A few weeks ago I was trying to explain to some humanities and social sciences graduate students that genetic manipulation has been done for centuries. We’ve always been manipulating nature …
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About blog awards and winning blogger trivia buffs
My incoming links told me that I’m one of the finalists in the science/tech category for the Canadian Blog Awards. I have to say right away that list is a …
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The North Carolina Science Blogging Conference is this weekend in Chapel Hill. I had a lot of fun last year, but I’m a bit too busy now to go. I …
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If everything goes well (fingers crossed, knock on wood, and other unscientific anti-jinx methods) this is my last semester in the lab. I plan to write over the summer, and …
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When I was in undergrad, I still visited the library once in a while to get an article. Many were online, but especially older editions had not yet been scanned …
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I know I’m just contributing to some clever research-targeted viral advertising by posting this, but this charity-pop-song-style PCR song from Bio-Rad is hilarious. (PCR, polymerase chain reaction, is the technique …