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Toronto to Bangkok – day 1 (and maybe 2)

Posted on 2 October 2012 by Richard Wintle

Well, that was a long day. Or two. Having been on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Tokyo, and then Thai Airways international to Bangkok for the CSBio2012 computational biology conference, I’ve lost track of exactly what time it’s supposed to be. Although my computer claims that in Toronto it’s 6:18 P.M. Continue reading →

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Cold Turkey

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Steve Caplan

Why did the turkeys cross the road?

zorin-turkey

How on earth would I know? They aren’t exactly the most brilliant species alive…

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What does the Higgs boson look like? (Audio Version)

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Stephen

As an little experiment I sat down and recorded an audio version of my Occam’s Corner post on the historical account of the difficulties that scientists had in accepting the reality of atoms.

You can listen here:

 

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Weird critters

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’ve found myself favouriting several similar posts from the “Dropping The Science” RSS feed lately, with no clear idea about what I was going to do with them. So here they are, in all their weird and wonderful glory, for your viewing pleasure!

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Leadership, Management and Role Models

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Athene Donald

This week I participated in a conversation on leadership issues in front of an audience of women leaders from the Museum world. The conversation, facilitated/chaired by Vivienne Parry, was with Professor Anne Johnson, an epidemiologist from UCL whom I had never met before. There is something slightly bizarre in having a frank and open discussion ab Continue reading →

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West Nile Virus, Urban Vector Control, and the 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring

Posted on 27 September 2012 by KristiV

According to the September 18 update at the Centers for Disease Control website, over 3000 cases of West Nile virus (WNV) disease in humans have been reported in the US this year. Approximately half of these cases were classified as neuroinvasive disease (meningitis, encephalitis), and 134 infected individuals have died. West Nile virus (Flavivir Continue reading →

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Worthwhile

Posted on 27 September 2012 by Richard Wintle

Jane Goodall at the Royal Ontario Museum
Dame Jane Goodall, in the lobby of the Royal Ontario Museum. “If you care about your children, you should care about this planet. You are not alone.”

If I had any qualms at all a couple of weeks ago about dropping $135 for a ticket to a meet-and-greet session and lecture by Jane Goodall last night, I can tell you this – theyR Continue reading →

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There should be an APP for that!

Posted on 25 September 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

(where APP = Automatic PDF Pusher)

I have five browser tabs open to article abstracts, from four different journals.

All five articles are currently published as provisional PDFs.

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Jobsworthiness and Horror Stories in Equality

Posted on 25 September 2012 by Athene Donald

The policeman at the centre of ‘Gategate’, who may or may not have been called a pleb by the Conservative Chief Whip, has been called in the press a ‘jobsworth’, a term certainly not complimentary even if not in the same league as the presumed ‘toff’s’ alleged insult of ‘pleb’ (Isn’t our class system wonderful!). I spend a lot of my time talking to Continue reading →

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