saNEPac Live Blogging – Essentials vs. Essentials
We’ve arrived on board the J. P Tully, and have finished loading all of our personal effects and scientific gear onto the ship. After a brief…
Read articleLive blogging the NE subarctic Pacific Ocean – Part 1
Tomorrow morning, your trusted Terry-ites Jody and I will be heading off on a 16 day field expedition to the NE subarctic Pacific Ocean. I’ve decided…
Read articleBill Gates pays for atmospheric geoengineering trials
(source – Inhabitat) From Times Online: Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and…
Read articleNature and Science to create “Superjournal”, complete with, “”Like” thumbs-up button or reject the paper by pressing a “Dislike” button”
Funding supplied by: Facebook. The real joke is the $10 price tag. (link)
Read articleA series of questions you may have asked yourself…
…and I did (during Alan’s lecture in today’s ASIC class). How much does a first edition copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus cost? A…
Read articleAustralian Artist Implants Ear in Arm…
A student in tonight’s class brought up the story of an artist implanting an ear onto his arm (reminiscent of the ear on a Vacanti mouse). …
Read articleHuman Mate Choice, Urine, Update
As Dave noted in class this evening, a study published in 1997 demonstrated that human mate choice was based partially on a protein found in human…
Read articleFood production in the US
With issues of sustainability behind us, and big agro on deck for this week’s ASIC class, I thought I’d share with you the following graph of…
Read articleIndia Drops IPCC in Favour of Own Panel
From (strangely enough) the International Business Times: The Indian government has moved to establish its own body to address and monitor science surrounding climate change, saying…
Read articleComing to the VAG: LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE MECHANICS OF MAN
This in the from VAG – the show opens this Saturday. Leonardo da Vinci was the quintessential Renaissance man. He explored the world with an unrivalled…
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