February 2012
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“It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I...”
– Isaac Asimov
(via scienceisbeauty)
“It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I...”
– Isaac Asimov
(via scienceisbeauty)
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Paper: Neural markers of religious conviction →
Religious zeal is marked with less firing of the anterior cingulate cortex.
I tend to think that all behaviors, no matter how complex, can be explained by looking at the genes and evolutionary history.
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WHO: Research on deadly bird flu to be released →
Research that made a deadly flu strain more contagious will be published despite possible concerns over “terrorists” using the information to create bioweapons.
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Jumping into conversations mid-way through always...
I jump in as my friend is saying to her roommate ” … I will wear the fake ones tonight and you can have fun pulling them off.” I was like, “… the fuck?!” So, let’s have some fun, take a guess about what she was talking about, and tomorrow when and if I remember I will post the answer.
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So, going to grad school and stuff
Now that I have finally began to sort of kind of process the fact that I actually got accepted somewhere I suppose I should inform the internet world of what I will be doing. You know, to keep the 3.1 people who are actually interested in the loop :) So, I will be going to Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada for an M.sc in Biology. I will be working with Streptomyces clavulingerus; I...
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“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...”
– Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism
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ashenbear replied to your post: FUCKINGBALLSIJUSTGOTINTOGRADSCHOOLSHITYES!!!!!
congrats! where?
Memorial University in Newfoundland Canada
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FUCKINGBALLSIJUSTGOTINTOGRADSCHOOLSHITYES!!!!!
:)
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Bio bitchfest
I have spent the afternoon sequence aligning, waiting on NCBI nucleotide BLAST to function, trying to get MEGA to actually do what it is fucking programmed to do … and now I get a break to maybe shove some food down my face before I get to work on my Perl program which I am hoping will be able to do the simple things that apparently the programmers behind BioEdit thought weren’t...
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So, rugby . . .
My college is starting a women’s rugby team. Hopefully practices and games are not on nights that I have to work because I really want to play. This means that probably I should do something to get in shape so I don’t pass out and die during the first practice.
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Congressman fooled by Onion article →
I just can’t.
Whoa, fun fact: dogs have alkaline tears, so most acid-based deterrents are neutralized on contact.
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The other academic freedom movement →
A bit of insight into the (bullshit) reality that journal articles primarily serve to make publishers money and only secondarily to tell the world about the research. A growing movement of open access has begun within academia, starting with PLoS.
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Dire Warnings Over Muslim American Terrorists... →
sanityscraps:
somepolitics:
almaswithinalmas:
A new study of homegrown terrorism involving Muslim Americans suggests that the alarm bells set off by Republicans in Congress over sleeper cells of Islamic extremists may be much too loud.
Despite warnings of a potential wave of violent attacks hatched on U.S. soil, research by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security finds that...
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Photos of the North Brother Island, once home of... →
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“One Planned Parenthood clinic does more in a day to prevent abortions than the...”
– Helen Philpot (via feminishblog)
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“Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without...”
– California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision here. (via cognitivedissonance)
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Brain . . . melting . . . gahhh
Mycolic acid, trans-propanation, arabinogalactan … too much … All of my sentences look like chemical structures. Balls. Time to quit for the night I think. Stupid fraternity pledge breakfast tomorrow morning. Grumble.
Ok silly bitchfest over. I am actually incredibly happy and grateful that I have the opportunity to study microbiology and evolution and than that I have such lovely...
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Syracuse University prof: How WikiLeaks might have... →
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The actual origins of things are far more amazing...
All of the iron on our planet, including that contained within our red blood cells, originated inside of stars. When a type of star known as a red giant has converted all of its helium into oxygen and carbon, it begins converting the C and O into iron atoms. When most of the star’s atoms have been turned to iron, the star goes supernova - exploding and throwing oxygen, carbon, and iron...
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“If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same,...”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer when describing the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
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If you ever thought comparing abortion to slavery...
maybeitspms:
And a racist asshole.
And completely ignorant of history.
January 2012
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“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It should transcend a...”
– Albert Einstein
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Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little... →
lookingforautumn:
philosopotomas:
livelaughawesome:
“I’m a Canadian.
We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.
We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version of SOPA up here.
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#Iraq to take legal action for deadly #US raid →
anonymissexpress:
The Iraqi government has announced it will take legal action over the 24 civilians killed in a US army raid in 2005 in the Western city of Haditha. The announcement reflects public fury after US marine, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich convicted of the killings dodged a jail sentence, receiving only a pay-cut and a demotion on Wednesday. A government spokesperson said Iraq has a...