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Good News, Max snubs PETA, will give to a local shelter Maybe my email worked? I got a one sentence reply from Max last night saying he agreed, and today Tucker...
The Bigger Pink Slime Problem for Business In a matter of weeks, activists have been able to assassinate a popular product through a confluence of events: an...
No Tucker Max, not PETA! You may have heard about Planned Parenthood turning down Tucker Max's 500k charitable donation on the grounds his misogynistic past...
Turns out the "war on science" is a fabrication of the enemy! We are at war. I do not refer to the war in Afghanastan (though that too) but rather to the war between the religious right, Republicans, the 1% and various anti-science forces on one hand and everybody else on the other. Indeed, it is standard...
Another Week of GW News, April 1, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
You need to give Sharon some money, right now As many of you know, because you've not seen me around as much as usual, I've been devoting a considerable amount of my time to volunteering for a political campaign in my district. I'm trying to help Sharon Sund replace Erik Paulsen in the Third...
So nice, and so wrong What do you do on airplanes? I usually devour a book or two, usually something popcorny and light, sometimes something I need to get read for work. On my trip home from Washington DC, I lucked out: I was...
Ron Paul & Clicktivism The point raised by yesterday's Times article on Ron Paul was that while Paul attracts big crowds, these crowds do...
There is no There There -- Ron Paul's Loud, Thin Base Writing in today's Times, Richard A. Oppel asks, "Whatever happened to Ron Paul?" Ron Paul has fans, in the traditional...
Why Israelis Love Iranians How could Israelis love Iranians? This compelling video points a simple truth: how can you hate someone you don't know? Could this be a game changer?...
Acupuncture: Not an "essential health benefit" in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act This week, the Supreme Court is hearing a case that can only be described as historic. Any of you out there (in the U.S. anyway; I realize that my readership is international) who have paid even a passing attention to...
At the Reason Rally It was cold, and it was pouring rain for much of the afternoon, but the rally was a huge success nevertheless. The official estimate from the Park's Department was 20,000, which seems about right to me. I'm not generally a...
Bad news for the Affordable Care Act The NYTimes reporting suggests a 5-4 split against ACA is likely: Justice Kennedy, along with Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr....
Around the Web: Research Works Act, Elsevier boycott & FRPAA (Updated!) This post has superseded my two previous link collection posts here and here. The first focused solely on the Research Works Act, the second added posts on the Elsevier boycott and this one also incorporates posts on the reintroduction of...
The Uneasy Balance of Residential Academia I mentioned this in the Links Dump this morning, but Timothy Burke's post on the inherent tensions in the residential part of small college life is really excellent stuff, and deserves more than the 1000 characters I can quote in...
Running a Well Organized Political Campaign in Minnesota And insider's view of contrasting approaches to running a political campaign for the nomination for the United States Congress
Mooney now agrees with us - Denialists deserve ridicule, not debate He had to realize Nisbett's framing was worthless and write a whole book on defective Republican reasoning to realize it...
Three reasons the Supreme Court should uphold ACA With the Supreme Court hearing arguments for the next three days on the Affordable Care Act, many commentators, including Dahlia...
A DFL Walking Caucus This is what a Democratic Party Walking Caucus looks like. It is a thing we do in Minnesota. It is so arcane and complicated that the press never covers it, so no one has any idea that we are doing this to select our...
California Bill AB 2109: Real informed consent versus antivaccine misinformed consent I've discussed the concept of "misinformed consent" multiple times before. Quacks in general, particularly the "health freedom" movement proclaim their dedication to "informed consent." "All we're asking for," they will say, "is informed consent." The antivaccine movement in particular demands...
Congratulations Sharon Sund Sharon Sund, who is running for Third District Congress in Minnesota, has received an "A" level rating from the Stonewall DFL. For context: Stonewall DFL is the LGBT caucus of the Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota. Our goal is to encourage participation of...
Huffpo Science - already slipping into anti-science Our initial optimism over Huffpo science being a haven for reason in a den of disease-promotion and quackery appears now...
What I Learned From Hanging Out With Creationists Truly my career has reached the next phase of its evolution. I have been published at The Huffington Post. Go have a look and let me know what you think!...
Transvaginal ultrasound now being legislated in Idaho In the continual spread of assaults on women's reproductive freedom in the wake of the 2010 tea party movement, another...
The Canadian War on... Knowledge, science, information, common sense, openness? A whole bunch of things are under attack by various conservatively-minded levels of government here in Canada. Those of you thinking of moving north to avoid the insanity might want to have a second...
“Twenty-odd years ago I was in an elevator with Jesse Helms and asked him about his reputation as a master of the Senate's arcane rules. He smiled and said, "I didn't make the rules, I just use what I've got." His other idea was that Senators in a filibuster or other delaying action should be forced to wear ridiculous hats while speaking.” kehrsam on How to Fix the Filibuster Problem
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
The Loom January 31, 2008
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006