Over at The Scientist we’ve got a Culture Friday piece on the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. On Monday I bumped into Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, and asked what, for him, would make a successful exhibition. It’s already successful… science is exciting
Following on from last week’s top 10 music (which I’m going to run for a little longer, by the way), Nando sent me his top 10 species. Here they are, with a little bit about why he likes them so much. We hope to bring you more guest posts from Nando very soon! Phialella zappai…
It has not escaped our attention, here at F1000 Towers, that we’re approaching the tenth anniversary of the first ever F1000 evaluation.
…that children were being successfully inoculated for smallpox long before Edward Jenner was widely credited for the developed of a small pox vaccine? …or that one of the first popular health guides The Maintenance of Health, was written in the 11th Century, and was still widely studied and referred to until the 1600s?
Those of you who know anything about British popular culture will no doubt be familiar with Benny Hill. The Benny Hill Show was long-running and immensely popular—although it was often accused of being sexist, it was the men who were usually shown up to be idiots (admittedly in the presence of scantily clad females). Very…
What is it about science and knitting? The number of times I’ve been to a talk or panel discussion and there’s people sitting there click-clacking away. I think I’ve finally figured out what it is-they’ve all been practising for the Cheltenham Science Festival. Artist Alison Thomson has been collaborating with the British Society for Immunology…
Last Wednesday I found myself at the Prince Charles Theatre, Leicester Square, for the premiere of rapper Baba Brinkman’s new project, the teaching version of The Rap Guide to Evolution. I had been looking forward to this, having come across Brinkman at a rather dodgy bar in North London last year.
When it comes to genetics, where do you start? At the beginning of course. DNA from the Beginning is an animated primer of the 75 experiments (apparently) ‘that made modern genetics,’ complete with cute cartoon of a sperm penetrating an egg. And it’s from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s DNA Learning Center, whose mission is…
Two people I don’t know got married last Friday, and his grandmother graciously gave the country the day off. Whatever you think about the monarchy or, indeed, the institution of marriage, it was a lovely day off and on the whole, even apparent republicons appeared to enjoy it.
As part of the Philadelphia Science Festival, which is going on in the city of Brotherly Love from April 15-28, Judge John Jones–who delivered a resounding victory to proponents of evolution education in the 2005 Dover, PA trial–will be holding court at the Community College of Philadelphia on Saturday (April 23). If you’re in the…
