruses in viruses Yo dawg, I herd you like viruses...
Role Models in Expo's 'Meet the Scientists/Engineers' Are Ready to Inspire Your Kids! Another Amazing Opportunity for Teachers Too! Imagine the opportunity for your kids to chat one-on-one with some of the nation's top scientists, engineers and other professionals in such fields as medical research, the CIA, oceanography, microbiology, and technology intellectual property law!
Final Winner of the "What's New in Comparative Physiology" t-shirt contest! Congratulations to Patricia Villalta, a graduate student at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, our final winner of the "What's New in Comparative Physiology?" t-shirt contest! Here are her reasons for being excited about going to this year's...
10 Days to the Woodstock of Science -- And You're Invited! Similar to what the legendary Woodstock Festival did in gathering and celebrating the best and the brightest in the world of rock, the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival hosted by Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest celebration of science and engineering, has assembled some of the country's top innovators, celebrities and innovations in the realm of science and engineering to wow visitors at the Festival's upcoming Expo celebration.
Getting Ready for Experimental Biology 2012- part 2 Don't forget to show your pride in comparative physiology at this year's EB. If you get caught wearing something that says "comparative physiology", "Dr. Dolittle", or "Life Lines," by one of the APS staffers or members of The American...
Meet the Remaining Top 20 Finalists for the Kavli Video Contest! The Kavli Science Video Contest has wrapped up with over 260 entries! Now it's time for the People's Choice Vote, in advance of the awards ceremony on April 29, in Washington, DC, as part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. Voting is easy, just view the videos on YouTube and click 'like" for your favorites. Click to view the videos.
Mary's Monday Metazoan: That must have been some flex (via NatGeo) (Also on FtB)...
Weekend Diversion: Where Bigfoot Dwells "You never need think you can turn over any old falsehoods without a terrible squirming of the horrid little population that dwells under it." -Oliver Wendell Holmes As an astrophysicist, I get sent all sorts of (unsolicited) novel ideas and...
Science on Tap 2012, Tel Aviv Explain to a pub full of beer drinkers exactly what it is you do in your lab. That's the idea behind Science on Tap, which will be taking place again this year in bars, coffee shops and restaurants in the...
Everyone's Talking About the BECB! As part of my one-man media blitz for my new book Among the Creationists: Dispatches From the Anti-Evolutionist Frontline, let me call your attention to a few posts. P. Z. Myers has posted a nice review.: What do you do...
To fly like a bird (continued) As fun as it was to think about developing wings to fly like a bird, physics always wins. In case you haven't yet figured it out, the prior video was of course a fake, albeit a really entertaining fake. That...
Epigenetics does not mean that thinking makes it so You know, I really, really hate the way quacks abuse molecular biology. I know, I know. I've said it before, but certain quacks have a way of willfully misunderstanding the latest advances in genomics, molecular biology, and biology in general....
Friday Cephalopod: RED (via Rishi Parikh) (Also on FtB...
Hardcover BECBs Now Available! The official publication date for the BECB (that's the big evolution/creationism book for those not up on the local slang) was April 10. Alas, as the tenth drew near I was dismayed to find that the book was only...
Adding dinosaurs always makes research sexier Sometimes, following the path scientific results take as they enter more mass media awareness really is like a game of telephone — you can scarcely recognize the original work in the final summary that ends up in the news...
To fly like a bird... Most birds fly. To aid flight, avian bones are hollow, reducing their mass. In addition, bird wings and feathers are optimally designed for flight. So why can't large birds or mammals fly? One of the problems is that they are...
A Question for the Biologists: Origin of The Origin? I've had limited success with this query on Twitter, probably because not that many people were reading late last night when I posted this, but I can give a little more context here, so it's worth repeating: As part of...
Botanical Wednesday: Mmm, peatey (via NatGeo) (Also on FtB)...
Mary's Monday Metazoan: They don't look a thing like mommy and daddy (via NatGeo) (Also on FtB...
Nut Screecher, Eurasian Jay Eurasian Jay, Garrulus glandarius, Sw. nötskrika, "nut screecher". Photographed in Fisksätra 6 April 2012....
Medicine and evolution, part 13: The fly in the ointment of personalized cancer therapy About a year ago, I addressed what might seem to the average reader to be a very simple, albeit clichéd question: If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we cure cancer? As I pointed out at...
Advancements in veterinary care Image source: Richard Drew /AP, MSNBC I was just reading an article from The New York Times about advances in veterinary care and the ability to diagnose as well as treat many conditions that were once considered causes for...
A deviously clever plan to destroy Darwinism once and for all Darwin and medicine: a blast from the past.
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