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Science Tuesday: Breath-taking insanity

May 27th, 2008 · 31 Comments · Science

The subtitle of this post my very well turn out to be “How I Alienated My Religious Readers” but I got a little something stuck in my craw while reading up for this week’s Science Tuesday. My last job, at Oxford, was working in a lab that focused on evolutionary developmental biology. This field of […]

 
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Great Interview Week: Scientific Serendipity in Sydney

February 28th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Australia, Interview, Science

Great Interview Week continues in a scientific vein today. In last week’s Nature, a paper coming out of Dee Carter’s lab at the University of Sydney described the discovery of a previously unknown marine species. That, in itself, is noteworthy. However, the organism they found - an unremarkable unicellular brown alga - turns out to […]

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Science Tuesday: Keepin’ It In the Family

February 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Science

“Your oldest brother was away at a home
and you didn’t meet him ’til you was nineteen years old
Old enough to know better, old enough to know better
but you took to his jaw line and long sandy hair…”
The Drive-By Truckers - “The Deeper In”
Geneticists love nothing more than a good inbred organism with which to work […]

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