Science can be a sweet gig if you don't have to work so much. Doing research in Theoretical Phys Ed, for example, doesn't take all that much effort, but some fields require experiments and those can be a real time sink.If you're envious of people who can just make up data, John Timmer at Ars Technica has a wonderful primer for you.Credit: Aurich Lawson. Link: Ars...
read moreThe Los Angeles Times got a little Huffington Post-ish in an article July 17th about Oxitec's genetically modified mosquito to control dengue outbreaks in various poor countries - and perhaps even in the Florida Keys. read...
read moreWe just had Snowmageddon and then heat a heat wave in parts of the US. Local, short-term weather events are suddenly proof of long-term climate change once again, according to journalists and biased bloggers who claim to care about science."Generation X", as marketing people call the generation after the Baby Boomers, aren't buying it, despite the fact that awareness campaigns about global...
read moreWorried about mutant mosquitoes created by narrow-minded mad scientists ruining the ecology while they make your children lab rats? Then you must be a reader of the LA Times. Or at least the kind of reader one blogger sought to bring to a frothy, anti-science boil. Fortunately, LA Times editors smelled a Franken-rat and published [...]
read moreWorried about mutant mosquitoes created by narrow-minded mad scientists ruining the ecology while they make your children lab rats? Then you must be a reader of the LA Times. Or at least the kind of reader one blogger sought to bring to a frothy, anti-science boil. Fortunately, LA Times editors smelled a Franken-rat and published [...]
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