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| Now it's personal: Sarah Palin attacks my work |
| Now with everybody and their grandmothers already blogging about the US presidential campaigns and this being a largely scientific blog based in Europe, it was easy to ignore US politics. It was easy despite having lived...[more] |
| Palin Drosophila research science politics |
| Posted on Saturday 25 October 2008 - 12:26:09 |
| ...and now for yet more Sarah Palin science education |
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| Palin science fun video |
| Posted on Monday 27 October 2008 - 09:37:29 |
| ...and now for some brief history of fruit fly research |
| Fellow JoVE editor Wendy Chao has created a nice litle video about the history of fruit fly research: Nature blogs claim tag: da2f172d3bdf79ce7a2c44b1d215806c |
| Palin drosophila fruit flies video |
| Posted on Monday 03 November 2008 - 14:22:18 |
| The fruit fly swatting politicians are back! |
| This absolutely takes the cake as one of the most stupid remarks I've ever heard a top politician utter. I'm sure everybody remembers the fruit fly bruhaha of Sarah Palin from last October. And what do I read on ...[more] |
| Palin McCain fruitflies Drosophila politics |
| Posted on Friday 09 January 2009 - 18:37:04 |
| The fly swatter |
Awesome painting of Palin going after a fruit fly researcher: via Pharyngula...[more] |
| fun Palin drosophila fruit flies politics |
| Posted on Friday 07 November 2008 - 16:28:43 |
| Research is never simply an earmark |
| Now that we all know that the specific research Sarah Palin was referring to was about a different genus of Dipterans, Tephritidae, and not Drosophila. Apparently, these fruit flies are an important pest threatening Cali...[more] |
| fruit flies Drosophila Palin research science politics earmarks pork barrel |
| Posted on Monday 27 October 2008 - 09:16:10 |
| 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 |