Uncertain Principles (link)
PHYSICS ENVY AMONG BIOLOGISTS: FACT OR FICTION?
Physicists often state their belief that all biologists would rather be physicists, but became biologists only because they were not very good at math. As evidence for this, they point to such findings as the fact that the vast majority of published studies in virology, cell biology, endocrinology, and even microbiology, use few if any partial differential equations or elements of number theory, and only one paper written by a biologist in the past 25 years (in the field of neurophysiology) has ever used tensor calculus...
Terrasig Illata (link)
THE ACKEE FRUIT (BLIGHIA SAPIDA) AND ITS ASSOCIATED TOXIC EFFECTS
The islands of the Caribbean account for less than 0.03% of the world's landmass and are enriched with a wide variety of flora and fauna. More than 2% of the world's total number of plant and vertebrate species are endemic there [1]. Due to the regions rich diversity of flora and fauna, there is increasing interest in the isolation of natural products which have been found to possess a wide range of interesting biological activities. Hypoglycin A, an unusual amino acid, was initially isolated from the ackee fruit and has been the focus of many years of research due to its ability to significantly reduce blood glucose levels and induce hypoglycemia....
Stranger Fruit (link)
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS CIRCA 3005
In reviewing the University's ancient imagery archives, I was astounded and pleased to discover an interesting, albeit short, fragment of 20th-century photomechanical film. Apparently produced at some time in the late 1900's, it depicts a brief but fascinating moment in the lives of three young humans of the time...
Stoat (link)
PLANET EARTH
It has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens,
the way she moves her hands caressing the fine muslins
knowing their warp and woof,
like a lover coaxing, or a mother praising...
The Scientific Activist (link)
JOKES WITHOUT PUNCHLINES TAKEN FROM A CELLULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY
1. A chemical microbiologist, a pathologist and a clown are flying in a small commuter plane between Kansas City and Omaha. Halfway there, the plane bursts into flames and the pilot bails out. The passengers discover there are only two parachutes. Which one dies? ...
Retrospectacle (link)
WHITE LILY III (MUSIC COMPOSITION)
I based the composition upon a tonal row consisting of six diatonic notes, using familiar serial composition techniques which allow only strict variations of the tone row (direct, retrograde, inversion, and retrograde inversion). The composition was originally scored as a twelve-bar, twelve voice sketch in the Finale program, then exported via MIDI to Reason 2.5, where the various rowforms were cut, pasted and fed to synthesizers for arrangement and manipulation...
Respectful Insolence (a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/">link)
TWO GUYS WITH CREATIVE FACIAL HAIR DISCUSS THE MERITS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE TERRI SCHIAVO CASE
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The Questionable Authority (link)
LIMERICKS OF EVOLUTION
There once was a young man named Darwin
Who spent five years tossed to the far wind
He wrote a book for his peers
After only twenty short years
And now he's as pop as George Carlin...
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