What do you get when you cross Charles Darwin with John Rambo? Well, it’s certainly not Dar-lose. Watch and see! Dana Carvey is “DARWIN” – watch more funny videos I don’t know about you, but I’d pay double the ticket price to see this movie. – Bob Grant, Associate Editor, The Scientist
A quick roundup of good news from F1000. We’re pleased to announce that the following Faculty Members have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society:
The UK has prohibited Andrew Wakefield from practicing medicine — you’ll remember him as the first to publish a peer-reviewed report linking autism to the MMR vaccine, in The Lancet in 1998 (which has since been retracted). Additional research has failed to find a connection between autism and any vaccine.
We know about posters, don’t we? The frenetic writing of an abstract before the deadline; the guesswork
Science tells us how we got here; poetry tells us who we are The Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English, and is awarded annually. I happen to have, on my desk, a copy of last year’s winner: transistor rodeo by…
Last week, the FDA raised concerns about Pathway Genomics’ genetic test kits they had planned to sell in Walgreens across the country. Now, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating Pathway’s tests as well as those sold online from 23andMe Inc. and Navigenics, all of which analyze saliva to determine a person’s risk of…
Competition time! I have a book prize for the first reader to tell me (in the comments, below) who said I
Brains Shine light on electrons
Reed College in Portland, Oregon, won’t have its federal funding pulled anytime soon, after the school’s normally raucous end of the year party went off last month without a hitch. Administrators at Reed were warned in April that the liberal arts school, which has a reputation for drug use among students, could get lose its…
I get to see some strange papers while trolling the F1000 website for the Faculty Dailies. Today I read about a teenager who spontaneously recovered from rabies, and more than I ever wanted to know about bile acids. And I quote,
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