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| NewScientist videos of the week |
| A great survey of last week's science videos: ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 15 January 2008 - 10:06:50 |
| The Science of Damascus Steel |
| I've been fascinated by pattern-welded (or Damascus) steel for a long time now. Modern pattern-welded steel refers to a technique where two dissimilar metals are forged together and then etched to bring out the differenc...[more] |
| science damascus steel metallurgy |
| Posted on Thursday 16 November 2006 - 08:48:48 |
| ...and now for some random blinding with science |
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| science video music |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 January 2008 - 15:47:41 |
| Science Editor-in-Chief to NIH: stop funding university buildings |
| Is this 'interesting editorial day' today and nobody told me? First the Nature editorial on anti-science movements in the US, now Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science, writes in an editorial that current...[more] |
| science NIH funding grants overhead |
| Posted on Friday 10 September 2010 - 01:23:45 |
| Newsweek article: science has little impact |
| Hundreds of years of scientific insight have little effect on the worldview of millions of US citizens. A large fraction of US-Americans believe the earth was created after the Sumerians invented glue or that Noah's Ark ...[more] |
| science politics religion |
| Posted on Friday 10 November 2006 - 10:51:41 |
| Who needs to know about bears, planetariums or fruit flies anyway? To hell with science! |
| In the beginning, there was bear DNA. Then the projector for the quintessential planetarium experience. Last Friday it was research on fruit flies. Which research project a semi-educated Republican politician doesn't und...[more] |
| research budget science earmark politics money Palin |
| Posted on Monday 27 October 2008 - 15:06:24 |
| Applying game theory to science politics |
| Game theory has been an important scientific tool to study the dynamics of social interactions n a community. Actually, my first publication is about the evolution of cooperation and how certain aspects of it can be mode...[more] |
| science politics science politics cheating misconduct game theory |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 May 2007 - 10:02:38 |
| Yama (Tibetan Skull Camera) |
| I found the works of Wayne Martin Belger first via a link to bioephemera at Scienceblogs on friendfeed. Following the links provided, I found that he had constructed a pinhole camera in a tibetan skull (pinholes in the e...[more] |
| art science art&science |
| Posted on Wednesday 20 August 2008 - 09:09:26 |
| Media buzzed on fruit fly science |
| In the past two weeks, there have been three hot papers on the fruit fly Drosophila which have generated quite some buzz in the media. One dealt with imaging brain activity for long stretches of time, another focused on ...[more] |
| drosophila science media |
| Posted on Wednesday 11 April 2007 - 08:52:26 |
| a plea for basic science |
| The Washington Post has a great article about the values of basic research: "The U.S. scientific enterprise is riddled with evidence that Americans have lost sight of the value of non-applied, curiosity-driven research --...[more] |
| basic science science science politics |
| Posted on Sunday 10 April 2005 - 12:39:18 |