Brief BioI was born and raised in Kalamazoo MI. I earned my bachelors of science in biology from Western Michigan University. I met and fell in love with a big goof of a man named Cliff. I have a fat lazy cat named Kerby and a dog named Bear. |
From the Guardian, why do they have to be dissing Sir David? Just because he doesn’t add references to God in his docs? Docs that incredibly beautiful and informative. Yes I am a fan girl.
Awesome news from Nat Geo, Geron Corporation has been approved for human trials on paraplegics. Obama is expected to lift the ban on embryonic stems cells soon, so that more of these trails will be seen over the next few years. And finally we know if this area of research will develop into the results that have been hyped.
other stem cell research to look forward to: Novocell Inc.
From the New York Times, asks questions about why there aren’t more women in physics. The usual about there being opportunities for women to have it all, career and family while on a tenure track. Also that women tend to fall away from physics before graduating with a BS. Speaking from my experience, getting to what I think of as the cool stuff of physics (string theory, astrophysics, etc.) you had to sit through the dull stuff. And I didn’t have enough of a passion for the subject to get farther than the dull stuff. That and I still have to work at math.
From Nat Geo, if you didn’t hate him before…to be fair he did rescind a couple of rules and added marine sanctuaries. Still the rest are typical of his environmental record.
From Science Daily, the view that allopatric speciation is the major force for speciation in the oceans is turned upside down. In an esoteric examination of fossilized foraminifera researchers found that barriers were not a factor in the plankton’s spread and diversification. But rather climate and nutrients were indicators of its colonizing an area.
Excuse the rant from yesterday, now back to science. From Wired’s blogs, and includes whale fossils, our beloved Tiktaalik, Tit genetics, Sticklebacks and what causes finches beaks to change are just a taste of the beauty of evolution. Also look on Panda’s Thumb for the series on blowing the myth of “macroevolution” out of the water.
