Monday 8 October 2012
And the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology goes to....
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...Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. Gurdon's majo...
Sunday 7 October 2012
The Obligatory 2012 pre-Nobel Prize Post
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It's that time of year again! The 2012 Nobel Prizes will be handed out this week. Oct. 8th will be the first, in Physiology or Medicine....
Thursday 9 August 2012
Yet Another Daily Dose of Science Journalism Fail
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From the Daily Mail's website (where else) comes the following headline : That's a pretty weighty claim. Do babies born via C-s...
Wednesday 8 August 2012
A Few Little Changes
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Though nothing drastic. I've made some changes to the Blogroll on the right. I removed a couple of blogs which are no longer active, and...
Monday 2 July 2012
Addition of Genetic Information Redux: A Critical Response to a Critical Response
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A few years ago ( when my blog was a bit more active than it is today) I wrote up a post rebutting the old creationist canard that evoluti...
Monday 5 March 2012
Another Daily Dose of Science Journalism Fail
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Care of The Telegraph comes this sensationalist little blurb : If the fact that the "earliest human ancestor" is eel-like do...
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Thursday 19 January 2012
What do insects, plants and skepticism all have in common?
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They all converge into one singularity of awesome over at Botany, Bugs and Bunkum . It's a new blog, set up by a good friend of mine. If...
Wednesday 18 January 2012
A Dispatch from the Science Writing Wars
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From Ed Yong's blog Not Exactly Rocket Science , comes this infographic that pretty much sums up the Scientist vs Science Journalist deb...
Monday 3 October 2011
A Noble Prize and a Noble Conundrum
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Today the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology was awarded. This year's Laureates are Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for thei...
Friday 30 September 2011
Nobel Prizes 2011
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This Monday (October 3rd) marks the beginning of Nobel Prize season. The prize in Medicine/Physiology is awarded on Monday, with Physics on ...
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