For current and future science faculty: an interesting guest-post by Stephen Quake on Olivia Judson’s column can be found HERE. I’ll get back to real posting after next week.
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I managed to watch most of the recent National Geographic special title “Stress: Portrait of a Killer” on PBS last night. The program itself was an excellent summary of the effects of psychological stress on physiology in both humans and nonhuman primates. Robert Sapolsky’s research on stress response in wild baboons served as the jumping [...]
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While my coursework and lab duties have kept me away from most pleasure reading, I still get the chance to read my semimonthly issue of SEED magazine. The current issue contains a Q&A session with former Speaker of the House—Newt Gingrich. I don’t agree with many things that come, or came, out of Mr. Gingrich’s [...]
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The New York Times ran a great story today about a Floridian high school biology teacher (David Campbell) and his mission to convey the scientific principles of evolutionary theory to students raised in an deeply religious (evangelical Protestant) community in Florida. I recommend reading the article to anyone working to improve science education in the [...]
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